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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 24

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

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

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

Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv

leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html

bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
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/USAPOL/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Thread for the civil war

<bunch of links not working on this thread anymore 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

Previous Thread: >>2932912

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Imagine waiting 20 years for a new classicvania-style Castlevania game. The last one in this style, aside from the terrible Lords of Midnight game on the 3DS, was for the Nintendo Wii in, like, 2008: Castlevania: Adventure Rebirth. A series known for its extravagant art style, beautiful baroque-esque paintings and character designs with a wonderful gothic flavor. And instead of hiring Japanese artists to honor a Japanese series, they hire Western Tumblr-trained artists who completely desexualize and ruin all of the theming and have no soul whatsoever. I bought all of the recent Castlevania collections solely with the hope that by supporting the series, a new game would be made. Regretful purchases.

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Revolution has never taken place in the bubble of first world conditions. Revolution has necessarily been deformed in the periphery. Most people today are adventurists, larpers or liberals. Things are going to get very exciting very soon what with climate change, the decline of the empire, world war and several other crises hitting all at once. We need to start organizing extremely quickly.

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What Can be Done According to Communization Theory

According to Communization Theory, what can communists actually do in terms of action. Is it actually like some users on here say, that communists and communist organizations can't even serve a supplementary role in the real movement? Is it really just sitting back and waiting for the proletariat to spontaneously rise up and then finally communists should get involved?

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I can't see communism as a path to liberation because the masses, society and the hivemind are tyranical too.

don't get me wrong, capitalism takes away your freedom too, but stop gaslighting me into thinking capital is the only cause of societal ills, mass conformity, hive thinking, wrong think, constantly trying to shape you into something you are not, I have seen this in leftist spaces too, just a popularity contest.

I'm still anti capitalism but stop with the bullshit of all we need is community community is tyranny by the majority.

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the future of politics isnt left vs right, but bio conservative vs post humanism. This is especially going to play out if AI and tech dont turn out to be duds.

You can already see the seeds of these movements blossoming between people who are anti AI, pro human, and people who are pro tech and accelerationist slap fighting on various social media

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Hungry and in a fked up situation

I'm ashamed to post this but push came to shove and my situation is desperate. I wanted to give me and my mother a bit of happiness.

I'm 29 and live with my 68yo mother in a 25m rented apartment. I also take care of three kittens. Both me and my mother have serious health issues that make it impossible for us to work. My mother receives disability benefits in Greece but I was assessed at 60%(you need 67%) and I don't get shit. Currently trying to appeal this.

Because of this, we live in extreme poverty. For more than half of this month we’ve basically been surviving on plain pasta with sauce.

I'm asking for a very small donation so we can finally order a couple of meals and eat something different for the next few days. Food in Greece is relatively cheap so only a small tip will suffice.

I understand people might be skeptical but I can provide proof about our living conditions and also post the food ordered. If someone is from Greece, they can order themselves for us if they want.

If anyone reads this and wants to help, it will be greatly appreciated.

Posting a link:

https://ko-fi.com/anonstails

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Jew fatigue

I'm tired of seeing people missing the point entirely. "It's the zionists" "It's the epsteins" "it's dajoos" even.
This is just an extension of the altright diverting understandable rage against the current state of things but pinning all the blame on "le juice" and I fucking hate it. It's specially frustrating for me how many people with revolutionary potential fall for this trick.
Of course, zionism is a very big problem affecting not just Palestine but also other countries where Israel is doing colonialist extraction (it's happening a lot in Latin America) and most jews support Israel but reducing your worldview to simply "Israel bad joos bad" doesn't lead anywhere and as I said makes you ripe to become coopted by far-right retards. "Israel bad" becomes "Hitler good" way too fast way too often.
I'm pissed off that's all.

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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO PROFESSOR GIRAFALES
"Enquanto tiverem os livros nas mãos serão pessoas honradas, serão gente de bem; em outras palavras, serão como eu."
Feliz Dia dos Professores a todos os mestres no fio!

O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>22255

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News 10/20/26

Hundreds of Moroccan personnel trained for Gaza force deployment
While Albania, Kazakhstan and Kosovo have also agreed to contribute troops, Morocco is expected to be the first to put boots on the ground, officials familiar with the Board of Peace's plans told TOI in July. In comments to the Israeli outlet on Monday, the Board of Peace official said the training of up to 500 personnel began in Morocco around late August. It involved an initial group of officers and instructors, followed by the broader contingent.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hundreds-moroccan-personnel-trained-gaza-force-deployment

Israel's Ben-Gvir poised for election gains as young voters turn to far right
"I used to think he was a bit crazy, but then I actually looked at what he was saying, and it all made sense," said Gavriel Marmon, an 18-year-old student and first-time voter from Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem. Marmon points to Ben-Gvir's sponsoring of a law passed in March that makes hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of attacks on Israelis, which Ben-Gvir celebrated with the noose cake ⁠and a noose lapel pin. The bill is likely to be struck down by the Israeli courts, in part because it would not apply the same punishment to Jews.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-ben-gvir-poised-election-gains-young-voters-turn-far-right-2026-10-20/

UK to deploy fighter jets to protect Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks
RAF Typhoon fighters are to be used in efforts to protect Saudi Arabia from attack by Yemen’s Houthis, flying protective missions over the country’s cities and critical infrastructure as western allies increase their intervention in the escalating conflict. The operation – the most significant military mission signed off by Andy Burnham as prime minister – will involve RAF pilots attempting to shoot down Houthi missiles and drones, which attacked Saudi airports and oil facilities.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/20/uk-raf-typhoon-fighters-saudi-arabia-houthi-attacks

Burnham Rejects Corbyn’s Call for Inquiry Into UK’s Role in Gaza Genocide
The government rejected that call in response to a written question in parliament on Monday, arguing there were “extensive mechanisms already available for parliamentary accountability and oversight”. Burnham has continued the policy of his predecessor Keir Starmer by allowing the sale of military equipment to Israel, in defiance of widespread calls for a full arms embargo, including by UN experts.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/20/burnham-rejects-corbyns-call-for-inquiry-into-uks-role-in-gaza-genocide/

Paris sees calm following curfew to quell protests
At least 2,400 people were arrested across France on Saturday after some protesters set cars on fire, stormed public buildings and engulfed a historic city hall in flames in response to police violence, amid nationwide protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/paris-sees-calm-following-curfew-quell-protests

Italy to deploy 500 troops to Milan after days of protests and looting
The government of the far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is also planning to swiftly approve tougher new security measures, including extending preventive detention for minors, cracking down on youth gangs and banning gatherings for people deemed a threat to public order, Italian media reported on Tuesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/20/milan-luxury-shops-close-italy-to-deploy-troops-youth-protests-europe

Thousands Flee as Regime Troops Push Into Myanmar’s Oil Hub
Resistance forces have controlled the area since 2022, repelling repeated efforts to choke off their crucial revenue stream. However, a regime offensive backed by 1,000 troops gained a foothold on May 24, seizing the Well-2 oil field in Tae Gyi village. The latest push began on October 18, when regime reinforcements arrived in Kamma town, Pakokku Township while gyrocopters bombed the nearby village of Ohntaw, killing five people, including children, and injuring four others.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/thousands-flee-as-regime-troops-push-into-myanmars-oil-hub.html

17 Filipino workers in British Columbia fight back against labor trafficking
The 17 migrant workers who came from Taiwan, worked over four months in Newfoundland as seasonal workers at a seafood processing plant. After their seasonal employment, they were referred to HHIS recruiters Cherry May Ricafort and Vincent Macalipay to process extension of work permits. According to the workers, the two allegedly took advantage of the situation knowing that they were newcomers and that their work statuses were about to expire.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/10/15/17-filipino-workers-in-british-columbia-fight-back-against-labor-trafficking/

Cuba accuses US of letting terrorists operate with impunity after speedboat raid
Cuba said on Monday that its investigation, which included confessions from those detained by its authorities, found that some of those involved in training insurgents remain at large in the US. "It is also important to highlight … the crimes still being committed today by individuals and organizations that, from within the United States, provided the property used to carry out these acts, arranged and secured land and maritime transport, and facilitated the purchase and stockpiling of weaponry," said Cuban prosecutor Edward Roberts.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-accuses-us-letting-terrorists-operate-with-impunity-after-speedboat-raid-2026-10-20/

Colombia’s Congress Approves 2027 Budget Over Opposition Objections
Colombia’s Congress approved the 2027 national budget of 200 billion dollars on October 20, igniting a backlash from opposition lawmakers who say the plan favors debt payments and financial interests over education, peace and regional development.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-approves-2027-budget-objections/

Alberta rejects move towards independence from Canada
With more than 1.5 million votes counted, the majority supported remaining while about 24 per cent backed beginning a process toward independence, according to unofficial results from Elections Alberta. The referendum was not a direct vote on independence as approval would have set Alberta on a path toward a future vote on independence.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/alberta-rejects-move-toward-independence-canada

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #299

Doxxing Leftypol’s Server Location Edition

Previous: >>2921048

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

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

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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Social media
>Twitter
REMEMBER TO USE NITTER!
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https://x.com/michaelh992
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https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_

<Telegram
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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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/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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French Riots Thread 2

THE HERO APPEARS

France imposes curfews in parts of Paris, other cities after weekend of riots
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-macron-declines-interior-ministers-offer-resign-2026-10-19/

>French authorities set curfews in parts of several cities on Monday, including Paris, Lille and Nice, as they faced pressure over security failings after a weekend of riots and looting stemming from nationwide anti-government protests.
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu had ruled out a blanket curfew in Paris but not a state of emergency, and had said it was more appropriate for now to ‌apply partial and localised curfews.

>"My determination to restore order is absolute," he told reporters.
Paris police said they had issued orders barring protests in certain areas of the French capital from 8 p.m. (1800 GMT) and had issued a curfew around the Place de la Republique and Les Halles from 11:00 p.m. Both would remain in effect until 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

>"A police deployment is in place to ensure strict compliance with these measures," the police said in a statement.

>A source in Lecornu's office said a curfew for minors had been set between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. for the next two days in Lille, Douai, Wattignies and Denain with the agreement of the local mayors.

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Iran war thread #75 no flod this tim

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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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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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I dislike the leftist emphasis on "work"

Don't get me wrong, I fully support unions and workers' rights but I don't think labor is a good thing in and out of itself. Creative labor, scientific labor, etc. sure but I think most jobs should just be automated in the long term.

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Am I a traitor for immigrating to china?

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

Feel free to ask whatever other chinese labor questions you got too

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Am I the only one worried that the right-wing is already taking advantage of the fact that the left has become a vacuum of intellect, and is now re-embracing intellectualism on its own terms?

I’ve seen multiple IG pages recently that talk about the literacy crisis in America; however, a good number of these pages/accounts are made by right-wingers/reactionaries. They use very blatant dogwhistles like “classical education”, “great books”, “virtue of the Ancients”, “glory of Western Civilization”, etc. etc. They talk about getting kids (read: they’re kids, the kids of right-wing elites) to study Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, etc., learn Latin and Ancient Greek at young ages, and pump their heads full of political philosophy. Yeah it’s indoctrination but still.

My assumption here is that the right-wing in America is trying to regroup and reorganize now that MAGA is clearly crashing and burning beyond repair. A lot of the rhetoric they use makes me think this stuff is coming from either the Heritage Foundation, Claremont Institute, or both.

But I think the deeper issue here is that the left has no way of effectively countering this, assuming this is true. Especially in the past five years or so the American left has almost entirely dismissed intellect and intellectualism in favour of appeals to emotion and petty in-fighting over covid masking, whose identity makes them the most marginalized, and whether or not going to the gym is “fascist”. Hell, someone just posted a screenshot from Reddit arguing that narcissists and psychopaths should be seen as “oppressed”. Why? What’s our antidote to the right when the right uses literacy and philosophy and such as a means of implementing fascism (or fascism-lite)? The American left seems to be taking the view that intellect is either 1. oppressive (because it inevitably creates a culture whereby smart people are upheld over stupid people) and/or 2. useless, because ethics are allegedly already embedded within human genetics and therefore all we need is intuition (Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid book is often invoked here). Why?

So what should we be doing in response?

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Cynical Socialism / Practical Socialism

I don't really know what else to call my views. I'm a socialist in a third world country and I've been on this path for quite a long time. Since I was young, more than anything I've always wanted my nation to have a decent standard of living, so that ordinary people don't have to live in conditions worse than dogs, as far too many of them do today.
I've done some aid work, spent roughly a third of my life involved in socialist groups and I'm still active today. I do believe I've done some good but obviously nowhere near enough.

But there are also things I've come to accept. One of them is that I don't think Marxism is a realistic solution in itself. Anyone who claims that Marxism will inevitably become reality is deluding themselves, perhaps even more so than the Islamists. That doesn't mean I think Marxist thought is useless. Quite the opposite, Marxist-Leninist economics, sociology, history and political writings contain an enormous amount of material that is still incredibly valuable. I see them as necessary resources.
At this point, I have come to believe that the thing that matters most for third world societies is authoritarian developmentalism, regardless of ideology. It could be nationalist, Fascist, communist, ethnic, religious, monarchist or something else entirely. What matters to me is whether a centralized state can actually be formed that has the capacity to force through development, to industrialize, build infrastructure, improve education and healthcare, create jobs and ultimately pull people out of the slums and the conditions they are forced to live in today.

I don't particularly care what ideological label such a government carries if it can actually accomplish that. I increasingly see this as the only realistic path for most third world societies. Liberal democracy in my view is the worst option when it simply reproduces stagnation, poverty and political paralysis. And liberal socialist democracy just as bad when it offers neither meaningful socialism nor meaningful development, also leaving people trapped in the same misery and stagnation.

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/MENA/#2

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

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

Previous edition: ~~>>2591246~~

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

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/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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Gunbound LATAM

El pegamento de Latinoamérica se llama Gunbound, changos.

No importa si eras de Lima, Bogotá, Ciudad de México o Santiago. Todos nos reunimos en el servidor de Gunbound para tirar un super-shot con el Dragon y fallar miserablemente por culpa del viento.

> Entrabas al cyber por 1 hora
> Te alcanzaba para 2 partidas porque la gente tardaba 5 minutos en calcular la fuerza
> El avatar de la cabeza de dragón con el cuerpo de robot
> Los geros y los mamuts dando vueltas
> El hdp que usaba A.Sate y te borraba el mapa entero
> "GZ" "GZ" "GZ" en el chat todo el tiempo
> Las discusiones eternas de si el Boomer era de pro o de mancos

En una región dividida por el fútbol y la política, Gunbound logró la verdadera paz continental. Todos compartíamos la misma angustia cuando salía la luna llena y el satélite cargaba el ataque especial. Éramos hermanos unidos por el lag del internet de cable del 2005.

Gunbound no era solo un juego de artillería, era diplomacia de cibercafé.

> Deja el discord en los comentarios
> Abran el server privado hoy en la noche
> Sale partida 4v4 en Meta Mine sin items
> Traigan a sus viejos clanes, revivamos la armonía latam hoy mismo

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IT’S OVER for Zohran

I’m done with this fraud.

Mamdani was elected specifically to fight against the Zionist Lobby and yet he’s show MULTIPLE TIMES he’s a full-blown Zio himself. He sells out to Jewish feelings over Palestinian resistance every time he can. He quotes the satanic Talmud which calls for Jews to enslave and oppress “goyim” in order to appease Zionists. Then he has the NYPD arrest hundreds of anti-Zionist protesters. Now he attends a “memorial” lead by an “Israeli” hasbara group to memorialize 1200 Zionist settlers killed during the greatest act of anti-colonial resistance in modern history. If Ziohran was truly principled he would have unequivocally stated that “Israelis” have no right to life given that every single one serves in the army and that Hamas and the PFLP have a right to resist.

Fuck this man.

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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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Third Worldism

I have two questions:

What is Third Worldism (because I think it's a rather unknown current of Marxism)?
What are your thoughts on Third Positionism?

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/leftybritpol/ Zionism is Racism! edition

GRETA SPEAKS!

Opinion Zionism as Racism: The Soviet Ploy Used to 'Explain' Israel and Hamas
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-12-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/zionism-as-racism-the-soviet-ploy-used-to-explain-israel-and-hamas/0000018c-6261-de43-affd-f663727c0000
>The preponderance of Hamas apologists emerging among some in the progressive left reveals that not only is the "Big Red Lie" back, it's more potent than ever.

The ‘Z’ word: Reclaiming Zionism
https://thejewishindependent.com.au/the-z-word-reclaiming-zionism/

Zionism is racism debate ‘unhelpful’, says Scottish Green co-leader
https://www.eastrennews.co.uk/news/national/26646170.zionism-racism-debate-unhelpful-says-scottish-green-co-leader/

Equality watchdog writes to Greens over 'Zionism is racism' motion
https://www.British Broadcasting Corporation.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0np1gldvo

Fighting Delegitimization: The United Nation’s “Zionism Is Racism” Resolution, a Case Study
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/85th-anniversary/fighting-delegitimization-the-united-nations-zionism-is-racism-resolution-a-case-study
>On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted G.A. Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism to be “a form of racism and racial discrimnation.” The resolution also cited the political declaration adopted at the Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima, Peru, on August 25–30, 1975, which had condemned Zionism “as a threat to world peace” and a “racist and imperialist ideology.”

>This resolution—most commonly referred to as the “Zionism is racism” resolution— came onto the scene against the backdrop of the Cold War. At that time, the United Nations was a forum in which countries often vied for the approval of, and were aligned with, one of the two great powers. Beginning in the 1960s, following the June 1967 Six-Day War, the Soviet Union began promoting the concept of “Zionism-equals-racism” as a way to strengthen its relations with, and support for, the Arab countries in their ongoing conflict with the State of Israel. The very essence of Zion- ism as the Jewish movement of national liberation and self-determination, which created the only democratic society in the Middle East where Jews and Arabs could live alongside one another, was deliberately distorted into its own antithesis. According to Israel’s enemies, which after 1967 included almost all of the Communist states and many of the so-called non-aligned countries, any manifestation of Jewish national rights was deemed hostile to Arab claims to the entirety of the territory between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. Thus, anti-Zionism became a staple of foreign policy not just for Arab and Communist governments, but also for those countries that wanted to burnish their so-called “anti-imperialist” credentials. This process accelerated as Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, began moving away from the Soviet sphere of influence in the Middle East. In 1973, the UN General Assembly passed an anti-apartheid resolution that condemned “the unholy alliance between Portuguese colonialism, South African racism, Zionism and Israeli imperialism.”

Previous thread:
>>2917069

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azumanga daioh

Why is it so amazing? This show is pure bliss. Structured environment, caring characters, low-stakes conflict. This is fucking awesome, I want to live in this universe. This is what communism will be like bruh

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GTA VI TRAILER 2 JUST DROPPED!!!!!

R: 5 / I: 0 (sage)

Nordics and Eugenics abortions

Nordic countries are the biggest Nazis in Europe. Progressive woke feminists called it progressive, but instead the doing Eugenics programs against the downs. Finland will be the first denazification after UKKKraine and then rest of the Nazi Nordics.

Z

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A general for "western" animations/cartoons.

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

>>22171

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

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

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

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/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Thread for the country which raids the world and doesn't even bother to redistribute the treats to the herrenvolk

<Barbie Occupied Government 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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AI news shit general

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Psychology of Communism

I noticed something interdasting.
>Me running my business
>too much work
>cannot finish it
>stress and cortisol rising
>go on /leftypol/ to distract myself
>read absolute bordigaslop
>begin to hate leftychuds
>lose interest in communism
>petit bougie sentiment inside me rises
>selfishness out of self-preservation rises
>screw these leftychuds
After some hard work and time:
<get on top of business
<feels good man
<shekels coming in
<hope-pilling intensifies
<property rises
<wanting to share rises
<increase interest in communism
<petit bougie sentiment inside me stabilized
<selfishness decreased
<discipline stronk
<confidence in planning restored

Why does this happen? Not only why does my psychology change due to material conditions, but why does it change the way it does? I see so many who want communism when under stress and then lose interest to it when they go up the economic ladder, but to me it's the opposite.
I don't want communism when under stress and want more gibs for myself.
But when I reduce stress after successfully working, I want communism.
Am I retarded or something?
I think this aspect of human nature is missed often in leftist discourse especially psychological changes among plebs when communism arrives and potential implications for USA.

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Guys.....?

I think I am either non-binary or transmasc. I never identified with conventionally girly shit like dresses or the colour pink. I always played FPS games instead of talking with people. I have always felt rather spiteful towards female gender norms and the cis female-male doctrine.
Thanks for listening,
Kal

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2026 French protests will die out

The ongoing student, and non-student protests (and also those of Belgium, Italy, and Albania to a weaker extent) are promising signs of revolution, BUT if this is only the start it is the end.

Occuptions, student strikes, riotting, and arson don't overthrow the state only dual power (ex establishing parallel political Institutions) will make these amount to anything beyond a histotical footnote. The only form of dual power that exists is theoractial, and I will give credit to the students attempting to create assembies and trade unions also attempting so, but unless THEY ACTUALLY DO IT the protests will be a fail.

And if these fail the state will just have more of a justifcation to further its surveillance state and prevent anymore uprisings, this is why the USA looks pathetic right now its not because people aren't mad its because the bourgesis state kidnaps anyone who attempts them and aids reformist liberals.

TLDR no organization dual power = these protests will die out and stregthen the bourgesis state in the long-term.

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Zak Cope

Now that the dust has settled, what the fuck was his problem? Why did he disavow his work on imperialism and what's he doing today?

The booty was too short or empty.

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Gulagmaxxing

With gulags Stalin built an industrial powerhouse.
With gulags Stalin won World War 2.
With gulags Stalin dramatically expanded literacy, free education, and basic healthcare, and opened more opportunities for women in work and education than most countries of the era offered
With gulags Stalin split the atom.
With gulags Stalin turned the USSR into a superpower.

It's time to start gulagmaxxing.

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y did felix hate cpusanon more than da mods?
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bodyshortbodyshortemptyempty

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Happy 12th Anniversary, /leftypol/!!

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

We'll also share some birthday goodies in this thread as well.
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French riots thread

France is burning again, high-schoolers and students are blocking and rioting everywhere since three days. Firefighters are also on semi strike, they continue to intervene but with "ON STRIKE" on all their strikes. Farmers are also starting a movement, and yellow vest were due to return on 17 october but might happen sooner.
Even high-schools in countryside and right wing areas are blocking and rioting!

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ImageBoards and trans culture

what's the synthesis of IBs and trans culture?

obviously pre-2016-fed/pol/ era, if you're a tran browsing IBs you're or should obviously be old enough to remember life before the rise of "beta" and "incel" culture in 4chan, where the absurd became nihilism and then it came the grooming;

it's not a conspiracy, the "glowie" meme became a thing thanks to the known fact of federal agents browsing these sites, but back on topic:

I don't usually do this but;
>TW:
<Brainworms
<Depression
<Slurs(?)

think Bailey Jay, tranchan and "trap aesthetics" guides, faproulette?

at least for me it was an important part of my self-discovery as a depressed teen isolated and with no education on what even trans people, spending time between IBs only interacting with terminally online incels at the peak of my delayed puberty

Giving up and taking my first steps in gender exploration i realized i had to make a choice between "malebrained" nihilist spaces and actually transitioning, fast forward to the present i'm here, brainworms and a shaky early transition due to contact with transmedicalists overlapping with Blanchardism makes me stick to /tttt/ culture

and here's where i make a pause to make a critique of "transmedicalism" not as a method but as a cope starved for validation
I once got kicked for "comparing it to nazism" while making the comparison to how quoting Evola doesn't make you a nazi/fascist, but puts you in a place where you're at least adjacent to nazi/fascist ideas.

now let's think the two sides of terminally online trans spaces: trans hugboxes and trans brainworm nests

they're different enough in "vibe" and yet they both represent a terminally online space where both positive and negative feedbacks of self-affirming dogmas and paranoias.

As a result of this i struggle constantly with the concept of Autogynephilia to a point where it affects my bf;
as an outsider he doesn't understand it, but he has an aversion to the concept and a desire to understand it as he wishes to understand me.

I've infected a cis person with brainworms.

I have to tell him it's not real but he says there seems to be a degree of credibility to it. it hurts me, and even without that second opinion the fact that Blanchardism has been co-opted by trans spaces, in fact the mere fact the AGP typology is still part of the DSM-V is hurtful even if i recognize psychology under capitalism seeks to colonize such conditions; in order to explain it to a group of scholars who clearly have no interest in the wellbeing of the people they pathologize.

How do we break this cycle?

we have the Thesis; a pathology that makes trans women in particular (for some reason) dwell in a cycle of self hate which innevitably overlaps with the same nihilistic worldview that degenerated IBs into what they are today

and on the other side the Anti-thesis; the hugbox where you won't hear any of this, their sisters are falling apart and their reaction is "fuck them, they're rude and their negativity makes me sad, best of luck but fuck you", liberalism in it's maximum expression, *every woman by herself.* if i pump the music higher i won't hear their screams.

what would be the next step to break this cycle? do we engage? do we appropriate? how would you organize this purposefully balkanized community?

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Do i

Do i look like a girl@!
I am surprised curious idk im sometimes told i look like a boy idk !!I really dont think i do but plebbit chuds tell me i do.

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The Worldwide Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR (All the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are shown in the Map I posted) will flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, with all Women forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing are banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. The Worldwide flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary will ironically cause a noticeable Global decline in Transgenders (less Men will desire to become Women once the Aesthetics of Bourgeois Femininity such as Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick, are banned for Women) in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes will still be Free and Legal to anyone who wants one, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️ 💇‍♀️👩‍🦲!

Additionally, any Woman who keeps her Hair longer then a Pixie cut (a Very Short Bob cut “might” be tolerated only if it is not a millimeter longer then the Chin, but I could change my mind on this very quickly, so it would be strongly advised that all Women keep their Hair no longer then a Pixie cut), wears a Dress/Skirt, or uses Makeup/Lipstick, will have her Head completely Shaved by the Female (mostly Lesbian) International Red Guards, who will march her through the streets wearing a Dunce Cap, force her to attend Struggle Sessions, and put her in a Re-Education Camp, where she will be taught how to become a Liberated Socialist Woman and embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️ 💇‍♀️👩‍🦲!

When a Woman gets her Hair Chopped/Shaved off She is symbolically breaking the Chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that Long Hair on Women symbolizes in the Patriarchal Superstructure of the modern Capitalist and historical Feudal Modes of Production (then it would have been called Aristocratic Femininity), thus meaning that Forcing Women to have extremely Short Hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), along with banning Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick and making everyone wear Mandatory Mao suits is the only way to Flatten the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary and create Liberated Socialist Women, as Mao said “The times have changed, Men and Women are the same”, and the only way to create a Superstructure of Gender equality that reinforces the Socialist Mode of Production is to purge the Superstructure of all vestiges of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that symbolize Patriarchal Female Subjugation and the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary (ie. Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick), and before people say “why not force Men to look like Women”, the reason why the Liberated Socialist Woman must have the aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity (ie. extremely Short Hair, wearing Mao Suits instead of Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick, etc.) is because the Aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, while the Aesthetics of Bourgeois “Femininity” symbolize Weakness, Dependence, and being an Oppressed “Object”, so a Liberated Socialist Women must have Aesthetics that symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, in a Socialist Superstructure of total Gender Equality resulting from the Flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary and the destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️ 💇‍♀️👩‍🦲!

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PARTIES:
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I've had this idea in my mind for a few years to make a strategy game about organizing labor unions and worker-owned cooperatives, but I'm not really sure how to make it FUN and RADICALIZING for both KIDS and ADULTS. thoughts?

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News 10/19/26

Serbian rector’s phone was infected with spyware during student protests, group says
The Balkan country is holding a tense election this weekend that is seen as a showdown between the protesting student movement and Vucic, who is seeking to extend his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party’s 14-year rule. In September, digital rights groups reported that at least 14 activists and students had their phones hacked and infected with spyware, including NSO Group’s Pegasus.
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-spyware-election-vucic-pegasus-students-a0c86f8d3776246f1065120a6057e064

Amazon ‘Uses AI in Warehouses to Predict Whether Workers Will Join Unions’
The online retail giant uses a tool called Atlas in an apparent bid to predict acts of dissent by workers in the UK, the US and Canada, a document released as part of court proceedings between Amazon and Canadian union Unifor show. The document, which appears to be a training manual for company leaders, has led the GMB Union to accuse Amazon of using “Orwellian” AI tools to spy on workers. “Workers deserve to be able to work free of the fear of excessive surveillance,” said GMB organiser Rachel Fagan.“If Amazon bosses are using Atlas or similar AI-fuelled systems in the UK, the British public deserve to know”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/19/amazon-uses-ai-in-warehouses-to-predict-whether-workers-will-join-unions/

French government calls for localised curfew to curb rioting and looting
He said details of curfewed areas would be provided later in the day. The instructions come as Interior Minister Laurent Nunez offered his resignation on Sunday but President Emmanuel Macron asked him to stay on to respond to police needs in an emergency situation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/french-government-calls-localised-curfew-curb-rioting-and-looting

Argentina steps up drive to shrink public-sector workforce
President Javier Milei’s government has launched a voluntary redundancy scheme aimed at eliminating a further 20,000 public-sector jobs, adding to the more than 77,000 posts already cut during his administration. The scheme, established by Decree 1203/2026, published in the Official Gazette on Monday, offers financial compensation of up to the equivalent of 25 gross monthly salaries.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/argentina-steps-up-drive-to-shrink-public-sector-workforce.phtml
https://archive.ph/QLcNj

Lula’s campaign takes alleged Meta favouritism towards Bolsonaro to the UN and federal police
The coalition backing Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election on Saturday reported to the UN alleged unequal treatment by Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, in favour of his rival, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, and asked the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Federal Police to investigate possible illegal funding of his campaign. Meta attributes the incidents to technical errors.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/10/18/lula-s-campaign-takes-alleged-meta-favouritism-towards-bolsonaro-to-the-un-and-federal-police

Swiss, US Authorities Remove Individual Sanctions Against Venezuelan Officials
Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has lifted “precautionary asset freezes” against Marleny Contreras, wife of Venezuelan Interior, Justice, and Peace Minister Diosdado Cabello, and United Socialist Party (PSUV) lawmaker Jorge Arreaza. The country’s authorities stated that their inclusion on a list of sanctioned Venezuelan officials was “a mistake” after determining that neither holds assets in Swiss territory nor faces corruption accusations.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/swiss-us-authorities-remove-individual-sanctions-against-venezuelan-officials/

Albertans vote on path to independence as Carney fights to keep Canada united
More than 1.35 million Albertans, or 43% of eligible voters, cast advance or special ballots ahead of the referendum, far exceeding the 810,000 who voted early in the 2023 provincial election. Polls on Monday will be open from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m., with results on the independence question expected in the hours after voting closes. But even if Albertans reject the proposal, separatist leaders say the movement that has transformed a fringe cause into a force in provincial politics is not going away.
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/albertans-vote-path-independence-carney-fights-canada-united-137370162

Egypt postpones Sisi's Saudi troop deployment vote to next week
Lawmakers delayed the vote after debating whether Egyptian forces should be sent to Saudi Arabia to support its confrontation with Yemen's Houthi rebels. Sisi has requested parliamentary authorisation to provide air defence forces and logistical support to help Saudi Arabia counter Houthi missiles and drones. The Egyptian National Defence Council, chaired by the president, has also expressed Cairo's readiness to provide Saudi Arabia with necessary and available forms of assistance.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-postpones-sisis-saudi-troop-deployment-vote-next-week

Druze families’ homes seized and occupied after owners leave Ashrafiyat Sahnaya
The latest incidents follow previous violations against properties belonging to Druze residents in Sahnaya and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya. Independent reports documented raids, looting and damage to dozens of homes during the violence in late April 2025, as well as the movement of Druze families from rural Damascus to Al-Suwaidaa and other areas amid security concerns and pressure on residents. According to Sheikh Yasser, some of the homes had previously been raided and searched on the stated grounds of looking for weapons before they were later seized.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386849/

WFP cuts aid to ‌500,000 Palestinians in Gaza amid funding shortages
In a statement on Monday, the United Nations agency said it received less than half as much funding for its Palestine operation in 2026 as in previous years. It said it urgently needs a further $450 million to maintain critical operations in the occupied Palestinian territory over the next six months.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/wfp-cuts-aid-to-500000-palestinians-in-gaza-amid-funding-shortages
https://archive.ph/MnQU0

Virac bishop calls for halt to mining in Catanduanes
Most Rev. Luisito Occiano, D.D., Bishop of Virac, is calling for a moratorium or temporary halt to all proposed and ongoing mining activities in Catanduanes. The call stands until the necessary safeguards for the environment and communities that may be affected are ensured. In his pastoral letter issued on October 14, Bishop Occiano urged the faithful, government officials, mining proponents and other sectors to unite in protecting the island from destructive mining.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/virac-bishop-calls-for-halt-to-mining-in-catanduanes/

BNP struggles to enforce party discipline
The party’s struggle to enforce discipline became clear this month after two of its leaders were embroiled in controversies. One of them resigns as a lawmaker while the other stepped down as state minister. Despite a series of expulsions, suspensions, and dissolutions of committees, reports of extortion, violence, internal feuds, and abuse of power continue to surface almost by the day.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/318711/bnp-struggles-to-enforce-party-discipline

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Celebrity culture and class warfare

it's funny that "parasocial relationships" is a buzzword weaponized against me, because I'm of lower-middle class background. Musicians and socialities are doing something called "networking" and they aren't decried for it. Alas we live in a capitalistic society and we aren't allowed doing the same things.

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apa master race

Having a gender sounds awful.ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

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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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/arg/ - Argentina General

SANTUCHO EDITION

El thread con más copas del mundo™

Ahora que tenemos nuestro propio board, es hora de tener nuestro propio hilo también.

Bienvenidos.

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How AI Threatens Capitalism

October 19, 2026

A recent Reddit post asks: “So, AI takes over, everyone has lost their job and only 10 trillionaires own everything. Now what?” The author goes on: “Meta, Open AI, and Amazon own everything, cool beans! No one can work; therefore, no one has money to buy any of the horse shit temu slop they prime on Amazon now. Won’t everything just implode from there?” The post gives voice to the anxiety and despair that has greeted recent advances in artificial intelligence. Many foresee a future in which America becomes a hellscape of unemployment and penury, in which data centers and ghost towns prevail outside of the fortified coastal retreats where tech oligarchs live.

Does it have to be that way? Sixty years ago, a discussion of computer automation took place that was the opposite in tone and tenor. In 1964, Michael Harrington, Robert Theobald, Robert Heilbroner, and a host of other leading progressive figures of the era issued a memorandum entitled “The Triple Revolution,” in which they predicted that the “cybernetic revolution” would result in “potentially unlimited output … that will require little cooperation from human beings.” Such utopian speculations were common at the time. Marshall McLuhan, in Understanding Media, predicted automation would encourage “imaginative participation in society.”

Needless to say, these dreams of post-industrial abundance didn’t come to pass. But a less well-remembered document of the same period, while affected by the same blithe optimism, laid out a framework for understanding technological change that could help us understand the challenges we face today. In 1969, a small circulation journal, Radical America, published a long essay by the historian Martin J. Sklar entitled, “On the Proletarian Revolution and the End of Political Economy.” Basing his analysis on a neo-Marxist framework that may be relevant today, particularly with the emergence of artificial intelligence, Sklar offered a theory of what he called the “disaccumulation of capital” that provides a window through which to view the liberatory promise, as well as the looming peril, of automation. It is a difficult read—Sklar said it was written for “militant readers”—but it helps explain what is happening to the American economy today.

Sklar took his cue from Karl Marx’s theory of capital accumulation. For Marx, the central engine of growth is the accumulation of capital, which he regards as equivalent to the accumulation of labor time. According to the labor theory of value—which was embraced by Adam Smith and David Ricardo as well as Marx—the exchange value of consumer goods and of capital goods (plant, equipment, raw materials) is measured in the labor time it takes to produce them. There have been numerous byzantine attempts to create a formula that would convert exchange values into prices, but the usefulness of Marx’s theory doesn’t rest on that. The labor theory is a way of describing the labor process and division of labor that takes place in capitalist production.

The accumulation of capital, achieved when the profit from sales is invested, consists of the accumulation of labor time. Thus, during the period of rapid industrialization from the Civil War to the 1920s, there was not just an accumulation of goods and factories, but also of work-hours and of workers. From 1900 to 1920, for instance, the number of manufacturing workers doubled from five to ten million. As Marx stated in Capital, “Accumulation of capital is, therefore, increase of the proletariat.” America looked at the time as if it were going to become a giant factory with a labor force divided between a sprawling working class and small capitalist class. This vision of the future informed the socialism of Eugene Debs as well as the progressivism of Herbert Croly and Thorstein Veblen. This accumulation of capital entailed a Protestant ethic of deferred consumption. The business class cited the deferral of consumption for investment and saving as the justification for its existence and also as the justification for reducing wages or resisting demands to increase wages or to limit the work week. Work, thrift, saving, and efficiency were the moral and economic guideposts to capital accumulation.

But according to Sklar—and he had copious data to prove it—during the 1920s, the output of goods soared but the hours spent producing them, and the number of workers engaged in producing them, stopped increasing. What he called the “disaccumulation of capital” began. He didn’t think disaccumulation would immediately replace accumulation, but that it was becoming a persistent tendency within capitalism. It would replace accumulation only under socialism.

In the 1920s, electricity spread to almost all workplaces, along with new technology and forms of work organization such as the assembly line. The manufacturing workforce slightly shrunk during the decade, and farm employment also continued falling. (According to the Census, the number of manufacturing workers fell from 8,997,921 in 1919 to 8,838,743 in 1929, while the number of farm workers continued falling from 11.3 million to 10.5 million.) The amount of physical capital grew, but capital, as crystallized labor time, disaccumulated. Some economists at the time, including John Maynard Keynes and George Soule, noticed this, and remarked upon its significance. However, this development and what it meant were soon buried under the rubble of the Great Depression, until Sklar resurrected it in his 1969 essay.

Sklar contended that disaccumulation—and the new forces of production behind it—created the potential for an increase in economic and personal freedom. Labor would no longer have to be devoted primarily to the perpetuation, or reproduction, of the working class itself. Disaccumulation, Sklar wrote, “means that less and less labor power is required for the production of the goods necessary for sustaining and reproducing physical and social life. The people are increasingly freed to apply their labor, or life-time, to other pursuits and fields of endeavor.” Disaccumulation also upended the moral logic of capitalism. “The hitherto necessary contradiction, in the absolute sense, of the necessity of deferring immediate consumption as the condition of expanded production capacity, falls away,” Sklar wrote.

There were two potential consequences of this. First, the capitalist class itself—as the enforcer of deferred consumption and the reinvestment of savings—would lose the principal justification for its existence. (Keynes famously predicted the “euthanasia of the rentier, and consequently, the euthanasia of the cumulative oppressive power of the capitalist to exploit the scarcity-value of capital.”) Secondly, the elimination of the need to defer consumption would begin to undercut the basis for the Protestant work ethic and its celebration of self-sacrifice.

Some thinkers of the ’60s foresaw that the onset of automation and the disappearance of drudgery would enlarge the role of play and leisure in people’s lives. In Life against Death, Norman O. Brown called for the embrace of “polymorphous perversity.” But Sklar was more focused on the redefinition of work and on an end to what Marx had called “alienated labor.” Sklar’s views were similar to those he cited of the Young Intellectuals of the 1920s, who “insisted upon the right of all persons to engage in directly self-expressing and self-fulfilling work, and upon the principle that work, properly, constituted not a means to life, but one of the more important expressions of life.”

Sklar foresaw the disaccumulation of capital as a precondition for a full-blown socialism—what the young Marx called communism. In The German Ideology, Marx described a communist society as one in which “nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes.” In this way, he declared, it becomes “possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner … without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.” Along more abstract lines, Sklar wrote that “the objective of socialism is a society where people increasingly express their freedom … in dealing with necessity, and where they open greater and greater areas for discretionary, voluntary life-activity.”

Sklar contended that if capitalism were replaced by socialism in the new disaccumulationist economy, the age-old relationship of power between an owner-manager class and a working class or peasantry, which was justified as a means of extracting a surplus, would no longer hold. The new economy, which was being created by the transition from the accumulation to the disaccumulation of capital, would make possible Marx’s vision of a fully democratic society.

“Sklar foresaw the disaccumulation of capital as a precondition for a full-blown socialism.”

“Recreation and simple exercise have become a big business.”

Sklar wrote his essay at a time of political ferment when many people in “the movement” believed an imminent revolution would shake the foundations of capitalism. In his 1969 essay, he wrote of a “swelling movement for revolutionary socialism.”Of course, this revolution was not to be. Sklar recognized, however, that within the social relations of capitalism, the liberatory potential for disaccumulation was being thwarted. That was his key insight, and it remains valid.

The tendency toward disaccumulation helped to bring about the Great Depression of the 1930s. It created a surplus of capital, which was no longer needed for reinvestment in goods production, and which flowed into speculative bubbles that finally burst. Disaccumulation also led to technological unemployment, which increased the ranks of the long-term unemployed. Capitalism finally survived the Great Depression through military spending outside the civilian market during World War II. After World War II, government continued to supplement private production and consumer demand. But more importantly, businesses extended capitalist relations of production “beyond the sphere of goods-production, finance, distribution, and exchange, to all other social spheres.”

During this phase, capitalism—no longer confined to goods production for the perpetuation of the working class and for capitalist luxury—spread to niches that had formerly been outside the market—from fast-food restaurants (which replaced the family dinner at home) to health clubs, theme parks, and retirement villages. Recreation and simple exercise have become a big business. In Marx’s terms, what had been production for use has become production for exchange. As a result, service employment now dominates the economy. In 1943, for instance, manufacturing accounted for 38.9 percent of employment; by the end of 2024, it comprised about 8 percent. About 80 percent of working Americans produce services.

New industries, like aircraft, aerospace, and computer technology, have also arisen, and expanded initially through the accumulation of capital. But Sklar’s theory assumed that they, too, would eventually reach a level of productivity where production would expand, but labor hours would not. Here is what the rise in computer and electronic parts manufacturing looks like over the last forty years:

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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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Elon Musk = Nazi

“Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows it. It only takes a few percent of the world to move to a country, where it is no longer that country. A country is its people, not its geography.”
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534

"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212

Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585

"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225

He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314

"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943

"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927

"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517

"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091

"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555

Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100

"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629

**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865

"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495

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MAN THESE PEOPLE TOOK MY KIDS FROM ME
THEN THEY CLOSED MY BANK ACCOUNT
I GOT SO MUCH ANGER IN ME
GOT NO WAY TO TAKE IT OUT

body too short body too short body too short

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There is no "AI" ya nincompoops. It's just dead labor feasting on living labor.

Marx called capital "dead labor" that feasts on "living labor" because capital is the result of past human labor that has been accumulated in the form of money, machinery, factories, and other means of production, no matter how "advanced" and "futuristic" those means of production get. Although these things were created by workers, they become instruments of capitalist power when privately owned and used to generate profit. In capitalism, workers must sell their labor power to survive, producing goods and services whose value exceeds the wages they receive. The capitalist takes this surplus value and reinvests it to accumulate even more capital. Thus, “dead labor” feeds on “living labor” because the wealth created by workers in the past becomes a force that controls and exploits workers in the present, continually expanding through their labor. For Marx, this expresses the central contradiction of capitalism: human labor creates wealth, yet that wealth confronts workers as an independent power that dominates them. Now take that basic Marxian principle and apply it to "AI."

There is no magic "AI." There is an emerging body of technologies built by human beings, trained on human-generated data, powered by enormous human-built computing infrastructure, and sustained by significant human-made investments of energy, water, hardware, labor, and capital (dead labor!). Calling these technologies “artificial intelligence” can obscure more than it explains. The term encourages us to imagine an independent, almost supernatural intelligence that exists apart from human knowledge and effort, when what we actually have are complex systems that identify patterns, generate predictions, and produce outputs based on statistical relationships learned from data. That data comes, directly or indirectly, from people: their writing, research, art, expertise, experience, and accumulated cultural knowledge. These systems do not emerge from a vacuum. They are built upon the intellectual labor of human civilization, and their capabilities are inseparable from the quality, diversity, and limitations of the material on which they were trained.

The quality of these systems depends on much more than the quantity of data they consume. It depends on whose knowledge is represented, whose experience is excluded, how accurately the material reflects reality, and how effectively the system has been trained to distinguish reliable information from error. A system trained on a broad mixture of knowledgeable experts, careful researchers, skilled practitioners, and diverse perspectives may be useful in many contexts. A system trained on incomplete, biased, outdated, or poorly vetted information may reproduce those weaknesses with remarkable confidence. Even high-quality training data does not guarantee high-quality answers in every situation. These technologies can make mistakes, fabricate details, miss context, and produce plausible explanations that are fundamentally wrong. They can be powerful tools, but their outputs still require judgment, verification, and often the very expertise that people are being told they no longer need.

The most dangerous misconception is the idea that this technology is a black box into which anyone can type a request and receive an infinite supply of high-quality work at virtually zero cost. The interface may look effortless, but the infrastructure behind it is not free, the resources required to operate it are not infinite, and the quality of its output is neither unlimited nor guaranteed. The apparent simplicity of asking a question conceals layers of human engineering, training, maintenance, evaluation, and physical infrastructure. More importantly, generating an answer is not the same as knowing whether the answer is correct, useful, ethical, or appropriate. A person who understands a field of expertise can use these tools to accelerate their work, identify possibilities, and explore unfamiliar territory. A person who lacks that understanding may have difficulty recognizing when the same tools have confidently led them astray. Expertise does not become irrelevant when technology advances; in many cases, it becomes more important because someone still has to evaluate what the technology produces.

This is why the growing narrative that young people should stop pursuing education, abandon difficult skills, or give up on developing expertise because "AI is going to take their jobs" is so socially destructive. It teaches people to surrender their agency at precisely the moment when they need to become more capable, adaptable, and intellectually independent. Education is not merely vocational training for a specific job that may or may not exist in twenty years. It teaches people how to reason, investigate, solve problems, communicate, recognize flawed arguments, understand complex systems, and make responsible decisions. Learning mathematics, engineering, medicine, history, writing, art, or a skilled trade develops capacities that cannot be reduced to the production of a finished document or the completion of an isolated task. If society persuades an entire generation that learning is pointless because a machine will do everything for them, it risks creating a population increasingly dependent on systems it does not understand and increasingly unable to challenge their mistakes.

There are also serious economic and social consequences to normalizing this message. If workers come to believe that their skills are destined to become worthless, they may be less inclined to invest in education, negotiate for better working conditions, or organize to ensure that technological gains are shared fairly. Employers may use the threat of automation to suppress wages, reduce staffing, intensify workloads, or justify replacing experienced workers before they have demonstrated that the technology can reliably perform the work. Educational institutions may feel pressured to prioritize immediate technological trends over the deeper development of human capabilities. And individuals who are already anxious about their economic future may experience greater insecurity, alienation, and hopelessness. These outcomes are not inevitable consequences of the technology itself; they are consequences of how societies choose to deploy it and how people are taught to understand their own future in relation to it.

We should be having a more serious conversation. The question is not whether these technologies can be useful; clearly, they can. The question is how to use them without confusing automation with understanding, statistical prediction with wisdom, or convenience with genuine competence. We should teach people how these systems work, where their limitations lie, how to verify their outputs, and how to combine their capabilities with human knowledge and judgment. We should encourage students to learn difficult things, not because technology will never change their professions, but because people who understand the underlying principles of their work are better positioned to adapt when it does. We should demand transparency about the resources these systems consume, the labor and data on which they depend, the economic interests driving their development, and the real-world consequences of their implementation.

Ultimately, the greatest risk may not be that machines become capable of doing more of the work that people once did. It may be that people are convinced they no longer need to understand the world, develop their abilities, or take responsibility for what happens within it. Human knowledge is not an obsolete input to be consumed by a machine and discarded. It is the foundation on which these technologies are built, the standard by which their outputs must be judged, and the resource society must continue to cultivate if it wants to use them wisely. We do not need to worship "AI," nor do we need to dismiss it. We need to demystify it. These are human-made technologies with real capabilities, real costs, and real limitations. Our future will depend less on whether we can make them produce more and more output, and more on whether we remain capable of understanding, evaluating, and directing what they produce.

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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.

R: 156 / I: 87 (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
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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
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Study of how colonialism shaped societies, cultures, identities, politics, and knowledge, and how formerly colonized peoples resist, reinterpret, and live with those colonial legacies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
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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
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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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CSAM ALERT

Its on siberia again

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Harry Potter

Its about time we talk about the connection between Harry Potter, Liberalism, and idpol.

and also how JK Rowling is the biggest blair simp

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Help wiki

Help improve the leftysoy wiki page on leftypol, I am working on it but we lack in a lot of info, anything you reply in this thread related to leftypol history and screenshotted/sourced will be added! Just let us know here
https://leftysoy.st/wiki/Leftypol.org

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Communism VS Central Planning

I have seen this retardation spammed all over the place because of austrian economic loons however it always did feel so retarded.

I think this is the most condensed example of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3OH4QO5JY

Basically it becomes more and more retarded until you end up
>What about captain america?
>And captain america not fighting Thanos in my MCU?!
>communism and money can not exist!

That was always a incredibly retarded argument and I do not understand how the viewers of this trash are not dying of cringe.

Did people make debunking of this """"logic"""" because the video is pure insanity. The truth is that there is no such thing as central planning.
>Herp derp how do we produce things? How many of them?!
How does the factory do it now?

This is something this video never answers it only says
>People do whatever they want today this is capitalism
Absurdist and ridiculous.

However austrian loons will throw around literally religious phrases
<They are measuring the market signals
By the magic powers the oracle has presumably.
<The market decides!
Like there is some god entity the clergy talks to on this subject and this god is named the market.

And pretend like their insanity makes any sense whatsoever.
However instead of asking where this self contradictory god named the market lives or who exactly is talking to him (questions who will never be answered by Austrian cultists) the video ditches the religious nonsense of the Austrian cult and tries an atheistic version of this argument.

I mean this is a simple question if you are 18 or about to start to think(and never worked in any production job whatsoever; student/NEET) about how to organize things however the solution is very simple an this is true of everyone even magical capitalist will fail this.

If you throw people on some isolated island and tell them to figure things out everything will devolve into chaos this is regardless of anything involved. And no
>Letting people decide their own things
Will result in total disaster very fast. The scenario is not even coherent it does not even say if this is some isolated island or the walking dead universe or what.

Presumably there is internet and it has power since people are submitting things there and presumably there are farms and factories and transportation and it was not destroyed.

However after a communist revolution with all of this in place(not isolated island not the walking dead universe) the solution is simple, just do it like it was always done. The video makes only sense if you are trying to come up with some alternative to money, however lets keep money and do the same thing. I mean there is no controversial question of
>HoW MuTcH Is tHeRe To PrOdUcE?!
Because this is handled by orders who did come by the client firms and they did come long before today since most businesses can have year long contracts that are not even fully realized yet.
This is something you realize if you ever worked in your life and not are a NEET or Student or only produce youtube videos for a living!
>What if people order to mutch?!

1) You are dealing with bosses or firms who are serious and not insane. You can replace capitalist boss with Combine Manager if you like.
2) Normally they order the same things like 50K units every day with some fluctuation for seasonal events so +10% -20% fluctuation
3) If the client orders something out of the ordinary like lets say 100Bilion units you seriously ask them if they can fulfill this obligation or if this is a mistake. I presume a boss would reject a order like that and either phone back or simply give them their standard unit of 50K if they can not talk to them and are getting some deranged e-mails and no one saying anything.
4) If they can not pay their obligation they get sued.
5) A factory has a maximal output capacity so if you have 10 clients who all take 50K units (500K per day) your max output is about 600K of the factory or presumably 700K if you really try to do overtime and speed some things up. So a ridiculous order like 100Billion will get rejected since that means you need to break obligations with other clients.

Seriously this is something you can figure out if you ever worked in a factory or even in any business! I have no idea how people who have a job do not realize this cringe shit arguments for absolute bullshit. I seriously think the only people who repeat this are Students(legal NEETS), NEETS who did not work a day in their life and people who do some bullshit like make youtube videos for a living.

6) The final part of this is some fidgeting with the number if you have a order for 50K units you will make something like 51K or 52K units because sometimes the machine fucks up and shredded the product or some parts come out defective and need to be thrown out.

There is also some guess work like
>(ice cream) Last year this season(winter) we needed to make only 10K units a day so it will probably be the same.

7) Now one can ask where these numbers come from? They come from the previous years and previous records of orders and production. Something the capitalist boss keeps. In a communist revolution scenario these records can be taken or people who work there can remember things if the capitalist decides to burn or destroy these records.

8) Another idea is that the video insists on creating some kind of economic dictator who decides everything. Now if taken as a serious argument and not some exercise for students or people who start thinking about the economy that is silly. Because in the military you do not have 1 guy who decides everything. There is no magic dictator who orders every foot moved of every soldier at what time
<Epic debunking of the army everyone!
<How can 1 guy decide what position of every finger ever soldier must have?!
<Ha no one can do that!
<IMPOSSIBLE! GENERALS DEBUNKED!

A general gives orders to lower-ranking officers (Lieutenants) who give orders to people under them and a general does not micro manage every movement of every private there is a chain of command and the general will order a Battalions to move to a position at a given time and this is the responsibility of the people under him to do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_hierarchy
https://www.army.mil/ranks/

So after a communist revolution things can get ruff because some capitalists can decide to destroy their records(far more easy on the computer then on paper) of these things however things will iron themselves out eventually.

I also do not want people to go to the traditional
>and some people are better at making pants! Capitalism YES!
And go to the the insulting with
<And then there is the capitalist boss who is the best at TAKING money so he takes the most! Capitalism YES!
Because this avoids the silly student question and concentrates on the capitalists as parasites.

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The persecution against me in /BRG/ is so hypocritical is not even funny

I find it particularly amusing too that I am constantly banned for absolutely NO REASONS whatsoever, I suffer persecutions in the brazilian general from two homophobic jannies, while the garbage moderation team allows filth like this here, to those who don't know this post a reference to a 2010 hate crime where two hetero males beaten to almost death a couple of gay teenagers holding hands in Augusta, a famous avenue in the city of São Paulo, basically this reactionary piece of shit is making fun of the case claiming the ""gay cure""" is beating LGBT folk

Not only that but he constantly has made horrible racist, mysoginistic and classist comments that the jannies tolerate while banning me for MERELY mentioning hetero males are overwhelmingly reactionary and overwhelmingly majority within criminals in general (both are harmless statistics mentioned by me to reinforce my arguments)

here is the case he is celebrating btw, toggle the translator if necessary:
https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2018/10/18/jovens-que-agrediram-gay-na-paulista-com-lampada-terao-que-pagar-multa-de-r-257-mil.ghtml

So in what way shape or form a supposed ""leftist"" board perma bans me while allowing shit like this with impunity?

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Lenin: Video Games Are the New Cinema

>Typical zionist projection slop on North Korea
>Punish kids for 3 generations because traitors or some shit
>Russia evil wants to destabilize poor South Korea
>Kim Jong Un secret good guy
>Russia destabilized Venezuela somehow?

Why don't Russia and China make games where you fight USA/NATO with cinematic campaigns?
I would love to play that.
Video games are the most efficient ways of delivering propaganda and you can tell just by how much controversy they generate and the youtube video essays rebuttals that come afterwards.
Only the west is taking advantage of this. Meanwhile China is trying to get on the west's good graces. Even Russia with its shitty philosophical Atomic Heart bullshit didn't cut it.

No. They must make Chinese COD where you do Black Ops shit like blow up Data Centers and Liberate an ICE facility, followed by a TNO The Fire Rises-style civil war missions. Trust me, American slop consumers would love that shit. I could write the campaign and in any decently run universe I would get an Oscar for it.

Anybody got any ideas how the anti-imperialist countries can make COD-like games?
Only based game developers out there are the ones that made Knights of Al-Aqsa.

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

Previous Thread: ~~>>2722737~~

Links:

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

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

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nu-imageboard megathread #2

The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -

Archived threads:
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/US-Venezuela War #15/

"Superbigote es inocente" Edición

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/ CYBERCOM /

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

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

Active writers/creators sorted by last name

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

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

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I’m puzzled by how the global left took the objectively wrong lessons from Che’s military campaigns

Now, I get that things were different back then. Che was one of the most, if not the only well known leftist guerrilla figures in the West, a truly romanticized ideal for university students and academics to idolize and see themselves in. But I’m sure that even back then, with just a little research, they could have realized that his military theory was half-baked. It was written specifically within the super specific context of Batista’s Cuba and when applied outside those unique conditions, it failed.

In fact, I feel it’s much more important to look at those failures and what they reveal. Che in the Congo is a good example of how Third Worldism simply does not work. Che brought specifically Afro-Cuban veterans of the Cuban Revolution with him, partly to avoid appearing as an imperialist. But in the Congo that distinction was irrelevant. The Latin American context of race and religion was simply alien to the Congo, where tribal and religious identities mattered much more. Congolese fighters wouldn’t work with one another if they belonged to different religions or had tensions with another tribe. And even when you found two groups that had no religious differences or negative opinions of each other, they could literally be unable to work together because they didn’t speak the same language. There was also a general spiritualism that the Congolese fighters couldn’t simply let go of. They refused to fight in trenches because they believed it was bad luck and that they would become sick and die if they were in them. Che encountered this kind of refusal again and again.

Then there was his adventure in Bolivia. Bolivia appeared to fit Che’s ideal model, a poorer country under a military dictatorship. So by his own theory, it should have been fertile ground for successful guerrilla warfare. Instead the campaign failed because the dictatorship had implemented modest land reforms. Those limited reforms were enough to reduce rural support for an insurgency, leaving Che’s forces without the local backing and logistical assistance they needed.
I think that if Che had survived, he might have learned from those failures, refined his ideas and produced a more realistic and pragmatic theory of revolutionary warfare. But he died and became an icon for millions. Still, I feel like contemporary leftists should have looked at these failures and seen them as a fairly obvious reason to rethink his theory, rather than turning it into an inviolable principle.

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/SEA/ Southeast Asia General

Flying and Nazi Malays Edition.

A general thread for the discussion for all things happening in Southeast Asia. What a year it has been. Forest fires in Borneo now. Border skirmishes with Thailand and Cambodia. Vietnam mimicking South Korean chaebols. Singapore begging its citizens to have kids. Malaysia sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar while it is still in a civil war.

All the while the heat is cooking us now.

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Communization Theory vs Anarchist-Communism

So, I'm about halfway through The Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement by Gilles Dauve, and I have a question. I understand the content of what's being said, the changes being proposed, the reasons why, etc. But, how is this any different from anarcho-communism? Both seek to abolish wage labour, the state, money, commodity production, and exchange value. Both, essentially, propose an immediate transition to communism. The only difference I can see is that Dauve proposes that communization will begin but not be completed for a generation or so, but the abolition of commodity production, money, and the state is the starting point for both. Also, the idea of communism as an existing movement in our current society that just sooner or later manages to fully "break through" was also more or less written about by Kropotkin in The Conquest of Bread. Is it really just a difference in word choice, or one being "marxist in nature?" The content of the actual revolution being proposed seems virtually identical to me.

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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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/Türkipol/

Genel Türkiye siyaseti ile ilgili konuşun!

Li ser siyaseta giştî ya Tirkiyê biaxive!

Şıma qısey bıkı Poliya Turika!

Yurtişi siyaseti p'ara yoxaleps!

تحدثوا عن السياسة العامة في تركيا!

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/EUropol/

WILLKOMENSKULTUR IST VORBEI edition

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

Previous thread:
~~>>2653642~~

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>Why bother with building a mass working-class movement? Just have a small group stage a coup against the government lmao

How do you respond to this without sounding mad?

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I have been brainwashed by rightist propaganda into believing that human ethnicities or "races" have differing skills a capabilities because of biological factors

I'm tired of my mind being clouded by hateful intrusive thoughts

Please help deprogram me
Please show me the light and please tell me which books or articles I should read that shows there isn't a "superior race"

Please

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Anime Music Videos and webms

AMV thread
I know that AMVs aren't as big (or good) as they used to be, but I certainly think they're a lot of fun so lets enjoy the best of it!
https://www.animemusicvideos.org/home/home.php

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Modern day AI is literally just the
>All personal property is owned by the collective
communist strawman that boomers and rightoids like to espouse. So why do they all love it so much?

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

Previous thread: ~~>>2381106~~

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

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

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

Previous QTDDTOT Archives
https://archive.is/ga3OG

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Never gonna pass

I'm a disgusting male on estrogen and I'm pretending that I'm a trans woman. I only do it online though, so as to not harm actual women idk what to do at this point I've got a vial of estrogen I'll keep taking till it runs out is it worth getting into peptides to stop being ugly and fat

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LEFTIST TRANSHUMANISM

What's your opinion on a leftist leaning tranhumanism? Do you think use technology to enhance mankind is bad and dangerous or is a path way to a new kind of good existence? Of course left leaning transhumanism isn't a monolithic group, but bunch of ideas about the opportunity and perils of using technology on mankind.

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News 10/17/26

More than 400 arrested as police clash with protesters across France
Police fired teargas in confrontations with protesters, as demonstrations across France were boosted by other groups angry over high prices and the fraying of a social welfare system. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country, and tensions erupted on the fringes of the nationwide demonstrations over absent teachers, decrepit school buildings and police violence. Late on Saturday, the interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, said there had been 400 arrests and most were adults who were not part of the high school protests.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/17/protests-france-high-prices-social-security-gilets-jaunes

Russian firm launches ‘world’s first’ crypto-to-bank payment service
According to the company, payments are available in US dollars, euros, Chinese yuan and UAE dirhams and carry a commission of 0.3%. Transfers can take as little as one business day. “The key demand among market participants today is the ability to transfer money around the world in just a few clicks, as quickly as possible,” said Pyotr Fradkov, chairman of Russian bank Promsvyazbank, which established A7. Customers can access the service online after verifying their identity and submitting an invoice. It is available in countries where cryptocurrency transactions are permitted under local law.
https://rt-english.com/russia/647157-russia-global-payments-service/
https://archive.ph/fOlUe

Councils Face Upheaval After Labour Threat to End Coalitions With Greens
Labour’s threat to end local power-sharing agreements with the Greens in response to its ‘Zionism is racism’ motion could lead to disruption at councils across England and Wales. Bridget Phillipson, Labour’s chair, said on Thursday that Greens working in coalition with the party in local councils must “make clear that they reject” the motion. Otherwise, she said, “Labour will bring any such local arrangement to an end”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/16/councils-face-upheaval-after-labour-threat-to-end-coalitions-with-greens/

Rioters loot stores, set fires in central Milan during cost-of-living protest
The march against wars and rising living costs began peacefully. But masked protesters threw stones, paving blocks and other objects at riot police and set fire to barricades made from bar tables. Images of the aftermath showed a severely damaged carabinieri car.
https://apnews.com/article/italy-milan-riots-living-costs-aada57790a8d2d3c02ab55911b9ecead

Imran being forced into Benazir, Nawaz-style deal: opposition leader
Pakistan’s opposition leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai has accused the government of trying to force jailed former prime minister Imran Khan into an agreement similar to those that led former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto into exile. Achakzai made the allegation at a news conference at the Peshawar High Court on Friday, as opposition leaders challenged the imposition of governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province governed by Imran’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party before the move, reported Dawn.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/south-asia/318462/imran-being-forced-into-benazir-nawaz-style-deal-opposition-leader

Pakistani forces, Afghan Taliban exchange fire after militants attempt to infiltrate Pakistan
The fighting lasted for hours along the border in Kurram district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to three Pakistani security officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. There was no immediate comment from Afghanistan’s Taliban government.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-afghanistan-border-clashes-militant-infiltration-af35955a49d8ec9948b4a946bf07d37c

‘It was fake’: Indian villagers allege forgery behind Adani mine project
Khara is among hundreds of people from Indigenous tribes in Balda and neighbouring Bannur village who have lost their lands to the new bauxite mine. It is being developed by Kalinga Alumina Limited, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Limited, a conglomerate owned by Gautam Adani, India’s second richest businessman and close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/16/tribals-in-indias-odisha-allege-forgery-behind-lands-taken-for-adani-mine
https://archive.ph/cNkte

Five injured in ammunition explosion at PMF headquarters in Baghdad
“The fire resulting from the explosion of a cache of damaged ammunition inside one of its headquarters east of the Canal in the capital, Baghdad, has been brought under control, confirming that the final toll of the incident resulted in minor injuries to five personnel,” the PMF announced in a statement.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1079774

Israeli settlers attack European diplomats, beat French mayor
The 78-year-old mayor said masked settlers yelled defamatory comments about France, kicked him and hit him with iron bars as he joined Palestinian olive farmers in the West Bank alongside the top French and Belgian representatives in Jerusalem and Polish diplomats. "I think that if settlers are behaving like this, there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government," Bernard Baudoux, mayor of the northern French town of Aulnoye-Aymeries, told AFP after he was attacked.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/israeli-settlers-attack-european-diplomats-beat-french-mayor

Ethiopia's Abiy names new Tigray government, wants polls in six months
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has named a caretaker government to stabilise the northern Tigray region ‌and prepare for an election within six months, after fighting erupted between a rebel alliance and federal troops. The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) led an offensive last month against Abiy's government, reigniting a war that killed hundreds of thousands between 2020-22.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopias-abiy-names-new-tigray-government-wants-polls-six-months-2026-10-16/

Pensioners are killing the ANC,’ says Malatji after Mantashe’s Cosatu walkout=
In a recorded video posted on social media while he was on the campaign trail in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday, Malatji said the ANC of Oliver Tambo could not be “killed by pensioners” after surviving the apartheid regime. He was reacting to ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe’s walkout at Cosatu’s 15th National Congress on Monday, 12 October, describing his behaviour as “irresponsible and arrogant”. He said Mantashe could not dictate the federation’s programme because he was an invited guest.
https://insidepolitic.co.za/pensioners-are-killing-the-anc-says-malatji-after-mantashes-cosatu-walkout/

Tunisians stage biggest protest in years against President Saied
The demonstration, led by the major UGTT labour union and civil society groups, comes as Tunisia grapples with an economic crisis, worsening public services, recurring water and power cuts, and shortages of medicines and essential goods. Saied seized broad powers in 2021 and 2022, dissolving parliament, dismissing dozens of judges and ruling by decree, moves that opponents described as a coup. Rights groups say he has intensified a crackdown on civil society, journalists and opposition figures. Saied rejects those allegations, saying he is not a dictator, and has accused his opponents of engineering economic crises to fuel social unrest.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisians-stage-biggest-protest-years-against-president-saied

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Is AI and are deepfakes an Israel psyop?

I noticed that it's nowadays legal to steal someone else's face, likeness and voice. I have been a target of severe reputation ruin, because I have been anti-Israeli (yes, I'm based in Poland as well). There have been attempts at creating a "lolcow" out of me, also because of my anti-capitalistic views.
How is it possible bad actors are capitalizing out of cruel things like "lolcow culture" and AI, deepfakes being weaponized against us, who speak out against the system?
And don't get me started with "AI is future"! You see naive folks? It's clearly used in warfare against innocent women, children etc.
Unrelated pic, but I'm posting it, because Nozzad has been blackmailing Poles too and they moved their target to blackmailing outspoken women too.

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/SPACE/ Thread.

Thread for watching rocket launches and shit.

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Sonic the Hedgehog General 2

The Fans Do Sonic Team's Job Again Edition.

Previous thread: >>27867

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middle-class retirees re-entering the workforce

they're like the worst employees you could ever imagine, worse than any apathetic stoned teenager because at least the teenager doesn't have delusions of seniority or experience or a complete inability to accept criticism or admit to making a mistake, at least they can be trained. but the boomers and karens are unreformable, they complain and exude indignation and misery out of every orifice and destroy employee morale, they do things the wrong way and they get belligerent and defensive when you try to show them how to do them the right way, they get irritated with busy shifts and lines and impatient customers and they show their irritation very publicly, they gossip about co-workers and discuss politics and religion and create drama, they speak condescendingly to co-workers and customers and even managers, it's unbelievable. it's like a paroled convict who was in prison for decades and has no idea how to re-enter normal society. and when you are forced to finally reprimand them, they have a fucking emotional breakdown.

i was dealing with a recent hire who was like this, and one day i noticed that she was burning through rolls of paper towels at several times the rate of any other worker wadding up huge balls of paper towels and wiping stuff down and throwing it away and grabbing another, so i kind of pulled her aside so as not to embarrass her and explained to her how to take one paper towel and fold it twice to make four surfaces and use one surface until it gets dirty, then use another, etc. she became indignant and said "sweetie, i've been cleaning up after four kids for 20 years i know how to use a paper towel." i told her, "first of all, i'm trying to help you, i'm trying to show you how to do the job right, i'm trying to make your job easier. second, this is work, this isn't your house, and you are a brand new employee here. don't talk to me or anyone else here that way. don't call me 'sweetie' and don't get an attitude with me. you do it again, you're gone. do you understand?" she started crying. she cried about it for the rest of the day and then the next day she never showed up for work, no call no show. someone had to come in and pull a double to cover for her. and i didn't even get a chance to confront her about all the other shit she was doing wrong.

i felt guilty about it, which makes me even more annoyed when i really think about it because i shouldn't feel guilty just for expecting a perfectly healthy able-bodied adult to listen and follow basic directions and not behave like an entitled spoiled brat at work. i understand that your hero donald trump betrayed you and destroyed the economy and your security and i understand how humiliating it must feel to be a suburban middle-class retiree for years and then suddenly be reduced to the lowly task of wiping down tables and ringing up customers, but you know what? too bad.

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THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNISM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Spainish protests

Have you heard about the Spainish protests? Do we have any espanolanonos who can elaborate?

Context: an ~80yo woman who was on a rental contract that she inherited from her parents had her house taken over by private equity, increased the rent by like 4x, then evicted her. The people successfully resisted it and it has now turned into a mass movement of the landless youth.

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I enjoyed reading Mein Kampf to laugh at Hitler's chuddery:

>My knowledge of the trade-union organization at that time was zero. I could have proved neither its usefulness nor its uselessness. As I was told I must join, I refused. I gave as my grounds that I did not understand the situation, but would not be forced to do anything whatever. Perhaps the former was the reason why they did not throw me out at once. They may have hoped they could convert me or wear me down within a few days. In any case they were deeply mistaken. But within a fortnight I had reached the end of my ability, even if I had wanted to go on. In that fortnight I came to know my surroundings better, so that no power in the world could have forced me to join an organization whose members I had seen in such an unfavorable light. The first few days I was annoyed. At noon some of the men went to near-by public-houses, while others stayed on the lot, and there consumed a (usually quite pitiful) lunch. These were the married men, whose wives brought them their midday soup in miserable dishes. Toward the end of the week their number kept growing; why, I understood later. Then they would talk politics. I would drink my bottle of milk and eat my piece of bread somewhere aside, and would cautiously study my new surroundings or ponder my wretched lot. But still I heard more than enough; and it often seemed to me that people sidled up to me deliberately, perhaps with the intention of forcing me to make my attitude clear. In any case, what I heard in this fashion was calculated to irritate me to the extreme. They were against everything: the nation, as an invention of the “capitalistic” (how often had I to hear that word!) classes; the Fatherland, as a tool of the bourgeoisie to exploit the workers; the authority of law, as a means to oppress the proletariat; the schools, as an institution to (rain up a body of slaves, and of slave-owners as well; religion, as a means of stupefying the people marked for exploitation; morals, as a symbol of stupid, sheep-like patience; and so on. There was simply nothing which they did not drag in the muck of a fearful baseness. At first I tried to maintain silence. But finally I could do so no longer. I began to express my attitude, and began to contradict. Then I realized that this was quite useless until I knew something definite about the points under dispute, so I began to go to the sources from which they drew their supposed wisdom. Book after book, pamphlet after pamphlet had its turn. On the building lot there were now often heated arguments. I went on struggling, growing day by day better informed than my adversaries were, until one day the means was used which most easily vanquishes reason: terrorism, violence. Some of the spokesmen of the opposition forced me either to leave the job at once or to fly off the scaffolding on my head. As I was alone, and resistance seemed hopeless, I preferred to follow the former advice, richer by one experience. I left, filled with disgust, but at the same time so agitated that it would have been quite impossible for me to turn my back on the whole affair. No; after the flaming up of the first indignation, my stiff neck once more got the upper hand. I was absolutely determined to find another construction job just the same. My decision was strengthened by the privation which closed me in its heartless embrace a few weeks later, after I had eaten up what little wages I had saved. Now I had to, whether or no. And the game began all over again, only to end as it had before. I struggled with myself: were these human beings, worthy of belonging to a great people ? It was a painful question. If the answer were yes, the struggle for a national body was really not worth the effort and sacrifice which the best individuals must make; but if the answer were no, our people was poor indeed in human beings.

TL;DR Hitler is impoverished in Vienna, gets a job, refuses to join the union because "i don't know nuffin bout dat shit and u cant make me do nuffin", workers try to educate him, he gets annoyed with them for not being nationalist enough and being anti capitalist, starts to debatebro ben shapiro style, they threaten to beat his nerd ass, he leaves pissed off and decides they're all subhumans. This is hilarious to me because all the neo nazi revisionists try to make hitler out to be more anti capitalist than the "judeobolshevik" marxists.

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The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.
The worldwide communist revolution has started.

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Reasonable Doomerism

I'm extremely embarrassed to say so; but I will disclose the info for the sake of this thread. I'm a middle-class urbanite argentine.
I want to know what's coming for me in the (im 30) next 3-4 decades -mainly to guess if I'll have to KMS or not- in terms of "doomerism"
Eg; climate change, climate-refugee waves, turbo -crony capitalism , AI algorithmic takeover, resource extraction, fiscal-pension horrors, etc and so on.

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News 10/16/26

Brazil's incoming right-wing Congress takes aim at judge who jailed Bolsonaro
Driving the effort are allies of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro who dominated legislative elections this ‌month and plan to take aim at Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court justice responsible for the ex-president's arrest and conviction on coup-plotting charges. That would represent a major escalation by the legislative branch in a years-long power struggle with an empowered Brazilian judiciary, reasserting the influence of Congress and potentially pushing the court to the right for years to come.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-incoming-right-wing-congress-takes-aim-judge-who-jailed-bolsonaro-2026-10-16/

Brazil’s Lula says he now backs lowering age of criminal responsibility to 16
The U-turn, which Lula announced during a Thursday night interview with TV Globo, comes with the presidential runoff in just over a week. The incumbent faces an uphill battle to overturn the first-round victory of his opponent, the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who remains slightly ahead at the polls.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/brazil-lula-age-criminal-responsibility

De la Espriella announces “open, resolute, and patriotic struggle against wokeism”
"Culture has an enormous capacity to shape society, and that is why the State has a moral, inescapable, and political duty to prevent cultural spaces from being taken over by social communism, which is atheist and an enemy to the fundamental values upon which the nation of Colombia is built. This is where that cultural counterrevolution will begin." said President Abelardo de la Espriella. De la Espriella said that Holguin, the daughter of a reported money launderer, would lead the “Culture War” against the “extreme left,” which has “permeated all parts of society, particularly the cultural and academic spheres.”
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-announces-open-resolute-and-patriotic-struggle-against-wokeism/

Palestinians wounded, US journalist hospitalised after coordinated attack by masked Israeli setters
Video footage circulated online showed Washington Post journalist Heidi Levine being knocked to the ground and repeatedly beaten by settlers with sticks. The reporter was hospitalised after the incident, along with another Palestinian, medics said. Speaking from her hospital bed with a bandaged hand and her voice shaking, Levine told reporters: "I was attacked, pushed to the ground. Luckily I had my flak jacket and helmet, otherwise I probably wouldn't even be here, because they just kept kicking me and kicking me, probably fifty times.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-wounded-us-journalist-hospitalised-after-coordinated-attack-masked-israeli

Iraq parliament fills Cabinet posts, naming a US-sanctioned deputy prime minister
Laith al-Khazali, appointed to that post, is the brother of Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iran-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia. Laith al-Khazali was arrested by U.S. forces in 2007 over allegations related to an attack targeting American forces in Karbala in January of that year, which resulted in the deaths of five U.S. soldiers.
https://apnews.com/article/iraq-deputy-prime-minister-sanctions-laith-khazali-5b602c6e33a4fefe1abb53277de44263

South Korea reviews expanding military mission in Middle East, report says
South Korea is reviewing an expansion of its military operations in the Middle East, the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper reported on Thursday, as the US ally faces pressure from President Donald Trump to provide support for the war in Iran. Seoul is weighing expanding the operational area of its Cheonghae anti-piracy unit, which was dispatched to the Gulf of Aden in 2009, to include the Gulf of Oman, which links to the Strait of Hormuz, the newspaper said, without naming sources.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/south-korea-reviews-expanding-military-mission-middle-east-report-says

US holds more secret talks with Myanmar's military-backed rulers in Tokyo, sources say
It was not immediately clear exactly what the two sides discussed at last week's talks, disclosed to Reuters by three people with knowledge of the engagement. The people, including one US official, all requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the meeting. US Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research Michael Vance again led the Tokyo talks, which involved more than a dozen US officials, one of the people said. Reuters could not establish who represented Myanmar.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-holds-more-secret-talks-with-myanmars-military-backed-rulers-tokyo-sources-2026-10-16/

In Europe’s tech capital, Irish labor unions are booming amid AI-driven layoffs
But the weekend before, a very different conversation was taking place at the Workers' AI Counter Summit, as Ireland's tech workers demanded a say in how the burgeoning technology reshapes the workplace and society. Ireland's lucrative tech sector has been rattled by waves of AI-driven layoffs — and the country's fledgling tech union has seen an exponential spike in sign-ups from workers who are worried about their future.
https://www.politico.eu/article/in-europe-tech-capital-ireland-irish-labor-unions-are-booming-amid-ai-layoffs/
https://archive.ph/93YM2

Massive wave of job cuts in the German chemical industry
A massive wave of job cuts is looming in the German chemical industry. Three weeks ago, Evonik CEO Claus Rettig asserted he would accelerate the restructuring of the leading German chemical company. Sites in Germany are being closed and relocated, and subsidiaries are being sold. In total, Evonik plans to cut nearly 11,000 of its more than 31,000 jobs worldwide.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/16/vowp-o16.html

Growing food price fears as water firms blamed for drought and sewage failures
WATER privatisation was slammed today after a severe drought was declared across southern England while a Welsh firm was fined £280,000 for “unacceptable” sewage spills failures. The Greens and National Farmers Union (NFU) raised concerns over food price inflation from the conditions while water and flooding minister Emma Hardy warned action is needed to prevent water shortages becoming “the norm.” She told MPs the current drought conditions following months of low rainfall were “something we have not experienced for decades.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/growing-food-price-fears-water-firms-blamed-drought-and-sewage-failures

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The internet is inherently hierarchical and tends toward giving already established and popular entities undue voice.

In the real, physical world, people encounter things that they are physically close to and can sense through their sight, hearing, etc. This is the concept behind protesting out on the street.

On the internet, there is no built in discovery mechanism like there is in the physical reality. People never just type in domain names to se what's there, especially these days. You could own "starmer.sucks" and maybe get like two visitora a year.

Discovery on the internet is based on network effect and platforms. You are at the mercy of other people linking to your site or whatever platform you're posting on choosing to recommend you.

In contrast, the material world has discovery built in. You pass a street protest, you hear their chants, you see their faces. You see some graffiti. You didn't search for it. The people who did tjat didn't have to pay Google for the privilege of being seen.

This is why real life is so important. Touch grass my Marxbros

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