[ home / rules / faq ] [ overboard / sfw / alt ] [ leftypol / siberia / hobby / tech / edu / games / anime / music / draw / AKM ] [ meta / roulette ] [ cytube / wiki / git ] [ GET / ref / marx / booru / zine ]

/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

"The anons of the past have only shitposted on the Internet about the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
Name
Options
Subject
Comment
Flag
File
Embed
Password (For file deletion.)
Required: 2 + 2 =

Join our Matrix Chat <=> IRC: #leftypol on Rizon
leftypol archives

| Catalog | Home
|

 No.1764921[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

So, let me point out that I’m scheduled to help kids practice English, and I’ve been looking for ways to discourage them from emigrating.

One of the interesting things I’ve discovered is that the ratio of average wages between China and the United States is only 3.6, with the average worker receiving 16575 or so USD per year. Factor in cost of living differences (PPP), and the ratio is only 2. Then consider that first tier cities in China often have a GDP per capita twice that of the national average, and guess what? You can live in China, work in China, and enjoy a material lifestyle that is 67-100% that of the United States, all the while touching, as others have asked me to, good, Socialist grass.

That is, of course, assuming you have high-end skills you can be paid for in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, or Wuxi.

So, let me show off what Beijing is like. This, I think, is from the Wangfujing shopping district near Tiananmen.
154 posts and 83 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.

 No.1792236

>>1791182
>>1791634
Modern China arguably has policies that favour the proletariat less than the social democratic countries of the 40s, 50s and 60s into the 70s. Probably because the bourgeoisie there is far less threatened. Also social democracy is bourgeois politics entering the proletarian movement it is more heinous of a problem for a communist party because it is revisionism, i.e. bourgeois politics entering the vanguard of the proletariat

 No.1792255

>>1792145
OCaml compiler nerds. China always needs talented Westerners to defect.

 No.1792257

>>1791644
Reformed multiple times; another run of reforms may be necessary.

>>1792231

Median wages have grown 33% in real terms over the last decade, and are likely to grow another 25% over the next. However bad it may seem, China is still an upper middle income country and cannot afford full socialism (it has only, in terms of development, gotten to the level of the Soviet Union in 1989).

Labor conditions continue to improve year by year as the country becomes more prosperous, and socialist LARP in Beijing or Shanghai is only a 30% pay cut, while socialist LARP in first-tiers is only a 40-50% pay cut, all very affordable, especially since expats with valuable skills are well-paid and global interlinkages easily allow a standard of living comparable to Western countries, especially European ones.

 No.1792258

>>1792236
China resembles social democracy, but it is not. It is a socialist country encapsulating a vibrant capitalist sector that is kept subordinate to the dictatorship of the proletariat. The Haute Bourgeoisie is carefully kept under the thumb of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, and the petites are kept as Red as possible.

It is admittedly the most liberal of actually socialist countries, but it is swinging back to the left.

 No.1792894

>That is, of course, assuming you have high-end skills you can be paid for in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, or Wuxi.
>assuming you have high-end skills you can be paid for in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, or Wuxi.
>assuming you have high-end skills
>high-end skills
Oh really



File: 1709783957239.png (1.14 MB, 640x920, ClipboardImage.png)

 No.1786603[Reply]

<“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

This quote, often put forward by reactionaries, is actually true, but with heavy asterisks.

>Hard times create strong men.

>Strong men create good times.
This is true. But not of slave owning planters like George Washington, but of their slaves. Not of imperial core soldiers, but of the people they bomb and radicalize.
>Good times create weak men.
>Weak men create hard times.”
This is also true. Not of the leftists ruining society with their lack of patriotism, but of the decadent ruling classes in the imperial core, maintaining an unfair hegemony and living a lifestyle characterized by a total lack of adversity, where they are even free to ignore contrary opinions.
63 posts and 20 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.

 No.1790082

>>1787680
>>1787863
Material reality like the first world destroying this planet the last centuries?

 No.1790099

"Hard men create good times"
- OP

 No.1791434

>>1786603
>Hard times create strong men
Who are weak mentally, hence the reign of the neoconservative

 No.1792234

>>1791434
exactly. machismo is often a sign of immaturity or sociopathy

 No.1792237

>>1791434
Have you ever looked at them? There is a reason why the soyjak or the heelvsbabyface thing is a meme.



 No.1791915[Reply]

Are you an anti fascist or are you a leftist?
I get the impression people here are just anti fascists.
The goal should for everyone to work less and earn more.
Fascism is hardly a threat either way.
37 posts and 2 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.

 No.1792147

Why does leftypol have so many fucking reactionaries lately? Was there a raid recently?

 No.1792149

>>1791985
based, antifascism is the worst product of fascism

 No.1792161


 No.1792288

>Are you an anti fascist or are you a leftist?
I am a socialist, and an anti-fascist.

>The goal should for everyone to work less and earn more.

That's not the socialist demand, although a socialist economy should incidentally achieve that due to its structure.

 No.1792313

I'm a communist, not a leftist



File: 1710187360891.jpg (172.79 KB, 1200x800, 65ebba2555590.image.jpg)

 No.1791643[Reply]

Women’s Day in Venezuela: Feminists Advocate for Labor and Women’s Rights
Speakers from several collectives highlighted issues such as the need to secure legal, safe and free abortion as well as better wages to cover basic living costs as the country continues to suffer under US economic sanctions. Feminist organizations have consistently raised demands for free contraceptives, sexual education in schools as well as legal abortion to avoid more deaths from clandestine procedures.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/multimedia/womens-day-in-venezuela-feminists-advocate-for-labor-and-womens-rights/

Employees of Argentine state news agency shut down by government reject retirement plan
The Press Union of Buenos Aires (Sipreba) on Monday rejected the thirty-day voluntary retirement program for all permanent and temporary employees of the state press agency (Télam) proposed by its administration after Argentine President Javier Milei announcement the state company’s closure.
https://www.laprensalatina.com/employees-of-argentine-state-news-agency-shut-down-by-government-reject-retirement-plan/

Israeli general who blew up Gaza university would've got green light if he asked: Army Radio
The commander, Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram, was formally censured for destroying Al-Israa University in January without "the necessary authorisation," the Times of Israel (TOI) newspaper cited the Israeli army as saying on Monday. The army accuses Hamas of having used the building as a command centre, something the Palestinian group denies.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-general-blew-gaza-university-without-permission

UN-backed commission says 30,000 children are suffering rights abuses in northeastern Syria
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria said most of the children were brought by their parents to parts of Syria and Iraq after the extremists declPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1791667

Federal judge in Texas blocks US labor board rule that would make it easier for workers to unionize
A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule by the National Labor Relations Board that would have made it easier for millions of workers to form unions at big companies. The rule, which was due to go into effect Monday, would have set new standards for determining when two companies should be considered “joint employers” in labor negotiations.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/federal-judge-texas-blocks-us-labor-board-rule-107998334

Judge blocks tighter Washington state oversight of immigration detention center
A federal judge blocked Washington state from enforcing most of a law intended to boost oversight and improve living conditions at the state's only privately run, for-profit immigration detention facility. Friday's preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle will benefit Geo Group (GEO.N) , opens new tab, the owner of the Northwest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center in Tacoma.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-blocks-tighter-washington-state-oversight-immigration-detention-center-2024-03-10/

DHS Using Hamas to Expand Its Reach on College Campuses
The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up its efforts to penetrate college campuses under the guise of fighting “foreign malign influence,” according to documents and memos obtained by The Intercept. The push comes at the same time that the DHS is quietly undertaking an effort to influence university curricula in an attempt to fight what it calls disinformation.
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/10/dhs-college-campus/
https://archive.is/u8V6X

California officer shoots and kills boy, 15, holding gardening tool
The San Bernardino county sheriff’s department was responding to a 911 call on Saturday from a faPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1791671

Here comes PAAU to claim those Venezuelan feminists are “CIA” or some shit.

 No.1791677

The USA gets more fascist by the day.
>>1791671
And with it, their citizens, including the pseudo left.

 No.1791711

PFLP: There is No Difference in Essence and Content Between the Positions of Biden and Netanyahu
The Front emphasized that there is no difference in essence and content between the positions of war criminal Biden and those of war criminal Netanyahu, and that both positions cling to continuing the aggression on the Strip and not [implementing] the ceasefire in Gaza, and that the difference lies in some tactical matters on the ground, in light of the occupation’s failure to achieve any goal on the ground, which constitutes an embarrassment and pressure on Biden as his popularity declines, and the escalation of waves of anger in the American public opinion against him, and in the midst of the American and international desire and the official Arab regime to stop the ceasefire during Ramadan to avoid any major escalation in the region and the area that would turn on them.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/11/pflp-there-is-no-difference-in-essence-and-content-between-the-positions-of-biden-and-netanyahu/

As Neo-Nazi ‘Active Club’ Grows, Charges Against Its Founder Dismissed
Central District of California — Highlighting the growth of Active Club, a prominent global violent neo-nazi group with nearly 50 chapters in the United States, more than 100 new symbols for the group have been added to the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism’s (GPAHE) database. Evolving from what was once the alt-right Rise Above Movement (RAM), Active Club has been especially active in its targeted recruitment of mostly young white men online. Both RAM and Active Club were created by Robert Rundo, a self-professed fascist and white nationalist who promotes antisemitic tropes. Rundo was a fugitive from 2018 until 2023 for charges stemming from participating “in a series of violent attacks at political rallies in 2017, including events in Huntington Beach, Berkeley, and San Bernardino,” according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney after Rundo’s arrest. Four other members of RAM were charged in a separate indictment for their participation in the violent events in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1792113

TYBNA



 No.1790422[Reply]

The minimum wage should be $100 an hour
The working week should be 20 hours per week as was written in the book
That means everyone gets $6000 per month for working
The retirement should be no more than 52
Housing should be a right
This should all be written in the constitution
No it's not unrealistic under a socialist government
79 posts and 17 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.

 No.1791717

If we can't have the equivalent of a 20 hour working week and $100 minimum wage then what's the point?
>>1791186
The auto workers factories would be competing agaisnt global companies. I don't see gaining anything via reform.

 No.1791718

>>1791186
I think you're dumb and utopian

 No.1791797

>>1791204
bringing attention to unpaid housework didn't really do anything until the economic pressures of neoliberalism put more women to work anyway

 No.1791996

>>1791718
Can you please explain why I'm an utopian?

 No.1792108

"economists" will say this will cause the country to enter "rapid inflation" and sharply decrease "productivity" wow what a bunch of buzzwords



 No.1755950[Reply]

Anyone want to organize some monthly Internationale sing-alongs here? I mean, most online political communities are nihilist / cynical disasters, so I thought we should have some Marxist / Leftist / Socialist positivity once in a while.

No political content for the main event; just, let's sing along to the Internationale in various languages.
37 posts and 3 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.

 No.1759661

Also, finally, yes, the Internationale has been coopted by anti-Communists the world over. It is a generic Leftist song, but as such, it also unites the Left, anarchist, syndicalist, Marxist, whatever.

The entire problem with parts of the left is that we splinter. We are prone to dispute and we are prone to not allowing ourselves to be subject to discipline.

In an era where much of the world was still ripe for revolution, our truculence was an asset, not a bane. Now, the Naxalites are downed, the Maoists barely made it in India, Shining Path is dead, most of Latin America is seeing a reactionary backlash, and in the First World, glowie has his boot on our throats.

The first instinct among many should be to infiltrate, infiltrate, infiltrate, but the second should be to subvert, subvert, subvert. By improving our own moral character, by making our own example charismatic through our goodness, the heterodox and the glowies can be moved to our own side.

I suppose this is incredibly idealistic, but is it any more idealistic than waiting for capitalism to collapse?

In one, we can take active action and through practice refine our understanding of theory. In the other, we simply shitpost.

> Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.


Ineun uli majimag, pangalim ssaum-ini
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1759662

>>1759661

Correction, the Maoists barely made it in Nepal. The Naxalites are still around, but they're mostly contained in India.

 No.1760153

File: 1707849504309.png (1.81 KB, 318x159, cuba.png)

>>1759662


Borrad el rastro del pasado!
Arriba, esclavos, todos en pié!

 No.1763945

File: 1708107584797.png (1.98 KB, 200x133, vietnam.png)

chế độ xưa ta mau phá sạch tan tành
toàn nô lệ vùng đứng lên đi

We will quickly destroy the old regime and completely destroy it
All the slaves stood up and left

 No.1792034

Hey, Gay Nazi. What would be really cool would be for Rammstein to put up a version of the Internationale. Tang Dynasty has the flaws insofar as it's still neotenous East Asians doing the work, and they live in censorship regimes.

That said, IIRC, in Chinese movies the Internationale is usually played to shots of workers being shot to death, or some other assorted martyrdom.

Then there's always In The Heat of the Sun, where the protagonist beats a random person to death to this music.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ny421Y7d2



 No.1789146[Reply]

I am disgusted by the amount of Zionist bootlickers I see on /lgbt/. They’re all fascists who want to see every Muslim on Earth genocided to extinction. They are even worse on this issue than /pol/
44 posts and 8 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.

 No.1790815

>le you’re a fascist if

I’m a fascist you’re a fascist everyone is a fascist

 No.1790817

The Middle East literally wants to exterminate fags, can you really blame them

 No.1790823

Wait so are gay people a monolith and you expect them all to fall in line with le revolution

 No.1790989

STOP potraying countries/governments/areas as hating queer or minority. STOP judging a country based on law or what the government of said country said or what the people say. STOP DOING ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
>muh experience!
>ern i never write it
potraying is a special kind of bad. fuck all of you

 No.1792001

The identity of the "homosexual", a genetically-determined sodomite, was created in the late 1800s in a book by Havelock Ellis, a eugenicist (thus the "it comes from genetics" myth) and drug addict who was having sex with Margaret Sanger (the woman that founded Planned Parenthood and said contraceptives + homosexuality + feminism would help permanently destroy the proletarian population).
intolerance of non-traditional genders and sexualities is something that was largely propagated by imperialists
The first LGBT activists (e.g. Magnus Hirschfield) praised the British Empire and said they hoped it conquered the world because wherever it went, laws prohibiting homosexuality were struck down



File: 1709864805684.png (134.59 KB, 328x354, ClipboardImage.png)

 No.1787694[Reply]

How can one combat gentrification? If not legally, then without a high risk of arrest.

Hard mode: Don't encourage organized crime or unhygienic living conditions. The goal is not a reactionary return to the status quo ante.
20 posts and 5 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.

 No.1791906

>>1791047
Unironically this

 No.1791951

>>1791047
They build only 'luxury' housing ultra cheap primarily as investment vehicle which sits mostly empty and gets torn down in a few decades.

 No.1791953

>>1791047
weve got enough empty housing already lol

 No.1791955

File: 1710204762742.png (1.24 MB, 1596x684, ClipboardImage.png)

>>1791047
Lol that's a myth. They say that NIMBYs don't want dense housing in their neighborhood because it will devalue their property, but if you have a single family unit in the midst of dense housing, that house becomes valuable as shit.

 No.1791956

>>1791047
>>1791953
I'm in the third world and even here it's filled with empty and ridiculously expensive apartment buildings. The ones that aren't empty have been bought out by people who already own several homes.



 No.1790807[Reply]

>why doesn't Cockshott fix the NHS if his theories work
Well why doesn't he?
There's his opportunity right there since the UK health system apparently is not as good as it could be?
15 posts and 2 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.

 No.1791300

File: 1710170919877.png (150.29 KB, 464x550, 0008798798.png)

>>1791104
What's crazy is I found this book from 1973 which stated the USSR was a developed economy by the late 1950's. The soviets' biggest mistake ever was that they gave up in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_economic_expansion#Soviet_Union

 No.1791470

>>1790813
We would have full communism already if he fixed his god damn mic.

 No.1791672

>why don't capitalists want the working class to have healthy lives

 No.1791680

>>1791470
This unironically

 No.1791854

>>1791224
There's a town called Marinaleda in Spain that's run by a communist mayor. They'll build you a house at cost and a job in the town cannery to pay for it.



File: 1710167760442.jpeg (13.18 KB, 474x316, th-718424910.jpeg)

 No.1791252[Reply]

I still have a ridiculous hope in electoralism anons. Sunak's speech after George got elected is a sign of fear. Everybody who supported Corbyn before the sabotage and psyops comes out again and unites behind Corbyn and Galloway. Let me have my dream. Is idpol the only thing preventing this? The Generals threatened a coup last time and Pompeo was recorded threatening that Corbyn would have to "run the gauntlet" if elected, but Corbyn's 2016 constituency and Galloway's current constituency united would be unstoppable. Galloway is talking about it in interviews. The establishment is afraid.
7 posts and 1 image reply omitted. Click reply to view.

 No.1791285

>>1791267
100%. The mobilization of US/UK/Israeli intel and media against a coalition would be something to see. They would have to expose themselves. The meltdowns would be epic, like Chris Mathews saying that Bernie would have executions in central park.

 No.1791288

File: 1710170345332.jpg (30.97 KB, 666x500, 11888.jpg)

>>1791267
>They'd drown every British citizen in the channel before they'd let that happen.
Picrel basically the blueprint.

 No.1791307

>Supporting Corbyn or Galloway is the same electoralism

 No.1791835

Women and Black people have always been told by western revolutionary movements
>now isn't the time
Idpol people need to hear it now too. Anyone talking about muh social issues needs to put it aside, now isn't the time. A Corbyn Galloway coalition could change things and change the zionist hold on the UK. Fuck it, I'll be a transhumanist too in 20 years when the tech is there.

 No.1791840

btw the reason Galloway is a fedorabro is because he got assaulted in 2014 by a schizo convert to judaism and has scars. The same schizo got taken to a kibbutz and feted when he was released. Sure would be interesting to know who he belonged to, there's an absolute media blackout on it.



Delete Post [ ]
[ home / rules / faq ] [ overboard / sfw / alt ] [ leftypol / siberia / hobby / tech / edu / games / anime / music / draw / AKM ] [ meta / roulette ] [ cytube / wiki / git ] [ GET / ref / marx / booru / zine ]
[ 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / 31 / 32 / 33 / 34 / 35 / 36 ]
| Catalog | Home