R: 257 / I: 84
Being well aware that capitalism is the root of all problems and not some Catholic / Zionist Masonic Lodge or a Council of 13 I want to dedicate a thread towards the study of what these organizations actually are, how they accumulated their wealth from their foundation, what their influence is and what their goals are.
This is not a Poltard thread about "da jooz"! This is a thread dedicated towards the study of said esoteric societies / "magical" organizations and their spheres of influence.
From the illumnati, to the anarchist The Black Hand, to the obscure Neo-Nazi pedo cults given by the Order of Nine Angels & Temple Ov Blood, to the Mormons, to the pyramid scheme of the Church of Scientology, LaRouche and so on! How they infiltrate government positions, political parties and what we know about them.
Recommended books for analysis (links not included, might post PDFs in the thread):
-Occult Features of Anarchism by Christopher Scott Thompson and the Erica Lagalisse
-Bakunin's Anti-Jacobinism: 'Secret. Societies' For Self-Emancipating. Collectivist Social Revolution by Robert M. Cutler
-Revolutionary Demonology by Gruppo Di Nun
-Any book on the illumnati (c'mon they're in your supermarket's books aisle! Lets have a laugh)
-Magick by Aleister Crowley
-The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites & Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order by Eminem aka Marshall Bruce Mathers II 's Ancestors (just kidding, Israel Regardie and John Michael Greer)
-Liber Null & Psychonaut: The Practice of Chaos Magic by Peter J. Carroll and Ronald Hutton
-The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality by Gordon White
-Don't touch this book by Jan Udo Holey (Jan van Helsing) ((Funny rightoid schizo))
Lets turn on the vacuum cleaner to start hunting spooks and demystifying them!
/Occult/ - Study General
👁️🪬🧿Secret Societies & Cryptocracy Study 🏛️🤝🐲Being well aware that capitalism is the root of all problems and not some Catholic / Zionist Masonic Lodge or a Council of 13 I want to dedicate a thread towards the study of what these organizations actually are, how they accumulated their wealth from their foundation, what their influence is and what their goals are.
This is not a Poltard thread about "da jooz"! This is a thread dedicated towards the study of said esoteric societies / "magical" organizations and their spheres of influence.
From the illumnati, to the anarchist The Black Hand, to the obscure Neo-Nazi pedo cults given by the Order of Nine Angels & Temple Ov Blood, to the Mormons, to the pyramid scheme of the Church of Scientology, LaRouche and so on! How they infiltrate government positions, political parties and what we know about them.
Recommended books for analysis (links not included, might post PDFs in the thread):
-Occult Features of Anarchism by Christopher Scott Thompson and the Erica Lagalisse
-Bakunin's Anti-Jacobinism: 'Secret. Societies' For Self-Emancipating. Collectivist Social Revolution by Robert M. Cutler
-Revolutionary Demonology by Gruppo Di Nun
-Any book on the illumnati (c'mon they're in your supermarket's books aisle! Lets have a laugh)
-Magick by Aleister Crowley
-The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites & Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order by Eminem aka Marshall Bruce Mathers II 's Ancestors (just kidding, Israel Regardie and John Michael Greer)
-Liber Null & Psychonaut: The Practice of Chaos Magic by Peter J. Carroll and Ronald Hutton
-The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality by Gordon White
-Don't touch this book by Jan Udo Holey (Jan van Helsing) ((Funny rightoid schizo))
Lets turn on the vacuum cleaner to start hunting spooks and demystifying them!
R: 500 / I: 130
Absolute State of America Edition
Thread for the hellish discussion related to the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the Earth.
🏈💵💸🍔
State mandated propaganda livestreams:
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.youtube.com/watch?v=dp8PhLsUcFEegalitarianism
/USApol/
🗽United States Politics🦅Absolute State of America Edition
Thread for the hellish discussion related to the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the Earth.
🏈💵💸🍔
State mandated propaganda livestreams:
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.youtube.com/watch?v=dp8PhLsUcFEegalitarianism
R: 500 / I: 80
Previous thread: >>>/leftypol/1881776
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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
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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.org/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
📺 America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q (Link TBA)
📺 Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 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=2ZN1KK9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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Social media
>Twitter
https://nitter.net/GeromanAT
https://nitter.net/wargonzoo
https://nitter.net/plnewstoday
https://nitter.net/RALee85
https://nitter.net/MarQs__
https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael
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https://nitter.net/NotWoofers
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<Telegram
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https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
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https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine war general #179: Comfy Happening In Ukraine Edition
Remember!!: Stay comfy, my ziggas!Previous thread: >>>/leftypol/1881776
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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
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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.org/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
📺 America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q (Link TBA)
📺 Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 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=2ZN1KK9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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Social media
https://nitter.net/GeromanAT
https://nitter.net/wargonzoo
https://nitter.net/plnewstoday
https://nitter.net/RALee85
https://nitter.net/MarQs__
https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael
https://nitter.net/IntelCrab
https://nitter.net/NotWoofers
https://nitter.net/michaelh992
https://nitter.net/Suriyakmaps
<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/grey_zone
https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/Slavyangrad
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• Please remember to add a spoiler to NSFW and extreme content such as graphic violence and gore.
• Try your best to not derail discussion too much from the main events and relevant places where the war is taken place, as well as other happenings, groups and public figures related to it.
• Meta discussion of the historical, philosophical and ideological background of the war is fine as long as its done in good faith and comradely.
• In the event the meta discussion overstays its welcome, participating users will be referred to take the conversation to the MULTIPOLARISM general thread: >>>/leftypol/1590991
• Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged! Spamming glowie memes is low effort.
• Remember to take your meds! It helps mediate schizoposting and foot fetishism
• this is /isg/ for people who treat geopolitics like shitty map games
R: 396 / I: 145
O lugar mais web-revolucionários para discutir as idas e vindas de nossa amada Pindorama.
Edição anterior: >>1793453
/brg/ - Brazil General
D.E.P. Maria da Conceição Tavares Edition.O lugar mais web-revolucionários para discutir as idas e vindas de nossa amada Pindorama.
Edição anterior: >>1793453
R: 11 / I: 3
This thread is exclusively for the discussion, analysis and news about weapons of mass destruction and nuclear war. It does not endorse or promote them, but rather serves to bring people to study their effects and consequences.
Some notes:
1. The cost of the Manhattan Project (through August 1945) was an estimated $20,000,000,000 .
2. The total number of nuclear missiles built, 1951-present is estimated to be 67,500 .
3. A nuclear holocaust is more probable to occur than a “global killer” meteor hitting the planet.
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In the case of nuclear war, or an announced doomsday - what will YOU do? Will you have sex? Cry and hide? Or do something interesting? Have sex and go BERSERK? Or will you figure out a way to outwit everyone and survive?
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Recommended books:
Nuclear War Survival Skills - Cresson H. Kearny
I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism - A.M. Gittlitz
Doomsday Bunker Book: Your Complete Guide to Designing Surviving and Living in an Underground Concrete Bunker - Ben Jakob
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization - Derrick Jensen
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance - Derrick Jensen
Nihilist Communism - Monsieur Dupont
Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank
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Podcasts / Radio / Broadcast:
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/posadism (podcast episode on Posadism)
https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/prepper-talk-radio--2209431 (funny conservatives)
https://www.infowars.com/show/ (the funniest, craziest conservatives of the internetz)
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Movies:
Threads 1984
The Road 2009
When the Wind Blows 1986
The Day After 1983
Countdown to Looking Glass 1984
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☢️/BOOM/ Another Nukes Thread☢️
The purpose of this thread:This thread is exclusively for the discussion, analysis and news about weapons of mass destruction and nuclear war. It does not endorse or promote them, but rather serves to bring people to study their effects and consequences.
Some notes:
1. The cost of the Manhattan Project (through August 1945) was an estimated $20,000,000,000 .
2. The total number of nuclear missiles built, 1951-present is estimated to be 67,500 .
3. A nuclear holocaust is more probable to occur than a “global killer” meteor hitting the planet.
———————————————————-
In the case of nuclear war, or an announced doomsday - what will YOU do? Will you have sex? Cry and hide? Or do something interesting? Have sex and go BERSERK? Or will you figure out a way to outwit everyone and survive?
———————————————————-
Recommended books:
Nuclear War Survival Skills - Cresson H. Kearny
I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism - A.M. Gittlitz
Doomsday Bunker Book: Your Complete Guide to Designing Surviving and Living in an Underground Concrete Bunker - Ben Jakob
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization - Derrick Jensen
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance - Derrick Jensen
Nihilist Communism - Monsieur Dupont
Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank
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Podcasts / Radio / Broadcast:
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/posadism (podcast episode on Posadism)
https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/prepper-talk-radio--2209431 (funny conservatives)
https://www.infowars.com/show/ (the funniest, craziest conservatives of the internetz)
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Movies:
Threads 1984
The Road 2009
When the Wind Blows 1986
The Day After 1983
Countdown to Looking Glass 1984
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Isn't this unmarxist? Obsession with intrigues can only lead down a path from the lofty heights of institutional and historical analysis to conspiracism, paranoia, and ultimately right wing schizo-ism and antisemitism.
muh CIA
I'm sorry but how is saying "an intelligence agency is responsible for it" to any world event not merely great man theory by another name. That for example any problems run into by the USSR or China were cuz muh CIA. IF great man theory is wrong, why does it suddenly become right if that "great" man is an intelligence agent?Isn't this unmarxist? Obsession with intrigues can only lead down a path from the lofty heights of institutional and historical analysis to conspiracism, paranoia, and ultimately right wing schizo-ism and antisemitism.
R: 500 / I: 114
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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
<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=uFbywfzu-jI
<Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S96e6TdJlNE
>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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • 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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg
>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
<On Neo-Liberalism and Post-Fordism
[Work in progress]
>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 (2006) by Adam Curtis
https://youtu.be/thLgkQBFTPw
<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 - NATHANOLOGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
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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
/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 with the Leftypol Twitter account:
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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
<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=uFbywfzu-jI
<Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S96e6TdJlNE
>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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • 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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg
>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
<On Neo-Liberalism and Post-Fordism
[Work in progress]
>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 (2006) by Adam Curtis
https://youtu.be/thLgkQBFTPw
<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 - NATHANOLOGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
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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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OG Fallout is fine; just fine.
It’s a fine game, but that’s all there is to say about it. As a Fallout game, it’s pretty average. The gore and feeling of dread in the visuals and audio is still the same as in every game made before New Vegas, the gameplay still has the player running around like a bitch for fucking anything, and the main storyline plays like any of Fallout 3’s and New Vegas’ DLCs. What makes it stand out is the difficulty, because the tabletop elements, enemy spam, limited playtime, and finite resources keep the player from becoming stupidly overpowered the moment they get past the first few levels. Additionally, the visuals are somewhat unique even to the other top down releases, because they’re slightly more grounded in reality than in what’s seen in other retro sci fi works. Otherwise, the game is like any other Fallout game, and that’s okay.
R: 102 / I: 23
Also there's an election going on but everyone got bored of it a week ago because they go on for too long, maybe someone will do a cytube for it if anyone even remembers it's happening
/leftybritpol/ - Bored of the Election Edition
A thread for Brits to discuss green energy, the psychology of homosexuality, JK Rowling, and prisoners having sex with wardensAlso there's an election going on but everyone got bored of it a week ago because they go on for too long, maybe someone will do a cytube for it if anyone even remembers it's happening
R: 33 / I: 10
>France: June 30th
>UK: July 4th
>France (round two): July 7th
Big habbenings in the 2 main powerhouses in Yurop (besides Worst Germoney).
Really good rundown on tomorrow's election in Frogland by our comrade Michael Roberts: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/06/29/france-macrons-gamble/
Mind you, the Frogs are about to host an Olympics very soon and are having shittons of problems regarding the water quality of the river supposed to host some water sports and terrorism threats, and now they nuke it with a surprise election to top it all.
In any case, comrade roberts will surely have something to say about britbong electioms as well, so keep looking up his blog in the following days.
…on another note…
Just how communist is Melenchon and his alliance? Will the libs (Macron &co.) pull another "anti-fascist" cry against Le Pen, even if it means encouraging socdems/commies/greens?
"/Fuel/" comes from basically the idea that Europe is down the shitter and these are just fuel to the fire the continent is on (burger dominance, ukro cuckoldery, recession, inflation), and the Lemming part is due to all of us going down the drain in unison, like good lemmings do.
French & UK Election Lemmings /FUEL/
A thread dedicated to the elections of:>France: June 30th
>UK: July 4th
>France (round two): July 7th
Big habbenings in the 2 main powerhouses in Yurop (besides Worst Germoney).
Really good rundown on tomorrow's election in Frogland by our comrade Michael Roberts: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/06/29/france-macrons-gamble/
Mind you, the Frogs are about to host an Olympics very soon and are having shittons of problems regarding the water quality of the river supposed to host some water sports and terrorism threats, and now they nuke it with a surprise election to top it all.
In any case, comrade roberts will surely have something to say about britbong electioms as well, so keep looking up his blog in the following days.
…on another note…
Just how communist is Melenchon and his alliance? Will the libs (Macron &co.) pull another "anti-fascist" cry against Le Pen, even if it means encouraging socdems/commies/greens?
"/Fuel/" comes from basically the idea that Europe is down the shitter and these are just fuel to the fire the continent is on (burger dominance, ukro cuckoldery, recession, inflation), and the Lemming part is due to all of us going down the drain in unison, like good lemmings do.
R: 262 / I: 44
https://x.com/KawsachunNews/status/1806042945188921413
https://x.com/KawsachunNews/status/1806046287038726534
https://x.com/LuchoXBolivia/status/1806039196781666727
https://x.com/evoespueblo/status/1806040047767982392
BOLIVIAL COUP ATTEMPT
BOTH PRESIDENT LUIS ACRE AND FORMER PRESIDENT EVO MORALES HAVE DENOUNCED THE UNILATERAL MOVES OF THE ARMY TO DEPLOY IN CENTRAL EL PAZ, WARNING OF AN ATTEMPTED COUP ATTEMPT. EVO HAS CALLED FOR TRADE UNIONS AND RURAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS TO MARCH ON THE CAPITALhttps://x.com/KawsachunNews/status/1806042945188921413
https://x.com/KawsachunNews/status/1806046287038726534
https://x.com/LuchoXBolivia/status/1806039196781666727
https://x.com/evoespueblo/status/1806040047767982392
R: 26 / I: 4
“Stormwind is a massive industrial capital with the capabilities of equipping its army’s soldiers with fully ornamented metal armour, magic and even guns.” “Also the entirety of the alliance is in the medieval era of technology somehow for… reasons.”
“There are actual gods and people with access to time travel and teleportation that can casually obliterate Azeroth and all the other dimensions at any time but won’t, because the writers only need to acknowledge this when it’s convenient for any expansions.”
World of Warcraft’s world building is so bad
“The entire orc race was crafted by gods and they have a super huge civilization that has survived multiple battles against magic and massive armies.” “oh by the way there capital has a population of a few thousand.”“Stormwind is a massive industrial capital with the capabilities of equipping its army’s soldiers with fully ornamented metal armour, magic and even guns.” “Also the entirety of the alliance is in the medieval era of technology somehow for… reasons.”
“There are actual gods and people with access to time travel and teleportation that can casually obliterate Azeroth and all the other dimensions at any time but won’t, because the writers only need to acknowledge this when it’s convenient for any expansions.”
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• 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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🗣️ 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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• https://www.palestineaction.org/
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Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.
الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
!يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا
Palestine vs. The Zionist Entity #89
🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸>>>/leftypol/1880413
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• Al-Jazeera: hhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/6/24/israel-war-on-gaza-live-israeli-tanks-surround-al-mawasi-safe-zone
• 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/happeningsviaklash
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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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HIDE JIDF POSTS, IGNORE GLOWIE BAIT, DO NOT REPLY TO MOSSAD POSTERS
(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia)
Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.
الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
!يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا
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Neven Sesardic, Marxian Utopia and Theoretical Criticisms of the LTV
Be honest, can you actually refute Boehm-Bawerk's theoretical refutations of Marxism? I've attached an image of the relevant text from Sesardic's book, Marxian Utopia, which explains more succinctly Bawerk's objection. I for one subscribe to this refutation of the LTV, wondering if anyone can think of good counter-arguments.
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What is the marxist explanation, that western countries are mass importing immigrants, but not countries like China and Russia? Shouldn't a socialist state like China actually import the world proletariat into their country?
What is the marxist explanation, that western countries are mass importing immigrants, but not countries like China and Russia? Shouldn't a socialist state like China actually import the world proletariat into their country?
R: 81 / I: 13
worm
Was she a Stalinist? She sure as hell never did anything wrong.
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You can even see this sort of mentality in people like Ben Shapiro who conflate communism, socialism, and "the left" with rebellion against all authority and goodness for the sake of mindless pleasure. Not to mention the endless obsession with LGBTQ+, qanon pedophile theories, porn, abortion, etc.
What is the actual materialist explanation for the right wing obsession with sex? Does porky get some sort of benefit from everyone being a heterosexual monogamous who goes to church once a week? if not why the backlash? is it just to ensure a constant supply of new workers?
Rightoids and SEX
>For Reagan not only saw communists as parricides, but also as extremely active sexually-completely in contrast to the actual sexual code in most communist countries. For instance, when he ran for Governor of California, one of the central themes of his campaign was “the mess at Berkeley,” a place where, he said, they held “sexual orgies so vile I can-not describe them to you,” promising if elected to “investigate the charges of communism and blatant sexual misbehavior on the Berkeley campus.” A good part of the reason why he was elected was that, as one biographer put it, “hidden away in the hearts of parents was the fear that their own children might one day go away to college, grow beards and march against authority.”… Reagan promised these voters that his first targets as Governor would be the students at Berkeley, “advocates of sexual orgies, drug usage, and filthy speech,” who wanted only to “disrupt the academic community” and who therefore must be brought under control immediately. The situation at Berkeley, he told a woman’s club in April of 1966, was now so bad that their “morality gap is so great that we can no longer ignore it.” He had proof, he said, that the Alameda County District Attorney had just investigated a student dance which had turned into “an orgy,” where they had displayed on a giant screen “pictures of men and women, nude, in sensuous poses, provocative, fondling.” Since Reagan had waved a piece of paper in the air during the speech, saying that he had the report of the DA’s investigation “in his hand,” curious reporters later asked the DA for a copy, only to be told that “my office made no investigations of the college dance.” - Lloyd deMause, "REAGAN’S AMERICA"You can even see this sort of mentality in people like Ben Shapiro who conflate communism, socialism, and "the left" with rebellion against all authority and goodness for the sake of mindless pleasure. Not to mention the endless obsession with LGBTQ+, qanon pedophile theories, porn, abortion, etc.
What is the actual materialist explanation for the right wing obsession with sex? Does porky get some sort of benefit from everyone being a heterosexual monogamous who goes to church once a week? if not why the backlash? is it just to ensure a constant supply of new workers?
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Georgism, ordoliberalism, neoliberalism, yaddayaddayadda yup yup trash. Why tf do libshit countries need so many dumbass big government programs, systems, and isms to fix their dumbass housing crisis anyways? Just remove zoning laws, and end discrimination on a social, economic, and environmental level. Fuckers will just build houses immediately wherever they want in that kind of environment, because they can and there isn’t anything stopping them from doing so. All that yapping and theorizing about a solution to fix housing is just that; senseless yapping.
Georgism, ordoliberalism, neoliberalism, yaddayaddayadda yup yup trash. Why tf do libshit countries need so many dumbass big government programs, systems, and isms to fix their dumbass housing crisis anyways? Just remove zoning laws, and end discrimination on a social, economic, and environmental level. Fuckers will just build houses immediately wherever they want in that kind of environment, because they can and there isn’t anything stopping them from doing so. All that yapping and theorizing about a solution to fix housing is just that; senseless yapping.
R: 6 / I: 5
It is not hard for one to do a bit of good. What is hard is to do good all one's life and never do anything bad, to act consistently in the interests of the broad masses, the young people and the revolution, and to engage in arduous struggle for decades on end. That is the hardest thing of all!
"Message of Greetings on the 60th Birthday of Comrade Wu Yu-chang" (January 15, 1940).
It is not hard for one to do a bit of good. What is hard is to do good all one's life and never do anything bad, to act consistently in the interests of the broad masses, the young people and the revolution, and to engage in arduous struggle for decades on end. That is the hardest thing of all!
"Message of Greetings on the 60th Birthday of Comrade Wu Yu-chang" (January 15, 1940).
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Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content.>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
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> be me
> be an anti zionist communist in israel
> bored since it's summer break
> want to piss off some people
> decide to post an anti-idf slideshow on tiktok, just a couple pictures of text describing some of the idf's most famous horrible cases, nothing graphic in the tiktok itself
> it gets 5k views in less than a couple hours
> get a bunch of hate comments, only 3 people actually agreed with me in the comments
> my irl friend see the post since they follow me on tiktok, they're liberal
> they say the video is inappropriate on whatsapp
> i respond with "there are children dying in gaza and this is your problem with the post?"
> they respond "they're defending you and this is YOUR thanks to them??"
> i respond with the "the wehrmact also defended germany, what's your point"
> they say it's an inappropriate comparison
> i say that its appropriate
> they use the "you know they want to kill you and all jews right?????" *they're not talking about hamas, but the palestinian people as a whole*
> i say that it's hitler level racism
> they say that the children in gaza will grow up to be hamas terrorists and therefor bombing gaza is justified
> they were right folks, liberals really are nazis
> they didn't write anything ever since, i haven't replied
> fellas, should i escape this shithole to czechia or something when i have the chance, or should i stay here in a fascist society with fascist friends until something good happens here
> be me
> be an anti zionist communist in israel
> bored since it's summer break
> want to piss off some people
> decide to post an anti-idf slideshow on tiktok, just a couple pictures of text describing some of the idf's most famous horrible cases, nothing graphic in the tiktok itself
> it gets 5k views in less than a couple hours
> get a bunch of hate comments, only 3 people actually agreed with me in the comments
> my irl friend see the post since they follow me on tiktok, they're liberal
> they say the video is inappropriate on whatsapp
> i respond with "there are children dying in gaza and this is your problem with the post?"
> they respond "they're defending you and this is YOUR thanks to them??"
> i respond with the "the wehrmact also defended germany, what's your point"
> they say it's an inappropriate comparison
> i say that its appropriate
> they use the "you know they want to kill you and all jews right?????" *they're not talking about hamas, but the palestinian people as a whole*
> i say that it's hitler level racism
> they say that the children in gaza will grow up to be hamas terrorists and therefor bombing gaza is justified
> they were right folks, liberals really are nazis
> they didn't write anything ever since, i haven't replied
> fellas, should i escape this shithole to czechia or something when i have the chance, or should i stay here in a fascist society with fascist friends until something good happens here
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/leftydeutschpol/ - Deutschland General
Letzter Pfaden wurde dank der /Pol/acken vom Brett gepusht. Deshalb ein neues Deutschland General.
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Why not have a gun?
Reactionaries are armed to the teeth, why should leftist remain unarmed? Better to have a gun and not need it, than to need it and not have it. If you have kids at home keep the bullets locked up (or even at another address) and the gun unloaded.
At least buy a pellet gun and learn to shoot straight, handle the gun so familiarity can wash away the liberal anti-gun propaganda.
The more left leaning people with guns who learn couple things or two about guns the better. Objective fact!
get guns
Guns are fun and necessary for the revolution.Why not have a gun?
Reactionaries are armed to the teeth, why should leftist remain unarmed? Better to have a gun and not need it, than to need it and not have it. If you have kids at home keep the bullets locked up (or even at another address) and the gun unloaded.
At least buy a pellet gun and learn to shoot straight, handle the gun so familiarity can wash away the liberal anti-gun propaganda.
The more left leaning people with guns who learn couple things or two about guns the better. Objective fact!
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Greetings, comrades. Leftypedia, the radical encyclopedia, should be back in a usable state. We have more moderators, which will help with spam from now on, and images are slowly being repopulated for your viewing pleasure. The new domain has been up and running for a while at https://wiki.leftypol.org, and we've imported the vast majority of content that was on the old site while adding a lot of new stuff. I hope that Anons can come back and fill in any content that was lost.
For those unaware, Leftypedia is an original /leftypol/ project dedicated to combating the disinformation of mainstream media and academic sources, as well as discussing leftist history, theory, and practice from a multi-sectarian viewpoint. We welcome additions from different leftist perspectives provided that they are properly sourced and well argued. In addition, we maintain a separate space, tentatively titled "Essays", for more subjective or polemic work.
The original thread is here: >>>/edu/3780
You can find Leftypedia at: https://wiki.leftypol.org
Help for new editors: https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Leftypedia:Community_portal
/leftypedia/
Leftypedia lived - Leftypedia lives - Leftypedia will live!Greetings, comrades. Leftypedia, the radical encyclopedia, should be back in a usable state. We have more moderators, which will help with spam from now on, and images are slowly being repopulated for your viewing pleasure. The new domain has been up and running for a while at https://wiki.leftypol.org, and we've imported the vast majority of content that was on the old site while adding a lot of new stuff. I hope that Anons can come back and fill in any content that was lost.
For those unaware, Leftypedia is an original /leftypol/ project dedicated to combating the disinformation of mainstream media and academic sources, as well as discussing leftist history, theory, and practice from a multi-sectarian viewpoint. We welcome additions from different leftist perspectives provided that they are properly sourced and well argued. In addition, we maintain a separate space, tentatively titled "Essays", for more subjective or polemic work.
The original thread is here: >>>/edu/3780
You can find Leftypedia at: https://wiki.leftypol.org
Help for new editors: https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Leftypedia:Community_portal
R: 381 / I: 49 (sticky)
Logs:
https://leftypol.org/log.php?board=leftypol
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Moderation Thread
Come dispute bans, complain, and other such things related to /leftypol/ here. Please try not to spam this thread or make multiple posts on the same issue, as this makes it harder for us to respond to issues.Logs:
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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
/prc/ - People's Republic of China general
A general thread for all China related discussion.Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
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Riot Self-Defense
What it says on the tin - I've seen a couple threads about preparing for a Guerrilla war or whatever, but not much about defending yourself and others at a demonstration or during a riot, which is obviously a much more common situation to find yourself in. I specifically had defending from riot police in mind, but anything would be interesting/useful.
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If Xeelee Sequence, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, EVE Online and Gothic Fleet Armada got anything correct about sci fi, it’s that the best tactic in any war of attrition is to spam your opponent with only the most broken weapons available to you in your kit. There’s absolutely no reason to use any other technology, if any faction can just blast someone else with endless space lasers, auto cannons, and large bombs until they inevitably win a battle. Especially if the technologies available are cheap to make and mass produce. If this wasn’t true, NATO wouldn’t still be relying on shitty and possibly rusty m4 carbines, Leopard 1s, and Apache-64s to fight in every fucking battle they’ll ever participate in regardless of context. Similarly, there wouldn’t be so many countries using Ak-74us, and armoured single-machine-gunned trucks to supply their armies.
In fiction this brainless approach to mechanized combat is even more apparent in the galactic empire’s (the Star Wars one to prevent confusion) over usage of the death star and their star destroyers whenever they start losing basically any fight, the interim coalition’s tendency to favour its space navy during its alien-genocide campaigns, or the Necron’s haha funny star- and planet- destroying super weapons. Literally the only time a cool sci fi faction decides to use a technology that isn’t brain dead simple and cheap is if that faction is complete shit. Examples of this relationship between technologies usage and a faction is apparent in the Terran federation, the UNSC, the Imperium of man, Gundam’s Earth federation, Supreme Commander’s Earth federation, every house in Dune, and more—no I don’t care that all of those factions consist exclusively of humans.
Looking back at all of this, any sci fi fan has to wonder. Are all fictional—and by extent real—wars doomed to always fall into being series of brief battles determined by who has the deadlier but cheaply produced weapon? If not, where can an avid sci fi enthusiast find a series where the wars fought are complex, but aren’t fought between primitive space-faring societies.
“It’s just not necessary”
I think the only technology with any real-world practicality that’s also popular in science fiction is power armour; more specifically, the exodus they are built on top of. The necessity of those suits in warfare would likely be for transporting riflemen around hard-to-navigate terrain. Even then, it’s likely that such a technology would be used sparingly for small patrol missions than in actual combat. Why am I bringing up exo suits in a thread with such a specific quote? Because it’s often overlooked by writers how unbelievably broken some of their in game weapons are.If Xeelee Sequence, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, EVE Online and Gothic Fleet Armada got anything correct about sci fi, it’s that the best tactic in any war of attrition is to spam your opponent with only the most broken weapons available to you in your kit. There’s absolutely no reason to use any other technology, if any faction can just blast someone else with endless space lasers, auto cannons, and large bombs until they inevitably win a battle. Especially if the technologies available are cheap to make and mass produce. If this wasn’t true, NATO wouldn’t still be relying on shitty and possibly rusty m4 carbines, Leopard 1s, and Apache-64s to fight in every fucking battle they’ll ever participate in regardless of context. Similarly, there wouldn’t be so many countries using Ak-74us, and armoured single-machine-gunned trucks to supply their armies.
In fiction this brainless approach to mechanized combat is even more apparent in the galactic empire’s (the Star Wars one to prevent confusion) over usage of the death star and their star destroyers whenever they start losing basically any fight, the interim coalition’s tendency to favour its space navy during its alien-genocide campaigns, or the Necron’s haha funny star- and planet- destroying super weapons. Literally the only time a cool sci fi faction decides to use a technology that isn’t brain dead simple and cheap is if that faction is complete shit. Examples of this relationship between technologies usage and a faction is apparent in the Terran federation, the UNSC, the Imperium of man, Gundam’s Earth federation, Supreme Commander’s Earth federation, every house in Dune, and more—no I don’t care that all of those factions consist exclusively of humans.
Looking back at all of this, any sci fi fan has to wonder. Are all fictional—and by extent real—wars doomed to always fall into being series of brief battles determined by who has the deadlier but cheaply produced weapon? If not, where can an avid sci fi enthusiast find a series where the wars fought are complex, but aren’t fought between primitive space-faring societies.
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Victoria 3
I'm pretty new to victoria 3, and I'm looking for some advice. What are some fun countries to play as while still being a beginner? Also, what are the best mods I should get?
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Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
Active writers/creators
Sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
>>1650427
/ CYBERCOM /
This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
Active writers/creators
Sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
>>1650427
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The U.N. working group said Khan's legal woes were part of a "much larger campaign of repression" against him and his Pakistan Tehree-e-Insaf (PTI) party. It said that in the lead up to the 2024 elections, members of Khan's party were arrested and tortured and their rallies were disrupted. It also alleged "widespread fraud on election day, stealing dozens of parliamentary seats."
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/former-pakistani-prime-minister-khan-arbitrarily-detained-says-un-working-group-2024-07-01/
Cambodian court jails ten environmental activists
Cambodian human rights group Licadho said: “It is astounding that Cambodian authorities are convicting youth activities advocating for clean water in Phnom Penh, protecting mangrove forests in Koh Kong and warning against the privatisation of land in protected areas and presenting it as an attack against the state.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cambodian-court-jails-10-environmental-activists
Students block Shahbagh, highway as quota protests intensify
Students of the University of Dhaka and Jahangirnagar university on Tuesday blocked the Shahbagh intersection and Dhaka-Aricha highway as protests demanding cancellation of the High Court order for the restoration of 30 per cent quota for freedom fighters’ children and grandchildren in government jobs intensified. Students of other public universities, including Rajshahi University and Chittagong University also held rallies and human chains to press home the same demand on the day.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/Country/239067/students-block-shahbagh-highway-as-quota-protests-intensify
==Israel to reserve notorious administrative detention for non-Jewish suspects00
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation gave a green light on Sunday to amendments to the Emergency Defense Regulation, which goes further and allows non-Israeli individuals to be detained even if they do not belong to a terrorist organisation but there are reasonable grounds they could threaten "national security or the public's safety".
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-reserves-administrative-detention-non-jewish-suspects
UAE-linked company in Serbia supplying weapons to Israel amid war on Gaza
According to a report by Balkan Insight, in 2024 Serbia’s main state-owned arms trader, Yugoimport-SDPR, exported at least $17.1m worth of weapons to Israel via Israeli military planes as well as civilian aircraft.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-linked-serbian-company-supplying-weapons-israel-amid-war-gaza
Scottish council workers ready to strike for fair pay
A total of 23 of Scotland’s 32 councils have seen either GMB or Unite, or both unions win mandates for strike action as thousands of workers in waste services rejected a subinflation pay offer from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) of 2.2 per cent from April 1 to September 30 followed by 2 per cent in the following year.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottish-council-workers-ready-strike-fair-pay
Greece introduces ‘growth-oriented’ six-day working week
In a country with almost no tradition of inspections in the workplace, critics contend the reform ultimately sounds the death knell of the five-day working week, not least because it enables employers to dictate whether a sixth day of labour is required. For opponents, who have already taken to the streets in protest, the reform erodes legal protections and rolls back long-established workers’ rights in the name of flexibility.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/01/greece-introduces-growth-oriented-six-day-working-week
Colombia arrests two Tren de Aragua bosses
Last week, police arrested Salomon Fernandez, the alleged boss of Tren de Aragua in the capital Bogota and the neighboring town of Soacha, in a town in the eastern Casanare province. On Monday, the National Police announced the arrest of Larry Changa, one of the three alleged founders of the Venezuelan group.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-arrests-two-tren-de-aragua-bosses/
Adoptee stolen at birth sues Chile over thousands of dictatorship-era thefts
A Chilean-American man raised in the United States has filed a criminal complaint against the Chilean state, alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/01/chile-adoption-stolen-babies-lawsuit-pinochet-dictatorship
Ahead of election, Venezuela’s Maduro says he has agreed to resume negotiations with United States
“I have received the proposal during two continuous months from the United States government to reestablish talks and direct dialogue,” Maduro said. “After thinking about it for two months, I have accepted, and next Wednesday, talks will restart with the United States government to comply with the agreements signed in Qatar and to reestablish the terms of the urgent dialogue.”
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-united-states-negotiations-nicolas-maduro-3fa0b1326b860446c6707ba95a86435b
News 7/2/24
Detention of Imran Khan violates international law, UN working group saysThe U.N. working group said Khan's legal woes were part of a "much larger campaign of repression" against him and his Pakistan Tehree-e-Insaf (PTI) party. It said that in the lead up to the 2024 elections, members of Khan's party were arrested and tortured and their rallies were disrupted. It also alleged "widespread fraud on election day, stealing dozens of parliamentary seats."
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/former-pakistani-prime-minister-khan-arbitrarily-detained-says-un-working-group-2024-07-01/
Cambodian court jails ten environmental activists
Cambodian human rights group Licadho said: “It is astounding that Cambodian authorities are convicting youth activities advocating for clean water in Phnom Penh, protecting mangrove forests in Koh Kong and warning against the privatisation of land in protected areas and presenting it as an attack against the state.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cambodian-court-jails-10-environmental-activists
Students block Shahbagh, highway as quota protests intensify
Students of the University of Dhaka and Jahangirnagar university on Tuesday blocked the Shahbagh intersection and Dhaka-Aricha highway as protests demanding cancellation of the High Court order for the restoration of 30 per cent quota for freedom fighters’ children and grandchildren in government jobs intensified. Students of other public universities, including Rajshahi University and Chittagong University also held rallies and human chains to press home the same demand on the day.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/Country/239067/students-block-shahbagh-highway-as-quota-protests-intensify
==Israel to reserve notorious administrative detention for non-Jewish suspects00
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation gave a green light on Sunday to amendments to the Emergency Defense Regulation, which goes further and allows non-Israeli individuals to be detained even if they do not belong to a terrorist organisation but there are reasonable grounds they could threaten "national security or the public's safety".
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-reserves-administrative-detention-non-jewish-suspects
UAE-linked company in Serbia supplying weapons to Israel amid war on Gaza
According to a report by Balkan Insight, in 2024 Serbia’s main state-owned arms trader, Yugoimport-SDPR, exported at least $17.1m worth of weapons to Israel via Israeli military planes as well as civilian aircraft.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-linked-serbian-company-supplying-weapons-israel-amid-war-gaza
Scottish council workers ready to strike for fair pay
A total of 23 of Scotland’s 32 councils have seen either GMB or Unite, or both unions win mandates for strike action as thousands of workers in waste services rejected a subinflation pay offer from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) of 2.2 per cent from April 1 to September 30 followed by 2 per cent in the following year.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottish-council-workers-ready-strike-fair-pay
Greece introduces ‘growth-oriented’ six-day working week
In a country with almost no tradition of inspections in the workplace, critics contend the reform ultimately sounds the death knell of the five-day working week, not least because it enables employers to dictate whether a sixth day of labour is required. For opponents, who have already taken to the streets in protest, the reform erodes legal protections and rolls back long-established workers’ rights in the name of flexibility.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/01/greece-introduces-growth-oriented-six-day-working-week
Colombia arrests two Tren de Aragua bosses
Last week, police arrested Salomon Fernandez, the alleged boss of Tren de Aragua in the capital Bogota and the neighboring town of Soacha, in a town in the eastern Casanare province. On Monday, the National Police announced the arrest of Larry Changa, one of the three alleged founders of the Venezuelan group.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-arrests-two-tren-de-aragua-bosses/
Adoptee stolen at birth sues Chile over thousands of dictatorship-era thefts
A Chilean-American man raised in the United States has filed a criminal complaint against the Chilean state, alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/01/chile-adoption-stolen-babies-lawsuit-pinochet-dictatorship
Ahead of election, Venezuela’s Maduro says he has agreed to resume negotiations with United States
“I have received the proposal during two continuous months from the United States government to reestablish talks and direct dialogue,” Maduro said. “After thinking about it for two months, I have accepted, and next Wednesday, talks will restart with the United States government to comply with the agreements signed in Qatar and to reestablish the terms of the urgent dialogue.”
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-united-states-negotiations-nicolas-maduro-3fa0b1326b860446c6707ba95a86435b
R: 49 / I: 12
To start things off, I've made a card for Alunya: https://chub.ai/characters/xalkoi/Alunya
Fuck Fork and modify it to oblivion
Don't want to give money to capitalist but want to try it out? First download SillyTavern: https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern
Then create an account on Poe.com and follow the guide on SillyTavern to get the API key (just copy the value of the cookie)
Now download the png of the bot and import it on sillytavern, have fun.
And if you don't mind being unable to lewd the bots, you also have https://beta.character.ai/
/aicg/ - AI Chatbot General
This place needs an AI chatbot thead, so this is it now.To start things off, I've made a card for Alunya: https://chub.ai/characters/xalkoi/Alunya
Fuck Fork and modify it to oblivion
Don't want to give money to capitalist but want to try it out? First download SillyTavern: https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern
Then create an account on Poe.com and follow the guide on SillyTavern to get the API key (just copy the value of the cookie)
Now download the png of the bot and import it on sillytavern, have fun.
And if you don't mind being unable to lewd the bots, you also have https://beta.character.ai/
R: 266 / I: 91
Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://redflag.org.au/
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/
https://overland.org.au/
https://arena.org.au/
https://www.themonthly.com.au/
https://www.crikey.com.au/
https://www.redblacknotes.com/
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.net/r/AustralianSocialism
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
>Shortlist of anarchist orgs/stores (2022)
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
/auspol/ #9
/auspol/ - little friends editionLink dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://redflag.org.au/
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/
https://overland.org.au/
https://arena.org.au/
https://www.themonthly.com.au/
https://www.crikey.com.au/
https://www.redblacknotes.com/
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.net/r/AustralianSocialism
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
>Shortlist of anarchist orgs/stores (2022)
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
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As Alunya art would be for all leftyanons' sake & .org
Especially from new drawfriends|
This time a 2nd time.
Draw Alunya 2
We anons humbly request Alunya artwork from drawfriendsAs Alunya art would be for all leftyanons' sake & .org
Especially from new drawfriends|
This time a 2nd time.
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Why do /pol/acks hate rap?
Rap is extremely politically incorrect, liberally uses the gamer word, glorifies guns, thug, culture, and misogyny. It's everything /pol/ loves. Is it just because they hate blacks more?
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⡿⣵⣳⢯⣞⡷⡽⣶⢻⡼⣞⡵⡾⣝⡷⡽⡾⣝⡷⢯⣽⣳⣟⣯⢷⣻⡽⣻⠽⣶⢻⣝⢮⢯⡽⣞⢯⢶⡻⣝⡾⣹⡞⣽⣹⢾⣹⢽⡺⣝⡾⣺⡭⣟⢯⣞⣳⡞⣯⢶⣻⣽⣾⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣶⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣷⣾⡽⣯⢷⣛⡷⣭⣟⡯⡷⣏⡿⡽⣞⡽⣯⢿⡽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣟⣳⡽⣞⣧⠿⣝⡾⢯⣽⣫⣽⡻⣽⠾⣝⣿⣹⣞⣯⠏⢳⣟⣮⡟⣧⢿⡭⣟⣳⢟⣮⢯⣳⢻⣼⢫⣗⢯⣳⢽⣣⢟⣧⢻⢮⡽⣞⡽⣣⢿⣱⡟⣼⣏⡾⣵⣻⣿⡿⣻⣻⣿⣿⢿⡿⡟⣵⢿⣿⠻⣽⠯⡟⢎⣿⡯⣛⠾⣯⡿⣷⣿⣿⣯⣯⣽⣳⢯⣽⣻⡽⣽⣻⣭⣟⡷⣯⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣯⢷⣻⢽⣺⢟⣭⣟⣟⣶⡻⣶⣻⣭⢿⣽⡾⠧⠿⠞⢰⡌⠿⠾⠽⣯⡾⣝⣳⡽⣞⢧⣯⢳⡟⣼⢏⡾⣝⣮⢗⣻⢮⣝⣯⣳⢻⡼⣳⢏⡷⣧⣻⢳⣾⣽⣿⢿⣏⠸⠲⢹⢞⠁⢏⡶⠁⠿⡄⡇⠹⡸⡆⡇⢈⠡⡐⠋⣰⢃⠖⠋⢹⠞⣽⣿⣿⣯⣟⡾⣵⣻⣳⡽⣞⡾⣽⢯⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣯⣟⣾⣫⡽⣞⣷⣫⣞⡾⣽⣳⡽⣞⣯⠿⣽⣳⣌⢻⣿⣿⠋⣥⡾⣿⣹⣭⢷⡻⣼⢏⡾⣽⢺⡽⣞⡽⣳⢞⣯⡳⢯⣞⡶⣏⣯⠷⣏⣯⢷⣳⡽⣻⣿⠟⣹⠸⠀⠀⠰⡎⢨⠀⣞⢀⢏⢀⠃⠀⡆⠁⠱⢸⢃⢐⡇⣰⢃⡴⠂⠀⠀⡘⠧⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⡷⣯⢷⣻⡽⣽⢯⣟⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡷⣯⢶⣯⢟⡽⣶⣻⠾⣝⡷⣭⢷⣻⡞⣿⣳⢯⡏⢘⣥⣌⡃⢻⡽⣞⡵⣞⣳⢯⣳⢯⣻⡼⣏⣷⢫⡷⣏⢿⣲⢟⡯⢾⡵⣻⡼⣻⣝⣮⢷⣫⣽⣿⢣⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠂⣯⡗⣾⠇⡞⣎⢸⡇⠰⣇⣤⢘⣿⣯⡟⣠⠖⡵⢐⣡⡿⠊⡀⠀⠀⠠⢫⣾⣟⣿⣯⣟⣷⣻⣭⣟⡾⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡿⣽⢯⣞⣯⣟⢷⡯⣿⢽⣻⡽⢯⣷⢻⣗⣯⣿⢶⡿⣯⣟⡿⣾⣟⢾⣹⣭⢷⣫⢷⣫⠷⣽⡺⣵⢯⣳⢯⣛⣮⢟⣽⡳⢯⡷⣝⡷⣺⡽⣞⣷⣿⣙⢧⠄⡀⣿⣦⡀⠐⠘⠛⠉⠀⠧⢃⡾⣼⢴⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣼⣧⢫⠾⠟⣫⡟⣼⣷⡷⣤⠐⠉⠀⠿⢿⣿⢿⣞⣷⣻⢾⣽⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡿⣽⢾⡽⣞⡾⣯⡽⣞⣯⢷⣻⡟⣾⣻⣞⣿⣞⣯⣽⣻⢷⣭⡓⠯⣯⣗⡾⣫⣗⢯⣳⢟⣧⡟⣧⡟⣧⢿⣹⡞⣯⠾⣝⡿⣼⢻⣼⡳⢯⣟⣾⣿⡫⢞⣰⠍⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠉⠉⠉⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠉⣟⡽⠓⠂⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⢾⣽⣻⣞⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡿⣽⣏⡿⣽⣽⣳⠿⣽⣞⣯⢷⣻⢷⡿⠚⠁⠀⠈⢁⡿⣏⡾⣽⢦⡈⠻⣵⣟⡾⣭⢷⣛⣮⡽⣳⡽⣽⣚⣧⠿⣭⢿⣹⢾⣹⢯⣶⢻⣟⡾⣽⣿⡵⣯⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠈⢋⣶⣶⣿⢷⡶⡿⢭⣿⣻⣞⡷⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣳⢯⣟⡷⣾⡽⣻⢷⣛⣾⣻⡿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⢶⡿⣽⢯⡽⣞⡯⣟⣄⠈⠻⣻⡽⢾⣹⢮⢷⣏⡷⣏⣷⢫⣿⣹⠾⣭⠷⣯⢷⡞⣟⡾⣽⣿⣿⢧⣟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⣌⠙⢷⣍⠻⠻⠷⣿⣿⢾⣽⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣷⢯⣟⡾⣽⣳⢿⡽⣯⣟⡾⣽⢷⣄⠀⣠⣶⡄⠀⠙⢿⡾⣝⣳⢯⣽⢻⡆⠀⢹⣻⢯⡽⣛⣮⢷⣫⡽⣞⣻⢶⣫⢿⣹⢯⣛⡾⣽⣏⡿⣽⣿⣿⣾⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⡹⣆⠙⠿⣿⣯⠩⣷⣿⡿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣯⣟⡾⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⢯⣟⡿⣽⣳⢿⡷⣄⠀⠙⢯⣟⣯⣞⡯⣷⠀⠀⣿⣳⣻⠽⣞⣳⢯⣗⡯⣷⣫⡽⣏⡷⣯⣻⢽⡶⢯⡿⣽⣿⣿⡯⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⡕⢕⠀⠸⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⢾⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣏⡿⡾⣽⣳⢯⣷⢻⣟⣧⡄⠀⠈⠻⣾⡷⡟⠀⢀⣿⣳⡽⣻⣭⢟⡾⣞⡽⡶⣏⡷⣯⠷⣏⡷⣯⣻⢯⣟⣷⣿⣿⠗⠀⣀⣶⣾⣶⣤⣤⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣦⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠐⠆⠀⢊⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣻⢾⡽⣯⣟⡷⣯⢿⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⢷⡯⠟⢾⣟⡾⣳⡟⣷⣀⠀⠈⠛⠁⠀⣸⡷⣏⣷⣻⡼⣯⢷⣏⣟⡷⢯⣟⣞⡿⣹⣽⣳⡽⣻⢾⣽⣿⣿⠁⠀⡿⠃⠀⣀⣈⣉⠛⠻⠟⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠴⣾⡿⠟⢛⣋⢉⣉⡁⠉⠛⠻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠓⠲⣶⡷⠌⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣯⢿⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣻⢾⡽⣯⢷⠟⠁⢀⣦⡀⠈⠙⠳⠿⠽⠯⠓⠀⠀⠀⠰⣿⢿⡽⢾⣵⡻⢧⣟⡾⡽⣞⣟⣮⡽⣾⢽⡶⢯⡽⣯⣟⣾⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣷⣷⡾⢽⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣿⣴⣶⣷⣖⣶⣦⣭⣓⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢾⣯⣓⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣻⢾⡽⣯⣟⡷⣯⣟⣿⠞⠁⢀⣴⣿⣻⣟⣶⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣤⣶⣄⠀⠈⠻⣽⣻⢶⣻⢟⡾⣝⣿⣹⣞⣧⢿⡽⣾⣹⢯⣟⣷⣻⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠠⠋⠉⠉⠉⠀⣤⣿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣍⠉⠉⠁⠈⠉⠉⠻⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣳⢶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡿⣯⣟⡷⣯⣟⡷⣯⢿⣤⣴⢿⣻⢾⡵⣞⡷⢯⣞⡿⡽⣯⠿⣝⡿⢾⣷⣤⣾⣳⢯⡟⣧⢿⣽⣫⢶⣻⡼⣞⣟⣾⢳⡯⣟⡾⣞⣷⣯⣶⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⠷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡙⣂⢉⣉⡉⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⢾⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣻⢾⡽⣯⢯⣷⣻⣽⢻⣟⡾⣽⣻⣵⣻⢯⣟⣻⣼⣳⢯⡷⢯⣿⣹⢯⡶⣯⣟⣳⢿⣹⣞⡾⢯⡽⣯⣽⢿⣿⢼⣿⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢾⠙⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣳⣯⢿⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣞⢿⣶⣛⣾⣻⠾⣽⣳⠿⣼⢯⡷⢯⣷⣳⢯⣷⢻⣟⡾⣭⣟⢷⣻⡼⣯⣟⣳⢯⣟⣯⣟⢷⣯⣟⣿⣿⢹⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢷⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣄⠀⢻⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣟⡾⣽⣻⣞⡷⣯⣟⡾⣭⢿⡽⣯⢶⣯⣟⣶⣻⢮⡷⣾⣝⣻⢮⣟⡾⣽⣳⢯⣟⡾⢯⡷⣏⣿⣛⡾⣽⣫⡽⣾⣝⣿⣿⣽⢪⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡟⠠⣴⣄⠀⣠⣠⡄⣠⣦⣄⣸⣿⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡆⠸⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡿⣽⣳⣟⡾⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⢯⣟⣾⣻⢶⣻⣞⣭⣟⣷⢻⡾⣽⣛⡾⣽⣳⢯⣟⡾⣽⢯⣷⣻⠾⣝⣻⣗⣯⢟⣷⣻⣞⣿⡾⡟⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡰⠋⠀⠀⠈⡁⡀⣛⡿⢴⡦⠄⠀⡁⠈⠻⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡾⠿⢁⢆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣟⡷⣯⣟⡷⣯⢿⣽⣻⢾⡽⣶⢯⣟⣧⣟⡾⣽⣞⣯⣽⣳⢯⣟⡷⢯⣟⡾⣽⣫⣟⡶⣯⢿⣽⣳⢾⣭⣟⣾⣳⢯⣿⣷⡍⢎⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⢀⣴⣶⢹⡾⢟⣇⣿⣷⢸⡶⣑⢿⢽⣶⢳⣠⡉⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⢎⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⢿⣾⣟⡷⣯⢿⣽⣻⢾⡽⣯⣟⣾⣻⣞⣧⢿⣽⣳⣞⣷⣫⣽⣻⢮⣟⡿⢾⣽⣳⣟⡾⣽⣏⡿⣞⣽⣻⢮⣟⡶⣯⣟⣿⣿⡝⢺⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣟⡶⣻⡟⣪⣳⣿⣿⣷⣻⡽⡗⣷⣳⣼⣼⣽⣆⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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3 July 1941 STALIN SPOKE
83 years ago on this day comrade Stalin gave this astounding speech for the mobilization of the USSR against Hitler's Germany. [[Zoom out on page / change theme to view]]⡿⣽⣫⣟⡽⣫⣟⣽⣫⣟⣽⣫⣟⡽⣫⣟⡽⣏⡿⣽⣫⢿⡽⢯⡿⡽⣯⠿⣝⣯⡻⣝⣯⢻⡝⣯⢻⣭⡻⣝⢯⣝⢯⡻⣝⢯⡻⣝⢯⣝⢯⣏⢿⡹⢯⣝⢯⣏⢿⣹⡝⣯⢏⣿⡹⣏⢿⣹⢯⣻⣽⣫⣿⣽⣯⠿⣽⣫⢿⣹⢯⣟⡽⢯⣻⡽⣫⣟⡽⢯⣻⡽⣏⡿⣽⣫⢿⡽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⡿⣽⢾⡽⣞⡾⣯⡽⣞⣯⢷⣻⡟⣾⣻⣞⣿⣞⣯⣽⣻⢷⣭⡓⠯⣯⣗⡾⣫⣗⢯⣳⢟⣧⡟⣧⡟⣧⢿⣹⡞⣯⠾⣝⡿⣼⢻⣼⡳⢯⣟⣾⣿⡫⢞⣰⠍⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠉⠉⠉⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠉⣟⡽⠓⠂⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⢾⣽⣻⣞⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡿⣽⣏⡿⣽⣽⣳⠿⣽⣞⣯⢷⣻⢷⡿⠚⠁⠀⠈⢁⡿⣏⡾⣽⢦⡈⠻⣵⣟⡾⣭⢷⣛⣮⡽⣳⡽⣽⣚⣧⠿⣭⢿⣹⢾⣹⢯⣶⢻⣟⡾⣽⣿⡵⣯⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠈⢋⣶⣶⣿⢷⡶⡿⢭⣿⣻⣞⡷⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣳⢯⣟⡷⣾⡽⣻⢷⣛⣾⣻⡿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⢶⡿⣽⢯⡽⣞⡯⣟⣄⠈⠻⣻⡽⢾⣹⢮⢷⣏⡷⣏⣷⢫⣿⣹⠾⣭⠷⣯⢷⡞⣟⡾⣽⣿⣿⢧⣟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⣌⠙⢷⣍⠻⠻⠷⣿⣿⢾⣽⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣷⢯⣟⡾⣽⣳⢿⡽⣯⣟⡾⣽⢷⣄⠀⣠⣶⡄⠀⠙⢿⡾⣝⣳⢯⣽⢻⡆⠀⢹⣻⢯⡽⣛⣮⢷⣫⡽⣞⣻⢶⣫⢿⣹⢯⣛⡾⣽⣏⡿⣽⣿⣿⣾⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⡹⣆⠙⠿⣿⣯⠩⣷⣿⡿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣯⣟⡾⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⢯⣟⡿⣽⣳⢿⡷⣄⠀⠙⢯⣟⣯⣞⡯⣷⠀⠀⣿⣳⣻⠽⣞⣳⢯⣗⡯⣷⣫⡽⣏⡷⣯⣻⢽⡶⢯⡿⣽⣿⣿⡯⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⡕⢕⠀⠸⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⢾⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣏⡿⡾⣽⣳⢯⣷⢻⣟⣧⡄⠀⠈⠻⣾⡷⡟⠀⢀⣿⣳⡽⣻⣭⢟⡾⣞⡽⡶⣏⡷⣯⠷⣏⡷⣯⣻⢯⣟⣷⣿⣿⠗⠀⣀⣶⣾⣶⣤⣤⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣦⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠐⠆⠀⢊⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣻⢾⡽⣯⣟⡷⣯⢿⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⢷⡯⠟⢾⣟⡾⣳⡟⣷⣀⠀⠈⠛⠁⠀⣸⡷⣏⣷⣻⡼⣯⢷⣏⣟⡷⢯⣟⣞⡿⣹⣽⣳⡽⣻⢾⣽⣿⣿⠁⠀⡿⠃⠀⣀⣈⣉⠛⠻⠟⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠴⣾⡿⠟⢛⣋⢉⣉⡁⠉⠛⠻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠓⠲⣶⡷⠌⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣯⢿⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣻⢾⡽⣯⢷⠟⠁⢀⣦⡀⠈⠙⠳⠿⠽⠯⠓⠀⠀⠀⠰⣿⢿⡽⢾⣵⡻⢧⣟⡾⡽⣞⣟⣮⡽⣾⢽⡶⢯⡽⣯⣟⣾⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣷⣷⡾⢽⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣿⣴⣶⣷⣖⣶⣦⣭⣓⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢾⣯⣓⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣻⢾⡽⣯⣟⡷⣯⣟⣿⠞⠁⢀⣴⣿⣻⣟⣶⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣤⣶⣄⠀⠈⠻⣽⣻⢶⣻⢟⡾⣝⣿⣹⣞⣧⢿⡽⣾⣹⢯⣟⣷⣻⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠠⠋⠉⠉⠉⠀⣤⣿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣍⠉⠉⠁⠈⠉⠉⠻⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣳⢶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡿⣯⣟⡷⣯⣟⡷⣯⢿⣤⣴⢿⣻⢾⡵⣞⡷⢯⣞⡿⡽⣯⠿⣝⡿⢾⣷⣤⣾⣳⢯⡟⣧⢿⣽⣫⢶⣻⡼⣞⣟⣾⢳⡯⣟⡾⣞⣷⣯⣶⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⠷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡙⣂⢉⣉⡉⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⢾⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣻⢾⡽⣯⢯⣷⣻⣽⢻⣟⡾⣽⣻⣵⣻⢯⣟⣻⣼⣳⢯⡷⢯⣿⣹⢯⡶⣯⣟⣳⢿⣹⣞⡾⢯⡽⣯⣽⢿⣿⢼⣿⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢾⠙⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣳⣯⢿⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣞⢿⣶⣛⣾⣻⠾⣽⣳⠿⣼⢯⡷⢯⣷⣳⢯⣷⢻⣟⡾⣭⣟⢷⣻⡼⣯⣟⣳⢯⣟⣯⣟⢷⣯⣟⣿⣿⢹⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢷⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣄⠀⢻⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣟⡾⣽⣻⣞⡷⣯⣟⡾⣭⢿⡽⣯⢶⣯⣟⣶⣻⢮⡷⣾⣝⣻⢮⣟⡾⣽⣳⢯⣟⡾⢯⡷⣏⣿⣛⡾⣽⣫⡽⣾⣝⣿⣿⣽⢪⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡟⠠⣴⣄⠀⣠⣠⡄⣠⣦⣄⣸⣿⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡆⠸⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡿⣽⣳⣟⡾⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⢯⣟⣾⣻⢶⣻⣞⣭⣟⣷⢻⡾⣽⣛⡾⣽⣳⢯⣟⡾⣽⢯⣷⣻⠾⣝⣻⣗⣯⢟⣷⣻⣞⣿⡾⡟⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡰⠋⠀⠀⠈⡁⡀⣛⡿⢴⡦⠄⠀⡁⠈⠻⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡾⠿⢁⢆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣟⡷⣯⣟⡷⣯⢿⣽⣻⢾⡽⣶⢯⣟⣧⣟⡾⣽⣞⣯⣽⣳⢯⣟⡷⢯⣟⡾⣽⣫⣟⡶⣯⢿⣽⣳⢾⣭⣟⣾⣳⢯⣿⣷⡍⢎⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⢀⣴⣶⢹⡾⢟⣇⣿⣷⢸⡶⣑⢿⢽⣶⢳⣠⡉⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⢎⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⢿⣾⣟⡷⣯⢿⣽⣻⢾⡽⣯⣟⣾⣻⣞⣧⢿⣽⣳⣞⣷⣫⣽⣻⢮⣟⡿⢾⣽⣳⣟⡾⣽⣏⡿⣞⣽⣻⢮⣟⡶⣯⣟⣿⣿⡝⢺⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣟⡶⣻⡟⣪⣳⣿⣿⣷⣻⡽⡗⣷⣳⣼⣼⣽⣆⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣟⣾⡿⣽⣻⢾⡽⣯⢿⣵⣻⣞⡷⣽⣞⡿⣮⢷⣻⢮⡷⢯⣷⣻⢾⣽⣻⡞⣷⢾⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⠾⣽⣛⡾⣽⣳⣟⣾⣿⣿⣾⡄⢣⣀⣠⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣟⢿⣽⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣟⣿⣽⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣾⣟⣯⣿⢿⡽⣯⢿⣽⣻⣞⡷⣯⣟⡷⣯⡽⣯⢿⣹⢯⣟⡿⣞⣽⣻⢮⣷⣻⣽⡻⣞⣽⣻⢾⣽⣻⠷⣯⣟⣷⣻⣞⣷⣻⣿⣿⣟⠈⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠉⠁⠀⣠⠄⠄⠴⡼⠹⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣷⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣷⣿⣻⣿⣽⢿⣻⣽⣟⣾⣳⢯⣟⡷⣯⣽⣳⢿⡽⣯⣟⣻⢾⣽⣻⢾⡽⣻⣞⢷⣳⢿⡽⣾⢽⣯⣞⣷⣻⢷⣻⣼⣳⣟⣾⣳⢿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⢠⢈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢐⣲⣥⣺⣿⣷⣷⡃⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣟⣷⣿⣯⣿⣽⣿⣿⢿⣯⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣟⣿⣽⡷⣿⢿⣻⣷⢿⡾⣽⣻⢾⣽⣳⢯⡿⣽⣞⡷⣯⣟⣯⢾⣽⣳⣟⡷⣯⢿⡽⣯⣻⡽⣞⣧⣟⡾⣽⢯⡷⢯⡷⣞⡷⣯⣟⣿⣿⣏⣐⠠⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⢿⣽⡿⣿⣻⣷⣿⣻⣿⣽⣾⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣻⣯⣿⣯⣿⣟⣿⢿⣻⣽⣿⣻⢷⣯⣟⡾⣽⢯⣟⡷⣯⣟⡷⣾⣽⣻⣞⡷⣾⡽⣯⣟⣾⣳⢯⡿⣽⢾⡽⣽⢯⡿⣽⢯⡿⣽⣛⣷⣻⢾⣿⣿⣖⠒⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣯⣿⣟⣿⣽⡿⣿⣽⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣽⣷⣿⣻⣿⣻⣽⣾⣟⣿⢾⣽⣻⣽⣻⢾⣽⣳⢯⣟⣷⣳⣟⡾⣽⣳⣟⡷⣻⢾⡽⣯⢿⡽⣾⡽⢯⣟⡾⣽⢯⣻⢷⣻⢾⡽⣯⣿⣿⣿⣷⡬⢥⠒⢤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣶⣈⢤⡤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣷⡿⣯⣷⣿⣻⣿⢿⣿⣻⣽⣿⣿⣿⣽
⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣻⣯⣿⣾⣟⣷⣿⣻⣾⣟⣾⣿⣳⣟⣾⣽⣻⢾⣽⣻⣞⣷⣻⢾⣽⣳⣟⡾⣽⢯⣟⡷⣯⢿⣽⣳⣟⡿⢾⡽⣯⢿⡽⣯⣟⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡙⢯⡝⡟⠷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣳⣿⢿⣽⣿⣟⣿⣿⢿⣻⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⢿⣻⣿⣟⣷⡿⣯⣿⢾⣟⣷⣿⣻⣾⢯⣿⣞⡷⣯⣟⣾⣳⣟⡾⣽⣻⣞⡷⣯⢿⣽⣻⢾⡽⣯⣟⣾⣳⢯⣟⣯⢿⡽⣯⣟⣷⣻⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠚⣰⢢⢂⢄⠄⠨⣽⣿⣟⡯⠅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣟⣿⣿⣻⣽⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿
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R: 5 / I: 0
Metal Gear Solid is not “based” it’s actually liberal garbage
Every single game you are just killing Soviets or other evil Russians. The Soviet Union is pure evil in the games. I fail to see how this overrated dogshit series is “based”. The only game that’s actually based is Peace Walker since you are killing CIA agents instead of Russians like in literally every other game. Or in MGS4 when you get to kill Blackwater mercenaries but even in that game the US military are portrayed in a positive light. Hideo like most Japanese are massive cucks and suck USA dick. Most of the villains are actually based. Skull Face talks about how evil America is and how he wants to overthrow the Amerikkkan world order. Solidus is also based but these are supposed to be the “bad guys” for some reason.
R: 12 / I: 10
>Partido Nacional
<christian democratic party
>Partido Colorado
<liberal party
>Frente Amplio
<left party but still a liberal party
>Cabildo Abierto
<pro-militarist
<pro-dictatorship
>Identidad Soberana
<conspiranoic liberal party
uruguay is so cooked
URUGUAY GENERAL ELECTIONS
who should i vote?>Partido Nacional
<christian democratic party
>Partido Colorado
<liberal party
>Frente Amplio
<left party but still a liberal party
>Cabildo Abierto
<pro-militarist
<pro-dictatorship
>Identidad Soberana
<conspiranoic liberal party
uruguay is so cooked
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Its not that the system is so oppressive that people cant rebel. Police violence. Threat of homelessness and hunger. Rent. Fear. People can overcome all of this and more. History has shown this. Information is where the true battle takes place.
The reason the revolution does not happen is because the masses are severely brainwashed. Most people believe Capitalism is natural and unavoidable. That humans are inherently evil. And thus a better society is impossible.
Schools and media have perfectly done their job.
Deprograming takes too much individual, conscious effort and time to pretend to reeducate the masses. I can not see the way out of this bros
Propaganda is the reason we lost
It is no exaggeration to say the reason we are heading towards catastrophe and possible extinction is due to losing the propaganda war.Its not that the system is so oppressive that people cant rebel. Police violence. Threat of homelessness and hunger. Rent. Fear. People can overcome all of this and more. History has shown this. Information is where the true battle takes place.
The reason the revolution does not happen is because the masses are severely brainwashed. Most people believe Capitalism is natural and unavoidable. That humans are inherently evil. And thus a better society is impossible.
Schools and media have perfectly done their job.
Deprograming takes too much individual, conscious effort and time to pretend to reeducate the masses. I can not see the way out of this bros
R: 506 / I: 120
>RedFlood
I didn't realise they also reworked the Far-Eastern Collapse.
If Kerensky fucks up the Manchu's still take over the West, Republicans run off to Transamur and Vladivostok and then either become one of two different flavours of authdem, Ukrops spawn in the north, but can either be SocDem or Banderites who are now properly set to reactionary.
Harbin proper gets to keep some of the south now, Its either led by Gastev who calms down his autism a bit and becomes PopSoc
Or…
HoI4 + HoI4 modding thread
By Blood alone waiting room edition.>RedFlood
I didn't realise they also reworked the Far-Eastern Collapse.
If Kerensky fucks up the Manchu's still take over the West, Republicans run off to Transamur and Vladivostok and then either become one of two different flavours of authdem, Ukrops spawn in the north, but can either be SocDem or Banderites who are now properly set to reactionary.
Harbin proper gets to keep some of the south now, Its either led by Gastev who calms down his autism a bit and becomes PopSoc
Or…
R: 81 / I: 12
I don't know anything about political anarchy, what else should I read? I’ve heard of Conquest of Bread before, so I assume it’s a GOAT of anarchism but idk.
I don't know anything about political anarchy, what else should I read? I’ve heard of Conquest of Bread before, so I assume it’s a GOAT of anarchism but idk.
R: 31 / I: 3
Is there a left, anyhow, in europe?
I feel like all the "left" parties are just neoliberals that hand out gibs and celebrate transhumanism but none of them has any real anti-imperialist or anti-american policy
Is there a left, anyhow, in europe?
I feel like all the "left" parties are just neoliberals that hand out gibs and celebrate transhumanism but none of them has any real anti-imperialist or anti-american policy
R: 17 / I: 2
Racial Fears
How does capitalism, and its most retrograde right wing layers, even keep the idea about race in the public discourse to begin with? I don't think "race" is even really an apolitical and scientific concept to begin with, but if we take science as mediated through the superstructure, then something like race may be naturalised and justified through "genetics" and ancestry/genealogy databases.
R: 13 / I: 8
Tools, Gizmos and Contraptions
Post less computery hardware you think is neat or have question about.
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it's been up for over 20 min on /siberia/
it's been up for over 20 min on /siberia/
R: 23 / I: 1
Linux General
Linux thread including trends, technical knowledge (i.e. sysadmin/automation) and more
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The party I spend 3+ years of my life in a near full time manner building up, of which i build up the entire chapter from zero to dozens of members, including the people who fucked me over, all of it is taken away from me.
The people in the org were easily swayed by a very obvious plot. Nobody opposed a showtrial without any evidence in which people were attacked by name, despite them not having mentioned any of these issues before to the confidants or the board. People, including those who said they would have my back, didnt dare to intervene.
A moscow trial was conducted in an org of only a little over a hundred people.
If communists are unable to defend and see such snakes and opportunists even at this level, and are so easily swayed, and if even this small a scale is enough to invite full on throwing comrades under the bus for your own gain, then all is lost. The opportunist powerplays that happened in the soviet union are inevitable. Democracy and workers power is an impossibility. The left can never win because it is unable to even have a functioning democracy beyond 150 people without falling to unopposed opportunism.
I am done with politics, i'm going back to my life with people I actually can trust, and im just gonna grill. The Marxist ideal is an illusion, even the smallest level politics gets easily corrupted by opportunists.
I have given up on communism
Last weekend I got totally socially destroyed by people in my orgs with a whole load of lies, emotional appeals, etc. They had secret meetings to talk to a lot of key people to convince them of these lies in advance. They then sprung all of this on a national meeting, throwing me under the bus among borderline rape allegations against friends of mine who arent even members and they never interacted with to any capacity, all in an effort to put their candidate in a light on a platform of "fighting sexism" and take down the opposing candidate in the process.The party I spend 3+ years of my life in a near full time manner building up, of which i build up the entire chapter from zero to dozens of members, including the people who fucked me over, all of it is taken away from me.
The people in the org were easily swayed by a very obvious plot. Nobody opposed a showtrial without any evidence in which people were attacked by name, despite them not having mentioned any of these issues before to the confidants or the board. People, including those who said they would have my back, didnt dare to intervene.
A moscow trial was conducted in an org of only a little over a hundred people.
If communists are unable to defend and see such snakes and opportunists even at this level, and are so easily swayed, and if even this small a scale is enough to invite full on throwing comrades under the bus for your own gain, then all is lost. The opportunist powerplays that happened in the soviet union are inevitable. Democracy and workers power is an impossibility. The left can never win because it is unable to even have a functioning democracy beyond 150 people without falling to unopposed opportunism.
I am done with politics, i'm going back to my life with people I actually can trust, and im just gonna grill. The Marxist ideal is an illusion, even the smallest level politics gets easily corrupted by opportunists.
R: 288 / I: 137
Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! South Asia and Oceania posters can come in to discuss their regional politics as well.
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/SEA/ - Southeast Asia and Oceania General
8th Edition: Failson squad assemble！edition.Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! South Asia and Oceania posters can come in to discuss their regional politics as well.
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https://archive.is/2NLO8
R: 34 / I: 2
Yellow = Men Purple = Women
* Should there be a straight pride day?
* I feel uncomfortable when I see a gay couple
* Sexual diversity is going to end our traditions and values that have always been
I had heard of this kind of polarization happening in South Korea years ago but it seems to be spreading elsewhere now, specially in continental Europe. Anglo countries and Latin America are yet to be hit, I think.
Why is this gender polarization happening? And what should we do about it?
A new poll in Spain shows declining acceptance for LGBTQ+ people among Gen Z with the change being entirely driven by young men.Yellow = Men Purple = Women
* Should there be a straight pride day?
* I feel uncomfortable when I see a gay couple
* Sexual diversity is going to end our traditions and values that have always been
I had heard of this kind of polarization happening in South Korea years ago but it seems to be spreading elsewhere now, specially in continental Europe. Anglo countries and Latin America are yet to be hit, I think.
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I managed to catch midway a RAI (italian national TV broadcaster) documentary on the recent history of the south tirol, starting off with italian oppression of the austrians in south tirol during the fascist regime.
And here is the juice: after the war (you know the one), the south tirolean antifascist resistence (which did not collaborate with the italian resistence) funded a party with the approval of the americans, the Südtiroler Volkspartei (SVP)
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCdtiroler_Volkspartei
With the germans gone, they integrated pro-german sud tirolears under their declared aim of indipendence for the now italian province. They had an immediate boost after the war since they didn't get to vote on the constitution.
The documentary interviewed the current head of the SVP, which didn't waste yime to declare that nazi collaborators were a tiny minority, and the heads of the SVP were not nazis. Curiously, a few minutes later, as the documentary recaps the acts of armed resistence/terror attacks in the 60's, they also mention that one of their heads in the afterwar was a war veteran, who lost a leg in russia while in the wehrmacht.
With that said, apparently the indipendence movement died down after the 80's, in part due to the local autonomy conceeded to them by the italian state, in part (the bigger one in my opinion) is due to the state showering them with bags of cash, something that continues to this day.
To be honest, given how german nationalism is intermingled with fascism and nazism I am not too sure about these guys
Oh and nowdays the area is extremely racist. More racist than the venitians somehow. According to my now dead grandpa, it's mostly because immigrants from africa come to work in the farms over there, and since italian is a much simpler language, they learn that instead of sud-tirolean german.
Does anyone here happen to know anything about these guys? Should they be supported on the basis of national determination? Does it even count? Are they austrian dixiebolshevists?
The Südtiroler Volkspartei: who are these guys even?
I am very tired today so this post came out as a massive ramble. Still made a it since I saw a user complain about the lack of original threads over /meta/I managed to catch midway a RAI (italian national TV broadcaster) documentary on the recent history of the south tirol, starting off with italian oppression of the austrians in south tirol during the fascist regime.
And here is the juice: after the war (you know the one), the south tirolean antifascist resistence (which did not collaborate with the italian resistence) funded a party with the approval of the americans, the Südtiroler Volkspartei (SVP)
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCdtiroler_Volkspartei
With the germans gone, they integrated pro-german sud tirolears under their declared aim of indipendence for the now italian province. They had an immediate boost after the war since they didn't get to vote on the constitution.
The documentary interviewed the current head of the SVP, which didn't waste yime to declare that nazi collaborators were a tiny minority, and the heads of the SVP were not nazis. Curiously, a few minutes later, as the documentary recaps the acts of armed resistence/terror attacks in the 60's, they also mention that one of their heads in the afterwar was a war veteran, who lost a leg in russia while in the wehrmacht.
With that said, apparently the indipendence movement died down after the 80's, in part due to the local autonomy conceeded to them by the italian state, in part (the bigger one in my opinion) is due to the state showering them with bags of cash, something that continues to this day.
To be honest, given how german nationalism is intermingled with fascism and nazism I am not too sure about these guys
Oh and nowdays the area is extremely racist. More racist than the venitians somehow. According to my now dead grandpa, it's mostly because immigrants from africa come to work in the farms over there, and since italian is a much simpler language, they learn that instead of sud-tirolean german.
Does anyone here happen to know anything about these guys? Should they be supported on the basis of national determination? Does it even count? Are they austrian dixiebolshevists?
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Biblioteche online
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Introduzione al Capitale
https://ia600902.us.archive.org/28/items/pdfy-2ZCqM065WT7tuisv/Marx%27s%20Das%20Kapital%20For%20Beginners%20-%20Michael%20Wayne%2C%20Sungyoon%20Choi.pdf
Riviste
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https://contropiano.org
Notizie sulla Cina
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/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism
Edizione del tempo dei mostriBiblioteche online
https://it.z-lib.org/
https://libgen.is
Introduzione al Capitale
https://ia600902.us.archive.org/28/items/pdfy-2ZCqM065WT7tuisv/Marx%27s%20Das%20Kapital%20For%20Beginners%20-%20Michael%20Wayne%2C%20Sungyoon%20Choi.pdf
Riviste
https://www.lordinenuovo.it
https://www.marx21.it
https://contropiano.org
Notizie sulla Cina
https://youtube.com/c/dazibao
R: 12 / I: 1
If the NY Times reported Kim Jong-Un was a shape-shifting alien people would believe it. Why?
Also, can we get a thread on the most outrageous things said about this defiant nation?
DPRK truth
Why is the DPRK the only country westerners will believe literally anything about?If the NY Times reported Kim Jong-Un was a shape-shifting alien people would believe it. Why?
Also, can we get a thread on the most outrageous things said about this defiant nation?
R: 10 / I: 0
>Hey guys do you think the AAA games industry are too sexist to female protagonists because they constantly get the ever living shit kicked out of them? Here are examples of games I hate where there's danger and death everywhere so you'll obviously get the ever living shit kicked out of you.
The absolute state of this guy.
>Hey guys do you think the AAA games industry are too sexist to female protagonists because they constantly get the ever living shit kicked out of them? Here are examples of games I hate where there's danger and death everywhere so you'll obviously get the ever living shit kicked out of you.
The absolute state of this guy.
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Ep 1 and 2 is out, Ep 3 comes out today.
Never seen GoT and enjoying the show so far, decent political intrigue so far.
House of the Dragon (HotD) Thread
Post general thoughts, comments and marxist or any analysis on the show.Ep 1 and 2 is out, Ep 3 comes out today.
Never seen GoT and enjoying the show so far, decent political intrigue so far.
R: 3 / I: 2
Nihilism will have to manifest itself as a psychological condition, first when we have sought in all that has happened a purpose which is not there: so that the seeker will ultimately lose courage. Nihilism is therefore the coming into consciousness of the long waste of strength, the pain of "futility," uncertainty, the lack of an opportunity to recover in some way, or to attain to a state of peace concerning anything—shame in one's own presence, as if one had cheated oneself too long…. The purpose above-mentioned might have been achieved: in the form of a "realisation" of a most high canon of morality in all worldly phenomena, the moral order of the universe; or in the form of the increase of love and harmony in the traffic of humanity; or in the nearer approach to a general condition of happiness; or even in the march towards general nonentity—any sort of goal always constitutes a purpose. The common factor to all these appearances is that something will be attained, through the process itself: and now we perceive that Becoming has been aiming at nothing, and has achieved nothing. Hence the disillusionment in regard to a so-called purpose in existence, as a cause of Nihilism; whether this [Pg 13]be in respect of a very definite purpose, or generalised into the recognition that all the hypotheses are false which have hitherto been offered as to the object of life, and which relate to the whole of "Evolution" (man no longer an assistant in, let alone the culmination of, the evolutionary process).
Nihilism will manifest itself as a psychological condition, in the second place, when man has fixed a totality, a systematisation, even an organisation in and behind all phenomena, so that the soul thirsting for respect and admiration will wallow in the general idea of a highest ruling and administrative power (if it be the soul of a logician, the sequence of consequences and perfect reasoning will suffice to conciliate everything). A kind of unity, some form of "monism":' and as a result of this belief man becomes obsessed by a feeling of profound relativity and dependence in the presence of an All which is infinitely superior to him, a sort of divinity. "The general good exacts the surrender of the individual …" but lo, there is no such general good! At bottom, man loses the belief in his own worth when no infinitely precious entity manifests itself through him—that is to say, he conceived such an All, in order to be able to believe in his own worth.
Nihilism, as a psychological condition, has yet a third and last form. Admitting these two points of view: that no purpose can be assigned to Becoming, and that no great entity rules behind all Becoming, in which the individual may completely lose himself as in an element of superior value; there still remains the subterfuge which would consist [Pg 14]in condemning this whole world of Becoming as an illusion, and in discovering a world which would lie beyond it, and would be a real world. The moment, however, that man perceives that this world has been devised only for the purpose of meeting certain psychological needs, and that he has no right whatsoever to it, the final form of Nihilism comes into being, which comprises a denial of a metaphysical world, and which forbids itself all belief in a real world. From this standpoint, the reality of Becoming is the only reality that is admitted: all bypaths to back-worlds and false godheads are abandoned—but this world is no longer endured, although no one wishes to disown it.
What has actually happened? The feeling of worthlessness was realised when it was understood that neither the notion of "Purpose" nor that of "Unity" nor that of "Truth" could be made to interpret the general character of existence. Nothing is achieved or obtained thereby; the unity which intervenes in the multiplicity of events is entirely lacking: the character of existence is not "true," it is false; there is certainly no longer any reason to believe in a real world. In short, the categories, "Purpose," "Unity," "Being," by means of which we had lent some worth to life, we have once more divorced from it—and the world now appears worthless to us….
Nihilism will have to manifest itself as a psychological condition, first when we have sought in all that has happened a purpose which is not there: so that the seeker will ultimately lose courage. Nihilism is therefore the coming into consciousness of the long waste of strength, the pain of "futility," uncertainty, the lack of an opportunity to recover in some way, or to attain to a state of peace concerning anything—shame in one's own presence, as if one had cheated oneself too long…. The purpose above-mentioned might have been achieved: in the form of a "realisation" of a most high canon of morality in all worldly phenomena, the moral order of the universe; or in the form of the increase of love and harmony in the traffic of humanity; or in the nearer approach to a general condition of happiness; or even in the march towards general nonentity—any sort of goal always constitutes a purpose. The common factor to all these appearances is that something will be attained, through the process itself: and now we perceive that Becoming has been aiming at nothing, and has achieved nothing. Hence the disillusionment in regard to a so-called purpose in existence, as a cause of Nihilism; whether this [Pg 13]be in respect of a very definite purpose, or generalised into the recognition that all the hypotheses are false which have hitherto been offered as to the object of life, and which relate to the whole of "Evolution" (man no longer an assistant in, let alone the culmination of, the evolutionary process).
Nihilism will manifest itself as a psychological condition, in the second place, when man has fixed a totality, a systematisation, even an organisation in and behind all phenomena, so that the soul thirsting for respect and admiration will wallow in the general idea of a highest ruling and administrative power (if it be the soul of a logician, the sequence of consequences and perfect reasoning will suffice to conciliate everything). A kind of unity, some form of "monism":' and as a result of this belief man becomes obsessed by a feeling of profound relativity and dependence in the presence of an All which is infinitely superior to him, a sort of divinity. "The general good exacts the surrender of the individual …" but lo, there is no such general good! At bottom, man loses the belief in his own worth when no infinitely precious entity manifests itself through him—that is to say, he conceived such an All, in order to be able to believe in his own worth.
Nihilism, as a psychological condition, has yet a third and last form. Admitting these two points of view: that no purpose can be assigned to Becoming, and that no great entity rules behind all Becoming, in which the individual may completely lose himself as in an element of superior value; there still remains the subterfuge which would consist [Pg 14]in condemning this whole world of Becoming as an illusion, and in discovering a world which would lie beyond it, and would be a real world. The moment, however, that man perceives that this world has been devised only for the purpose of meeting certain psychological needs, and that he has no right whatsoever to it, the final form of Nihilism comes into being, which comprises a denial of a metaphysical world, and which forbids itself all belief in a real world. From this standpoint, the reality of Becoming is the only reality that is admitted: all bypaths to back-worlds and false godheads are abandoned—but this world is no longer endured, although no one wishes to disown it.
What has actually happened? The feeling of worthlessness was realised when it was understood that neither the notion of "Purpose" nor that of "Unity" nor that of "Truth" could be made to interpret the general character of existence. Nothing is achieved or obtained thereby; the unity which intervenes in the multiplicity of events is entirely lacking: the character of existence is not "true," it is false; there is certainly no longer any reason to believe in a real world. In short, the categories, "Purpose," "Unity," "Being," by means of which we had lent some worth to life, we have once more divorced from it—and the world now appears worthless to us….
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Hearing right now to the international as an anime opening.
https://www.suno.ai/
New Ai tool for this dystopia has dropped.
With this one, you can make actual songs.Hearing right now to the international as an anime opening.
https://www.suno.ai/
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Sad
Post music to cry to.
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How strong is the far-left in France? Is being a communist socially acceptable there?
How strong is the far-left in France? Is being a communist socially acceptable there?
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Please IP perma-ban that fuck, hell RANGE ban that creature, it's way too annoying.
Webcamtoy spammer
There is this one chubby femboy that spams pictures of himself. He showed up in stonerchan not too long ago and flooded the website with pics and gifs of himself too.Please IP perma-ban that fuck, hell RANGE ban that creature, it's way too annoying.
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but even if we remove the debate whether or not communist being portrayed as good did happen in the show, the show itself was extremely critical of capitalism and that makes me wonder why these billion dollar corporations that are the epitome of why capitalism is bad, be telling its viewers, the very nature of amazon, bethesda, and microsft, everything they stand for, the people who made the show and games, are bad? why would they want their consumers to hate the very thing that allows these elites, these companies, to exist in the first place?
is it some sort of chess move i don't understand? have we reached a state where capitalism could very well nuke the planet and people won't care so these companies don't care if criticism about them is made? or more wishful thinking, they think this will spare them from the revolution? i don't understand their move here. i don't expect capitalist companies to allow people to hate them.
Fallout TV Show
so i finished watching the entire series and something made me feel uneasy. starting with episode 6 and going into episode 7 the show takes a very political turn. a turn against capitalism and an actual, intended or not, positive portray of communism. almost directly actually. at least, it takes the blame completely away from communism, portray some of the communist in the show as actually good people fighting against the evils of capitalism. at least those to be heavily hinted at as being communist. which made me very delighted but then it dawned to me, this is a amazon prime production based off a video game from bethesda who is now owned by microsoft. three massive, very capitalist, corporations that have shown time again to be very for profit.but even if we remove the debate whether or not communist being portrayed as good did happen in the show, the show itself was extremely critical of capitalism and that makes me wonder why these billion dollar corporations that are the epitome of why capitalism is bad, be telling its viewers, the very nature of amazon, bethesda, and microsft, everything they stand for, the people who made the show and games, are bad? why would they want their consumers to hate the very thing that allows these elites, these companies, to exist in the first place?
is it some sort of chess move i don't understand? have we reached a state where capitalism could very well nuke the planet and people won't care so these companies don't care if criticism about them is made? or more wishful thinking, they think this will spare them from the revolution? i don't understand their move here. i don't expect capitalist companies to allow people to hate them.
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Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
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Its not that the system is so oppressive that people cant rebel. Police violence. Threat of homelessness and hunger. Rent. Fear. People can overcome all of this and more. History has shown this. Information is where the true battle takes place.
The reason the revolution does not happen is because the masses are severely brainwashed. Most people believe Capitalism is natural and unavoidable. That humans are inherently evil. And thus a better society is impossible.
Schools and media have perfectly done their job.
Deprograming takes too much individual, conscious effort and time to pretend to reeducate the masses. I can not see the way out of this bros
Propaganda is the reason we lost
It is no exaggeration to say the reason we are heading towards catastrophe and possible extinction is due to losing the propaganda war.Its not that the system is so oppressive that people cant rebel. Police violence. Threat of homelessness and hunger. Rent. Fear. People can overcome all of this and more. History has shown this. Information is where the true battle takes place.
The reason the revolution does not happen is because the masses are severely brainwashed. Most people believe Capitalism is natural and unavoidable. That humans are inherently evil. And thus a better society is impossible.
Schools and media have perfectly done their job.
Deprograming takes too much individual, conscious effort and time to pretend to reeducate the masses. I can not see the way out of this bros
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Talk about job/career advice and other related stuff from a leftist perspective. EX: How to get a job, promotion, skill, switch companies, resume, life hacks, etc.
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Previous thread: >>1263434Talk about job/career advice and other related stuff from a leftist perspective. EX: How to get a job, promotion, skill, switch companies, resume, life hacks, etc.
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Schools should be designed to prevent forced relocation
Schools shouldn’t be divided into preschools, elementary schools, and high schools. Schools should all be k-12+, and if possible incorporate some kind of post secondary courses too. Having schools divided and spread out only harms students, because it forces the children to constantly break the relationships they’ve formed when they’ll have to move to a new environment to learn. No one deserves to be forcefully relocated away from their community and friends at such a young age for such a petty reason. All that would do is lead to the formation of a socially atomized adult population.
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Gonna start off with a recommendation to watch The King and the Mockingbird the 1980 version especially, absolutely comrade-pilled movie.
Good torrent sites (massive pop-up warning, put on an adblocker):
https://kimcartoon.li/CartoonList
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=movies
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=2;18;41;49
Western Animation
A general for "western" animations/cartoons.Gonna start off with a recommendation to watch The King and the Mockingbird the 1980 version especially, absolutely comrade-pilled movie.
Good torrent sites (massive pop-up warning, put on an adblocker):
https://kimcartoon.li/CartoonList
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=movies
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=2;18;41;49
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No thread for the European Cup yet? First match tomorrow, Germany vs Scotland. Already met a bunch of drunk Scots on the train.
>hurr durr professional sports is capitalism
>hurr durr this is like the olympics 1936
>hurr durr cheering for national teams of capitalist states is fascism
>hurr durr it's called soccer
Let people have fun for once, this is called /hobby/. Political discussions are okay, shitting on some countries is okay, shitting on retards on and off the field is okay, but please none of the dumb stuff above.
Who do you think is gonna win? My bet is on Spain, but that's just a gut feeling. I hope none of the most boring teams amongst the faves, France and Portugal, wins. England has a decent shot this time with Bellingham. Austria could be the underdog that surprises.
No thread for the European Cup yet? First match tomorrow, Germany vs Scotland. Already met a bunch of drunk Scots on the train.
>hurr durr professional sports is capitalism
>hurr durr this is like the olympics 1936
>hurr durr cheering for national teams of capitalist states is fascism
>hurr durr it's called soccer
Let people have fun for once, this is called /hobby/. Political discussions are okay, shitting on some countries is okay, shitting on retards on and off the field is okay, but please none of the dumb stuff above.
Who do you think is gonna win? My bet is on Spain, but that's just a gut feeling. I hope none of the most boring teams amongst the faves, France and Portugal, wins. England has a decent shot this time with Bellingham. Austria could be the underdog that surprises.
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I recently discovered "basket of guts"
https://basketsofguts.thecomicseries.com/comics/1#content-start
A story about a lich that comes out of his crypt for world domination and find the world evolved and then quickly end on the run from a "modern" state security services.
Really liking it so far. Good mix of genres, starting from a standard fantasy world and instead of freezing it in time add societal and technomagical development. Also I find it pretty funny. Not everything translated yet sadly.
its on leftypol that I discovered Out Of Placers (apparently created by a furry artist, which explain the horniness)
https://www.valsalia.com/
Pretty interesting world building.
Finished since quite a while but at the time followed schlock mercenary. Goofy SF about a mercenary company.
On a more smutty side, I like alfie by incase.
For the non storyline webcomics, existential comics, oglaf and SMBC are my favs.
WEBCOMICS
Thread for talking about webcomics. Share your favs, discuss latest updates.I recently discovered "basket of guts"
https://basketsofguts.thecomicseries.com/comics/1#content-start
A story about a lich that comes out of his crypt for world domination and find the world evolved and then quickly end on the run from a "modern" state security services.
Really liking it so far. Good mix of genres, starting from a standard fantasy world and instead of freezing it in time add societal and technomagical development. Also I find it pretty funny. Not everything translated yet sadly.
its on leftypol that I discovered Out Of Placers (apparently created by a furry artist, which explain the horniness)
https://www.valsalia.com/
Pretty interesting world building.
Finished since quite a while but at the time followed schlock mercenary. Goofy SF about a mercenary company.
On a more smutty side, I like alfie by incase.
For the non storyline webcomics, existential comics, oglaf and SMBC are my favs.
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What’s your opinion on? Mao Zedong Do you think he was a great leader or not?
What’s your opinion on? Mao Zedong Do you think he was a great leader or not?
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Launched by the unofficial Council for Organizing Oil Contract-Workers' Protests, the strike began on June 19. The workers are demanding the removal of intermediary contractors, wage increases, a 14-days-on, 14-days-off work schedule, improved dormitory conditions, and enhanced safety measures. The Council has warned that the strikes will intensify if these demands are not met.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202406272408
https://archive.is/JRTYu
Israel frees hospital chief with prisons ‘full’ of Gaza captives
Israel released 55 prisoners on Monday to free up space in its jails, unconfirmed reports claimed. Speaking shortly after his return to Gaza, al-Shifa Hospital Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya asserted that Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s prisons were facing daily abuse.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/1/israel-frees-hospital-chief-from-prisons-full-of-gaza-captives
https://archive.is/HbOT6
Turkish airstrike starts a fire on Mount Metina in South Kurdistan
While the occupying Turkish state has increased its attacks on Mount Metîna in recent days, it deployed a large number of troops, heavy weapons and armoured vehicles to the villages in the region. Many villages were evacuated due to the attacks. Baghdad and Hewlêr (Erbil) remain silent in the face of Turkish occupation.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/turkish-airstrike-starts-a-fire-on-mount-metina-in-south-kurdistan-74058
Rift between Bolivia's left widens as Morales joins accusation that Arce faked last week's coup attempt
Mr Arce retorted that his former boss should not “make another mistake. “Clearly what happened was a failed military coup. Do not side with fascism and those who deny what happened. Those responsible … will be prosecuted, as was the case with the conspirators of the 2019 coup.” Minister for the Presidency Maria Nela Prada added that Mr Morales should not become a “puppet of imperialism, that intends to plunder our country.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rift-bolivias-left-widens-morales-joins-accusation-arce-faked-last-weeks-coup-attempt
Peru's ex-presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori begins trial for money laundering
According to prosecutors, Popular Force was used to irregularly receive some $17 million from various contributors, such as Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht (renamed Novonor in 2020) and Peruvian financial holding company Credicorp (BAP.LM).
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-ex-presidential-candidate-keiko-fujimori-begins-trial-money-laundering-2024-07-01/
Police use digger to remove Palestine Action activist from weapons company building
POLICE used a JCB digger to remove a Palestine activist from a building when a company supplying an Israeli-owned British arms manufacturer with equipment was occupied and blockaded today.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/police-use-digger-remove-palestine-action-activist-weapons-company-building
The reality of living in Ibiza: Workers sleeping in vans due to high cost of rent
On this popular Spanish Mediterranean island, growing numbers of wealthy tourists in combination with real estate speculation (which corrodes everything from luxury developments to the dingiest rental rooms) have made the price of housing soar, making it unaffordable for a good portion of the army of workers who make sure that the machinery that sustains this summer paradise remains well oiled.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-06-30/the-reality-of-living-in-ibiza-workers-sleeping-in-vans-due-to-high-cost-of-rent.html
France's far-right makes gains in southeast, fails to make a breakthrough in Paris
The party of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella topped the poll with 33.15 percent of the votes cast for members of the National Assembly, according to preliminary results published by the interior ministry. The leftwing New Popular Front alliance was in second place with 28.14 percent, ahead of President Emmanuel Macron's centrists on 20.76 percent.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240701-france-s-far-right-vote-in-figures
https://archive.is/iiLYW
SADTU objects to Gwarube heading Ministry of Basic Education
“They’ve always made statements that SADTU- for all the problems that are there in the education sector, they always put them on SADTU’s doorstep. They always accuse us of opposing the education in this country, of being in charge of education, and of controlling the department of education and the ministers and all,” added Cembi.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sadtu-objects-to-gwarube-heading-ministry-of-basic-education/
Looting and fighting reported in a central Sudan city as paramilitary group attacks military troops
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began its offensive against Sudan’s military in Sennar province earlier this week, attacking the village of Jebal Moya before moving to the provincial capital of Singa, where fresh battles have erupted. The fighting forced about 57,000 people to flee their homes, according to the United Nations.
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-war-military-rsf-new-front-0652f8cdca14a17195ec3d593292a4c1
News 7/1/24
Iran's Oil and Gas Workers' Strike Grows: 20,000 Workers, 110 CompaniesLaunched by the unofficial Council for Organizing Oil Contract-Workers' Protests, the strike began on June 19. The workers are demanding the removal of intermediary contractors, wage increases, a 14-days-on, 14-days-off work schedule, improved dormitory conditions, and enhanced safety measures. The Council has warned that the strikes will intensify if these demands are not met.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202406272408
https://archive.is/JRTYu
Israel frees hospital chief with prisons ‘full’ of Gaza captives
Israel released 55 prisoners on Monday to free up space in its jails, unconfirmed reports claimed. Speaking shortly after his return to Gaza, al-Shifa Hospital Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya asserted that Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s prisons were facing daily abuse.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/1/israel-frees-hospital-chief-from-prisons-full-of-gaza-captives
https://archive.is/HbOT6
Turkish airstrike starts a fire on Mount Metina in South Kurdistan
While the occupying Turkish state has increased its attacks on Mount Metîna in recent days, it deployed a large number of troops, heavy weapons and armoured vehicles to the villages in the region. Many villages were evacuated due to the attacks. Baghdad and Hewlêr (Erbil) remain silent in the face of Turkish occupation.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/turkish-airstrike-starts-a-fire-on-mount-metina-in-south-kurdistan-74058
Rift between Bolivia's left widens as Morales joins accusation that Arce faked last week's coup attempt
Mr Arce retorted that his former boss should not “make another mistake. “Clearly what happened was a failed military coup. Do not side with fascism and those who deny what happened. Those responsible … will be prosecuted, as was the case with the conspirators of the 2019 coup.” Minister for the Presidency Maria Nela Prada added that Mr Morales should not become a “puppet of imperialism, that intends to plunder our country.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rift-bolivias-left-widens-morales-joins-accusation-arce-faked-last-weeks-coup-attempt
Peru's ex-presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori begins trial for money laundering
According to prosecutors, Popular Force was used to irregularly receive some $17 million from various contributors, such as Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht (renamed Novonor in 2020) and Peruvian financial holding company Credicorp (BAP.LM).
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-ex-presidential-candidate-keiko-fujimori-begins-trial-money-laundering-2024-07-01/
Police use digger to remove Palestine Action activist from weapons company building
POLICE used a JCB digger to remove a Palestine activist from a building when a company supplying an Israeli-owned British arms manufacturer with equipment was occupied and blockaded today.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/police-use-digger-remove-palestine-action-activist-weapons-company-building
The reality of living in Ibiza: Workers sleeping in vans due to high cost of rent
On this popular Spanish Mediterranean island, growing numbers of wealthy tourists in combination with real estate speculation (which corrodes everything from luxury developments to the dingiest rental rooms) have made the price of housing soar, making it unaffordable for a good portion of the army of workers who make sure that the machinery that sustains this summer paradise remains well oiled.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-06-30/the-reality-of-living-in-ibiza-workers-sleeping-in-vans-due-to-high-cost-of-rent.html
France's far-right makes gains in southeast, fails to make a breakthrough in Paris
The party of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella topped the poll with 33.15 percent of the votes cast for members of the National Assembly, according to preliminary results published by the interior ministry. The leftwing New Popular Front alliance was in second place with 28.14 percent, ahead of President Emmanuel Macron's centrists on 20.76 percent.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240701-france-s-far-right-vote-in-figures
https://archive.is/iiLYW
SADTU objects to Gwarube heading Ministry of Basic Education
“They’ve always made statements that SADTU- for all the problems that are there in the education sector, they always put them on SADTU’s doorstep. They always accuse us of opposing the education in this country, of being in charge of education, and of controlling the department of education and the ministers and all,” added Cembi.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sadtu-objects-to-gwarube-heading-ministry-of-basic-education/
Looting and fighting reported in a central Sudan city as paramilitary group attacks military troops
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began its offensive against Sudan’s military in Sennar province earlier this week, attacking the village of Jebal Moya before moving to the provincial capital of Singa, where fresh battles have erupted. The fighting forced about 57,000 people to flee their homes, according to the United Nations.
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-war-military-rsf-new-front-0652f8cdca14a17195ec3d593292a4c1
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monitoring the market, trends, fluctuations, etc.
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💰️DOW/Market Watch Thread💰️monitoring the market, trends, fluctuations, etc.
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jungle/drum and bass
post jungle and drum and bass music. Anything from the 90s to today.
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Post memes, stories, funny shit and /k/ screencaps.
Meme Thread
Meme thread for /AK/Post memes, stories, funny shit and /k/ screencaps.
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WebM for Retards™ (Webm Converter): https://github.com/WebMBro/WebMConverter
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1st thread: >>>/leftypol_archive/99202nd thread: >>>/leftypol_archive/481354
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WebM for Retards™ (Webm Converter): https://github.com/WebMBro/WebMConverter
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I've been doing off and on research into what I call "The Pornography Question". Let's define pornography as explicit material, sexual in nature, created by one or more consented adults, for the consumption by adults. Basically, is it compatible with communism? Is it inherently anti-women? Is it inherently unethical? A sign of capitalist decay?
Prior to this I had a fairly negative outlook on the medium as a whole, mostly stereotypes. Mostly insofar as, assuming the overwhelming majority of women are not willingly be in the industry, either they've been coherced, trafficked or had to for the money, and thus, consuming the material is inherently harmful to women. But at the same time, I've dated a couple of Sex Workers, I've dated a dancer/softcore model and an onlyfans creator. The onlyfans creator said it was a way to empower herself, she said it was far less degrading that working as a waitress, I believe it. I never cared in either case, it's a job, get the bag, it ain't tricking if you've got it. Of course both of these relationships were before I was really a commie, so I lacked the more systemic understanding of how neoliberalism works to commodify the personal. And, admittingly, the stereotypes still played a role in the acceptance of my ex's work, ie "Something must have happened in her past to cause her to do this but I don't care that she does it".
A former friend, whom is a 36 year old former model (remember Suicidegirls?), lamented about not being able to model anymore because she was worried about the *stigma* and how it might reflect on her as a professional, career wise. She was very proud of her past career. In fact, her upbringing was very strict, with Christian gender roles and a traditionalist worldview. The same type of culture that created incredibly creepy events like Purity Balls, the same culture that normalizes treating women as objects to be traded between men. That sort of southern Christian culture that I've long rallied against. It's these personal contradictions that prompted further critical introspection into the medium as well as my own ingrained opinions on it.
Almost every study I read completely ignored or outright handwaved gay and queer porn, and this to me presents an issue. How can you handwave a significant part of a medium and then say the entire medium is bad? If someone made the argument that horror movies are degenerate bourgeoisie decadence, but only used films like Saw and Hostel as examples, that would be pretty disingenuous no? So I started reading interviews with queer people who work in the industry. 1/2 Very common sentiment was that this medium provided a space for them to express their queerness in ways they might otherwise not be able to. So, many of the earlier, more anti-pornography SWERFs and studies straight up ignored queer people, and when we do see the perspective, it's basically the opposite of the assumed one.
One issue I had with Dworkin's arguments is that she lacks a material basis for her claims, while also using a fairly narrow definition of pornography that's not really accepted by the mainstream society has a whole. She defines pornography as a medium that is inherently showcasing acts of violence against women, and then uses this definition to showcase how porn contributes to the mass normalization of a patriarchal society. Which is to say, she draws a distinction between pornography and erotica in such a way, that few others who aren't also SWERFs do. By their own definition many Onlyfans creators would not be creating pornography but erotica, because their definition of pornography requires some act to be done to a woman (rarely if ever does she mention queer people). Dworkin and her contemporaries, such as MacKinnon, distinguished between pornography and erotica based on the presence of violence and degradation. Erotica, in their view, is consensual and non-degrading sexual expression, whereas pornography inherently involves the subjugation and objectification of women. However, the overwhelming majority of people do not make this narrow distinction. This, fundamentally, is leads to issues because we're working with two definitions here.
The crux of Dworkin's argument is that pornography is a manifestation of the misogyny embedded in patriarchal society, how can this be true, if those same patriarchal forces are directly responsible for the repression and censorship of pornographic materials? Further, how can this be true if, as mentioned later we look at pre-Christian societies, and how sex was depicted in a much more open sense in a variety of cases? Further, how does this account for gay porn? Trans porn? Queer porn? Consider a typical pornographic scenerio, a slender woman is rough, passionate sex with two large, fit men. Their faces are obscured, and she's centered in the film's composition. This is, by Dworkin's definition absolutely pornography, and thus a manifestation of our patriarchal society. Now, consider the same scenario without a woman involved. A slender twink is having rough sex by two fit men. Does this evoke the same reaction inherent "wrongness" in relation to a patriarchial society, or does it evoke the inherentness of male sexuality, something we've been trained culturally to accept? Is it that our culture continues to subliminally and consciously acknowledge female sexuality as inherently innate?
You know, I've been told that you can't be pro-communist and be, you know, pro-pornography, because it's inherently anti-women, right? To be honest, the idea that there's no way a woman could want to have or participate in such activities, but if it's a man or a queer person, or gay porn or whatever, then it's different, that to me seems like inherently misogystic contradition to posit. Especially when we consider the root of this obsession with controlling the sexuality of people, namely working class people, is rooted in 17th-18th century English aristocracy. In fact, the first law that criminalized pornography was the English Obscene Publications Act 1857, and to this day, any depiction of female ejaculation in pornography is completely banned in the UK.
Soon after, similar laws spread across much of the other imperial nations of the time, America's 1865 Comstock Act (which also sought to control abortion and contraceptives), as well as Tsarist Russia, with the anti-pornography laws on the books in the USSR being inhereted from this era. We can look at former Eastern block states like East Germany and Yugoslavia for much more lax laws on the material as well. Going further back now. We can see in various pre-AD societies, that sexual expression was much different than it is in our current, western culture. From trans priestesses in Sumeria, to ancient Nubian and Cretan matriarchial societies, as well as the Japanese tradition of Shuga, among countless other examples, it's clear our society's sexual culture is not innate to the human experience itself. A historical material analysis shows us this.
We see that the rise of industrialization, and indeed the earliest stages of capitalism saw the rise of these anti-pornography censorship laws. In some places, even the mere act of masturbation was deemed obscene, causing mental illness. As the working class formed during this urbanization, industrialization period, these laws and cultural stances served as a means of controlling the working class further. Workers lived closely, often in flop houses and other packed, cramped buildings. Company towns were not uncommon. Your boss is your neighbor, and your boss is the mayor, and these additional layers of control served as a means to both pacify and create a culture of shame around the sexual nature humans inately have, these layers of control are a central means in which the capitalist class normalizes and diffuses a layer of anxiety that allows for the boss, the manager, the overseer, to enact further control over the working classes.
How can the argument that pornography, as a medium, is inherently a manifestation of the patriachy, if the root cause of the patriarchy, according to a Marxist feminist view, is capitalism, and we know that, during the rise of capitalism and industrialization, the culture of sexual shame and censorship was made manifest via various laws in-acted by the capitalist class to control the proletariat? Further, how can one reduce the medium to it's most obscene interactions, and then judge it on those merits alone? And finally, if those obscene interactions are done consentually, then is to judge them as inherently patriachial not, ironically, re-inforcing the patriarchal denial of women as innately sexual beings, while re-inforcing the ideal that men, innately are? We would not scoff at a man who responds to "Why did you become a porn star?" with "Because I like sex." but, the same response from a woman in our current societal framework would, for most, evoke a different reaction.
There are issues, but these issues are worker's issues. Safety, consent, trafficking, sexual harassment. Many of these issues are bought up as a way to paint pornography as inherently maleficant but, other industries are plagued with them as well. Trafficking for example, is very common for hotel house keeping services, typically women as well. Sexual harrassment from customers and co-workers plagues various industries, including tech, think about the treatment of women at game companies like Blizzard for example.
My ex, as mentioned above, was pretty open that she liked to get off, and that she felt more degraded as a waitress than selling videos online. When one asks female performers, aside from workers issues stated above, they mention the stigma. The lack of career options after they exit the industry, the social stigma, the scarlet letter that performing in porn brings upon them. Does this not reflect the same psychological control mechanisms mentioned above? If pornography is, as some of my contemporaries have put, "the peak of neoliberalism", why then, do major payment systems like Visa, Mastercard, Cashapp, Paypal, etc shutdown sex work and pornographic content creators so often?
It's for these reasons that I have to conclude that pornography, as defined in the introduction, is not inherently anti-woman, nor is it inherently bad. Like video games, or film, or music, pornography is a medium of expression, in it's case, sexual expression. Could it be that it's the very deeply ingrained sexual culture created over the last 200 years of industrialization that's the issue? Someone spends an hour playing a highly realistic simulation of war, these games are highly popular, played primarily by young men and the development of these games are often funded, in part, by the US Department of Defense. We don't have any level of shame built around these simulations of violence, yet, they often lead enlistments, to real death, real trauma. One must ask, why is sexuality shamed and admonished, but violence celebrated?
the pornography question
"The Pornography Question"I've been doing off and on research into what I call "The Pornography Question". Let's define pornography as explicit material, sexual in nature, created by one or more consented adults, for the consumption by adults. Basically, is it compatible with communism? Is it inherently anti-women? Is it inherently unethical? A sign of capitalist decay?
Prior to this I had a fairly negative outlook on the medium as a whole, mostly stereotypes. Mostly insofar as, assuming the overwhelming majority of women are not willingly be in the industry, either they've been coherced, trafficked or had to for the money, and thus, consuming the material is inherently harmful to women. But at the same time, I've dated a couple of Sex Workers, I've dated a dancer/softcore model and an onlyfans creator. The onlyfans creator said it was a way to empower herself, she said it was far less degrading that working as a waitress, I believe it. I never cared in either case, it's a job, get the bag, it ain't tricking if you've got it. Of course both of these relationships were before I was really a commie, so I lacked the more systemic understanding of how neoliberalism works to commodify the personal. And, admittingly, the stereotypes still played a role in the acceptance of my ex's work, ie "Something must have happened in her past to cause her to do this but I don't care that she does it".
A former friend, whom is a 36 year old former model (remember Suicidegirls?), lamented about not being able to model anymore because she was worried about the *stigma* and how it might reflect on her as a professional, career wise. She was very proud of her past career. In fact, her upbringing was very strict, with Christian gender roles and a traditionalist worldview. The same type of culture that created incredibly creepy events like Purity Balls, the same culture that normalizes treating women as objects to be traded between men. That sort of southern Christian culture that I've long rallied against. It's these personal contradictions that prompted further critical introspection into the medium as well as my own ingrained opinions on it.
Almost every study I read completely ignored or outright handwaved gay and queer porn, and this to me presents an issue. How can you handwave a significant part of a medium and then say the entire medium is bad? If someone made the argument that horror movies are degenerate bourgeoisie decadence, but only used films like Saw and Hostel as examples, that would be pretty disingenuous no? So I started reading interviews with queer people who work in the industry. 1/2 Very common sentiment was that this medium provided a space for them to express their queerness in ways they might otherwise not be able to. So, many of the earlier, more anti-pornography SWERFs and studies straight up ignored queer people, and when we do see the perspective, it's basically the opposite of the assumed one.
One issue I had with Dworkin's arguments is that she lacks a material basis for her claims, while also using a fairly narrow definition of pornography that's not really accepted by the mainstream society has a whole. She defines pornography as a medium that is inherently showcasing acts of violence against women, and then uses this definition to showcase how porn contributes to the mass normalization of a patriarchal society. Which is to say, she draws a distinction between pornography and erotica in such a way, that few others who aren't also SWERFs do. By their own definition many Onlyfans creators would not be creating pornography but erotica, because their definition of pornography requires some act to be done to a woman (rarely if ever does she mention queer people). Dworkin and her contemporaries, such as MacKinnon, distinguished between pornography and erotica based on the presence of violence and degradation. Erotica, in their view, is consensual and non-degrading sexual expression, whereas pornography inherently involves the subjugation and objectification of women. However, the overwhelming majority of people do not make this narrow distinction. This, fundamentally, is leads to issues because we're working with two definitions here.
The crux of Dworkin's argument is that pornography is a manifestation of the misogyny embedded in patriarchal society, how can this be true, if those same patriarchal forces are directly responsible for the repression and censorship of pornographic materials? Further, how can this be true if, as mentioned later we look at pre-Christian societies, and how sex was depicted in a much more open sense in a variety of cases? Further, how does this account for gay porn? Trans porn? Queer porn? Consider a typical pornographic scenerio, a slender woman is rough, passionate sex with two large, fit men. Their faces are obscured, and she's centered in the film's composition. This is, by Dworkin's definition absolutely pornography, and thus a manifestation of our patriarchal society. Now, consider the same scenario without a woman involved. A slender twink is having rough sex by two fit men. Does this evoke the same reaction inherent "wrongness" in relation to a patriarchial society, or does it evoke the inherentness of male sexuality, something we've been trained culturally to accept? Is it that our culture continues to subliminally and consciously acknowledge female sexuality as inherently innate?
You know, I've been told that you can't be pro-communist and be, you know, pro-pornography, because it's inherently anti-women, right? To be honest, the idea that there's no way a woman could want to have or participate in such activities, but if it's a man or a queer person, or gay porn or whatever, then it's different, that to me seems like inherently misogystic contradition to posit. Especially when we consider the root of this obsession with controlling the sexuality of people, namely working class people, is rooted in 17th-18th century English aristocracy. In fact, the first law that criminalized pornography was the English Obscene Publications Act 1857, and to this day, any depiction of female ejaculation in pornography is completely banned in the UK.
Soon after, similar laws spread across much of the other imperial nations of the time, America's 1865 Comstock Act (which also sought to control abortion and contraceptives), as well as Tsarist Russia, with the anti-pornography laws on the books in the USSR being inhereted from this era. We can look at former Eastern block states like East Germany and Yugoslavia for much more lax laws on the material as well. Going further back now. We can see in various pre-AD societies, that sexual expression was much different than it is in our current, western culture. From trans priestesses in Sumeria, to ancient Nubian and Cretan matriarchial societies, as well as the Japanese tradition of Shuga, among countless other examples, it's clear our society's sexual culture is not innate to the human experience itself. A historical material analysis shows us this.
We see that the rise of industrialization, and indeed the earliest stages of capitalism saw the rise of these anti-pornography censorship laws. In some places, even the mere act of masturbation was deemed obscene, causing mental illness. As the working class formed during this urbanization, industrialization period, these laws and cultural stances served as a means of controlling the working class further. Workers lived closely, often in flop houses and other packed, cramped buildings. Company towns were not uncommon. Your boss is your neighbor, and your boss is the mayor, and these additional layers of control served as a means to both pacify and create a culture of shame around the sexual nature humans inately have, these layers of control are a central means in which the capitalist class normalizes and diffuses a layer of anxiety that allows for the boss, the manager, the overseer, to enact further control over the working classes.
How can the argument that pornography, as a medium, is inherently a manifestation of the patriachy, if the root cause of the patriarchy, according to a Marxist feminist view, is capitalism, and we know that, during the rise of capitalism and industrialization, the culture of sexual shame and censorship was made manifest via various laws in-acted by the capitalist class to control the proletariat? Further, how can one reduce the medium to it's most obscene interactions, and then judge it on those merits alone? And finally, if those obscene interactions are done consentually, then is to judge them as inherently patriachial not, ironically, re-inforcing the patriarchal denial of women as innately sexual beings, while re-inforcing the ideal that men, innately are? We would not scoff at a man who responds to "Why did you become a porn star?" with "Because I like sex." but, the same response from a woman in our current societal framework would, for most, evoke a different reaction.
There are issues, but these issues are worker's issues. Safety, consent, trafficking, sexual harassment. Many of these issues are bought up as a way to paint pornography as inherently maleficant but, other industries are plagued with them as well. Trafficking for example, is very common for hotel house keeping services, typically women as well. Sexual harrassment from customers and co-workers plagues various industries, including tech, think about the treatment of women at game companies like Blizzard for example.
My ex, as mentioned above, was pretty open that she liked to get off, and that she felt more degraded as a waitress than selling videos online. When one asks female performers, aside from workers issues stated above, they mention the stigma. The lack of career options after they exit the industry, the social stigma, the scarlet letter that performing in porn brings upon them. Does this not reflect the same psychological control mechanisms mentioned above? If pornography is, as some of my contemporaries have put, "the peak of neoliberalism", why then, do major payment systems like Visa, Mastercard, Cashapp, Paypal, etc shutdown sex work and pornographic content creators so often?
It's for these reasons that I have to conclude that pornography, as defined in the introduction, is not inherently anti-woman, nor is it inherently bad. Like video games, or film, or music, pornography is a medium of expression, in it's case, sexual expression. Could it be that it's the very deeply ingrained sexual culture created over the last 200 years of industrialization that's the issue? Someone spends an hour playing a highly realistic simulation of war, these games are highly popular, played primarily by young men and the development of these games are often funded, in part, by the US Department of Defense. We don't have any level of shame built around these simulations of violence, yet, they often lead enlistments, to real death, real trauma. One must ask, why is sexuality shamed and admonished, but violence celebrated?
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How would IP laws and copyright be handled under socialism?
Would it be abolished or just reformed? How would artists be compensated if not for royalties?
Also, what about “hard cases” like instances of cultural appropriation, etc.?
Let’s have this discussion.
Socialist copyright
SERIOUSHow would IP laws and copyright be handled under socialism?
Would it be abolished or just reformed? How would artists be compensated if not for royalties?
Also, what about “hard cases” like instances of cultural appropriation, etc.?
Let’s have this discussion.
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What do you do? What reforms do you set about attempting to implement? Remember that other than the concessions I've set out above, everything else remains as normal. In the USA, for example, you've still got to contend with the supreme court and the constitution. The bourgeoisie are still the dominant class. The bureaucracy and military establishment is made up of the people appointed by previous bourgeois governments. It's possible - perhaps even probable - that it's wise to take a long term, strategic approach to rebuilding working class power while continuing to manage capitalism, rather than trying to quickly legislate socialism into being when the cards are all stacked against you, even if a glacial approach means that people on /leftypol/ call you a radlib socdem. But that's up to you: What do you do, why do you do it, and what reactions do you realistically anticipate?
(Please don't argue the relative merits of reform-vs-revolution "in general" ITT. This premise does not depend on such a route existing: If you think there's no reformist route to socialism, that's great: engage with the question I'm actually asking. You wake up tomorrow, look in the mirror, think "there's no electoral road to socialism", and then turn on the Television to see your own face. You've just won the election: what do you do?)
What do you do? Electoral road to socialism
Let's say, for argument's sake, you're elected as a socialist. If you're in a presidential country, you've got the presidency and ~51% of the legislature. If you're in a parliamentary country, you've got ~51% of the legislature and have been elected prime minister. Moreover, your party is loyal: this isn't a Corbyn situation where your victory was a fluke and a disloyal party would immediately dispose you, or an Allende situation where you've got to work with a congress that hates you. You've got control of the legislative and executive branches of government. Financial markets have not immediately panicked at your election (perhaps your platform was vague…), but of course this may change depending on what you do next.What do you do? What reforms do you set about attempting to implement? Remember that other than the concessions I've set out above, everything else remains as normal. In the USA, for example, you've still got to contend with the supreme court and the constitution. The bourgeoisie are still the dominant class. The bureaucracy and military establishment is made up of the people appointed by previous bourgeois governments. It's possible - perhaps even probable - that it's wise to take a long term, strategic approach to rebuilding working class power while continuing to manage capitalism, rather than trying to quickly legislate socialism into being when the cards are all stacked against you, even if a glacial approach means that people on /leftypol/ call you a radlib socdem. But that's up to you: What do you do, why do you do it, and what reactions do you realistically anticipate?
(Please don't argue the relative merits of reform-vs-revolution "in general" ITT. This premise does not depend on such a route existing: If you think there's no reformist route to socialism, that's great: engage with the question I'm actually asking. You wake up tomorrow, look in the mirror, think "there's no electoral road to socialism", and then turn on the Television to see your own face. You've just won the election: what do you do?)
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Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.htmldprk DPRK
/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General
Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
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Valhalla has TRUSTs, 90 level cap, XP gain rate same as retail. Movement speed is increased, all Home Point crystal warps and outpost warps are unlocked. They have some nice extra content like a unique gear augment system, a few custom dungeons, Dynamis D raids are unlocked. Rise of the Zilart, Treasures of AU, Wings of the Goddess expansions are all unlocked and working properly.
So anyway if you are tried of the slow grind to 75 on the other private servers like Horizon or Eden, then come check out Valhalla.
https://www.valhalla.group/home/doku.php?id=start
Best Final Fantasy 11 private server
Out of the different Final Fantasy 11 private servers, I like Valhalla the most.Valhalla has TRUSTs, 90 level cap, XP gain rate same as retail. Movement speed is increased, all Home Point crystal warps and outpost warps are unlocked. They have some nice extra content like a unique gear augment system, a few custom dungeons, Dynamis D raids are unlocked. Rise of the Zilart, Treasures of AU, Wings of the Goddess expansions are all unlocked and working properly.
So anyway if you are tried of the slow grind to 75 on the other private servers like Horizon or Eden, then come check out Valhalla.
https://www.valhalla.group/home/doku.php?id=start
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What’s your opinion on Joseph Stalin what do you think he was a bad guy or not?
What’s your opinion on Joseph Stalin what do you think he was a bad guy or not?
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MAKE UKRAINE MATERIAL MEMES NOW OR THE NKVD WILL COME TO YOUR DOOR
MAKE UKRAINE MATERIAL MEMES NOW OR THE NKVD WILL COME TO YOUR DOOR
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Thanks Bill
So something went wrong with last Windows update, it wont boot, recover, or do anything at all, my laptop appears to be completely bricked, Ill have to do factory reset (and even then Im keeping fingers crossed it will actually work). This is the last fucking drop, Im switching to Linux. The thing is, I have virtually no IT skills, so what is your advice? What type of Linux is most noob friendly? I use computer basically just for internet browsing, some graphic software and bideo games.
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PDF / EPUB Dump Thread
Drop those PDF's or else
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I found this book Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson and his thesis runs as following. Marxism and European socialism, instead of being an ideology of the proletariat, was a petty bourgeois ideology born out of a ressentiment for the bourgeoisie and the belief that the proletariat could be better managed. Leftists falsely understood capitalism as a rationalizing force which would create a homogenous proletariat, while in truth capitalism exacerbates racial differences to manage pops more efficiently. Leftists mistake nationalism and racism as essentially reactionary, while in truth it has always played a huge and sometimes preponderant part in history.
Second Kolakowski's book Main Currents of Marxism makes two important claims. Terms like "materialism" and "dialectics" are not well defined leading to ambiguity and confusion. This is why Lenin and the Russian Marxists misinterpreted Marx's materialism as an ontology of matter. Second leftist materialism is determinstic and offers a telological history in which outcomes are predetermined. This undermines human creativity and autonomy and is why the Soviets and "actually existing socialism" became totalitarian in practice. The party led by masters of Marxist theory and technocrats can guide society through more and more bureaucratization cancelling out the need for democratic participation and subordinating individual agency to the needs of the bureaucracy itself. I believe the Maoists saw this and tried to break from it but China ended up producing the same results because even the red guards embraced the same interpretation of historical/dialectical materialism.
I want bring out Carl Schmitt here for all the leftcoms and anarchists. If you have a radically open society you can easily get invaded by an influx of new people. /pol/ stormfaggot colonization of online spaces proves that anarchic environments are highly vulnerable to this type of invasion or the emergence of extremism within. Anarchist societies would not have the means to resist these invaders. Probably why the Zapatistas are scrapping their communal autonomy model because of cartels moving into Chiapas and causing trouble. The anarchist army could resist an external military force. Its been done before. But an anarchist society is prone to collapse and reversal through inability to resist demographic pressure. Lets say your anarchist liberated zone has a large population of MLs who decide to do the coup or just convert people to MLism and change the structure to a bunkerman dictatorship. You can't really stop them without effective policing instruments, surveillence, intelligence agencies but if you build those you end up recreating the state.
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Legit critiques of leftism
So /edu/ this site is full of threads debunking standard chicken headed talking points but what are some legit criticisms of leftist thought?I found this book Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson and his thesis runs as following. Marxism and European socialism, instead of being an ideology of the proletariat, was a petty bourgeois ideology born out of a ressentiment for the bourgeoisie and the belief that the proletariat could be better managed. Leftists falsely understood capitalism as a rationalizing force which would create a homogenous proletariat, while in truth capitalism exacerbates racial differences to manage pops more efficiently. Leftists mistake nationalism and racism as essentially reactionary, while in truth it has always played a huge and sometimes preponderant part in history.
Second Kolakowski's book Main Currents of Marxism makes two important claims. Terms like "materialism" and "dialectics" are not well defined leading to ambiguity and confusion. This is why Lenin and the Russian Marxists misinterpreted Marx's materialism as an ontology of matter. Second leftist materialism is determinstic and offers a telological history in which outcomes are predetermined. This undermines human creativity and autonomy and is why the Soviets and "actually existing socialism" became totalitarian in practice. The party led by masters of Marxist theory and technocrats can guide society through more and more bureaucratization cancelling out the need for democratic participation and subordinating individual agency to the needs of the bureaucracy itself. I believe the Maoists saw this and tried to break from it but China ended up producing the same results because even the red guards embraced the same interpretation of historical/dialectical materialism.
I want bring out Carl Schmitt here for all the leftcoms and anarchists. If you have a radically open society you can easily get invaded by an influx of new people. /pol/ stormfaggot colonization of online spaces proves that anarchic environments are highly vulnerable to this type of invasion or the emergence of extremism within. Anarchist societies would not have the means to resist these invaders. Probably why the Zapatistas are scrapping their communal autonomy model because of cartels moving into Chiapas and causing trouble. The anarchist army could resist an external military force. Its been done before. But an anarchist society is prone to collapse and reversal through inability to resist demographic pressure. Lets say your anarchist liberated zone has a large population of MLs who decide to do the coup or just convert people to MLism and change the structure to a bunkerman dictatorship. You can't really stop them without effective policing instruments, surveillence, intelligence agencies but if you build those you end up recreating the state.
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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
/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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What are your thoughts on portraying inherently evil, simple, fictional characters as revolutionarie
This isn't about the vilification of real-life revolutionaries or even characters that were from the start had any sort political context, but characters who were always meant as simple villains. For me the most obvious case is with the Decepticons and their leader Megatron. they were a toy series turned into an animated show where they were just evil for the sake of evil. It was good robots who would turn into fire trucks, ambulances, and taxis versus evil robots who turned into fighter jets and tanks. Sometime around the late 2000s, there was both a fandom and source material change to the origins of this faction, where they changed their origin to be moderately political, making Optimus and Megatron former friends and casting Megatron as someone born in the lower classes who became a revolutionary but went "too far" and caused a 4-million-year-long war which destroyed his planet
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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.
/QTDDTOT/ - Questions that don't need their own thread
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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Name a character with more self confidence than her. I’ll wait
Name a character with more self confidence than her. I’ll wait
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How true is this?
>inb4 /isg/
It's not about e-drama or his internet persona, just the opinion itself.
If workers in the first world ultimately share the same interests with workers in the third world then why do first world workers generally not give a fuck about the third world? Of all the promises bourgois parties lie about to trick people into voting for them ending exploitation in the third world is never one of them and no one in the first world is lamenting the lack of focus on this subject by their governments either. Addressing imperialism and third world exploitation is one of those peripheral subjects few people in the first world seriously care about despite the fact it's the fundament of our global situation. So the more appropriate conclusion is rather that it's either in the interest of first world workers for there to be a continuation of exploitation of the third world and its related imperialism, or first world workers are just apathetic towards it.
How true is this?
>inb4 /isg/
It's not about e-drama or his internet persona, just the opinion itself.
If workers in the first world ultimately share the same interests with workers in the third world then why do first world workers generally not give a fuck about the third world? Of all the promises bourgois parties lie about to trick people into voting for them ending exploitation in the third world is never one of them and no one in the first world is lamenting the lack of focus on this subject by their governments either. Addressing imperialism and third world exploitation is one of those peripheral subjects few people in the first world seriously care about despite the fact it's the fundament of our global situation. So the more appropriate conclusion is rather that it's either in the interest of first world workers for there to be a continuation of exploitation of the third world and its related imperialism, or first world workers are just apathetic towards it.
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Lessons from the war: Military analysis
What can we learn from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and this example of relatively modern warfare? Strategy, tactics, operations, geopolitical responses, information warfare, civilian pov and response. Anything related. Not the thread to talk about "who is in the right".
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tf is a hypersonic missile?
I see a lot of talk about how Russia n China could shit on the west with hypersonic missiles. which is cool af but I also don't know if thats even true or what a hypersonic missile even is(I assume it goes faster than sound?). Are they a big deal? I really do hope the hype lives up this time
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A lot of people have the mistaken notion that all police personnel or civil servants are in some kind of big joint conspiracy, that they 'deceive' the other sections of the population or that they are 'fake' protectors of order, etc.
In a society based on capital, 'order' by default means nothing but the smooth running of business and the safety of property to ensure accumulation and investments proceed as is desired, which appears masked as being in the interests of the entire population. The function of law is guaranteeing the inviolability of this system, to aid the reproduction of existing social relations and ensure a stable atmosphere such that 'business as usual' can proceed 'peacefully'. This is what the police and civil service enforces.
The existence of 'unruly' elements, from criminals to beggars to striking proletarians, is a disruption of this same order, their subsequent repression being a restoration of the same. The policeman who beats a worker to drive him back to work does so not out of special malice or greed, but because they genuinely view it as their task to fend off such 'disruptive' acts, to restore 'order' and the 'rule of law'. The problem isn't them being 'fake' protectors of order, but the fact that this order is nothing but an order for capitalism.
As long as private property exists this will necessarily be the case, the police and civil services cannot be 'reformed' but only directly abolished because their very nature corresponds to the needs of capital. To say police brutality is 'undemocratic' etc is plainly wrong.
A lot of people have the mistaken notion that all police personnel or civil servants are in some kind of big joint conspiracy, that they 'deceive' the other sections of the population or that they are 'fake' protectors of order, etc.
In a society based on capital, 'order' by default means nothing but the smooth running of business and the safety of property to ensure accumulation and investments proceed as is desired, which appears masked as being in the interests of the entire population. The function of law is guaranteeing the inviolability of this system, to aid the reproduction of existing social relations and ensure a stable atmosphere such that 'business as usual' can proceed 'peacefully'. This is what the police and civil service enforces.
The existence of 'unruly' elements, from criminals to beggars to striking proletarians, is a disruption of this same order, their subsequent repression being a restoration of the same. The policeman who beats a worker to drive him back to work does so not out of special malice or greed, but because they genuinely view it as their task to fend off such 'disruptive' acts, to restore 'order' and the 'rule of law'. The problem isn't them being 'fake' protectors of order, but the fact that this order is nothing but an order for capitalism.
As long as private property exists this will necessarily be the case, the police and civil services cannot be 'reformed' but only directly abolished because their very nature corresponds to the needs of capital. To say police brutality is 'undemocratic' etc is plainly wrong.
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There is all this talk about SMIC, Loongson and Zhaoxin and that in early 2020 Zhaoxin allegedly published a chip comparable to 2017 level intel and AMD tech and they are planning to have parity with Intel in a few years. Then there are Some sources are saying that China is failing horribly at acquiring manufacturing tech for more advanced processors. And I really can't make any real sense out of it.
So when will I be able to buy a computer that uses a hardware that dunks on burger made tech and sends my personal data to Beijing instead of Washington, if ever?
Future of Chinese made CPUs
Since US tech embargo on China is still in effect and US plans to squeeze Chinese tech companies by restricting their access to computer chips. China's reaction to this was to make one of their goals to have a home-grown alternative for Intel, AMD, TSMC and the like to decrease dependence on the US. So I was wondering what kind of progress have they been making lately and what are their prospects of ever having a viable alternative to Intel and AMD?There is all this talk about SMIC, Loongson and Zhaoxin and that in early 2020 Zhaoxin allegedly published a chip comparable to 2017 level intel and AMD tech and they are planning to have parity with Intel in a few years. Then there are Some sources are saying that China is failing horribly at acquiring manufacturing tech for more advanced processors. And I really can't make any real sense out of it.
So when will I be able to buy a computer that uses a hardware that dunks on burger made tech and sends my personal data to Beijing instead of Washington, if ever?
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Dragon Ball Super
Who the hell is even the target audience for this cringeworthy shitshow these days? I'm seriously curious.
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Everything else in order from best-to-worst would be:
Deep Space 9
The Next Generation
Voyage Home
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country
Enterprise
Picard Season 3
Lower Decks
Voyager
Prodigy
Motion Picture
Strange New Worlds
Original Series
Beyond
First Contact
Generations
Discovery
Nemesis
Insurrection
Star Trek 2009
Into Darkness
Picard Seasons 1&2
Skipped a couple of the TOS movies we haven't seen cause it wouldn't be fair to rank them. Also split Picard up since the 3rd season is basically a different show both in quality and tone.
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Star Trek
Talk space socialism to me. Was recently rewatching a few series with my fiance, both old and new Trek, and we both feel like Deep Space 9 is our favorite series (closely followed by TNG).Everything else in order from best-to-worst would be:
Deep Space 9
The Next Generation
Voyage Home
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country
Enterprise
Picard Season 3
Lower Decks
Voyager
Prodigy
Motion Picture
Strange New Worlds
Original Series
Beyond
First Contact
Generations
Discovery
Nemesis
Insurrection
Star Trek 2009
Into Darkness
Picard Seasons 1&2
Skipped a couple of the TOS movies we haven't seen cause it wouldn't be fair to rank them. Also split Picard up since the 3rd season is basically a different show both in quality and tone.
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>>1857
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you can get most stuff off of amazon or any hardware or milsurp store
/mole/
excavating tunnels, trenches, ditches, ramparts, moats, holes, any kind of defensive earthwork where industrial machinery isn't viableyou can get most stuff off of amazon or any hardware or milsurp store
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Here's an article about that:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/crazy-off-the-charts-records-has-humanity-finally-broken-the-climate
As for the news, there is a drought blocking shipping at the Panama canal, bad wildfires in North America and Greece, persistent heatwaves in eastern Europe and northern Africa, and floods in central and eastern China.
Here's the latest report from the IPCC
<AR6 Synthesis Report Climate Change 2023
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
The website of NASA about climate is great for getting data and visualizing climate change
https://climate.nasa.gov/
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/Climate/ #3 Off the charts edition
This thread is dedicated to our accomplishment of having broken the upper limit of sea surface temperature and the lower limit of antarctic sea ice amount charts this summer, hence ushering our species firmly into the capitalocene. Good job guys! Welcome to the future.Here's an article about that:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/crazy-off-the-charts-records-has-humanity-finally-broken-the-climate
As for the news, there is a drought blocking shipping at the Panama canal, bad wildfires in North America and Greece, persistent heatwaves in eastern Europe and northern Africa, and floods in central and eastern China.
Here's the latest report from the IPCC
<AR6 Synthesis Report Climate Change 2023
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
The website of NASA about climate is great for getting data and visualizing climate change
https://climate.nasa.gov/
Last thread: >>1332129
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Paging Anne Marie Slaughter and Amy Kloubuchar.
I was listening to this EXCELLENT "video essay" by the widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst Caleb Maupin, and considering qualifying his interesting analysis of the pharmaceutical industry's effects on the treatment of mental issues, and was about to make a comment noting that even if ultimately with people the issue is with us, that we live in capitalism, not FULL COMMUNISM. When he mentioned you two, small world isn't it.
The Biden administration could bring Israel to heel in an instant. Genocide Joe, sorry I meant President Biden could with a short simple phone call to Netanyahu two sentences "Time to recognize Palestine or no more weapons for the GENOCIDE, he's still got it in him. Although he may not in a few years. Time will tell. At this rate the best chance for Biden to win this is to prove he can still be presidential.
How?
The answer is simple. President Biden forces a ceasefire on Israel NOW. He forces a real settlement and Israeli recognition and withdrawal from the internationally, look it up stupid see how many members of the United Nations recognize Palestine. That's a lot of free positive press and social media activity for Biden especially on TikTok is it etc whatever? He could really do with that right now
I'm deciding whether I should consult for the Trump campaign however much it would make my skin crawl to have ever worked for the Republican party. This happens I will not and will never work for the Republicans, everybody wins.
We've worked together, you know what I can do. I could do with the money given this ECONOMY very important this election
This doesn't happen soon, and this can't be an October surprize the sooner the better. YOU are losing the grassroots activist party base, and you need them to get out the vote STUPID. I may throw the election for the money. Maybe I won't I'm still considering my options, and I'd really rather not.
If I'm thinking this other people are. Lots of very pissed off people who know how this works.
I'd ask for peace in the Ukraine as well, but that's not going anywhere. President Biden certainly can't be seen to be a loser this October and win. The last debate was bad enough.
Don't let America die on the Israel hill with a second term of President Trump. Choose peace.
Paging Anne Marie Slaughter and Amy Kloubuchar.
I was listening to this EXCELLENT "video essay" by the widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst Caleb Maupin, and considering qualifying his interesting analysis of the pharmaceutical industry's effects on the treatment of mental issues, and was about to make a comment noting that even if ultimately with people the issue is with us, that we live in capitalism, not FULL COMMUNISM. When he mentioned you two, small world isn't it.
The Biden administration could bring Israel to heel in an instant. Genocide Joe, sorry I meant President Biden could with a short simple phone call to Netanyahu two sentences "Time to recognize Palestine or no more weapons for the GENOCIDE, he's still got it in him. Although he may not in a few years. Time will tell. At this rate the best chance for Biden to win this is to prove he can still be presidential.
How?
The answer is simple. President Biden forces a ceasefire on Israel NOW. He forces a real settlement and Israeli recognition and withdrawal from the internationally, look it up stupid see how many members of the United Nations recognize Palestine. That's a lot of free positive press and social media activity for Biden especially on TikTok is it etc whatever? He could really do with that right now
I'm deciding whether I should consult for the Trump campaign however much it would make my skin crawl to have ever worked for the Republican party. This happens I will not and will never work for the Republicans, everybody wins.
We've worked together, you know what I can do. I could do with the money given this ECONOMY very important this election
This doesn't happen soon, and this can't be an October surprize the sooner the better. YOU are losing the grassroots activist party base, and you need them to get out the vote STUPID. I may throw the election for the money. Maybe I won't I'm still considering my options, and I'd really rather not.
If I'm thinking this other people are. Lots of very pissed off people who know how this works.
I'd ask for peace in the Ukraine as well, but that's not going anywhere. President Biden certainly can't be seen to be a loser this October and win. The last debate was bad enough.
Don't let America die on the Israel hill with a second term of President Trump. Choose peace.
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In contrast the USA has around thirty-one million businesses, and china has fifty-eight. The ratio of people to businesses in those two countries alone keep many from being genuinely enslaved to super corps like in South Korea. Even if you hate libertarians, ‘classical liberals’, and globalists, you have to admit the idea; that keeping economies free and competitive does help ordinary people and keep them from poverty and unemployment. Making it easier for these owners to have small pieces of land and access to trade in domestic and foreign markets only helps both the capitalists and their workers find opportunities for success.
Can’t corporatism be solved by simply allowing more businesses to exist?
Countries like Canada and Australia are notorious for being resource economies, because their businesses are violently uncompetitive. Corporatism is so bad particularly in Canada to the point where the FG here can’t record how many registered businesses here exist.In contrast the USA has around thirty-one million businesses, and china has fifty-eight. The ratio of people to businesses in those two countries alone keep many from being genuinely enslaved to super corps like in South Korea. Even if you hate libertarians, ‘classical liberals’, and globalists, you have to admit the idea; that keeping economies free and competitive does help ordinary people and keep them from poverty and unemployment. Making it easier for these owners to have small pieces of land and access to trade in domestic and foreign markets only helps both the capitalists and their workers find opportunities for success.