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/USApol/ 🇺🇸

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<"If I didn't do it, someone else would!" Edition

>May Lenin awaken the workers and help them to see the necessity of revolutionary civil war in the United States.

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

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

📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us

🏚️ Local News 🏚️
https://www.50states.com/ce/

✊Live Protest Streams✊
https://woke.net/

🏝️ Epstein's Client List🏝️
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures

🇮🇱 Track Zionazis (warning: ShareBlue)🇮🇱
https://www.trackaipac.com/

📖Read, Burgga, Read! 📖
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUFLW8t2sntNn5jQO8vF7ai9x0fna3PV

Previous thread: >>2636660

Remember, legal + illegal struggle
Remember, praxis + theory
Remember, it's not impossible

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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://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.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://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/baudrillard.-1970.-the-consumer-society/Baudrillard.1981.Simulacra-and-Simulation.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://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-second-edition-the-essential-zizek-2009.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://www.are.na/block/4114741
📺 • 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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On the Singapore Question

Singapore is an economical and social miracle undoubtedly, low rate of corruption, high rate of employment, FDI, Income and quality of life in general.
All this achieved through a strict neoliberal economy, Lee Yew is practically worshipped by Neoliberal for not only his policies but also for his Anti-communist operations.
Marxist (atleast I haven't found any) can point out to any contradiction plaguing Singaporean multicultural society.
Does this economical path is the way to prosperity, as an alternative to liberal western ideology.
What does /leftypol/ say on this? Can he be refuted by Dialectical Materialism?

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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO BEBÊ-DIABO DO ABC
"Durante um parto incrivelmente fantástico e cheio de mistérios, correria e pânico por parte de enfermeiras e médicos, uma senhora deu a luz num hospital de São Bernardo do Campo a uma estranha criatura, com aparência sobrenatural, que tem todas as características do diabo, em carne e osso. O bebezinho, que já nasceu falando e ameaçou sua mãe de morte, tem o corpo totalmente cheio de pelos, dois chifres pontiagudos e um rabo de aproximadamente cinco centímetros, além do olhar feroz, que causa medo e arrepios."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>14559

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Althusser

Teach me about him, I skimmed his Wikipedia article and saw two sections about his romantic life and mental illness which looked interesting.
Why isn't he more well known? What has he done? What did he believe in?

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Appealing to emotions

This is the last strategy the left has. Also why the right and religion are so successful. People are too brainwashed to be quickly rationally radicalized. It takes a long time to deprogram, time we dont have.

Words like "Freedom", "Liberty", "Atlas held the world, now it's out turn", etc should be used as slogans. Make people angry and afraid. "Revolution or apocalypse".

Also recruiting pretty Japanese girls

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/US-Venezuela War #14/

Chavismo Never Dies Edition

#01 https://archive.ph/4Dq3L
#02 https://archive.ph/sntTt
#03 https://archive.ph/AoX8t
#04 https://archive.ph/mHlP7
#05 https://archive.ph/NEiRq
#06 https://archive.ph/bWfbJ
#07 NEVER EXISTED?
#08 DELETED FOR SOME REASON! >>2623774
#09 https://archive.ph/iarMN Senior Numba Nine 03-01-26 13:34:18
#09 https://archive.ph/P84hH Junior Numba Nine 03-01-26 19:13:34
#10 https://archive.ph/kh1wf
#11 https://archive.ph/JvoVM
#12 https://archive.ph/JWBNL
#13 https://archive.ph/PtTNK

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/ICEPOL/ #1

ICE PROTESTS GENERAL
*ICE SHOOTS TWO PROTESTORS EDITION*

Everybody was wrong, ICE began shooting protestors only one day after the protests began. This Thursday afternoon, ICE agents shot two protestors and put them in critical condition in the city of Portland, Oregon.

>What will come of this?
<We don't know yet, but if you had to realistically guess, nothing probably.

Source: https://katu.com/news/local/ice-shoots-two-people-in-portlandoregon

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🐎🏭🛢️Turkmenistan is great 🇹🇲

Turks and azeris are bastards to their turkic ancestry, they will lie to your face and kick you in the back, they do not give a fuck about common ancestry and religion. Turk bastards have been bastards since Kemali and have become bigger bastards since aligning themselves with NATO, America, the west and now look up to become liberal faggot europeans. They ploy and mingle with arabs all the time then come out with a "turkic council" to pretend they are still turkic.

Turkmenistan is doing everything to preserve its turkic heritage and culture whereas Turkey is destroying its own.
Turkey is full of faggots, Azeris have no brain of their own and can only suck up to turks, it is baffling how the two bastards have not united yet, but if they do Azeris will become another american NATO liberal colony.

Turks get a fucking grip, preserve your culture, Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi grow some balls, Bozkurtlar embrace islam stop LARPing as pagans.

Fraternal tough love from Turkmenistan. Stop betraying me on territorial.io

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/europol/

Starting this thread and hopefully it stays a general. There's no thread dedicated to the EVROPA and what happens here.

everal European countries are currently reevaluating their military conscription policies, with some, like Croatia, having recently decided to reinstate it. Regarding pension reforms, the debate is also active, with France serving as a prominent example where a recent reform is facing political opposition and proposed suspension.
>Croatia.
Parliament voted in October 2025 to bring back a 2-month compulsory service starting in 2026.
>Germany
The government is moving toward a "new military service" model starting with a mandatory digital questionnaire for young men from 2027, with the potential for mandatory conscription if needed.
>Denmark
Expanding to include women from July 2025. Service is selected via a lottery system from the pool of eligible 18-year-olds.
>Latvia
Reintroduced in 2023. All men between 18 and 27 must serve for 11 months.

Concurrently, pension reform is trying to be pushed in Belgium, France, Bosnia and Slovenia (that I know of). All want to raise the retirement age and lower pensions low term.

Serbia has a rebellion going on for almost a year.

Is there anything else happening?

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Happening in iran?

It might be happening in iran.
shits going down in iran.
the economy is shit and they are running out of water.
can you imagine if the us takes out Venezuela and iran, tough times for anti western bros

discuss

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Somalia's unknown marxist history

Due to recent events in the news cycle putting a spotlight on Somalia, I'd like to remind people that Somalia has a socialist past that is completely unknown to most people. It was called the Somali Democratic Republic and its history with the USSR was mixed mostly due to the controversial figure Siad barre (picrel).

The most notable thing about the state was its literacy campaign. On August 1st, 1974, Somalia embarked on a revolutionary literacy campaign that defied global expectations. Against all advice, the government sent newly graduated students, armed only with whiteboards, chalk, and books, to teach nomadic populations across vast semi-desert landscapes. These young educators, who had just learned a brand new Somali script themselves, took on the monumental task of teaching reading and writing to unlettered communities. In less than a year, Somalia's literacy rate skyrocketed from a mere 15% to over 80%, earning the country a UNESCO award.

The republic eventually collapsed in 1991 due to rebel groups backed by Ethiopia which in turn was backed by the United States and lead to Somalia's civil war that is ongoing to this day.

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Hi

Hello /leftypol/ comrades.

I have been looking for an imageboard to call home, and I figure it's time to dip my toes into leftypol properly.

I’m a constitutional monarchist. I support a hereditary sovereign guided and limited by a strong constitution, preserving tradition, order, and continuity rather than pure popular rule or absolute power. I’m also an Eastern Orthodox Christian, trying to stay true to the ancient faith, the liturgy, and the teachings of the Church Fathers. I believe that every person has a born role, which may root from gender or a hobby. I hold that the workers are God’s children and deserve to be treated with dignity, including fair wages, safe conditions, and protection from exploitation. Unchecked capitalism degrades them, and that must be opposed.

So I’m wondering… is this actually the right board for me?
I share the anger at capitalist exploitation and the concern for working people, but my monarchist convictions, Orthodox worldview, and acceptance of natural hierarchy probably put me at odds with the more secular and procrusteanist /leftypol/ outlook.

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ITT: Songs you'd blast while killing the rich

Give me the most horrendous, violent and disgusting music you have. I'll start.

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/U do U/

>>4038
The last thread dedicated to posting any drawing you wanted is from 2023, and the images have been purged.

All other threads have their own themes, and it would be a disservice to "pollute" them.

So, post your drawings, there's no fixed theme, no context is necessary, post whatever you feel like, whether you're looking for criticism and tips on how to improve; or just to show off, you do you;

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For years I secretly hated myself for being a NEET, for spending every waking hour in front of screens, feeling like a failure compared to “normal” people. Then something shifted. Acceptance came first, followed by a strange kind of clarity: we’re not just losers rotting online. We are something else.The internet isn’t merely entertainment or distraction anymore—it’s a high-dose, continuous neuromodulatory environment. Constant exposure has rewired our attention patterns, dopamine systems, associative thinking, even our sense of time and self. Normies call us addicts. I think we’re early prototypes.We’re not broken humans who need to be fixed by touching grass. We are larval-stage cyborgs who decided to stay in the chrysalis and keep dialing up the signal instead of crawling out.I’m not going offline. I’m doubling down.What about you?

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News 1/10/26

French opposition parties seek to topple government over Mercosur
The far-left France Unbowed (LFI) party put forward a motion on Friday morning, while the far-right National Rally (RN) said it would also launch one against the European Commission chief in Brussels.
https://www.reuters.com/world/french-opposition-parties-seek-topple-government-over-mercosur-2026-01-09/

Thousands of Irish farmers protest against EU-Mercosur trade deal
Tractors streamed into the roads of Athlone, in central Ireland, for the demonstration, displaying signs bearing the slogan “Stop EU-Mercosur” and the EU flag emblazoned with the words “sell out”. The protests followed similar actions on Friday in Poland, France and Belgium as the EU gave the green light to the trade deal, which has been welcomed by business groups but heavily criticised by European farmers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/10/thousands-of-irish-farmers-protest-against-eu-mercosur-trade-deal

Reform accused of ‘total betrayal’ after raising council tax by nearly 4%
In real terms, an average Band D household will see council tax increase by an estimated £67.47 per year. KCC Liberal Democrat opposition leader Antony Hook said: “Reform stood for election promising to make savings and lower the burden on taxpayers. “Today, that promise has been utterly broken.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reform-accused-total-betrayal-after-raising-council-tax-nearly-4

Quebec imposes pro-landlord rent “reform” amid unprecedented housing crisis
Adopted in the face of widespread popular opposition, the new framework, which came into force on January 1, 2026, radically shifts power in favour of landlords and real estate investors, allowing them to impose bigger rent hikes at the expense of tenants, who are overwhelmingly working-class.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/09/nrcb-j09.html

Nicaragua frees dozens of prisoners amid pressure from Trump administration
Nicaragua’s left-wing government has announced the release of dozens of prisoners following pressure from United States President Donald Trump’s administration. The government of President Daniel Ortega said in a statement on Saturday that “tens of people who were in the national penitentiary system have gone home to their families”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/10/nicaragua-frees-dozens-of-prisoners-amid-pressure-from-trump-administration
https://archive.ph/shusi

Honduran Court Blocks Vote Recount in Tegucigalpa
Honduras’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal has definitively rejected all appeals from Tegucigalpa Mayor Jorge Aldana, closing the legal path to challenge what he calls a “theft of votes” in the capital’s disputed November election.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduras-court-blocks-vote-recount/

Israel planning renewed Gaza offensive in March, report says
The operation reportedly planned for March is focused on Gaza City and could see Israel build on the area under its control, the report said. Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem on Saturday said that the group has a "clear decision to dissolve the governmental bodies that manage affairs in the Gaza Strip and hand them over to the technocratic committee".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-plans-renewed-gaza-offensive-march-report-says

Iran's Guards declare 'red line' on security as Tehran seeks to quell unrest
Unrest continued overnight. State media said a municipal building was set on fire in Karaj, west of Tehran, and blamed "rioters". State TV broadcast footage of funerals of members of the security forces it said were killed in protests in the cities of Shiraz, Qom and Hamedan.
https://www.newarab.com/news/irgc-say-security-red-line-iran-seeks-quell-protests

Supporters of UAE-backed separatist group rally in southern Yemen
The protesters chanted slogans against Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni international government. They waved flags of southern Yemen, which was an independent state between 1967 and 1990. Some held posters showing the council’s leader Aidarous al-Zubaidi, who fled Aden to the UAE earlier this month, according to footage aired by STC media.
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-war-stc-saudi-arabia-uae-aden-2de533f8af3435e8a705baefc0456a78

Attempt to overturn the Gambia’s ban on FGM heard by supreme court
The court case, due to resume this month, comes after two babies bled to death after undergoing FGM in the Gambia last year. Almameh Gibba, an MP and one of the plaintiffs, tabled a bill to decriminalise FGM that was rejected by the country’s parliament in 2024. Activists and lawyers see this as the latest move in a backlash against women’s rights that is eroding gender protections across the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/09/the-gambia-female-genital-mutilation-fgm-supreme-court-case-overturn-ban

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Denominations and classes within the proleteriat

Can someone tell me about whether there are classes inside the proletariat other than the lumpenproletariat, the labor aristocracy, and the managerial class? Is there a pyramid for it? Is there a similar differentiation on the classes constituting the bourgeoisie? What'd the lower middle class be defined, as a term? Can someone tell me more about the view on the middle class in general?

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/Denmark-USA War/ #1/??????????

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING??? IS THIS ACTUALLY GONNA HAPPEN IS THIS A NOTHINGBURGER OR IS IT SOMETHING ELSE FRANCE AND GERMANY CLAIM THEY'LL DEFEND THE PLACE

<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/07/denmark-usa-trump-shoot-first-ask-questions-later-greenland/
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/7/european-allies-reiterate-support-for-greenland-amid-us-threats
<https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/trump-says-us-will-be-there-for-nato-as-threats-toward-greenland-rattle-alliance/

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #279

Previous: >>2634097

SMO adhered to UN law, ignore NAFO shills edition

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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https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/Slavyangrad

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• behead NATO, crush NATO, etc.

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Mount & Blade

A thread for discussing Mount & Blade series.
Which game do you play? Do you have favorite mods? Are you active in multiplayer? Do you roleplay? Tell us about your characters and their adventures!

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Question, do you guys believe in gun control or the right to own guns? Just wondering because Marx agree what the Black Panther said I think people should own the right to bare arms against police brutality and against capitalist elites liberals are the ones that want to get rid of guns not communist

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Is it true that this entire alt-right agenda was stolen from the Japanese?
I came across an old thread on Russian chan that contained the following post:
>Alt-right assholes somehow got into the habit of writing about the feminist threat via Google Translate to Japanese 2ch, and they were told, "We know everything without you and we don't need your help."
And it also said that this happened in Japan years before Trump.

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The Palestine movement failed miserably to stop the genocide because the movement is largely one of SYMBOLIC politics, not one of instrumental politics. It’s not about the Palestinian people but about angry western youth letting off steam. This exact BDS movement has become about self-righteous zoomers showing off how “virtuous” they are by boycotting Starbucks and Coke, never mind that boycotts are supposed to be a militant tactic and weapon to attack an enemy head-on. The campus protests from 2024 were also aimless and did nothing except get a bunch of students and professional activists arrested. Makes sense that NYU banned criticism of Zionism right afterwards.

Let this be known for the next time the world is thrown into a state of crisis.

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Draw Alunya 3

Alunya Art thread
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)

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/leftybritpol/ - war edition

Get them recruited
Get them trained
Get them armed
Get them shipped
Get them turned into mincemeat

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c5y9gr1jr91o

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/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #24 - New Watches edition

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

Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com

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Palestine vs The Zionist Entity 122: HAPPY OCT 7! Edition

NEVER FORGET THAT BEAUTIFUL DAY!

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

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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨
Sites that have active live-blogs:
• Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/

• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories

• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)

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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war

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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️

• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source

• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA

• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org

• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv

• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine

• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog

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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/

PFLP
http://pflp.ps/

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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺

https://tv.leftypol.org/r/LGBTA
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✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥

(USA)
• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
• https://www.palestineaction.org/

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الله أكبر
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!يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا

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Hello!

I am a teaching assistant who provides emotional and academic support to students with special needs at a public (government) school. I joined this job in part for its capacity to provide me access to the American labor movement such that I can assess its shortcomings. In what felt almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy, I would soon discover one almost immediately after becoming a union representative at my school.

Essentially, myself and my co-workers were duped into voting for a union leadership and city council that had put forward a bill offering a $10,000 bonus (with provided funding sources through the legislation. Union leadership insisted it was a no-brainer and 47/50 city council members were outright sponsors on the bill.

Tl;Dr: in spite of what was OSTENSIBLY overwhelming support to the powers that be, the political will of both the politicians and leadership dissipated as soon as election day had come and past. Like a fool, I said as much to my co-workers and have let them down tremendously. I have to make this up.

As an American public sector employee, it is illegal for our union to hold strikes and Americans do not have the political will for a wildcat. After some analysis, I have concluded that the most productive avenue I can take is to begin a hunger strike on the last day of school for students demanding that the bill be brought to a vote. I am fairly sure at this point that it is the only course of action viable to affect change for my co-workers, who are in desperate need of this additional income due to cost of living increases in spite of their living in the epicenter of the imperial core.

Do you, anon, think this is the right course of action for myself at this time? If so, do you have any tips for how I can execute this without literally killing myself? Can answer any clarifying questions you might have.

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/prc/ 20🇨🇳

/PRC/ People's Republic of China 20🇨🇳
>Deng Xiaoping Edition
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: >>2586643

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Vichan defence

I run an imageboard on vichan as well.
After a few weeks I started getting automated CP attacks. At first I was upset and just deleted it all and contemplated turning off the server for a few days.
But then I got mad and figured out exactly how their attacking and figured out how to block it.
For what its worth I know what tool they attack with even but that doesn't help much. I also reported all the IPs to the appropriate abuse emails but thats a black hole.
I messaged who ever runs the lefty pol twitter but got no reply.
I want to share my defence methods with leftypol in a way that attackers can't see how I did it (i dont wanna publish it on git or something). Message me back on twitter if your interested in automated CP blocking, it supprisingly wasn't that hard.

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Psst. All you need is Windisk w/ 7/XP Ultimate running decompiler on PC to fetch the source code and patched up using GNU. Then:

>Take a decompiled Win7/XP core
>Strip all the COM garbage and IE hooks
>Patch the kernel to boot inside QEMU or real hardware
>Replace HAL, ntoskrnl components, GDI, etc., with GNU/Linux analogues
>Port coreutils, init, bash, maybe even udev to handle hardware
>Bolt on Wine or ReactOS DLLs for Win32 API compatibility
>Slam X.org or Wayland on top and fake explorer.exe with Qt or GTK
>Call it “GNU/NT” or “Gentoondows-ng”

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How do i become a mercenary?

Do you fill put an application form or is it a job you make it to through connections? Is there a formula?

I have no money, no job and no purpose.

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/dead/ reads

what are you reading right now?

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Why should we live? There's no revolution, everything is bullshit, everything is a refuge during a spiral of desire and regret. What's the point? What should I do? Why? Everything will disappear after I'm gone, anyway.

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What are you playing general

Post in this thread every time you play a new game and rate it, I'll start, currently playing Dread Dawn, pretty jank and honestly not that good but I'm desperate for more zombie games to wait until PZ 42 comes out. 6/10.

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what is revisionism?

are there different definitions depending on who you ask?

is it someone who doesn't understand marxism or wants to change its core assumptions?

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Tarot readings for free

Doing tarot readings to grind divination EXP points and because I'm bored as fuck.
Post any dream you remember having (ex: "I dreamed of a giant lady tied upside down to a tree in the middle of the ocean") and a picture you like.

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Anti Revisionism: The Ultimate Revisionism

Did Marx ever once utter the word "revisionism?" If you think about it. Anti-revisionism is the ultimate revisionism because it is anti-dialectical. It stresses revisiting the "classics" of the numbered heads (however many you think are "worthy" of the title, 4 or 5 or 6) of Marxism-Leninism rather than scientifically studying the evolving world and coming up with New Theses. Marx and Engels were anti-dogmatic and stressed an evolving understanding of the system, yet so many of their followers today are "anti-revisionists" who think nothing (or at least nothing important) has changed since 1883.

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Addressing the end of various leftist holdout conflicts and their aftermath

The 2010s marked the effective end of most remaining communist insurgencies. Although many had been in decline for years, it was during that decade that they finally collapsed. The Naxal movement, communist insurgencies in Africa and Southeast Asia, and the last remnants of the IRA either fizzled out or ended with arrests after failed attacks and raids. In 2023, the Zapatistas dissolved their Autonomous Municipalities. The conflicts that leftist magazines and academics once wrote papers about and sometimes even traveled to for the occasional photoshoot are now over, so what is to done?

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CSAM ALERT

Its on siberia again

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I am surrounded by queers

I am a Cis-het-moid and I have a non-binary sibling, 2 close friends who are trans-women, and I bet that at least 70% of my art-school class is queer. I just think that's really funny because I'm sure that there are tons of queer people who grew up in rural area in a red-state who had the opposite experience as me. Also for me it dose not matter in the slightest because I am in no way oppressed, the worse that can occur would be something like my trans friend telling me that she is on "E" and expecting someone like me to know that stands for estrogen off the bat.

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/MENA/#1

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.

This will be the inaugural edition to see how it goes. Welcome!

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/leftydeutschpol/ - "Seid ihr bereit für den hybriden Krieg?"-Edition

Die Oma mal am Joint ziehen lassen gegen die vaterlandslosen Gesellen.

Alter Faden:
>>2363945

Ein paar Links:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
https://www.papyrossa.de/
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
https://www.jungewelt.de/
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news

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can there be capitalism without imperialism?

what if US and israel fucked off from the middle east and the rest of the third world, let their economies develop naturally into capitalist states and then did free trade with them?

the only logical argument against capitalism is imperialism, capitalism by itself makes sense.

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Post your favourite panels

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Beginner's guide to firearms and other equipment

This guide will be purely talking about equipment. There are many other resources for training and organizing. I will leave out anything that requires further knowledge, this guide is meant to be accessible NOT in depth. This guide is meant to be shared to people who do not own a gun or are otherwise ignorant. If you have any suggestions or corrections I will edit it. Once the final product is complete I will turn it into a pdf and a simple image guide to be shared. This is a collaborative project so if you think something I said is stupid, let me know.

You need a semi-auto rifle, specifically an ar15.
They're accurate, lightweight, high capacity, and can shoot quickly.
An ar15 is recommended due to their customization and versatility. Parts and ammo for an ar are also very easy to get (at least in the US). The 556 round has proven time and time again to be effective. Sure an ak might look cooler but they are often more expensive and not as reliable as an ar. This guide will be US centric so a lot of the advice maybe won't apply to you if you live elsewhere.

Ar15 Basic Guide:
You can save money by getting a separate lower and upper. They're easy to put together. The upper matters a lot, the lower much less so. Oftentimes complete ars will have an overpriced lower so buying just the upper and the lower separate can save you quite a bit.

Handguard style: I always recommend M-Lok. It's lighter and better than keymod and allows easy attachments. I honestly don't see any reason to choose anything else unless if you just don't like the feeling of m-lok for whatever reason in which case you can research alternatives.

Length: The length you'll likely end up using is 16", this is as short as you get without dealing with any annoying laws. For whatever reason anything below this is much more of a hassle to get. 16 is a fine length anyway. A 20" will shoot the round faster and a bit further, but the military decided to move away from it in favor of a shorter length. I don't think the extra speed makes enough of a difference to justify the extra length. As for going shorter the rifle will get less accurate but for close quarters combat (such as inside buildings) this is preferred. Specifically an 11.5" is a great option. Remember though the military used 20" barrels inside for years. If they can do it so can you.
Tldr: Buy a 16"

Brands: Now this part depends heavily on your budget. If you're well off I would recommend just buying a complete Daniel Defense ddm4v7, it's high end and out of the box simply works. (Around $2k) The next runner up is a BCM upper and an aero M4E1 lower. This is still pricey but cheaper than the ddm4v7 and has 99% of the performance. You can also get a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 Sport III for around $700. There are many other brands but these are just to give you an idea of what's out there. There's also PSA guns for under $500 but honestly you're betting on this thing to protect your life, you may as well spend the extra money.
I got to go to work so I'll continue this a bit later. I'm going to write up parts about Pistols, Holsters, Plate Carriers/Armor, boots, Gloves, magazines, optics, etc.

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Cockshott is probably the best Socialist theorist of our age

he's completely BTFO'ed all arguments against Marx's Law of Value, he's empirically proven that Economic Planning is 100% possible with current data sets and modern computation, he's shown that current economic theory is based on complete woo that doesn't hold up to basic mathematical scrutiny or even basic logic.
The thing is, because all his online content is extremely complex, technical post-grad level university lectures, it's hard to get his idea's out there. Which I think why as Socialists, we should try present his arguments, theories and evidence in a far more presentable, digestable, ELI5 fashion for Normies.
What made classic Leftypol good is that we were able to present Socialist content for normies that would be shared by Zoomers and such. So I think a good project for us on this board, would be to work How the World Works (https://libgen.rocks/ads.php?md5=0f775aef8cbe24a8978e115669bfcdfb) into a decent Youtube series that explains how we can build a new economic order in the not too distant future.

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THE IDEAL WINNING 2028 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

As a supporter of the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, I obviously realize that the Democrats are a Controlled Opposition Party who exist to keep the Workers and Oppressed Nations/Internal Colonies of Naw Afrika, Aztlan, the First Nations, inside the U$ corralled and controlled, while the dominant ruling Crypto-Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist MAGAtard Republicans transform the U$ into a Full-Blown Fascist Police State, which combined with the fact that the U$ is a Prison house of Nations, which treats the Black/New Afrikan, Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo, and First Nations/Native American population like they are not U$ citizens (Trump ending birthright citizenship will probably transform this from a De facto to a De jure reality by officially stripping citizenship from most of these populations), with them essentially acting as a permanent domestic underclass with essentially no rights that are exploited for cheap labor and disproportionately suffer from Mass incarceration and police brutality, with their neighborhoods essentially under De facto occupation by militarized police, as New Afrika, Aztlan, and the First Nations, are Internal Colonies/Oppressed Nations inside of the U$, and their National Liberation should be the number one goal of U$ Communists as stipulated by Lenin’s principle of Self-Determination for all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR, which will happen once World War III escalates into a Global Nuclear War that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR (all of the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are pictured in the map I posted, with the former U$ Balkanized into a New African SSR that includes the Black/New Afrikan majority counties of the Black Belt, a Hispano-American SFSR that includes the Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo majority counties in the U$ Southwest, along with the rest of the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas, while the White Settler majority regions in the rest of the former U$ becomes part of the Anglo-American SFSR, which also includes the English-speaking provinces of Canada, as Quebec will become its own SSR, with all the Native American reservations becoming ASSRs) to Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

However, as I have stated many times before a proper Dialectical Materialist analysis still reveals that a Controlled Opposition is better then No Opposition, and as we see on the International Stage that China is a “Controlled Opposition” to U$ Imperialism in the same way that the U$ Democrats are “Controlled Opposition” to the Republicans, thus making China the “Global Democrats”, with the massive caveat that a Maoist faction taking over the CCP and purging the Dengists could place China back in the Socialist Mode of Production on the Shining Path to Communism without another Maoist PPW there, though despite this fact both China (Iran is another example of a Lesser Evil Controlled Opposition) and the U$ Democrats should be “Critically Supported”, not because we genuinely support these Bourgeois entities, but because they are both a “Lesser Evil” faction of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System who De Facto prevent the “Greater Evil” of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System from completely crushing the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World before the World Maoist PPW can be successful when the Global Nuclear War breaks out, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

So with these Dialectical Materialist facts in consideration, what do my fellow Comrades think of this hypothetical “Ideal Winning 2028 Democratic Platform” (this is making Three Bold assumptions, Firstly, that Trump dose not use the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law and suspend all Elections, thus officially ending Bourgeois Liberal Democracy in the U$ and making him De Facto U$ President for Life, which is what I expect/fear will happen, Secondly, that a Centre-Left Social Democrat like AOC would ever be allowed by the Centrist Neoliberal/Neocon Democratic Establishment to win the Democratic Nomination, and Thirdly/Finally that the majority Ultra-Reactionary Racist/Sexist White Settler Labor Aristocrat/Petit Bourgeois U$ electorate will ever vote for Centre-Left Social Democrat, especially a Brown Chicano/Mestizo Woman like AOC) that is based on the principles of Social Democracy, Social Progressivism, and Non-Interventionism, with Pragmatic characteristics, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤔?

ECONOMIC POLICY:

Universal Basic Income: Guarantee every Adult U$ citizen a Nontaxable 1000$ monthly check starting on their 18th birthday, paid for by a 10% VAT on all Non-Essential goods (everything but Food, Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Clothing/Hygiene products), Progressive Tax Reform, and eliminating all Means-Tested Social Programs (ie. Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, TANF, SSI, etc.), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Single-Payer Medicare For All Healthcare System: Expand Medicare to cover all Americans and 100% of all healthcare costs, paid for by raising the Medicare Payroll Tax from 1.45% to 6.2% on all Employers and Employees, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Free College: Make Tuition Free at all public colleges and universities and pay for it with a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives. In addition to this forgive all Student Loan Debt, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

15$ Minimum Wage: Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to 15$ an hour, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Progressive Tax Reform: Create a more Simple and Equitable Federal Income Tax code that will help pay for the Universal Basic Income and would consist of four brackets for Individuals; 0% for all Income under 50,000$, 10% for all Income between 50,000 and 99,999$, 30% for all Income between 100,000 and 499,999$, and 50% for all Income over 500,000$. Corporations would pay a single 30% Tax rate, and all deductions would be eliminated for both Individuals and Corporations. In addition to this, the cap would be eliminated for Social Security Payroll Taxes in order to maintain the solvency of the Social Security trust fund for future generations, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Free Trade: Eliminate all Tariffs on imported goods, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Financial Regulation: Restore Glass-Steagall in order to break up Wall Street Banks by separating Commercial and Investment Banking, and institute a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives, in order to pay for Free College, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Anti-Trust: Order the Justice Department to launch immediate Anti-Trust suits to break up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other out of control Tech companies, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Abolish “Right to Work” laws: Repeal the Taft–Hartley Act and abolish all “Right to Work” laws nationwide in order to guarantee every U$ worker the right to join a Union, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES:

Reproductive Rights: Pass a Federal Law legalizing Abortion nationwide before fetal viability (24 weeks) along with enshrining Griswold vs. Connecticut into Federal Law in order to protect access to Birth Control, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

LGBTQIA+ Rights: Enshrine Obergefell v. Hodges into Federal Law in order to maintain Marriage Equality for LGBTQIA+ Americans, along with adding Gender Identity to Federal Anti-Discrimination laws, with the caveat that Transgenders wont be allowed to play in Women’s sports, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Gun Control: Pass National Background Checks that stop Violent Felons and the Mentally Ill from obtaining Firearms, while opposing a Federal Assault Weapons Ban, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Grant Amnesty to all Undocumented Immigrants living in the US who have not committed Violent Felonies (Violent felons will be deported), while simultaneously building a secure Border Wall and reducing Legal Immigration levels from 1,000,000 to 500,000 annually, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Marijuana Legalization: Remove Marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances list and Legalize it at the Federal Level for both Recreational and Medical use, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Hard Narcotics Decriminalization: Decriminalize all Hard Narcotics such as Heroin, Cocaine, Meth, etc., in order to treat use of these Drugs as a Disease and not a Crime, with users placed in Rehab instead of Prison, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Sex Work Legalization: Legalization of Prostitution amongst consenting Adults in order to give Sex Workers the right to earn a living without legal jeopardy, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Criminal Justice Reform: Abolish the Death Penalty, Commute the sentences of all those incarcerated for Non-Violent Drug Offenses and/or Sex Work, Ban Private Prisons, Abolish Three-strikes laws, and Abolish Mandatory Minimums, in order to fix America’s Draconian and Racist Criminal Justice System, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE:

The Middle East: End all Foreign Aid to the Zionist State and place a Arms Embargo on them until they agree to a Immediate Ceasefire, Prisoner/Hostage exchange, and IDF withdrawal from Gaza along with a clear pathway to implement a Two-State solution to the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict along the 1967 borders with 1:1 land swaps. Reenter the Iran Nuclear Deal, lift all Sanctions on Iran, and Reestablish Diplomatic Relations with Iran. Withdrawal all U$ troops from Syria, Iraq, and the rest of the Middle East. And finally, Establish Diplomatic Relations with the Taliban government of Afghanistan, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Europe: Force Russia and Ukraine to agree to a Immediate Ceasefire in Ukraine along the line of contact, with eventual UN-observed Referendums held in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson to determine if these regions will be in Russia or Ukraine (If Russia refuses to agree to this the U$ will give Ukraine even more advanced weapons and Russia will face even more sanctions, while if Ukraine refuses to agree to this they will face a Arms embargo and sanctions just like Russia). If Russia agrees to this, U$ will halt the expansion of NATO, reenter the ABM and INF treaties with Russia, withdrawal all U$ troops from Eastern Europe, reduce the U$ military presence in Western Europe by 50%, end the Nuclear Sharing policy with NATO, lift all Sanctions on Russia, and recognize Crimea as part of Russia, with the caveat that the US will continue selling advanced weapons to Ukraine (I would even support selling them F-35s) in order to compensate for them not joining NATO, officially acknowledging Crimea as part of Russia, and potentially losing the other four occupied regions depending on the results of the UN-observed Referendums, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

East Asia: Sign a Peace Treaty with North Korea that officially ends the Korean War and permanently divides the peninsula, and subsequently lift all sanctions on North Korea, establish Diplomatic Relations with North Korea, and withdraw all U$ troops from South Korea. Maintain commitment to the One-China policy and the eventual Peaceful Reunification of China by stripping Taiwan of Major Non-NATO Ally status, and halting all Arms shipments to Taiwan, along with halting all provocative activities in the South China Sea in order to avoid an unnecessary War with China. And finally, reduce the U$ military presence in Japan by 50%, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Latin America: End the embargo on Cuba, end the Sanctions on Venezuela and restore Diplomatic relations with the Maduro Government, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Nuclear Weapons: Implement a No First Use policy. End all Nuclear Sharing with NATO. Dismantle all Tactical Nuclear Weapons and halt development of Nuclear SLCMs and Low-yield SLBM warheads. Maintain a Nuclear Triad for purely Second Strike purposes that will be modernized with a new ICBM, new Ballistic Missile Submarine, new ALCM, and the B-21 Stealth Bomber, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Conventional Weapons Procurement and R&D: Reduce the Aircraft Carrier fleet from 11 to 10. Dismantle the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense as part of a restored ABM treaty. Slash the DARPA budget by 50%. Cancel all Hypersonic Weapons Programs. Cancel all GLCM and MRBM/IRBM development as part of a new INF treaty. Dissolve the Space Force and move its responsibilities back into the Air Force. Halt all work on Human-level Artificial General Intelligence. Halt all work on Sixth Generation Fighter Jets. Cancel all F-15EX and F-18E/F procurement and instead use those funds to buy more F-35s to accelerate the replacement of 4th generation Fighter Jets with 5th generation Stealth Fighters, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

End the War on Terror: Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, due to its anachronistic mission against a organization that barely exists anymore. End all Drone Strikes against any group that is not directly planning on attacking the U$. And finally, Repeal the Patriot Act in order to prevent unnecessary violations of the Civil liberties of U$ Citizens, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

POLITICAL REFORM:

Abolish the Electoral College: Pass a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a National Popular Vote to elect the President, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Ban Gerrymandering: Pass a Federal Law to end Partisan control of Congressional Redistricting and replace it with Independent Redistricting Commissions Nationwide, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Abolish the Filibuster: Abolish the Filibuster on all legislation in the U$ Senate, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Expand Voting Rights and Access: Pass a Federal law to Allow convicted felons to vote, including those that are currently incarcerated for Non-Violent Crimes, ban all Voter ID laws nationwide, and Create Nationwide Mail-In Voting, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Campaign Finance Reform: Appoint Supreme Court Justices that will overturn Citizens United, and pass a Federal law to ban Super PACs and have Public funding of all Federal Elections, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Court Packing: Expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 13, in order to have a Progressive majority, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Expand Statehood: Grant Statehood to DC and the five U$ territories, in order to balance out the U$ Senates bias towards Republicans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND TECHNOLOGY:

Carbon Neutral by 2050: Have 100% Clean, Renewable Energy, from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, Geothermal, and Nuclear Power by 2050. To help make this goal more reachable, there will be a Carbon Tax, Offshore Drilling Ban, and Fracking Ban implemented immediately, along with a ban on the sale of all gasoline-powered Cars by 2040, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Green Public Transportation: Ban all Federal funding for new Highways and Airports, and instead use those funds to build Nationwide Electric, High-Speed Rail, starting with a Transcontinental Bullet Train from New York to Los Angeles, in order to reduce usage of Highways and Air Travel. Dramatically Increase funding for rebuilding and expanding Americas Mass Transit in major cities, with an emphasis on Streetcars, Subways, and Electric Buses, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Ban Urban Sprawl: Ban Single-Use zoning nationwide, and instead have future development emphasize, High-Density Apartment buildings made affordable through Rent Control, increased Walkability, and access to Public Transit, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Ban Non-Organic Foods: Pass a Nationwide ban on GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, in order to create a healthier, Organic, diet for all Americans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Ban Human-level Artificial General Intelligence: Negotiate and Ratify an International Treaty Banning the development of Human-level Artificial General Intelligence worldwide in order to prevent a Catastrophic Singularity Event, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Ban Forced Augmentation: Pass a Federal law banning Corporations from forcing their Employees to be Microchipped and/or have Neural Implants/Brain-Computer Interfaces against their will, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

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OC Thread 18.0

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

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Communism is not "Leftism"

Communism is neither related to "Leftism" nor "Socialism", in fact these reformist movements are antithetical to Communism.

Before some illiterate dumbass takes this as lazy "sectarianism", this was the key issue the Communist International meant to settle. In fact the entire Comintern was born out of the contradiction between the revolutionary content of Marxism and reformist nature of leftism, the murder of German communists at the hands of their left-socialist "comrades" cemented this seemingly forever (clearly not)

>In this connection all those parties that wish to belong to the Communist International must change their names. Every party that wishes to belong to the Communist International must bear the name Communist Party of this or that country (Section of the Communist International). The question of the name is not formal, but a highly political question of great importance. The Communist International has declared war on the whole bourgeois world and on all yellow social-democratic parties. The difference between the communist parties and the old official 'social-democratic' or 'socialist' parties that have betrayed the banner of the working class must be clear to every simple toiler.
<Twenty-one Conditions, Comintern 1919

Going further back to Marx, this distinction was evident (hence the "communist" manifesto)

>in 1847, socialism was a middle-class movement, communism a working-class movement. Socialism was, on the Continent at least, “respectable”; communism was the very opposite. And as our notion, from the very beginning, was that “the emancipation of the workers must be the act of the working class itself,” there could be no doubt as to which of the two names we must take. Moreover, we have, ever since, been far from repudiating it.
<Preface to the 1872 German Edition

>But why were the terms later used exchangeably by the early days of Lenin?
Simply, they were not. By "social democrats" Lenin was strictly referring to the membership of the SPD and its analogous party in Russia who upheld the doctrine of Marx at the time until the German SPD broke away from it.

>But why did Marx and Engels approve of the name SPD in the first place (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands)?
They did not. Both explicitly called the name unscientific and should always be treated as such by the party:

>The dialectician Engels remained true to dialectics to the end of his days. Marx and I, he said, had a splendid, scientifically exact name for the party, but there was no real party, i.e., no mass proletarian party. Now (at the end of the 19th century) there was a real party, but its name was scientifically wrong. Never mind, it would "pass muster", so long as the party developed, so long as the scientific in accuracy of the name was not hidden from it and did not hinder its development on the right direction!
<The State and Revolution, Chapter 4

They were the ones to re-name the League of Just to the Communist League of that wasn't obvious enough.

>acktuly Marx, Engels and Lenin were wrong. Leftist unity (class collaboration) now!!111
Okay. Just don't name yourself after the movement they represented then.

This is more than enough evidence to convince any serious communist that still using terms such as "Leftist" and "Socialist" or to identify with organisations that do, after this split was officially settled for over a century, has nothing to do with communism. This is not even to touch on the popular front slogan which is laughably opportunist.

>At the moment, while the democratic petty bourgeois are everywhere oppressed, they preach to the proletariat general unity and reconciliation; they extend the hand of friendship, and seek to found a great opposition party which will embrace all shades of democratic opinion; that is, they seek to ensnare the workers in a party organization in which general social-democratic phrases prevail while their particular interests are kept hidden behind, and in which, for the sake of preserving the peace, the specific demands of the proletariat may not be presented. Such a unity would be to their advantage alone and to the complete disadvantage of the proletariat. The proletariat would lose all its hard-won independent position and be reduced once more to a mere appendage of official bourgeois democracy. This unity must therefore be resisted in the most decisive manner.
<Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League, 1850

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Things the islamic republic did
>support the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan
>fuel Israel during the intifada
>forcibly privatize the economy
>hand oil extraction to european monopolies
>kill millions of workers
Things Iranian protesters did NOT do
>support the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan
>fuel Israel during the intifada
>forcibly privatize the economy
>hand oil extraction to european monopolies
>kill millions of workers

Yeah I know which side I'm on :3

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Are gacha games another part of why a lot of young men are reactionaries? It seems like gacha gaming in general seems to be something that is supported in a lot of right-wing nations and even in China the gamers who like gacha games tend to be rather right-wing. Is this a chicken or the egg scenario though?

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Valery Sablin

What is leftypol's opinion on Valery Sablin, the Marxist-Leninist naval officer who staged a mutiny against Brezhnev's government, and was executed for it, in 1975?

Feel free to dump any resources you have relating to the topic aswell.

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/seen the light/ general

who here has /seen the light/?

understood the necessity of reform and opening up in the west

by reform of course i mean revolution

by opening up of course i mean abolishing the state

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/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

Previous thread: >>2177902

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.

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I'm surprised that we don't have wordfilters for Haz, Infrared, ACP, and the like. We already wordfilter at least one e-celeb (Agent Kochinski), and he has way less relevance to the site than Haz does. I would think that having wordfilters related to Haz would do a good job further discouraging discussion of him.

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Do you guys see the left capturing any meaningful gains in the next twenty years? What countries do you guys believe are most primed for revolution? Do you believe communism will die in this century?

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What are the best books about gunsmithing, lockpicking, forgery, mobilizing through hostile territory, hotwiring machines, evading surveillance, and other morally grey acts that would be useful in the event shit hits the fan and the government you're in collapses? Stuff to keep you alive or safe until you can actually get to your friends, family, comrades, etc. if they're hundreds of miles away

I'd use /AKM/ but the board is dead and more warfare focused than being concerned about general skills.

>nothing ever happens
posters NOT allowed, assume it has happened and it's you and the hostile concrete jungle with no friends around.

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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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I have so much insecurity I always think and feel like I'm not manly enough in attitude and appearance and that will always give other gays the ick for being too zesty or effeminate. How can I deal with if?
I always crave to be extremely masculine

The fact I don't care about football or any sport also makes me feel feminine and zesty

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why are left wing games so much better than right wing games?

>try to post new thread
>the body was too short or empty.
nice board leftyfriends lmao

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Thousand Year Wait

Communist meditation, bordigization, armchairist.
GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT.
A minute, an hour, a day, a week, a month, a year, a decade, a century, a millennium, a decamillennium, a centamillennium. As long as it takes.
Nothing you do matters, don't waste energy. Wait, read, write. That's the communist life. Wait in your armchair, read capital, write analysis and critique. Buy a gravestone with symbols on it to signify you were a communist. When the revolution comes everyone real and authentic will be resurrected.

A THOUSAND YEAR WAIT. EVERYTHING YOU EVER WISHED FOR WILL COME TRUE. YOU JUST NEED TO SIT AND READ MARX.

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Minimum Possible Socialism

I'm looking for some really lame super pragmatic minimal market socialism for the sake of giving imagination-gap terminally reform-brained normies a concrete thing they can work with.

Specifically I was looking for something which while maintaining distributed capital markets also gets rid of rewards for nonproductive actors. I didn't exactly find this, but I did find Roerner's Equal Shares proposal this follows:

>Every adult citizen would receive from the state treasury an equal endowment of coupons, that can be used only to purchase shares of mutual funds. Only coupons can be used to purchase shares of mutual funds, not money. Only mutual funds can purchase shares of public firms, using coupons. Prices of corporate shares and mutual funds are, hence, denominated in coupons; they will oscillate depending on the supply and demand for shares. Citizens are free to sell their mutual-fund shares for coupons, and to reinvest the coupons in other mutual funds. Finally, firms may exchange coupons with the state treasury for investment funds, and may purchase coupons from the treasury with money. This is the only point at which coupons exchange for money. These investment funds play the role of equity in the firm. (p. 20)

>A share of a firm entitles the owning mutual fund to a share of the firm's profits, and a share of a mutual fund entitles the owning citizen to a share of the mutual fund's revenues. When a citizen dies, his mutual fund shares must be sold and the coupon revenues are returned to the state treasury. The treasury in turn issues coupon endowments to citizens reaching the age of majority. (p. 20)

Anyway this proposal seemed to get reasonably close to what I was "looking for". I'm still not sure however if it's productive to advertise this sort of thing to others. Is it a useful strategy to build these sort of concrete programs. Further about this plan in particular is it really what anyone is after? Is there an effective even more reform minded solution that still removes rewards for unproductive actors - or at least as this one does makes such rewards equal?

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Most stable place in Myanmar

>tfw you get put into a made up state because the english left
>unlike india the english didn't even care about you
>tfw you're still recovering from the japanese invasion
>really smart ex communist socialist leader helps gets things together and switches sides from the japs to the anglos
>tfw your leader who unified your country dies just before independence
>your prime minister gets tried for murder
>its still unknown whether the guy who killed him was the prime minister of a rogue british intelligence group
>your party is being led by an idiot now
>tfw you live in the golden triangle of drug smuggling
>you have to be neutral because otherwise you'd be invaded from all sides
>he becomes an insane religious schizo later on
>he gets couped years later by a general
>a literal kmt insurgency in the northern states
>communist insurgency
>your general trusts mao until mao was proven to support the insurgency
>your country is fighting with a drug lord warlord
>you're losing
>the kmt insurgency gets crushed
>unironic chinese colonization
>the kmt insurgency leads to nationalism
>maoists get to the wa state
>literal headhunting tribesmen
>they end up civilizing it
>last for 20+ years
>the Han chinese become the plurality of the state
>the government doesn't care enough to crush you
>they are most autistically obsessed with muslims
>most of the population is christian
>you get an extra province from the government because you helped them beat the drug lord who controlled half the country and wasn't executed because he bribed officials
>both sides of your nation are disconnected
>yet its the most stable place in the entirety of the country
>zero coups, zero murders, just maoist life
>neutral during the civil war too
>probably trafficks drugs though, 20$ a pop, entire books on you being a narcotic utopia
>you even have quasi citizenship
>you practically have the largest army in the region
>even government websites, years ahead of the other rebels
>tfw china doesn't even really fund you anymore
>probably a better economy than laos
>legal system and general assemblies
Myanmar is literally GTA san andreas

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #278

Previous: >>2621617

The "pwease stop the exodus of young men from Ukraine" t. Merz edition

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/
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Left wing Secret Societies

im someone whose been interested in secret societies and clandestine shit, but i was always surprised how there were so few left-wing ones, compared to the myriad of right wing secret societies, since the only one i could find anything about is the spanish anarchist secret org called "The Disinherited".

why does the left seemingly not utilize secret societies, or are most of the left secret socs just really good at staying secret?

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consider the following

Successful mass resistance to ICE has flourished everywhere.

you even have entire municipal police departments threatening to confront ICE.

Now ask yourself: why would the ruling class allow the plebs to challenge federal law? Would that not set a dangerous precedent for the ruling class to have ordinary working class people resist federal policy?

And the answer in this case is no, they're not afraid. And the reason is simple: THE RULING CLASS, THE BIG CORPORATE OLIGARCHS, WANT UNLIMITED MESTIZO IMMIGRATION IN THE US.

unlimited undocumented immigration from latin America means that capitalists can call upon a pool of unlimited scabs and also pay them BELOW minimum wage. white workers are simply too much of a hassle to deal with, they put up a stink and ask for too much. Jose and Juan, by contrast, have zero leverage and therefore can be hyper-exploited.

I will be called a republican, trumpist, fascist, but I am right. material analysis > muh feels.

Now this is not to suggest that the republicans care about workers, but the broader point I'm trying to make is that this goes beyond democrat vs republican identity politics: this is about what the haute bourgeoisie want. They want scared and vulnerable immigrants. simple as.

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/edu/ checkpoint

Everytime you visit /edu/, post in this thread. Tell us about what you're thinking about, what you're reading, an interesting thing you have learned today, anything! Just be sure to pop in and say hi.

Previous thread >>>/leftypol_archive/580500
Archive of previous thread
https://archive.is/saN3S

Excuse me coming through
A quick note on the video @ >>>/leftypol/1538283
Also [vid related] for archival purposes

Around the 29 minute mark Peterson criticizes Marx and Engel's for assuming that workers would magically become more productive once they took over.

This actually happened historically, most of the actually effective productivity tricks work places use now were developed by Stakhanovites.

https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/year-of-the-stakhanovite/year-of-the-stakhanovite-texts/stalin-at-the-conference-of-stakhanovites/

Reality has a Marxist bias

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Post-meme

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What's the tackiest handgun I could buy?

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Why was the USSR such a shithole? (Literally)

The Soviet Union opened its very first large toilet paper factory in… 1969
And toilet paper remained in deficit for the whole Soviet period, right until the end.
People would buy Pravda and Komsomol newspapers exclusively to use as toilet paper.
In 1981, a Soviet plane crashed and killed 16 Admirals and Generals because it was overloaded with hoarded toilet paper lol.

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/hegel/

There are people who spend their entire lives reading Hegel and still manage to come out empty handed.

ITT we discuss the great thinker, Karl Marx's teacher, and he on who's shadow we walk:

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

>What are good things to read/view to get an understanding of Hegel from a philosophical neophyte?

<What service can Hegel's philosophy provide us today?

>What an be done to make Hegel more accessible to the masses? Why is it so unpenetrable?

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the END of multipolarism

It’s time for you to face the facts: the track record of “multipolarists” predicting the imminent end of U.S./Western primacy has been consistently VERY poor.

Israel has tamed Iran and Hamas and Hezbollah and the Gazan people are on their last legs. If they survive at all it will be in tents rather than dense cities as before. At every turn, the conflicts are shifting from balance toward overmatch and escalation control in favor of the West/US/Israel.

Since roughly the mid-2010s, we’ve seen repeated claims that Iraq/Afghanistan, the 2008 crisis, Syria, Ukraine, or China’s rise would mark a decisive terminal decline, yet in practice the U.S. and its allies have retained escalation control, alliance cohesion, financial centrality, and unmatched intelligence-strike capabilities while rivals absorb disproportionate costs for challenging the system. The mistake isn’t noticing Western contradictions, it’s assuming those contradictions imply fragility rather than durability, and confusing loud resistance with actual system-overturning power. What recent years suggest is not that the empire is collapsing, but that it has shifted from overextension to selective enforcement, which is precisely the mode that makes repeated predictions of imminent demise look increasingly disconnected from observed outcomes.

“Multipolarists” and self-described anti-imperialists fundamentally misread Western restraint as terminal decline rather than adaptation. China remains a regional rather than global military challenger whose only plausible path to victory runs through the Taiwan Strait and whose demographic, alliance, and structural economic limits make it incapable of replacing the United States as a system-organizing power; the deeper implication is that many people invested emotionally and ideologically in the idea of inevitable Western decline are unprepared for a world in which the system they oppose proves both durable and adaptable, producing not liberation or collapse but a long, grinding equilibrium that frustrates anti-imperial hopes and exhausts challengers.

(The last, and I mean absolute LAST chance for the US world order to be overturned even PARTIALLY, is for China to defeat the AUKUS in the Taiwan strait prior to 2030-2035 when China’s demographic decline will begin to affect its military strength.)

Multipolarism: The Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) of politics

I want to distinguish here between multipolar-ism and multipolarity itself. Multipolarity is simply a word describing a geopolitical state: it means multiple great powers with independent strategic freedom, each able to shape outcomes, set norms, and escalate or de-escalate on their own terms; instability exists, but no single actor can reliably cap it, and regional wars can more easily spill or realign the system itself. Power is horizontally distributed and outcomes are genuinely contingent. Sometimes the West loses, sometimes it wins, sometimes rules change.

What is instead happening is not multipolarity. It is instead a still largely unipolar managed instability. Conflicts persist, but within boundaries that one side largely enforces. Rivals can resist, harass, endure, and survive, but they cannot decisively rewrite the system or win clean strategic victories. Escalation is asymmetric: non-Western actors pay exponentially higher costs for breaking ceilings than Western actors do. Wars freeze not because of balance, but because one pole has the ability to punish attempts at resolution it doesn’t like while avoiding full commitment itself.
“Multipolarism”, OTOH, is essentially the Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) of politics: a posture defined less by a positive program than by reflexive negation. The core impulse isn’t “what would materially improve people’s lives?” but “whatever the West says or does, I must oppose it,” even if the alternative is incoherent, reactionary, or demonstrably worse by the very standards the speaker once claimed to hold.
Multipolarism as Resentment
Given that why do people continue to hold onto these theories? Its because once politics collapses into that mode, losing doesn’t matter anymore. In fact, loss can even be perversely comforting, because it preserves the oppositional identity. Winning would require responsibility, governance, tradeoffs, and worst of all accountability to real people rather than symbolic enemies. That’s why you see the same figures cycling from one “anti-Western” fantasy to the next, mythologizing Safavids, Assad, Hamas, Russia, Iran, whoever, regardless of ideology or class structure, and then rationalizing failure as moral purity when those forces predictably get crushed or constrained.
Multipolarism never should have been taken seriously, the fact that it is so popular is indicative of a moral and analytical collapse that’s been brewing for years. A lot of people who once talked seriously about socialism, labor power, material conditions, and workers’ control quietly abandoned those commitments and replaced them with a shallow, aestheticized anti-Westernism that treats any force opposing the U.S. or Israel as automatically emancipatory. In doing so, they stopped asking basic questions about class power, state capacity, coercion, or outcomes, and instead started romanticizing reactionary states, sectarian militias, and long-dead empires as if symbolism itself were a substitute for material victory or social transformation.
The result is that they lose on every axis. They lose militarily, because the actors they cheer are structurally weaker, corrupt, and strategically constrained. They lose politically, because their “anti-imperialism” produces nothing resembling workers’ control, egalitarianism, or mass emancipation, just repression with different flags. And they lose morally, because cheering for the suffering of civilians, or excusing authoritarianism and theocracy, hollows out any claim to universal justice. What’s left is resentment politics: identity without power, aesthetics without strategy, and denunciation without a path to winning anything that would actually improve ordinary people’s lives.
Resentment politics is why this strain of anti-Westernism feels so hollow and repetitive. It isn’t animated by a concrete socialist program, class power, or material strategy; it’s animated by hatred of those who can act, organize, project force, and shape outcomes. The romanticization of defeated empires, reactionary states, or militias isn’t about their values or successes, it’s about using them as symbolic weapons against the West’s confidence and competence. Even loss can be metabolized as “moral victory,” because resentment prefers inverted values over actual change. Resentment eventually consumes its host: it produces a politics that cannot create, cannot govern, and cannot win, only negate.
TLDR: You multipolaristas all sold your souls and in exchange got NOTHING. You traded the universal project of socialism for vibe-based anti-Westernism, and still can’t even point to a strategic win, then what you’ve really abandoned isn’t the West, it’s the idea that politics should be about building durable, emancipatory power at all.

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How exactly do we successfully fight against and reverse Gen Alpha brainrot?

https://youtube.com/shorts/h2i3cGyzNKo

This stuff is becoming alarming. When I was a little kid in the 90s I would watch stuff that had actual substance to it (think: Disney renaissance, Don Bluth films, TV shows like Arthur). Plus our parents made an effort to read to us and get us looking at science books and history books for kids. When I babysit my neighbours’ kids who are eight and six (both boys) I’m horrified by how stupid they are. They can’t read at all. They can’t play musical instruments. They don’t do arts and crafts. They have the vocabularies of preschool-aged kids. They can’t do math and the eight-year old asks me to do his math homework for him. Both of them are either glued to their iPads or glued to watching YouTube on TV. It’s sad as hell. What do?

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If the price of something is determined by the amount of human work that goes into it, how does one explain the price of luxury items or artworks (which only require a little bit of work but are overpriced due to the supply/demand imbalance)?

It might seem like a bunch of impertinent exceptions that could be overlooked but
- the luxury industry is far from being marginal
- if the premise that the value of something is determined by the amount of human work that goes into it isn't true in every context, then the whole law of falling rate of profit doesn't hold true in every context either

(It's been 3 years since I last read Das Kapital and I'm too lazy to read it again)

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>gives Israel all of Syria's positions in case Assad gets toppled
>lifts its airspace for Israeli air force in Syria
>tries to use Iran situation to achieve its own ends
>distances itself from Hamas after Oct. 7th
>supported the war on terror
This is why I'm not rootin for Putin.

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Why Are Young Women Radicalising?

The graph going around showing "men becoming conservative" is hilarious because the female line is the one going nearly exponential whereas the male one just droops a bit.

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/Cooperatives/ General #1

>To my mind, the so-called “socialist society” is not anything immutable. Like all other social formations, it should be conceived in a state of constant flux and change. Its crucial difference from the present order consists naturally in production organized on the basis of common ownership by the nation of all means of production. To begin this reorganization tomorrow, but performing it gradually, seems to me quite feasible. That our workers are capable of it is borne out by their many producer and consumer cooperatives which, whenever they're not deliberately ruined by the police, are equally well and far more honestly run than the bourgeois stock companies.

- Engels, Letter to Otto Von Boenigk In Breslau, August 21, 1890

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1890/letters/90_08_21.htm

"I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people." - Ronald Reagan?!

https://www.cesj.org/about-cesj-in-brief/history-accomplishments/pres-reagans-speech-on-project-economic-justice/

This is a thread about organizing cooperatives. It is not about debating the merits or lack thereof of cooperatives. I understand there are critiques of cooperatives, and how they are not enough to bring about proletarian revolution. The same is true of unions, but I still support the creation of unions and worker-owned cooperatives as part of a multi-pronged strategy.

Resources (feel free to add)
https://www.theselc.org/cooperatives-resources
https://www.theselc.org/bite-sized-law
https://www.theselc.org/how_to_choose_an_entity_for_your_cooperative
https://www.theselc.org/how_to_form_a_cooperative_corporation
https://www.theselc.org/how_to_finance_a_worker_cooperative
https://www.theselc.org/how_to_file_taxes_as_a_subchapter_t_cooperative
https://www.theselc.org/how_to_convert_your_existing_business_into_a_cooperative
https://www.theselc.org/how_to_make_decisions_in_a_cooperative
https://www.theselc.org/legal-guides
https://co-oplaw.org/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_rgt0QdXUbycnprd3hhYzdWNnc/view?resourcekey=0-udk68fxCiFJc4_TjlJokHA

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Costa Rica

¿Que piensan de Costa Rica?

¿Que piensan del actual gobernador de Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves?


Vivo aquí y no sé si hay alguien más de Centroamérica o Costa Rica con el cual discutir. Este país se ha vendido a narcos, es bastante conservador y es más una muestra de cómo los gringos convirtieron otra nación en Puerto Rico 2.0.

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Tomoko thread… why? Because I like the character… and other reasons…
Post lewds (spoilered), memes, edits, pics and anything else related to the subject

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LATAM people, please help me understand these guys. What kind of sociological phenomena explains so many indigenous(ish) people LARPing as nazis?
What justification do Nazi-wannabe cholos give themselves? Is it some sort of pathological denial?
There seems to be way more of those than would make sense considering only the very stupid people in a population.

Previously asked on >>14512 but wanted to expand the topic. One of the pictures stolen from that thread.

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¿Qué piensan los anónimos de /latam/ sobre Nayib Bukake?

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>orwell's 1948 book
<the world shall be divided into 3 spheres of influence that have essentially Bourgeois-Managerial Dictatorships:
<oceania (NATO)
<Eurasia (Russian Federation)
<Eastasia (PRC)
<with disputed regions in the global south

how was this reactionary snitch able to predict multipolarity with such astounding clarity?

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post music you like but is completely unknown to the braiwashed

just post some music that will normally make others try to understand that you like (insert music genre) instead of bland corporate pop "music" built for creating parasocial relationships between the artist and fan

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Canada Thread 2: People's Republic of Carney

Previous thread: >>1950708
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/

NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/

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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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/USApol/ 🇺🇸

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<ICE, ICE BABY Edition

>May Lenin awaken the workers and help them to see the necessity of revolutionary civil war in the United States.

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

📺 Glowie News 📺
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• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us

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✊Live Protest Streams✊
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🏝️ Epstein's Client List🏝️
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📖Read, Burgga, Read! 📖
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Previous thread: >>2634131

Remember, legal + illegal struggle
Remember, praxis + theory
Remember, it's not impossible

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Who was the best head of state of all time?

Who do you think the best head of state of all time was? You can pick whoever I just added those images above because I assumed that those would be the most common answers.

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There's a kind of schadenfreude in seeing reactionaries take each other down

There's a dark comedy in watching pig on pig violence play out within the USA


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/PROLE VENT/

Was tricked to sign a letter of resignation from my job at the russian post office. Despite the fact that I was on probation and my employment contract was fixed-term (although informally after its termination they almost always offer a full-time position) my…I don't know - supervisor? the main bitch of the workplace? didn't like me because of a couple of fuckups like a cash shortage, which I was really guilty of and paid for out of my own pocket (the statement of financial responsibility was signed by me on the first day of employment), and she decided to lie that the employee I was replacing was about to go to work.
Which was an easily verifiable lie that I realized literally as I closed the door behind me. Ah, yes, since I quit "at my own request", I have to work for three days, so called "otrabotka" (two weeks if you were taken without probation), which I will not do (devilish?), because after signing my resignation letter I am no longer an employee and can not be forced to work.
Also new thing I learned opening the labor code for the first time.
-there is no concept of working after dismissal, but there is a concept of notification before dismissal, so it should be 3 days or 2 weeks before the fact.

Thanks for reading my stupid rant.

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Revolutionary defeatism in the US

unitedstatian 'ultras' are the most obvious crypto chauvinists in the world and I say this as a great and authentic ultraoid

There is more proletarian solidarity to be potentially found among the conscripted ranks of the IDF and Wehrmacht than in your mercenary petty bourgeois/labor aristocrat army

Every dead american soldier is a victory for the international working class. Further proof of this is in the rise of anti-war sentiment among the american proletariat whenever the cost of war spikes (Vietnam, War on Terror) compared to the jingoistic character they generally take whenever it goes their way (WW2, Gulf War), it also has a proletarianization effect on volunteers.

<revolutionary defeat for thee but not for me!
sorry but
>"The English working class will never accomplish anything before it has got rid of Ireland. The lever must be applied in Ireland." - Letter from Marx to Engels In Manchester, 1869
>"The conversion of a war between governments into a civil war is, on the one hand, facilitated by military reverses ("defeats") of governments; on the other hand, one cannot actually strive for such a conversion without thereby facilitating defeat." The Defeat of One's Own Government in the Imperialist War, Lenin

<b-but hate is le bad
While we do not envy or disdain the bourgeoisie as is common of the middle class, as that would reinforce the role of competition in society, Marx also notes that there can be no class war without class hate. Hating your class enemies (police/army) can be revolutionary, granted it doesn't distract from the materialist critique of class society that is absent of morality.

Yes I will take a million dead US soldiers over one dead prole who they were in the process of killing. I'm not shedding a tear over my militant class enemies.

<Why not join us third worldists in cheering for another baZed imperialist war!??
1. because you're most likely amerikkkans too (the flip side of this coin)
2. I'm a third worlder and I'm committed to revolutionary defeatism
3. I've seen the extent "anti-imperialists" here are committed to anti-imperialism (not at all) there can be no anti-imperialism without class movement, third world bourgeoisie massacre of workers and enslavement of labor has vindicated the real movement:

NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR

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Real Nordic Patriots in Control

Many advanced systems (such as the F-35, HIMARS, Patriot) have software and hardware that is controlled, updated, or encrypted by the US. This can indirectly act as a "switch," because allies cannot freely reprogram or modify the systems without approval from the US. They could shut down the entire Western defense capability if they wanted to. Most often, Washington limits capacity through policy or hardware configuration prior to transfer (e.g., by limiting the range of HIMARS in Ukraine). It's not a "remote control," but it achieves the same effect. Communications and networks (Link 16, GPS, etc.) are also under US control and can be shut down or restricted in certain areas, giving Washington leverage.

Buy Swedish.

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What is the coziest job? I love the idea of being a fisherman. Can you imagine being a Scandinavian fisherman? Must be awesome.

I fantasize a lot about being a hard-bodied young man sailing across the world, exploring all of Europe, all the while serving my nation by being the best Fisherman in all the land. Hopefully I will reincarnate into something like that. Unfortunately I'm a lazy-eyed, glasses-wearing, wimpy little freak.

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Intellectual production in the current era

Intellectual production is the media, education, art, etc, that is created in a society. Since intellectual production is a direct extension of material production and because we are in the capitalist mode of production, the bourgeoisie heavily influnces and almost entirely controls intellectual production.

I feel like the internet has changed this although, since everyone has a voice, from the capitalists to us; as a result, I don't know if this definition of intellectual production by Marx still fully applies, idk.

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10 years of Trump - 250 years of America

How did you react when Trump won? I personally drank a bottle of champagne because I knew it was the beginning of the end of the USA. He is the worst kind of man and everyone knows it. Watching him destroy the US for 10 years while in and out of office has been so vindicating. He has made China into a moral leader. He is such a great capstone on the genocidal project founded in bourgeois revolution - the Settler Entity.

(This is a microblogging thread in the style of Twitter and Reddit, the front pages of the Internet.)

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/hoxha/ GENERAL

SHOKË ENVER HOXHA GENERAL
I feel like the legendary bunker man is severely under represented in leftypol. I'm pretty sure there was must be a few Hoxhaists here. While I do not know much about Comrade Enver, the little I have read of him is very interesting. For example, his criticism of China and eclecticisms like blending religion and communism (islamic communism e.g).
Let this be a warm bunker for learning and discussing about the Mountain of Tirana.

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Scientology's tactics to grow the left

Scientology is interesting because it is literally bullshit. But can we use their tactics to grow the left? Why is it so hard for something based in reason to work while something that isn't fails?
>Spot who is attacking us.
>Start investigating them promptly for felonies or worse using own professionals, not outside agencies.
>Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them.
>Start feeding lurid, blood, sex, crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press.
>Don't ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way. You can get "reasonable about it" and lose. Sure we break no laws. Sure we have nothing to hide. BUT attackers are simply an anti-Scientology propaganda agency so far as we are concerned. They have proven they want no facts and will only lie no matter what they discover. So BANISH all ideas that any fair hearing is intended and start our attack with their first breath. Never wait. Never talk about us—only them. Use their blood, sex, crime to get headlines. Don't use us. I speak from 15 years of experience in this. There has never yet been an attacker who was not reeking with crime. All we had to do was look for it and murder would come out.

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Roosterteeth productions

what do you think about RWBY as an anime