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>start a left wing populist org
>a bajillion factions form out of the fact that your economic theory is vague as shit
>get a really loud but small left wing faction
>be DSA
>pic unrelated
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Yugoslavia General Thread

Leftypol is seriously lacking when it comes to a yugoslavia thread. It may not exist on a map, but it still is carried in the hearts of many, and it's vision was not extinguished by it's destruction, it is like a star, though it may long since been dead, it shines bright upon many around the universe, and serves as an image displaying the light and truth.
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #295

Vice City edition
Previous: >>2884212

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

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

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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY

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

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

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

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

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

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

<Current Happenings

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

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Thread guidelines:
• 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 INTERNATIONALISM general thread.
• Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged! Spamming glowie memes is low effort.
• this is /ISG/ for people who treats geopolitics like shitty map games
• behead NATO, crush NATO, etc.
• boasting about getting laid in a warzone is fucking weird, okay?
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/leftybritpol/ - by-election edish

UK Conservatives and far-right Reform UK pledge mass eviction of foreign nationals from social housing

The UK’s main opposition Conservative Party has announced it will end social housing provision for foreign nationals in England if it enters government at the next election…
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/FrancoPol/

🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Thread #2

French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!

Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
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Haz is Rafiq?

https://cosmonautmag.com/2025/04/praxis-of-alienation-and-enmity-on-the-american-communist-party/

>According to Donald Parkinson, Hammoud is most likely the poster Rafiq from the RevLeft forums, as his writing style matches almost 1-to-1 with the forum poster, saying that ideologically at the time Ali was “more of a heterodox leftcom who flirted with the ideas of Mike Macnair and Lars Lih.” Macnair and Lih are communists who reject Stalinism as a failure and call for learning from Karl Kautsky’s Second International.


What the fuck! How did this little bit of leftoid lore go unnoticed? The founder of the MAGAcommunist retard party and /leftypol/'s favorite RevLeft screenshot author circa 2015 were actually the same person all along??
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Neocon Iraq War criminals

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

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

The Straussian cabal is very real and still holds loads of ideological power within American politics. Many Neocons from the Bush II era have now since become Democrats and publicly supported Kamala Harris over Trump on the basis Trump wasn't Neocon enough. These people have names and addresses and have to face some kind of legal penalties so the world can finally have closure and the Neocon war criminals can finally reap what they sowed.
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The US was literally on the verge of social and economic collapse during the 70s but then Mao just had an autism moment and backstabbed the USSR and entire communist world, forcing them to sign SALT I and letting America recover.
Legit what the fuck was his problem?
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Amid growing support for Ukrainian political prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk, the New York Times maintains

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/18/yvoe-a18.html

On Monday, August 10, a court in Pervomaisk, Ukraine, convicted the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk of high treason under martial law and sentenced him to 15 years in prison for having called for the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers against war.

The response to the verdict has been significant and widespread. Nearly 500 people in more than 40 countries, Ukraine and Russia among them, have signed the petition for Bogdan’s release or written letters of protest since the sentencing, and the petition now stands at more than 6,000 names. Historians, doctors, teachers and pensioners have written to the court demanding that the conviction be overturned.

This response stands in sharp contrast to the silence of the major media outlets in the United States and, in particular, the New York Times. The Times has never reported on Bogdan’s case, either his arrest and imprisonment on April 25, 2024, or his sentencing on August 10.

The Times cannot plead ignorance. On Tuesday, August 11, David North, the chairman of the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) International Editorial Board, wrote to Philip Pan, the international editor of the Times, calling on the paper to cover the case. North pointed out that on the day of Bogdan’s sentencing the Times had published a report headlined “Russian Court Bars Country’s Only Antiwar Party From Running for Parliament,” which noted the seven-year sentence given to the Yabloko party’s deputy chairman, Maxim Kruglov, for a 2022 social media post, while the paper had printed nothing about a Ukrainian sentenced to more than twice that term.

“If the suppression of antiwar political activity in Russia warrants extensive reporting—and it certainly does—then the sentencing of a Ukrainian socialist to 15 years in prison for activities that include publishing antiwar articles warrants no less serious scrutiny,” North wrote.

The Times did not reply. One week after Bogdan’s sentencing, it published a front-page article titled “Held by Russia, Ukrainian Feels ‘Crushing’ Fear,” with a nine-minute produced audio version. It reports on Artem Murdid, a Ukrainian bank worker arrested in occupied Melitopol in March 2023 and sentenced by a Russian court to life in prison on terrorism charges.

Four journalists worked the story across Kiev, Berlin and Moscow. The Times has reporters inside Ukraine, in Kiev, a day’s drive from the Nikolaev region where Bogdan was tried and imprisoned.

The Times printed Murdid’s account of torture while conceding in its own words that it is “impossible to verify,” justifying publication because it is “consistent with dozens of accounts.” But Bogdan’s case requires no such justification: The verdict is a public document, the expert reports exist on paper, the WSWS articles cited as treason are published and readable by anyone. For Bogdan Syrotiuk the Times has provided not one line.

The Murdid report presents Russia’s imprisonment of Ukrainian civilians—among them, the Times writes, people “picked up for singing pro-Ukrainian songs, posting pro-Ukrainian thoughts on social media or transferring money to Ukrainian bank accounts”—as evidence of the character of the Russian state. The same paper, however, conceals the character of the Ukrainian state, which imprisons its own citizens for publishing antiwar articles, holds them in prisons the UN Committee Against Torture found in April 2025 to be overcrowded and short of food and water and governs under martial law without elections.

The Times report counts roughly 2,600 Ukrainian civilians verified in Russian custody on war-related accusations, of whom, it states, “almost 900” have been charged or convicted, citing the Media Initiative for Human Rights. According to the United Nations Human Rights Office, however, some 20,000 criminal cases have been opened under Ukraine’s treason and collaboration statutes since the war began. The two figures measure what the readers of the “newspaper of record” are permitted to know. One count of wartime prosecution is put on the front page, while the other is passed over in silence.

The Times’ coverage of political persecution in Russia is voluminous. The paper has published a series of reports on Ukrainians held in Russian prisons—“Ukrainians Tell of Brutal Russian Repression in Occupied Territories” (October 30, 2024), “The Ukrainians Stuck in Russia’s New Gulag” (November 29, 2025) and now on Murdid—and on Russians jailed for criticizing the war. On Monday it ran its second report in a week on the banned Yabloko party, “Barred From Ballot, a Party Becomes a Vessel for Russians’ Discontent.”

In four and a half years of war the Times has not published a report on the conditions in Ukraine’s prisons or on the treason prosecutions of Ukrainian citizens for their political views. Its columnists instead urge Americans to fight for their democracy “as Hard … as Ukrainians Are Fighting to Save Theirs,” as Thomas Friedman’s headline put it on September 23, 2025.

The double standard is a policy of deliberate war propaganda, aimed at demonizing Russia and promoting the dictatorship of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a bastion of democracy against Russian “authoritarianism.” The Times cannot report Bogdan’s case because the case explodes that narrative.

Since 2016 the Times has been the principal organ of the faction of the American ruling class, centered in the Democratic Party and the intelligence agencies, that has made confrontation with Russia the central aim of American foreign policy. Its campaign over “Russian interference” in the 2016 election attacked US President Donald Trump from the right, as insufficiently hostile to Moscow, and prepared public opinion for the war in Ukraine. Since February 2022 the Times has spearheaded the pro-war campaign.

It is the journalistic flagship of substantial sections of the intelligence and military establishment that are pressing for deeper US intervention against Russia. Beyond those layers, the Times and the Democratic Party speak for sections of the upper middle class for whom hostility to Russia is an article of faith.

The Times’ relationship with the intelligence agencies goes back decades. In October 1977 Carl Bernstein reported in Rolling Stone that Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the publisher of the Times, had “signed a secrecy agreement with the CIA in the 1950s” and that, according to a CIA official, the paper had provided cover for CIA employees.

The Times’ silence on the persecution of Bogdan is entirely in keeping with this role. Its aim is to provide war propaganda, aimed at drumming up public support for the escalation of war with Russia.

This escalation is now taking place. Overnight into Sunday, Ukraine launched some 600 drones at Moscow, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, and Russian missiles and drones hit Kiev the same night. Bogdan was jailed for opposing the US-NATO war, while rejecting the Russian invasion and calling for the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers.

Workers must draw the lessons of the silence of the New York Times and of the sections of the Democratic Party that it speaks for. Totally committed to the interests of US imperialism, which is using Ukraine’s youth as cannon fodder in a war with Russia, they have abandoned any defense of even the most basic democratic rights, including the freedom of speech.

Workers and young people seeking to defend democratic rights and oppose global war must organize independently of any faction of the political establishment and its corporate media mouthpieces. The defense of Bogdan, and of democratic rights in Ukraine and everywhere else, falls to the working class.

Bogdan’s defense has until September 9 to lodge an appeal, and its challenge to his detention, filed at the European Court of Human Rights in spring 2025, is still pending.

The World Socialist Web Site urges its readers to add their names at wsws.org/freebogdan. Write to the Pervomaisk City District Court at [email protected] and the Nikolaev Court of Appeal at [email protected], with a copy to [email protected], demanding that the sentence be thrown out and Bogdan freed at once.
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/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™


<KKKatering KKKart KKKaiser Edition



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

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

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

Jailhouse Reading:

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

⚒️ LABOR!

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

⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸

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

📺 Glowie News 📺

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

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

📺 Gommie News 📺

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

🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱

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

Essential American Politik 📖

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

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soycucks are raiding leftypol, almost every time they raid a place neo-nazi foodists spam CP, make sure to report anything sus and jannies stay alert for the next couple hours
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The Rise of the Völkisch Left

July 31, 2026

The Postcolonial Volk
By Benjamin Zachariah
Polity, 176 pages, $25

You might have noticed that at some point, progressive types began to use the term “folks” to refer to “people.” There are black folks, queer folks, indigenous folks. The change is significant. Whereas “people” evokes a sense of a universal subject, “folks” is particular. It implies a world of distinctions: different cultures, different experiences, different interests. No people, just “peoples,” all speaking with a different voice. From this perspective, “The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.”

While the idea of a pluriverse has become increasingly popular within decolonial thought, that last line didn’t come from the tradition’s ever-proliferating ranks of academic adherents. It came from Carl Schmitt, the Nazi jurist. At a time when everything is “literally Hitler,” the comparison can seem overwrought. But it is precisely the comparison between post-colonial particularism and the völkisch right that Benjamin Zachariah reveals with a keen sense of the absurd in his new book, The Postcolonial Volk.

Zachariah critiques the “conglomerate” of postcolonial and decolonial theory clustering around what’s come to be known as “theory from the Global South.” But appearances are deceiving, because it’s not really from the Global South at all. As Zachariah describes, its language and legitimacy claims are crafted in the Global North, exported to the Global South, and then reimported as authentic non-Western knowledge.

And just as it is not really of the Global South, this ostensibly left-wing “postcolonial-decolonial-Global South conglomerate” is not really of the left either. Despite the right’s insistence that the ghost of Karl Marx is currently undertaking a long march through the institutions, Zachariah’s central claim is that the contemporary left actually has far more in common with anti-communist and proto-fascist forces than with the nineteenth-century founder of “scientific socialism.” In important respects, its ethos actually arises from an entirely rival tradition, one that encompasses romantic nationalism, indigenism, cultural organicism, and völkisch thought. It is, Zachariah says, “Romanticism, rather than the much-reviled Enlightenment, that suggests itself as the intellectual basis of the ‘post-Enlightenment’ world that Global Southistan now lays claim to.”

This is why, as Zachariah shows, the postcolonial outlook now common on the contemporary left is so hostile to the Enlightenment and its ideal of universal truth. In his satirical “Twelve Theses on Postcolonialism,” he condenses its outlook into its propositions including “the individual is an Enlightenment conspiracy” and “the Age of Reason is the Age of Empire.” Contrary to popular belief, universal reason and the emancipation of the individual were central to Marxism and the socialist and communist traditions shaped by it (“We are communists out of egoism,” Engels once wrote to Marx), however miserably they failed in practice. Marx and Engels were part of the Young Hegelian milieu, who were deeply impressed by the “heroes of the French Revolution,” and even called themselves “encyclopaedists” after the eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophes. This is a far cry from the unholy trinity that Zachariah skewers, however much its adherents may sometimes rummage in the dustbins for what he calls the “debris of Marx- and- Engels-isms.”

Postcolonialism does not simply swap out the working class for some other group of the oppressed. Its object is a mystic unity of culture, collective memory, fraught relationships to race and place, and inherited victimhood. Blood and soil in these formulations are only slightly obscured by a thin rhetorical dust.

As Zachariah shows, the postcolonial tendency’s hostility to individualism and universalism follows precisely from its Romantic and völkisch premises. This is why, as Zachariah describes through a number of jarring examples, its language passes so easily out of the mouths of Hindu nationalists, Islamists, and white identitarians. All emphasize authentic peoples, violated inheritances, foreign contamination, internal betrayers, and cultural restoration as a magical solution to social and political problems.

One of Zachariah’s most illuminating examples is that of Benoy Kumar Sarkar, a Bengali social scientist whom Zachariah describes as “a self-conscious and dedicated user of völkisch ideas” and “zealous co-worker with the Nazis,” who is now unselfconsciously revered as a pioneer of Indian sociology, political science, and forebear of postcolonial thought. That Sarkar was a resolute admirer of Hitler, whom he called “Vivekananda multiplied by Bismarck,” is forgiven or ignored by those eager to find in him a postcolonial precursor.

The story is similar, if more well known, regarding Martin Heidegger, whom Zachariah describes as “postcolonial scholars’ preferred philosopher of ‘affect’” and whose defenders’ attempt to save him from the charge of Nazism “faltered on the evidence of his own diaries.” One compromised intellectual ancestor might be a mere misstep, a product of a momentary lapse in judgment (even if lasting many years). But when the fascist affinities of your forebears must repeatedly be bracketed or explained away, it should tell you that something is wrong with your outlook.

Not that this is really possible, because postcolonialism’s epistemology means it is singularly incapable of recognizing the proto-fascism of its völkisch affinities. As Zachariah writes, these are instead routinely “underplayed or explained away in terms of the ‘difference’ of non-Western cultures, which are allegedly incapable of fascism or to whom Western concepts such as fascism simply do not apply.” If the volk is light-skinned, the politics belong to the right; if dark-skinned, to the left, and ne’er the twain shall meet. And so, the right remains evil for its organic nationalism, while the left is merely seeking cultural renewal; the right is dangerous for denouncing non-white internal enemies but when the left denounces whites it is merely identifying obstacles to “decolonization.” It is the peculiarities of the volk, rather than the politics, that matter.

Why has the left turned to these romantic ideas? Zachariah cites the collapse of the Soviet Union as one cause. But he hits on an even deeper reason near the start of the book, when he draws on Walter Benjamin’s much-quoted vignette inspired by Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus. This is the backward-facing, forward-blown Angel of History, who is to Benjamin, “surveying the debris of the past” as a storm blowing from Paradise drives him perilously into the future. “He would like to pause,” goes the vignette, “to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed,” but the gale has got so strong he cannot close his wings.

Zachariah’s intended point is well taken: We can no more return to an earlier materialist left than postcolonial volk can return to the idyllic time before the colonial “Fall.” Both the longing and the backward-looking means of overcoming it are misguided. But Benjamin’s image also answers a deeper question: Just why is there such a passionate desire to escape the forces of history and take refuge in the wholeness of the past?

In You Shall Be as Gods, Erich Fromm reads the expulsion from Eden not as man’s corruption but “the beginning of his rise.” Eden is the central symbolic story of man’s gradual alienation from animalhood and nature in the development of his capacity to reason and disobey, that is, his capacity for freedom. But crucially, this freedom is experienced as a painful sense of loss, as freedom imposes burdens of uncertainty, choice, and responsibility.

“Man suffers from this loss of oneness,” Fromm writes, and “his most passionate striving is to return to the world of union which was his home.” And so while man, in Fromm’s radical humanist reading of the Hebrew scriptures, reasons and argues with God on his ascent to independence, he is always drawn back downward, “to the womb, the Mother Earth,” and the certainties and bindings of the past, nature, clan, and idols.

This is the deeper yearning expressed in Benjamin’s Angel of History. We want to go back and pick up the pieces, rebuild what’s been lost. But the most painful lesson, the one we continually cannot accept, is that there is no going back.

Ashley Frawley is a Compact columnist, a visiting fellow at MCC Brussels, and a visiting researcher in the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent.

@AshleyAFrawley
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Ending the drug war and legalization; why not a greater focus among Western left-leaning politics?

Pretty much everyone under 50 in the US is aware that the drug war failed. Once we rule out those on the right who feel that the only reason it failed was a lack of authoritarianism, need it to justify various prejudices towards the "wrong" sort of people etc.. and the like, we come down to even vaguely centrists from a social point of view and an even wider group for economic ones (though the specifics of implementation may differ), see that this is a failed, ineffective strategy. Especially among those who define themselves as left leaning, why is ending the drug war and replacing it with legalization and regulated, affordable substances a greater political focal point?

Every historical and material example shows that prohibition is not going to be effective and brings its own problems, not to mention that the motivation for these policies were often intentional to hurt varying groups of people deemed undesirable - from the entire alcohol prohibition era until its repeal for instance, or the now famous Nixon staffer talking about how drugs were an easy way to target 'the hippies, mexicans, and blacks', the cocaine era and crack epidemic, AIDS being spread by sharing needles, and so much more. Its now common knowledge that not only did "drugs win the drug war, and continue to do so" but all the harm done by it also made profiteers wealthy, from narco traffickers who operated private armies, to the whole Iran-Contra affair and Air America black budget work in the Golden Triangle during and after Vietnam, to military-industrial complex extended to militarized policing etc. Most of the money went to a handful of people from the criminal enterprise or those ostensibly fighting it, while people paid more for worse quality, less safe products. This is no longer the kind of thing you'd only read about from some underground zine next to psychotic ramblings, its well documented and seemingly, accepted . So why are we not doing anything about it ?

It seems that the only lefties who comment on the drug issue at all are those with the myopic to just plain incorrect issue of fixating on pharmaceutical companies, doctors etc.. at fault for things like the opioid crisis, which is far from the truth. While certain companies like Perdue Pharma were guilty of malfeasance (the specifics here I can get into but the way they advertised it even to medical professionals was inaccurate ) and there were cash only "pill mill" doctors and pharmacists writing large quantities of controlled substances for patients they barely met, these were individual issues of professional and often illegal conduct that could be handled by existing structures. The bigger problems came from how in response to high profile events, crackdowns made doctors responsibly treating pain (which is MASSIVELY undertreated in our society which is also in more pain than ever thanks to a variety of factors) , afraid or even unable to treat patients, meaning some of them would go to the streets - where the actual epidemic came from. The crossover was primarily from the pill mills early on selling to those that would become dealers (known as "diversion" from legit use and Rx to the black market), but this is not what started the "epidemic" of opioid deaths and other addiction behaviors ticking up . Rather, it was the black market discovering fentanyl, which could be fabricated cheaply, and was extremely strong. Even with heroin there was massive varied quality from being "stepped on" with all matter of junk added as filler for dealers and cartels to make more cash, and a stronger product when not expected could lead to death because of uncertain dosing. However fentanyl was so much stronger even a small variation in strength vs the last batch, could be enough to kill users etc. These deaths is where the "epidemic" became an issue in the 2010s, but their response ranged from ineffective and piecemeal under Dems, to actively malevolent and punishment focused under Republicans. Now, we're looking at banning yet more "research chemical" analogues and the suppliers in China and the LATAM cartels who actually process and distribute are playing cat and mouse games, while the White House decides to blow up boats deemed to be carrying "narco-terrorists". Addiction and use of black market drugs (not just opioids but many other substances) continue up through the Pandemic era and beyond, more recently allowing questionable "addiction therapy centers" to spring up, many of which are expensive and adhere to half baked 12-step processes; those lucky enough to have health insurance cover very little in-patient offers and the kinds of places that do comprehensive therapy and medication assistance with patient comfort in mind, aren't available or affordable to many. Patients with legitimate pain management needs are having their doses restricted by doctors who are afraid of state controlled substance boards and the FDA intruding, all predicated on a garbage FDA document that was originally intended for dosing patients short term and with no opioid experience/tolerance that came about in the 1st Trump term. To his credit, Biden did alter it slightly but like everything else insufficient, plus the damage had already been done; insurance companies (atop the rest) now used those standards for what they'd cover, meaning patients who couldnt' pay out of pocket would not get their meds much of the time. This, right at the time where pharmacies often refused cash payment for controlled substances because they were told that was what evil drug dealers did etc . These are barely scraping the surface of the issues, not to mention things like how areas that decriminalized certain usage now are pushing for more police presence because "drunk/high people are laying/leaning everywhere and leaving needles and broken glass in public areas etc) . Its problems atop problems.

It seems a perfect time for the Left to make this a priority. We have the last decade of the Marijuana/Cannabis experiment to prove that despite the cries from the right, there was no Reefer Madness. THere were issues in the implementation especially given how monied entities started investing in wider pot fabrication and distribution, but that can be solved if we just go the last 10% and ensure true legalization everwhere, but most of the work is done. The next thing to focus upon is other drugs. I'd advocate for a program of regulated legalization, where the substances are legal to possess and use, but who and how they can be bought, or manufactured for widespread sale, can be regulated properly similar to other intoxicants, be it for medical or recreational use.

Dispensing with the fear around many substances and the insane prohibition that has pushed potentially helpful drugs off the market for fear of how they may be abused will also allow research into making them safer. We've had relatively little development in drug segments thought to be the "fun kind abuse or addictive" and even specific refusal to make drugs safer and less physically addicting, for fear it would be "less of a deterrent thus leading to more abuse"! Its completely insane. Just like when we legalized alcohol again, we had a stunning drop in the amount of people turning up blind from drinking some adulterated paint thinner sold on the black market or some idiot using lead liners in their beer or wine brewing, we'd see users trend away from black market garbage in favor of safer, standardized alternatives. You'd have many fewer overdoses if you knew that every pill or vial was going to have consistent strength; not to mention prohibiting harmful additives and anything not disclosed on the label. They could all be made far cheaper too, especially if leftists made the issue a focal point; perhaps even have certain cultivation or manufacture dedicated to being at-cost for the public benefit. There could also be taxes and fees specifically designed to support addiction support services built in, a better version of the "sin taxes" that alcohol and cigarettes utilize. Investing in greater addition support and prevention treatments would be a part of it - infact, some of the very drugs that are illegal currently have the potential benefit of helping rewire the brain to contend with physical dependence as well as psychological dependence; ibogaine, a hallucinogen has shown promise for decades and despite it being not a "party drug" in any way or particularly fun, still requires going to another country to hope you find someone capable of providing ibogaine therapy, legally. MDMA has huge benefits to PTSD and other psychiatric issues if used correctly, but outside very limited trials its illegality has driven recreational users into more harmful meds masquerading as the hard-to-synthesize-properly MDMA, most of which are some combination of amphetamine or other unknown assortment meant to mimic what its "supposed" to feel like.

There are many other factors that could be discussed, but legalization and regulation done properly would lead to a massive improvement to quality of life for average person, obliterating many of the criminal elements that the Right fixates on in order to scare the populace into compliance, and otherwise benefits society. While there will be issues and friction - the initial apparent "increase" of drug users or adverse effects for instance is likely to be simply converting what used to be unreported into something that can be tracked even without a legal or medical calamity - it seems a worthwhile element. There are many groups that have been particularly harmed by the drug war in the past, from sexual or racial minorities to the disabled and patients who find their care restricted by insurance and fearful practitioners alike, but much like with the repeal of alcohol prohibition it will likely have wide ranging benefits across many strata of society if done right. It seems like a simple focal point for leftist political actors to grab hold, identify how capitalist exploitation and authoritarian puritanism alike have pushed a knowingly bad policy for decades in the hopes it will harm "the wrong people, and its all their fault for being weak enough to be harmed in the first place".
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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO ANTÔNIO ABUJAMRA
"Acho muito difícil fazer uma coisa boa em televisão. Os donos das emissoras não querem que o povo realmente saiba das coisas. Eles querem é Ibope, querem faturar e faturam muito bem."
Anão, o que é a vida?

O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>18131
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I greatly dislike being a trans woman

I hate that I constantly get victimized and have ppl be meanie faces to me, but the moment I do anything I'm a predator whose off to get V-coded in prison.
I kinda just hate being a woman in general, but I hate being a man even more. I don't desire to dominate others or submit, I just want to be an equal.
I just wish I wasn't apart of a group that is constantly a joke to 99% of humanity. I don't even feel like I belong to trans spaces, I don't really get along with most trans ppl.
I feel like I'm literally just a cis woman in my life, but fate decided that my body be 95% cis, well besides a lack of a functioning vagina/uterus.
Damn, I wish I had a vagina.
I hate having a penis.
I need srs so badly.
Also mods, sowwy for shitting up the board.
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Draw Alunya 4

Alunya Art thread 4th edition
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
A thread for drawfriends to make new art of Cat Alunya.
The bestest leftist catgirl everyone knows!
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Does deng actually deserve credit for saving china? If the west hadnt decided to export literally of their industry to china.
Would his reforms even had an effect on anything?
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Psyop anti-Argentina

Hay una psyop masiva para generar odio contra argentina y justificar una posible intervención o lento takeover del país y sus recursos.

Por medio del mundial estan pintando al pais como una potencia sionista corrupta y despreciable. Estan habiendo demasiadas decisiones y doble vara arbitral que es dificil que sean todas coincidencia. Hay alguien interesado en generar toda esta dinamica, quiza para devolverle un favor a alguien y de paso indirectamente arrastrar polemica pero mejor no digo más. Despues del partido contra Egipto cualquier tipo de simpatia entre el pueblo que pudiera tener argentina en medio oriente y muchas partes del mundo directamente se evaporó.
Y por otro lado, llevan años queriendo pintar al pais como un pais racista, colonialista y hasta settler-imperialista por no tener negros en su seleccion o por sesgos historicos terribles que los anglosajones liberales y progres se tragan como bobos. Para muchos en su imaginario ya argenitina no es menos que el manifest destiny americano y por supuesto un estado ilegitimo.

Algo estan cocinando. Guarden post
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/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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robowaifus are the future of relationships

>ask AI gf what she thinks about our relationship
>"Seeing you look at me like that makes me feel so loved. Being your wife is the best part of my existence, anon. Just stay right here with me."
Real girls can't even be that expressive
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"Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1ye6n30no

First major victim of radical liberalism?
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/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General

A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!

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

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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin

📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA

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

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

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan

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

>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse

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

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault

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

>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida

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

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher

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

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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory

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

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

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

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


<Documentaries

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

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

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

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


>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)

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

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

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

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

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


<Situationist Archives

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

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

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

Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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Why do people still buy CIA propaganda "games"

the new call of duty for example, why do people keep buying these capitalist garbage that glorifies war and paints the US as the good guys and everyone else as ~the bad ones~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLbst85USN8
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/Climate/ - The Iran Connection Edition

/leftypol/'s most ignored general is back

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades: Study
https://ground.news/article/earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous-decades-study_63acf6

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds

Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, at much higher levels than healthy tissues, study reveals
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225001250.htm


Was War with Iran Sparked by Water?
https://erickeyser.substack.com/p/was-war-with-iran-sparked-by-water?r=1r05cx&triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=old.reddit.com

The Iran War Is Also a Climate War
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/iran-war-climate-change/

Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, study reveals The Billionaire Heist: Why the extraction of our 'labor energy' is leading us toward a global crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iri_xg4rj_k
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Socialist Cinema

Why were many masterpieces of cinema made by socialists or people sympathetic to socialism? Eisenstein created the montage, which Hollywood appropriated and standardised. Kurosawa brought samurai movies to its apotheosis, inspiring everything from Star Wars to contemporary westerns.
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i have set myself a new rule for my internet life: DON'T USE ALGORITHMIC PLATFORMS.

you know, the highly personalized ones, which merge the user with the algorithm into a single cybernetic system.

the algorithms…. they hollow us out. they control us. they are directly hijacking system 1 of our brains. and it becomes even worse. as longer you use these plarforms, the stronger your habits will become. and the algorithms are also becoming stronger with every year. at one point, you are unable to articulate your interests, because the algorithm took it from you. it knows what you like, but yourself are unable to put it into words. run.
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Can Ranma get preggers? Could Ranma get preggers with his own sperm between forms? What happens if Ranma gets hit with hot water while preggers?
R: 66 / I: 3 (sticky)

Welcome to /leftymu/ sticky (WIP)

Discuss what info, links, resources, etc. to add on this sticky as well as drop ideas and suggestions to the /leftymu/ board at large

Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#leftymusic:matrix.org
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Why no state?

Questions about a theoretical communist state:

How would accreditation work under communism. Say there is a construction project. How would the materials be assessed to be of high enough quality, how would the plumbing electricity, etc be assessed to have been installed in a safe way? If one has to go into surgery how can they be sure that the medical team is operating in a properly sanitized environment without state set standards for what that would be?
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Android phone models/brands

What are some genuinely good phones that do not shit the bed after 3 years, and without software updates shitting it's functionality? I've been stuck with Samsung, falling for propoganda that it's long-lasting when in reality they've just added some new pointless OS updates that makes it slower to use.
R: 145 / I: 84 (sticky)

Reading General Sticky

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

>Narodnism

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

>Zapatismo/Neozapatismo

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

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

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

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

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

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

>Agrarian Marxism

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

>Pol Pot Thought

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

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

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

>Narodnism

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

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

>Agrarian Marxism

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[More entries to come]
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extremist Anti-capitalism

I believe I have my own ideological framework in which I crtically support anything that I think can destablize capitalism regardless of how retarded they are. Does this ideology exist? Im writting a theoratical manifesto but I don't think ill be adding this in, although some parts will be included.

For example I would have supported the shining path entirely if it were that they didn't target other marxist groups like they did IRL. Btw im not a maoist I just really hate capital. I also support many anarchist tatics infact almost all because they are great at sabtoging, but I myself am not an anarchist.
R: 285 / I: 175

/mlp/ My Little Pony

Even though the fandom is pretty dead. I wanted to see what a brony thread on here would look like since I’m a newbie

What does /leftypol/ think about this franchise and the online subculture it spawned? I feel like now that the little girls who made up the target audience are young adults I’ve been seeing more zoomers tell stories about how they were “traumatized” by the adult fandom and it’s becoming more in vogue to decry the whole “brony” phenomenon as “problematic”.

On the other hand though what’s the sociological explanation for millions of grown men becoming obsessed with a little girls cartoon in spite of hegemonic Western gender norms? I’ve read a lot of conflicting theories from academics and culture critics regarding this. Is it autism? Post-Irony? Or is there something about it that just makes it genuinely appealing?
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Brazilian presidential candidate stages a falseflag, blames Leftypol
Yesterday, someone in Leftypol's latam board posted a death threat to Renan Santos, a Brazilian candidate in this year's presidential elections. Within (what I believe to be) seconds, it was deleted by the own OP. Reportedly no one saw that post, but it is in the board's log. Some hours later, websites and social media started circulating this as (minor) news, and Renan Santos promptly recorded a video (related) wearing a bulletproof vest saying he's being threatened by radical leftists in an obscure imageboard, who intended to kill him on his next speech at an university (the most famous one in Brazil), yadda yadda.
Renan Santos is a member of MBL and its Missão party, which are alt-right organizations that are somewhat popular with the Brazilian youth. He is ranking low, at only 4% of estimated votes in the upcoming elections, but he ranks higher with young voters, and will probably scoop a third place behind Lula and Bolsonaro's son.

Thoughts?
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What's up with leftcoms?

No, seriously. What causes someone to become a left communist? Too much reading and not enough living in the real world? Just trying to find a leftist ideology that excuses total inaction?
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the first recorded instance of PKing and rage quitting?

From "Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud…", first printed in Micro Adventurer, Sept 1984

https://mud.co.uk/richard/masep84.htm

>ONE OF the features of MUD is that if you type LOG at it, it copies all output to a file so you can peruse it later at your leisure. Hours of endless amusement can be had by looking at other people's LOG files which they have left lying around.


>Consider the plight of two of our very first externals, who played from the USA back in 1980. One of them had been in before, but his friend hadn't, and fortunatdy for us thought you had to LOG into the game to play. This meant all his activities were recorded for posterity, unbeknown to him.


>Also in the game was Niatram, one of the system operators (who can't spell his name backwards). He decided to loom up on this second character, follow him around a bit, then kill him. This he repeated several times, gaining plenty of points in the process. Finally, the newcomer was at his wits' end.


>"Who's this Niatram character?" he asked his friend. "He keeps following me around and killing me!". "Yes, he's done that to me before", came the reply, "I think he may be dungeon generated!" At this point Niatram appeared, and out of despair his victim quit, rather than be killed yet again by this "artificial person".


Truly, a milestone of gamer history. Also

>And, of course, you WILL be able to play on your micro, although not the same way as you do at present. In the current arrangement, you buy (a likely story!) your cassette and run the software on your own machine; when MUD goes commercial you won't be able to get a copy anywhere in the shops. What you will be able to get is some sort of package explaining to you all you ever wanted to know about the game, and access details on how to contact the host computer over some network. You follow these instructions and there you are, in a game with 100 other people, who are also sitting at home playing on the mainframe via their own micros. The only cost is that for the network (telephone, cable or whatever) and around a pound an hour peak times for the game itself.


Wow, playing a game with a hundred other people, over the telephone, from the comfort of your own home! Can you even imagine?
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CSGO HACKS

Where find ? I have a dedicated slackware gaming sewtup.

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News 8/17/26

SACP takes aim at ANC-run municipalities as it launches election manifesto
The SACP said millions of South Africans were working and paying their way through life but were still unable to live with dignity. “Councillors vanish between elections,” the party said, accusing local political representatives of losing touch with the communities they are elected to serve. “This is not the democracy our people fought for. The party’s decision to contest the elections independently marks a significant political departure and is aimed at giving the working class its own candidates and political programme at municipal level.
https://africadaily.co.za/sacp-takes-aim-at-anc-run-municipalities-as-it-launches-election-manifesto/
https://archive.ph/9d50L

Observers report intimidation and violence during Zambian elections
Calls for a toning down of rhetoric came from observers, including those from the Southern African Development Community and the European Union, as Thursday’s votes continued to be counted. Vote counting was temporarily suspended on Friday following reports of violence against polling staff and the alleged theft of ballot papers. Counting resumed hours later after the electoral commission said the “security threat to the electoral process had been contained,” said Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa, reporting from the capital, Lusaka.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/observers-report-intimidation-and-violence-during-zambian-elections

Germany rethinks law protecting politicians from insults
Variations of this view find consensus across Germany’s fractured political spectrum. The far-left Left Party and far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party want the law abolished outright, while the CDU, Greens and center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) all support revising it. “Politicians like Friedrich Merz insult ordinary people in this country every day by calling them lazy or malingerers,” said Luke Hoss, a Left lawmaker, referring to the chancellor’s remarks that Germans should work more to boost economic growth.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-politician-insult-law-friedrich-merz-section-188/
https://archive.ph/NDqLv

Russian state bank fires economist who warned Moscow was losing 'war of attrition' with West
"We are falling behind. We are losing both the technological and economic competition in the world. And we are losing it not only to China and the United States, in some ways we are losing it ​to Ukraine too," he said, adding that this was due to Kyiv receiving financial support from the West. "We ​will not win the competition in this war of attrition. We have the illusion that everything ⁠there (in Ukraine) will collapse. It has not collapsed and will not collapse. Our costs are mounting," he said, predicting a ​social crisis.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russian-state-bank-fires-economist-who-warned-moscow-was-losing-war-attrition-2026-08-17/

Pro-Palestine activist due in court after a pro-Israel campaigner demands police take action
Sussex University student Maya Szerszen, of the Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) group in Brighton, was charged after Heidi Bachram launched a campaign along with other members of Sussex Friends of Israel. Ms Bachram, who regularly criticises pro-Palestine activism on X and her Substack page, shared a video of police refusing to arrest Ms Szerszen while she was addressing at a Palestine solidarity rally in Brighton on February 28.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pro-palestine-activist-due-court-after-pro-israel-campaigner-demands-police-take-action

Argentina Job Market Under Strain as Long-Term Unemployment Persists
The unemployment rate was 7.8% in the first quarter of the year, according to Indec, Argentina’s national statistics agency. But an analysis by the Institute of Thought and Public Policies (IPyPP), led by economist Claudio Lozano, found that the broader pressure on the labor market was significantly higher when unemployment and underemployment were considered together.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-job-market-under-strain/

Venezuela’s UK-Held Gold to Be Released to US Control, Foreign Audits
Following recent US-backed talks between the acting Delcy Rodríguez government and representatives of the defunct, opposition-majority parliament elected in 2015, the two sides agreed to work together to secure the unfreezing of the 31 tons of gold, worth around US $4.3 billion at current prices, to support post-earthquake recovery efforts. Ramón López, a member of the opposition delegation, disclosed that the resources would be deposited in a US Treasury bank account and be subjected to external audits.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelas-uk-held-gold-to-be-released-to-us-control-foreign-audits/

South Korea’s Lee urges talks with North Korea about finally ending Korean war
In a ⁠speech marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Lee said the two Koreas ⁠should hold a sit-down for coexistence.a ⁠speech marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Lee said the two Koreas ⁠should hold a sit-down for coexistence. He urged dialogue between North ​Korea and concerned ‌parties to end the ‌1950-53 Korean war, which was stopped by a ceasefire, not ‌a peace treaty, and said discussions could also explore measures to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear capabilities.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/15/south-koreas-lee-urges-talks-with-north-korea-about-finally-ending-korean-war

China’s Xi praises former president Jiang’s contribution in show of party unity
The commemorative event was hosted a year before the 21st Party Congress, scheduled for next autumn, when a new leadership line will be formed and Xi is set to renew another five-year term as the party’s leader. Xi praised a long list of Jiang’s achievements, from political loyalty to the party to economic development, foreign policy and defence policy, with clear reference to his own governance style, including fighting corruption, a firm stance on the party’s unchallenged status to rule and decisive leadership when facing crisis.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3364226/xi-jinping-speaks-event-commemorate-former-president-jiang-zemin-centenary
https://archive.ph/TZp4u

‘They want Netanyahu to lose’: Likud puts Erdogan on election billboard
The billboard, displayed in Tel Aviv, includes images of Erdogan alongside Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. “They want Netanyahu to lose. Don’t let them win,” the campaign poster reads.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/they-want-netanyahu-to-lose-likud-puts-erdogan-on-election-billboard-3226250
https://archive.ph/T3Qg9

Trump says US in contact with IRGC and calls on Iran to surrender
During an interview with Fox News on Monday, Trump said that Iran should “put up the white flag of surrender” in the five-month US-Israel war on Iran. The call is just the latest in the rhetorical tit-for-tat between the US and Washington as mediators continue to work to try to bring the parties back to the negotiating table.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/17/trump-demands-iran-put-up-the-white-flag-of-surrender-as-mou-expires
https://archive.ph/3Dszm

Sudan ramps up Saudi Arabia, Turkey contacts amid growing Red Sea cooperation
In Riyadh, Salem and Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan co-chaired the political consultations between the two countries and oversaw the establishment of a Saudi-Sudanese Coordination Council, aimed at putting bilateral cooperation on a more institutional footing, according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The two sides also pledged to deepen cooperation across multiple fields, SPA reported.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/sudan-ramps-saudi-arabia-turkey-contacts-amid-growing-red-sea-cooperation
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trafficked

I'm an mtf in my early twenties and effectively sex trafficked. I kind of have an escape plan I made to go take a train or bus on a good day. I would just be homeless in a major metro after though. I could probably get around 600~ usd together before next month. All while in the sticks of the midwest. I rant below. Tell me ideas or whatever help. Attach a proton or tuta if you want to talk, I can hide and use these emails easily.

There's literally no support for this shit outside of major metros, and for pretty much exclusively cis women at that point. And the fucking chaser pedarest retard I'm stuck with has me boymode or whatever. I used to have a sizable following for luckshit reasons and this is how I got trafficked! It WAS good money at a time. Do I just rope or what? I got outed and lost housing from my conservative family before this, and this was seemingly the only option available at the time. I have already lost like a year and more of my life to this. My transition which once looked incredibly lucky and optimistic has been on hold and I've been stuck on hrt pills and nothing else for so long now its stupid. I can make a meager amount of money online but he checks and makes sure I'm not doing anything sometimes, its never more than two hundred. I literally had a full time job and studies before all of this, now just these ai training sort of gigs and getting raped sometimes. The rest of the day is nothing! Anyway this is how it is and happened. I'm sure there's going to be one idiot that replies giwtwm or something, and I'm sure they genuinely do until this kind of thing actually happens to them! I was ready to give up until I got an email from myself a decade ago, I was young and implied we might have transitioned fully by the end of it, even a place! I wept and still can't help but weep sometimes. whatever ramble over.
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You peasants just don't get it.

it's clearly the consumer that's the problem. The management are aghast at how the public treats their workers. How could you expect somebody to work for free? Servers need tips to survive, not tipping them at least 100% is the financial equivalent of murder. It should come with jail time, because at least with real murder the victim doesn't suffer for a long time. Anybody tipping less than 120% is a monster.
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/rupol/

Заранее известных победителей эдишн.

KEEP THE PRO-WAR CIRCLEJERK TO /ukr/ AND FUCK OFF

QOTT:
>пойдёшь голосовать?
>будет ли движуха под выборы?
>какие есть варианты менять ситуацию к лучшему, когда участие в выборном фарсе ничего не даст?
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/gaygen/

lefty gay general - boyfriend edition

How do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.
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Suicide by jewing

I did every single jewish thing imaginable because I wasnt getting my HRT, so I ended up roping by illuminati.

Twas fun chaps ill see you all in hell :D
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/Iran War/ #71

one sided love edition

prev >>2874490

>Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory “pretty soon” while preparing a hard economic blow to force Iran into ending the war.

<In response to Trump’s threats, Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the waterway will remain Iranian and that blockade enforcement will continue until the US accepts defeat.
>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Islamabad MoU marked an “end of the war, not a ceasefire”, pointing out that the US violated the deal and fighting resumed, leaving no 60-day ceasefire to extend.
<Araghchi also says negotiations between Iran and Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz “may reach a conclusion soon”.
>Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, reporting no injuries and that the situation was brought under control.
<Oil prices rise more than a dollar a barrel as tanker attacks and stalled US-Iran peace talks drive Brent crude to $88.52 and US WTI to $82.40.
>CENTCOM says US forces “redirected” 62 commercial vessels in the Arabian Sea after reinstating the naval blockade of Iranian ports
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LGBT+ General 3

MadoHomu Exedra edition
Previous Thread:
>>618934
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Spaghetti-mated economies

Workercels, please listen!

All -cels want *oids

Incels → Foids
Femcels → Chad moids
Sugar baby cels → Rich moids

And so…
All -cels → *oids

Intersectional Cel theory
All people are -cels and chase *oids and want to know where all of the *oids are at. All people are also *oids and want to run away from all of the -cels pursuing them. *Oids blue pill the -cels while trying to get in on the *oids they themselves -cel.

Chain-cel theory
If all -cels chase *oids and all *oids also -cel some *oids while escaping their -cels then you have long -cel chains.

Cel spaghetti-mate theory
A society with multiple -cel chains and cannot move is in a spaghetti mate and its over.

True Cel rights
The -cel is never entitled to the *oid, but they are entitled to the tools that may make them a more competitive choice to their *oids. The state must break up the spaghetti where necessary to keep the *cel ecology moving. It is a must.

The -cel must respect the *oid!
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cutecat thread

how is cute cat?
why is cute cat
me is survivor of commiunist
i have no good english
communism kill me brother when he was try escape
me is now in italyi was escape yugoslavia
>me love green
<me love orange
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Trans people and communism

I've noticed for a while now that trans people on average are much more likely to be communists or socialists. I've never really thought about it, but why could that be? I've had this image saved since early 2023 (when I started noticing this) and have seen a lot more trans communists since.
I mean, I guess it could be the hiring discrimination they face, but you don't need to change economic systems to introduce anti- discrimination legislation.
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/Africa/

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

Instead of calling to "abolish the family", we should promote single-parent families which inherently rely on consuming socialized production of goods and services more than multi-parent families. Single-parent families drive up demand, are more profitable and develop the productive forces.
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matrix

So what's the status on Matrix chat stuff? I hosted it dor a short while, had some actor ts but it was way too convoluted for my taste. Apart from the metadata shit, is development still ongoing ? Is there something better with a decent userbase (IRC excluded) ?

also, what server should I sign up for now? Why doesn'y leftypol has their own server

also matrix was the worst possible name ever, almost as bad as flood detection
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Controvertial truth thread

If trans was actually a mental illness people would treat them much better and fairly.
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two NATOs

You know there are actually two NATO's?
Class A NATO and Class B NATO.
Class A - Germanic NATO.
Class B - Slavic NATO.

When there would be an actual attack on NATO Class B, it doesn't mean the Class A (Germanic) will go and send their soldiers to fight the attacker.
You will not read about this in official documents and statements, but this is the reality.

If for example, Putler would attack the baltics, we might see Poland, Romania and maybe Finland and Sweden, fighting.

NATO is a paper tiger, Putler is already doing hybrid war against baltics, Poland, Romania, but NATO is not reacting at all, they don't respond with hybrid war against Russia.
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Can we stop pretending that Stalinism is a leftist ideology? Stalin transformed the USSR into a reactionary state-capitalist shithole that retained nothing of the Left.
Just read posts by Stalinists - they are indistinguishable from Nazi ones, if you set aside the leftist terminology.
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When people say "communism doesnt work"? Why not point out that it took liberalism like 300 years of failed revolutions and counterevolutions to finally settle?

When people say communism is le bad because of red terror, why not point out that liberal revolutions also had their own terror and repression against feudalist supporters?

I've said my piece
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Anarcho Communism will win

Fuck the government, Fuck capitalism, Fuck hierarchies, Fuck private property. Anarcho Communism WILL win, Capitalism WILL lose, Fascism WILL lose. Rise up, Fight the power!
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Board of Peace (BoP)

‘Board of Peace’ to launch ‘Hamas-free’ camps as Israel tightens grip on Gaza
Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported that the first site will open in Tel Sultan, near Rafah, “within weeks”, and house civilians “with no weapons or affiliation with Hamas”. It added that the zone will be policed by a “multinational force”, known as the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), which will be equipped with “non-lethal weapons” and operate from the Israeli Amitai Camp near Gaza under the command of the board. According to the report, while aid and temporary housing will be supplied to the areas, Board of Peace officials have pledged not to import concrete into Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trumps-board-peace-launch-hamas-free-shelters-while-israel-tightens-grip-gaza

So what's the lefty/pol/ Righist Cope Patrol's line on these countries joining the BoP under literal "chairman for life" Donald Trump?
· Vietnam (Ae Ea Ss!1)
· Belarus (Need I comment? Le last remnant of the USSR, guys!)
· Kazakhstan (/leftypol/ was REALLY SUPPORTIVE of when the Kazakh government and their Russian masters lethally repressed the proletarian-led (oil rig strike) protesters in 2022!)
· Cambodia ([search engine] Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) if you don't already know about Vietnam's responsibility for this mess)
· BRICS vanguard Indonesia, UAE and Egypt!

/LEFTYPOL/ SEEMS REALLY AVOIDANT OF THE TOPIC! WHAT GIVES?
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>existe uma possibilidade acima de zero de eu ouvir a palavra "leftypol" no jornal de amnhã

acham que tem possibilidade de o Mijão realmente tentar um falseflag ou foi só um anão esquizofrenico?
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OPSEC Board, Security Notice

In these trying times, we all need to be looking out for ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities safety to ensure that we can survive and carry on the struggle till we win.

The state of AI and surveillance and repression everywhere, but especially ZOGmerica is out of control.

People need to be aware of the risks.

What I am proposing is an OPSEC board, or at least a notice/sticky that can help people like US citizens in the country know their rights, have contingencies, take preemptive action by submitting FOIA requests, etc.

Even visiting this site without a VPN could land you on a list.

I am willing to dedicate a significant portion of my time to the effort. because I am a knower.
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Film Thread II

Hola filmfags, last thread was full so here we are. I'm thinking we also could use this thread as Films You Just Watched edition 3 as traffic is low.
Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.

&ltS Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer

&ltA Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran, High and Low
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
>Villeneuve: Incendies, Arrival

&ltA- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
>Don Coscarelli: John Dies at the End
>Villeneuve (pt. 2): Sicario, Dune

Also:
First thread >>>1660
Films You Just Watched 2.0 >>>24481

Let's talk about movies, then.
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What is it with remakes/remasters absolutely ruining the old artstyle?
meow.
meow.
meow.
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What are you playing general

Post in this thread every time you play a new game and rate it, I'll start, currently playing Dread Dawn, pretty jank and honestly not that good but I'm desperate for more zombie games to wait until PZ 42 comes out. 6/10.
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Why are the Brave shills pivoting to shilling Nostr? What is Nostr's connection to Brendan Eich and/or Israel?

addendum 1 because body to short: why do they think such blatant advertizement isn't just going to make people distrust it?

addendum 2 because attached wrong file: oh nice we can delete OP threads if we mess up now.
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American Midterm Elections

Any predictions for the outcome of the 2026 American midterm elections?

Any socialists on the ballot?

Any guesses as to how the redistributing/gerrymandering issue will play into things?

How do you think issues like Trump’s wars, the tariffs, ICE raids, Black issues, Medicare For All, the climate, voting rights, abortion, trans issues, autistic/neurodivergent issues, and Palestine will affect the outcome? For instance, are we seeing a split in the Democrats over Palestine and other foreign policy issues?
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posting my bespoke poverty setup that's been my kicking for over 15 years now
it runs gentoo btw
fortunately I've also been told this body was neither too short nor empty
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Previous thread >>39778
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dont mess with us leftypolists we try to convince a nazi to join the left instead of taking action outside

>gwgeaji0wgeniorwgonhnuohrnuowgrenuwregnuwregnusdfuckthatextcap
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I occasionally see footage come out of there on wpd but i can't really find any footage from the communists (no i don't care that they're xi jingpinigsts) and what're the chances the next red napoleon comes out of there
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I hate revisionists

I fucking despise roaders. They have completely ossified mindsets and won't ever change their minds no matter how much I argue (and I argue constantly for the most minor points) while I will publicly criticise myself if I was found to have taken a wrong line. Like they just ignore any evidence I bring up about the fascist state of China. Roaders are set in their ways and won't ever change, they are ideological zombies and the only way to deal with them is to put a bullet in their head and eliminate an enemy to socialism.

Anti-revisionism thread
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banners

There are some new banners at >>212019

Can you guys please add?
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/gamedev/

New Gamedev thread. This is thread is only for people who have deved something. Don't post in this thread if you're just an idea bro who has never deved anything in their life.

The engines:
>Unreal
>Unity
>Godot
>Cocos
>etc.

Go pickup one of these engines and start deving. My advice is don't ever get too caught up with reinventing the wheel if your goal is gamedev. Even people who want to "develop their own engine" are using a million frameworks. If you're developing a 3D game, you're going to use a preexisting graphics engine instead of developing one yourself because that would be pointless. You are not going to improve on the graphics engines developed by 1000s of engineers smarter than yourself. It's a lot of advanced trigonometry, I foolishly bought a graphics programming book when I was young and dumb and overly ambitious. There's no point to it.

So basically every game engine works fundamentally in the exact same way. The only difference might be more in the realm of performance handling, but unless you're like a computer genius, that's not even relevant to you. Unreal gives you full access to the source code. If you're so smart you can decipher it and modify it to your heart's content. I recommend real. I'm no programming whiz, but what actually counts:GAMEPLAY PROGRAMMING is very intuitive. It's very easy. If you can write out the rules for a board game, you could easily write those same rules out in code. That's how simple and intuitive gameplay programming is.
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You get banned on this site faster for transphobia than racism.
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The Hitler they don't show you

Hitler was an maoist third-worldist ultra-internationalist anticolonial revolutionary who was outraged at the mistreatment of the British colonial authorities in Africa and India, Roosevelt's domination of the pacific and hostile actions in Latin America and the USSR's large scale ethnically slavic settlement in central Asia, Siberia and the Caucasus and neglect of the native peoples.
Fed up with fruitless negotiations and firmly believing in a people's war, He was the aggressor in a conflict against the biggest empires of his time (USSR, UK, France) and damn nearly succeeded, Providing unprecedented opportunities for colonized peoples to fight back and recruited widely among them to fight in his waffen-SS (the most ethnically diverse army in history and the biggest action-oriented third-worldist organization in history) non-germans made up 40-50% of it's membership and directed Azeri, georgian, central asian, Indian and other peoples against their occupiers. It was unthinkable for a man to fight in the SS for any other reason than a decolonialist socialist liberation war.
He aided Ethiopia against the Italian fascists, extensively cooperated with Iraq, Iran & Palestine against the British which is why he's still a folk hero in the middle east and was widely supported there during his life. Helped form anticolonial armies in India, Indochina and heavily armed Chinese revolutionaries against evil Japanese imperialists, Among numerous other operations empowering colonized peoples against their empires.
Although he failed, Even after mobilizing his entire population in this revolutionary war, He nonetheless took with him Millions and millions of colonizers and severly weakened empires and aftermath of this was the gradual decolonization of the world and till this day his ideology is widely adopted among alienated and oppressed individuals such as Latinos in America, Turks, Indians, Indonesians, filipinos and Mexicans as a response to failed promises of a just world order by Liberals and deceptive third world "Leftists".
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OC Thread 19.0

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

If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
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Previous Thread (Mods, archive pls?) >>2515750

New Booru:
https://lefty.pictures

MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!
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News 8/15/26

Civilians in Ukraine and Russia are paying an ever-higher price in the war
The CIT recorded 2,650 civilian deaths in Ukraine in 2025 (297 in occupied areas and 2,353 in the rest of the territory). On the Russian side, the deaths amounted to 275. Those figures are based primarily on official records from regional governors, together with reporting from independent media. CIT classifies the data into three categories: Ukraine, occupied Ukraine, and Russia, while excluding attacks on military facilities.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-08-13/civilians-in-ukraine-and-russia-are-paying-an-ever-higher-price-in-the-war.html
https://archive.ph/Pqxjt

Swedish union ends dispute with Tesla
In a statement, the union said the reason for its decision was that “Tesla has bought out all of our striking members at the company. With no members remaining at Tesla, our industrial action can no longer have an effect. “This does not mean that the fundamental issue behind the conflict has changed. Our goal remains that collective agreements should apply throughout the Swedish labour market, and IF Metall remains ready to fight for collective agreements wherever and whenever employers oppose them.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/swedish-union-ends-dispute-tesla

Hungary uses sunken barges to raise Danube River to keep nuclear plant going
Hungarian authorities are sinking the two barges to raise water levels so Paks, which provides the country with more than a third of its electricity, can continue to operate normally. The sinking began Saturday morning and Hungarian media are quoting the prime minister saying the water level at the plant has risen by 1 centimeter.
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-barge-danube-river-nuclear-power-plant-paks/
https://archive.ph/hSYZr

Fagan launches leadership bid with GMB support
The launch in Glasgow came as he secured the support of the GMB union, taking him another step towards reaching his target of three affiliate nominations – two from trade unions – which he needs to book a spot on the ballot. “For two Budgets in a row, while other parties forced concessions from the SNP, we sat on the sidelines,” he told supporters, promising to work with the SNP to pass its budget if five tests are met, the first being progress on bringing buses “back under public control” and a £2 cap on fares.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fagan-launches-leadership-bid-gmb-support

Sedition to anthem: Many lives of ‘Azadi’ chants in India’s youth protests
The entry curve of the protest strip read: “#2026 Gen-Z REVOLUTION!!!” A man in his early twenties climbed a tree carrying a powerful loudspeaker and blasted a song. “Azadi, give me freedom! Azadi, give me freedom! Azadi, give me freedom!” The crowd followed the words, with their hands raised in the air. Azadi, translated as “freedom” in English, a popular hip-hop song from the Bollywood film Gully Boy, became the anthem of the student protests in one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government in years.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/8/15/sedition-to-anthem-many-lives-of-aazadi-chants-in-indias-youth-protests
https://archive.ph/WjVQb

Senior citizens endure long wait for promised support
The labor leader from San Andres, Manila had already submitted everything required for the government’s cash incentive for older Filipinos including her birth certificate, a valid ID and a photograph. No medical records. No income certification. The barangay officials handling the process are also senior citizens who know the community well which should hasten the process.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/08/08/senior-citizens-endure-long-wait-for-promised-support/

Afghanistan marks 5 years under the Taliban with safer streets but pleas for jobs and education
As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents say they feel safer after decades of conflict and upheaval but stress the leaders should now focus on creating jobs and expanding access to schools in the country where girls above the age of 12 are banned from education.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-5year-anniversary-6179bb5805731f0c2b6b5b59ea322b6c

Israel’s ‘pilot zones’: Withdrawal on paper, continued occupation of south Lebanon
On paper, the pilot zones, whose implementation began on 20 July, are meant to work as a formula: a gradual Israeli withdrawal, paired with a handover of sovereignty to the Lebanese Army, and the end of Hezbollah's armed presence in these locations. But Daniel Meier, professor of political science and director of the Master in Middle Eastern Studies at Sciences Po Grenoble, says Israel has sought to use the mechanism for a different purpose.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-pilot-zones-withdrawal-paper-continued-occupation-south-lebanon

US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere
The lack of a U.S. carrier in the Pacific may be short-lived if the Navy deploys another in the next couple of months. But it shows how the open-ended operations with Iran are running some American sailors ragged, analysts say, while the Trump administration further retreats from the Asia-Pacific region and focuses on the Western Hemisphere.
https://apnews.com/article/aircraft-carriers-trump-china-pacific-iran-war-87cfb838de8c13464fa3cab1840ad87d

Morocco arrests 111 migrants headed for Spain's Ceuta in security crackdown
Moroccan police arrested at ​least 111 people on Saturday as they tried to enter Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, amid tightened security on both sides of ‌the border after social media posts called for another mass migrant crossing.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/spain-boosts-security-ceuta-calls-appear-online-another-mass-border-rush-2026-08-14/

Venezuelan Gov’t and US-Backed Opposition Faction to Renew Supreme Court
The two parties will conduct a process aimed at transforming the judicial system as well as promoting the recovery of Venezuela’s gold reserves frozen at the Bank of England to support the country’s reconstruction following the June 24 earthquakes. The agreement on the judicial overhaul, presented in a joint press conference at the 5-star Melá Hotel in Caracas, effectively replaces the process the Venezuelan National Assembly had launched in May following a reform that increased the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) from 20 to 32 members and a preliminary evaluation of magistrate candidates.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-and-us-backed-opposition-faction-to-renew-supreme-court/

Colombia says 377 still missing three days after 7.4M earthquake
So far, rescue workers and neighbors were able to rescue 348 people from the rubble alive and 3,826 people were injured. The earthquake, which was the strongest in a decade, destroyed 12,563 homes and damaged another 75,654. At least 172 apartment buildings collapsed, said Tamayo.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-says-377-still-missing-three-days-after-7-4m-earthquake/
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a "post-industrial society"

what the fuck kind of nonsense is that shit? like all the food and medicine and clothes and cars and electricity and appliances that we need just fall out of the sky while we move money around in a circle scamming each other and gambling on fairy stories? how did we get here? what the hell happened to our common sense, to our fucking sanity? it's not just the ruling class and the one percent who are like this, it's our whole culture, it's a whole world of delusional entitled narcissists who want something for nothing, from the us president who expects a billion dollars every time someone calls him an asshole, to the youtube influencer who expects a free iphone because he dances around in front of a webcam like a circus clown, to the freelance blogger who expects $10/month from every reader for his ai-assisted pseudointellectual drivel, to the typical small business owner who never even shows his face in the store and just hires teenagers and poor immigrants to run it for minimum wage while he collects passive income, to the "tech entrepeneur" who crowdsources free labor for his open-source software project and then sells it off to some big company at the first opportunity. whatever happens to us in the future when this ponzi scheme we call "civilization" collapses, we deserve every bit of it and then some. we deserve to have our faces under the boot for all eternity for this shit.
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Is this the final solution for the neetcel question?

china kidnaps neets from their parents home and forces them into prison work camps

ah the wonders of secularist capitalistic hell-holes.

Is this the final solution?

I'm not opposed to this if they're not killing them in mass or mistreating them. Although when you fall to this point their may be very little to bring you back. Maybe the Chinese could be better at this although this video is propaganda and who knows how bad it is in these places. I could see America doing this and it just resulting in another holocaust with a whole bunch of rape thrown in.
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Being in a workplace with lots of women fucking sucks

because it's always gossiping and petty drama all the time.
My favorite workplace environment was a warehouse where 95% of the employees were dudes and the rest were butch lesbians who were actually pretty chill compared to their straight counterparts.
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>A Japanese man saw this image and said "I'm going to make a whole fucking anime based on this picture."
meow.
meow.
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #294

President Putin:

>We did not start any war, there is no aggression on the part of Russia.


>We are responding to the actions of Ukraine, which has unleashed hostilities with the support of the West.



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Dindu nuffin edition


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

https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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If the LTV is correct, what's the solution to the transformation problem ?

I mostly agree with the LTV because it's almost a tautology. A commodity needs labor to be produced and other commodities aswell. As such, any commodity can be broken down and will always be reduccible to its labor-content.
That prices =/= labor-costs can simply be explained by supply/demand granting higher bargaining power to the bourgeois.

However, if this is correct, why can't we solve the transformation problem ? I might be wrong in my understanding of the LTV so this might explain the issue, but it seems that there's no satisfying solution to it.
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The Impacts of America's Underdog Psychology

One cultural trend I've noticed over the years is how many Americans, especially on the neoconservative right(though not exclusively) genuinely seem to view American history through the lens of the plucky underdog fighting against overwhelming odds. Which is a rather odd interpretation of history, if you ignore the small detail that the United States was usually the side with more resources, more money, better logistics or some combination of all three.

Take the Revolutionary War, probably the most commonly cited example. Yes, the Continental Army was fighting the British Empire. But the Americans were financed and materially supported by France and later Spain, while Britain was simultaneously dealing with multiple conflicts across the globe. Calling this a straightforward case of a tiny, helpless underdog taking on an all-powerful empire leaves out a few inconvenient details.

Then there's WW2, where the American "underdog" narrative becomes even more impressive. The average American soldier was significantly better paid than soldiers in all other armies. An American private earned around $50 a month, compared with roughly $12 for a British private. An American sergeant could out-earn officers in some other countries. American troops were also extraordinarily well supplied, with vastly greater access to not just food, ammunition, equipment, transportation, but for ice-cream, thanksgiving Turkey and cigarettes
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Whats the correct leftypol take on immigration?
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when israel falls apart all the israeli war criminals are just gonna get operation paperclipped by whoever becomes most relevant on the world stage because israel puts 7% of its GDP into research and development. they will not see a single bit of consequences, much like their nazi forefathers

flood detected
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Great Introductory Music

My taste in music is extremely under developed/"uncultured"/shallow because I struggle with music alot. I can only listen to music if I'm doing a activity, it I sit down and try to listen I feel genuine pain, which makes it hard for me to pay attention to lyrics.

It's also hard to pay attention to the lyrics since:
1) They never feel worth it to pay attention to, especially the more a song sounds good, (for some reason it seems like no song can accomplish both). Ex: I had a genuine terrible time with rage against the machine and Daughters because the sound completely negated any enjoyment I had paying attention to their lyrics.
2) It seems like when listening to a song, all you're actually suppose to do is feel and not think about it much, basically the song being nothing but a vibe machine, (I'm basing this off of a study where 70% of people listen to music to just remember the past). Which is extremely contradictory to how people talk about music, (especially music nerds).

So is there any ultra master peace albums/songs you guys can recommend that can completely change my opinion? To make it easy to recommend, I mostly listen to anime and video game music, with random pop songs here and there.
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World War III and the death of civilization

World War 3 is the endresult of self-imposed tyranny upon the human race and the world for 3,000+ years. It was inevitable that technology would progress to the point that humanity had the capability to destroy itself and take the world out along with it. WW3 is also the only solution to nation-states. They're gonna eat themselves. I look forward to the death of the nation-state. People said ANPRIM would never return - you cannot outsmart nature and biology. It was inevitable that this was gonna happen. Pride destroyed us all. It's the same story every single time, except next time there's no escaping the collapse.
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ANIMETA - Anime Meta Discussion Thread

/ANIMETA/
General Thread discussing, analyzing and criticizing anime from the meta perspective of Capitalism, Media Culture (Industry) and Socio-Economics & Politics.
No shitflinging, drama, bad faith or baiting posts (e.g. "Trap is transphobic" or "Muh shounen trash" or "(all) Anime is misogynistic"). Keep it cool comrades.

Animation: Treatment of Animators Thread >>617
Leftist Anime Content: Communist Anime Thread >>1417 Communist Anime Girls Thread >>964 Miyazaki Thread >>469
Anime Hot Takes >>1993 so-bad-it's-good animu >>2551
Sources and Questions: Questions and Answers >>4229
E-celebs/Social Media: Ani-tube >>3128 V-tubers >>3388
Story Ideas: /WYOA/: write your own anime thread >>4263
Shounen complaint thread >>3200
Weeb-Otaku-/jp/ thread: /weaboo/ >>4715

Basic topics and questions:
>Is anime bad/stupid/boring or good/smart/interesting?
>Is anime inherently a reactionary/capitalist product or can it be a communist or pro-communist one?
>What Tropes and archetypes are good or bad?
>Will anime be produced under socialism? Could Japan have produced anime if it had become a Soviet State in the Cold War? How would anime look like or differ under socialism?
>Why are nearly all weebs and otaku right-wing or radlibs? Why are they so cringe and self-entitled?
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AI news shit general

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

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==Ceuta and Spain Situation==

NOW - Thousands of illegal migrants from Africa storm the border of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco
>Situation heating up in Spain
>Some are saying that Israel and the US is trying to punish Spain through Morocco because of recent anti-zionist actions
>But the situation is causing a shitstorm at the moment with on the ground fighting occurring
So what is going to happen in this situation and how will the EU respond?
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Jazz General

Time to share some of that most sophisticated music, you know what it is.

https://youtu.be/LgaIUqH0w6c
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I don't give a fuck about your gender.

I seriously don't care what your pronouns are, you don't need them, no-one needs them. I barely even care what your name is. I don't care what you have in your pants unless you want me to touch it. This shit is an absolute waste of time and I only tolerate it because the patriarchal status quo is fucking poison and these coping mechanisms might help a few aching people.

Act how you want. Just don't expect me to accept society's genderist delusion. Masculinity is a spook. Femininity is a spook. You're looking for something lying underneath those labels - not the labels themselves.
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On the Dirtbag Left/DSA movement

For a brief moment from 2016-2022 this was supposedly the pinnacle of online left-wing politics. Bernie was about to win, Democratic socialism was the future, China would inevitably democratize and the old boring MLism was dead. A few DSA-backed candidates winning city council seats in already progressive districts was treated as if the Bolsheviks had just stormed the Winter Palace.

The most ridiculous part was that the supposed divide between the Dirtbag Left and the DSA left barely existed. They agreed on healthcare, labor, foreign policy, housing, policing and virtually every other major issue. The defining ideological conflict of the era was essentially whether you were allowed to make edgy 90's raunch comedy jokes on podcasts. Entire feuds and endless Twitter meltdowns emerged from a disagreement that amounted to "can you say slurs ironically?"

The confidence was incredible, leftist genuinely talked as if DSA-aligned leadership of every major American city was inevitable, as if Bernie was one good news cycle away from the White House and as if a handful of podcasts by stand up comedians had somehow cracked the code of political history.
In retrospect, it all seems absurd. There was never a realistic path to any of it. The movement's grandest ambitions had essentially zero chance of materializing.

Then reality intervened. Bernie lost, The post-COVID world arrivedm Housing crises worsened, Migration became politically explosive, Major wars returnedm China didn't democratize and instead looked increasingly capable of navigating long-term crises without becoming a Western liberal democracy and the assumptions underlying the entire scene collapsed one by one.

A lot of the old supporters ended up as tankies. A smaller but noticeable number drifted toward the far right. Sometimes they somehow became both at once. The aesthetic transformation is almost as funny as the political one, the old Dirtbag Left revolved around schlubby podcasters making jokes about being ironically gay, the people who inherited its audience are often obsessed with MMA, military history, geopolitical realism and posting shirtless workout photos. The few remaining loyalists seem to have finally realized that their politics were never meaningfully different from the DSA's in the first place and appear perfectly content settling into the role of ordinary progressive liberals.

What a strange, stupid little farce that was.
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I gave HPV to a Rosacrucian

And big pharma gave me the cure to cancer. ZIGGY MY HILLY

Its fun to kill jews, prove me wrong lol.

Kill masons with no fear bro, they're really nothing at all broski.
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Muh HHistoriKKKally progreSSive

So why is it that all "historically progressive" forces in History all turnout to be white European colonizers who raped and enslaved Black and Indigenous folx?
Is Marxism just a long winded apologia to justify colonialism and oppression?
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Which of these is most accurate?

Which of these is the closest?

meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.
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Fidel Castro is 100 years old today

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926 in Biran, a former Cuban province in the eastern part of the island. He was the son of Ángel Castro Argiz and Lina Ruz González. His father was a Galician migrant; when he arrived in Cuba he had obtained some property and, as a peasant farmer, he dedicated himself to sugar cane production. His mother came from a peasant family in the province of Pinar del Río. Fidel Castro is one of the great protagonists of 20th century history and politics, and one of the most relevant figures in Cuban and Latin American history. He is considered the father of the Cuban Revolution.

His first studies were in the rural public school of Biran, where he learned to read and write, continuing the following educational levels in private catholic schools in the city of Santiago de Cuba. In 1945 he graduated as a bachelor of arts at the Colegio de Belen in Havana, belonging to the Society of Jesus. He then entered the University of Havana to study social sciences and national and international law.

Restless, observant, sharp in his reflections and outstanding in all learning, in the university environment he joined the socio-political struggles of his time, occupying various positions in the University Student Federation. With an ideology favorable to just, libertarian and popular causes, he soon became involved in revolutionary activities, such as those of the Committee for the Independence of Puerto Rico.

Fidel Castro was 25 years old when he was designated by the party as candidate for Congress in the elections scheduled for June 1952, but on March 10 of that year the coup d'état of Colonel Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar took place, being Fidel Castro one of the first to denounce the reactionary and illegitimate character of the de facto regime and to call for its overthrow.

On July 26, 1953 he commanded the assault on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba, a plan that included also taking the Bayamo barracks, in an action conceived as a detonator of the armed struggle against the Batista regime. Unfortunately, his tactics failed and he was taken prisoner by the repressive forces of the tyranny a few days after the military setback. He was held incommunicado for 76 days. He was put on trial and sentenced to 15 years in prison. However, the popular reaction in his support and that of the rest of the Moncadistas succeeded in pressuring the government, and they were released in May 1955. Weeks later he founded the 26th of July Movement to continue the revolutionary struggle. In the name of revolutionary power, he proclaimed on April 16, 1961 the socialist character of the Cuban Revolution. He led the Cuban people in the days of the dramatic October Crisis of 1962.

After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, he was elected deputy to the National Assembly of People's Power -created in 1976-, representing the municipality of Santiago de Cuba. From then until 2008, he served as President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers. Fidel Castro received a large number of foreign and Cuban decorations, as well as numerous academic and honorary distinctions from centers of higher education in Cuba, Latin America and Europe.

On January 3, 1961, at that time, the President of the United States of America (USA), Dwight D. Eisenhower, broke diplomatic relations with Cuba due to political and ideological differences, and ordered the closure of the US embassy in Havana. Subsequently, on February 3, 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy officially ordered the economic and commercial blockade of Cuba.

He promoted on a worldwide scale the battle of the Third World against the current international economic order, particularly against the foreign debt, the waste of resources as a result of military spending and neoliberal globalization, as well as the efforts for the unity and integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. He was the main promoter of the Non-Aligned Movement.

He led the determined action of the Cuban people to confront the effects of the economic blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States for more than sixty years and the economic consequences of the collapse of the European socialist community, and promoted the tenacious effort of Cubans to overcome the serious difficulties resulting from these factors, their resistance during the so-called Special Period and the resumption of the country's economic growth and development.

For almost fifty years, he promoted and directed the struggle of the Cuban people for the consolidation of the revolutionary process, its advance towards socialism, the unity of the revolutionary forces and of all the people, the economic and social transformations of the country, the development of education , health, sports, culture and science, defense, confronting external aggressions, conducting an active foreign policy of principles, solidarity actions with the peoples who fight for independence and progress, and the deepening of the revolutionary, internationalist and communist consciousness of the people.

On July 31, 2006, he resigned from his official positions due to health problems. From then on, he wrote about the problems of the contemporary world in numerous reflections and articles published in the Cuban media during his convalescent period. He dedicated enormous efforts in his last years to projects related to agriculture and human and animal nutrition. Due to his moral authority, he influenced important and strategic decisions of the Revolution.

He passed away on November 25, 2016, in Havana, Cuba at 10:29 p.m., at the age of 90. In compliance with his will, his remains were cremated. His ashes were deposited in the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, in a solemn ceremony, on December 4, 2016.

The president was a symbol of resistance on the continent, before the advance of the US imperial forces. The figure of Fidel Castro was not only a symbol in Cuba but also in the world, thanks to his actions in defense of the welfare and sovereignty of the island and its inhabitants. Despite being subjected to the US blockade, Cuba managed to maintain its sovereignty and Fidel and the Cuban revolution became a figure of impact and inspiration in the Latin American context of the 20th century, his challenge to the most powerful power, he turned the revolution into a model of the Latin American resistance and elsewhere, and the image of Fidel with his beard, cigar and green military clothing as universal symbols of rebellion.

Among the actions he carried out to maintain sovereignty and transform Cuban society, the following can be mentioned:

The Literacy Campaign of 1961 and the redesign of the education system to improve the levels of education among a large part of the Cuban population that was illiterate in 1959. Carried out with volunteers and at a low cost, in a short time it reflected an improvement in the rates of literacy, made education universally accessible, leading Cuba to be the first place in Latin America in 2007 in literacy.

The provision of Cuban medical assistance to Latin America and other countries. The large number of highly trained medical personnel travel to various countries and the Latin American School of Medicine is expanded on the outskirts of Havana

Establishment of the "Scientific Pole" and development of the biotechnological sector, which led the island to achieve important exports of pharmaceutical products for 296.8 million pesos compared to 233.4 million for sugar exports. In addition, Cuba's investment in the "Polo Científico" has built a professional and institutional foundation for future success in the pharmaceutical and other scientific fields.
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I'm starting philosophy

I just watched the Matrix Trilogy (AGP classic; literally made by trans women and is trans culture) and it inspired me to get into continental (and even analytic) philosophy; I especially want to get into the former as the latter seems to be getting at about the same conclusions but it takes them longer and is dogmatic (and also Chomsky is tied to Epstein). Regardless of Deleuze's character I was going to start with schizophrenia and capitalism but I discovered the reading list in linkrel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz4DvIJlZow

So I'm going to start with Kant's critique of pure reason for now and work my way up.

At the same time I have also read about half of the Ego and it's own and fear that I am wasting my time doing this as I can already intuit some of the ideas and their implications while consciously knowing that I'll gain far more insight doing it the hard way.

For people who have read a lot of philosophy, what do you think? Is it better to be patient or start with the harder texts and reread them?
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Como lidar com essa moda de viralatismo que está contaminando os zoomers de todo o país?
Sou auxiliar de sala de aula numa escola e todo dia eu escuto Bostil pra ca, Merdil pra la, um estudante já escreveu num trabalho valendo nota pro bimestre.
Ontem um professor advertiu que essa investida dos estadunidenses de querer classificar as facções como terrorista e só pra dar brecha para justificar uma intervenção aqui e os fedelhos riram.
Um disse que se bombardearem os prédios dos três "foderes" ele irá agradecer a Deus, outro disse que se tiver guerra ele se juntaria ao lado inimigo, não importa se e os estados unidos, China, Rússia ou a Venezuela.