/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Also, was he responsible for Libya being a hell hole to flood Europe with migrants or was that Hillary?














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how would you say was life for people who lived in francoist spain or hitler's germany? I never hear much about the quality of life for people there, just that hitler gutted pay for workers but most people seemed to like him regardless in his nation?

Is exploitation subjective?

If a state appropriates surplis value for some social or cultural purpose, if person A believes this is a useful culture or social need, then it is not exploitation. However if person b believes it is wasteful and does not serve his or her needs then it is exploitation

How do you cope with this future? This is WW3 as predicted by George Friedman. Will happen by 2050 and will last for like 5 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_100_Years:_A_Forecast_for_the_21st_Century

I've been doing some thinking after reaching the post-Marxist schools of thought and their disillusionment with the Left and Actually Existing Socialism striking a nerve because I could not only relate to their frustrations but also I could see these frustrations among leftists even today decades later. It was a moment of existential dread, as if we had reached a dead end.

Historically speaking every revolution, capitalist or socialist, was spearheaded by what today we call the PMC. Is it a coincidence? Oh yes well, only the PMC had the opportunity and education and the means and the connections and a sort of righteous jealousy (the belief, the awareness, the expectation that they deserve more) and so on and so forth. But why is it that we, for example, live in a system that has no problems ideologically with glorifying the concept of revolution in its media? How many capitalist movies are there where the Good underdogs defeat the Bad bullies and usher in a new age? Certainly this is not coming from the ruling class - why would it be in the interest of the ruling class to glorify revolution? So if not the ruling class, then… The PMC? Well that would certainly fit the profile of the people involved in the movie industry! But why would the PMC do such a thing? Perhaps because the PMC ARE revolutionaries. Is it a coincidence that words like revolution, progress, breakthrough are common in PMC lingo? You might be thinking this is a compliment. It isn't. The PMC revolution,, unsurprisingly… Is of a PMC character, which is to say it is carried out in the interests of the PMC. Marx, who was PMC himself (bless his heart), spoke of a group that he considered petty-bourgeois not because of their relation to the means of production but because of their bourgeois consciousness - the righteous jealousy I previously mentioned in other words. Could this be the PMC and if so, are the implications it carries for PMC-led revolutions not self-evident? And if it is the PMC, then the PMC would be in a permanent state of revolutionary activity as they claw at the system without ever actually attaining ruling class status. Their vandalism does not threaten the overall order, it only makes the lives of certain people (depending on the PMC's disposition) more miserable by having to put up with their vandalism. If you extend this to, for example, the PMC propagandists (academics, pundits, etc.) their conflicting dynamics can finally be observed as part of a lPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

would anyone want to join a tankie / STRONGLY "class reductionist" DSA caucus? We'd basically just create comics explaining marxist concepts, try to craft proposed legislation around catering to the proles in both urban and rural areas, and organize our members into militia groups by area. We already have a philosophical org founded, where we discuss dialectical materialism (inner party), but want to move forward with starting a caucus (outer party)

We'd call it a Critical-Mass-Line philosophy, with the idea being that we'd be a completely peaceful organization until we got a large enough portion of the population under our sway to do lots of armed protests, on the streets and inside buildings.

So, I've infiltrated chats of the climate strike movement in the imperial core. I've been trying to explain to these NPCs, how this so-called democracy™ we live in is at best a fake one. No matter how hard I try to spoon-feed those brainwashed drones, I make zero progress in redpilling, no matter how much overwhelming evidence, arguments and examples I show to them. As you can tell, this experience has been quite frustrating for me to a point that I hate them more than fascoids now. It's amazing, how often liberals use the same bad-faith tactics in discussions as the chinlets do.
For the sake of my sanity and not falling further into doomerism, I'll assume that this has been my personal failure and I want to learn better tactics on how to redpill libs successfully.
This particular issue is that libs are utterly convinced that countries of the imperial core are indeed true democracies® and that we, as the climate movement, are only failing, because we aren't making good enough arguments to convince people of our cause – which is true to some extent, since there are still plenty of green capitalist libs present. But it is obviously not the only issue, since we are facing an entire system built to suppress change from the bottom up.

Can you help me with this, comrades?

Why is Maduro such a cuck? Wtf went wrong in Venezuela? Not a bait thread, i'm actually curious. Could this have been avoided? If yes, how?

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15217

Anyone familiar with this magazine? Never heard of this before, but it looks promising. It is interesting to see, that lately more and more leftist, explicitly non-ML media is emerging. I wonder how much they differ from other mainstream leftist publications such as Jacobin magazine.

https://www.thebellows.org/

Kamala Harris’s anti-immigrant tour: Identity politics in service of imperialism
>A child of immigrants, Harris was entrusted with the dirty and, indeed, homicidal job of coordinating a multinational crackdown on immigration.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/09/pers-j09.html

Well written. So glad the authors of this analysis referred to the 1950s CIA activities of people such as Edward G. Lansdale, one of the sources for Graham Greene's QUIET AMERICAN Alden Pyle. This "special relationship" goes way back!