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/leftypedia/

Leftypedia lived - Leftypedia lives - Leftypedia will live!

Greetings, comrades. Leftypedia, the radical encyclopedia, should be back in a usable state. We have more moderators, which will help with spam from now on, and images are slowly being repopulated for your viewing pleasure. The new domain has been up and running for a while at https://wiki.leftypol.org, and we've imported the vast majority of content that was on the old site while adding a lot of new stuff. I hope that Anons can come back and fill in any content that was lost.

For those unaware, Leftypedia is an original /leftypol/ project dedicated to combating the disinformation of mainstream media and academic sources, as well as discussing leftist history, theory, and practice from a multi-sectarian viewpoint. We welcome additions from different leftist perspectives provided that they are properly sourced and well argued. In addition, we maintain a separate space, tentatively titled "Essays", for more subjective or polemic work.

The original thread is here: >>>/edu/3780
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R: 500 / I: 126

/isg/ - Internet Spectacle General

A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together with the Leftypol Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org

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

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault

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

>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard

📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4

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

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

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

📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida

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

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher

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

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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory

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

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

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

<On Neo-Liberalism and Post-Fordism

[Work in progress]

>Documentaries

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

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

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

HyperNormalisation (2006) by Adam Curtis
https://youtu.be/thLgkQBFTPw


<Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)

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

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

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

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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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Russia VETOes continuation of Monitoring over DPRK Sanctions

Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution Thursday in a move that effectively abolishes the monitoring by United Nations experts of sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear program, though the sanctions themselves remain in place.


Honest Reaction?
R: 4 / I: 2
>overwhelming academic consensus is pro-trans
>overwhelming academic consensus is pro-gay
>transgenderism is affirmed by all major medical organizations
>homosexuality is not considered a mental disorder
>Trump lost
>Biden won
>The nazis lost
>The allies won
>no one likes /pol/
Face it chinlets, you lost, and TRANS RIGHTS WON
R: 70 / I: 4

Preparing for the end of the Internet

this is something we've always known was going to happen at some point. Now of course the Internet and big sites will still exist(YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter) but it will become like television was, a lot more sanitized. There won't really be any real speakers on those sites, just spectators, most rebel sites will be removed other than the enforced squeaky clean ones and I've made peace with that.
R: 500 / I: 121

/leftydeutschpol/ - Deutschland General

Letzter Pfaden wurde dank der /Pol/acken vom Brett gepusht. Deshalb ein neues Deutschland General.
R: 11 / I: 2

Class consciousness in Unionists

Is it Possible to create class consciousness in Irish unionists ?
It doesn't seem so, their hatred of "Catholics" runs very deep among them, ever since their childhood they're indoctrinated to be extremly paranoid of them.
Even if we could somehow turn them against the capitalists, they'd still side with them as they will always think of the Catholics as the greater threat…
I believe there trully is one solution, when the 32 county Irish socialist republic is established, the Irish, should give them an ultimatum, either they give up Unionism, or they leave to the Britain they love so much, altho, Ireland will keep the children, as there shouldn't be another generation corrupted by those vile ideals…
R: 45 / I: 2

Veteran hate thread

Kill all veterans. The only good veteran is a dead one. Thank God for dead soldiers. Fuck the troops. I support the troops who kill themselves. Major Nidal Hassan did nothing wrong.
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OC Thread 16.0

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

If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
https://nitter.net/leftypol_org

previous thread: >>1465628
>>>/leftypol_archive/1465628 (if it gets archived by mods)

Leftypol memes and other undesirables:
https://lefty.booru.org/

MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER
R: 500 / I: 139

/USApol/

🗽United States Politics🦅

Absolute State of America Edition

Thread for the hellish discussion related to the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the Earth.

🏈💵💸🍔

State mandated propaganda livestreams:
CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp8PhLsUcFEegalitarianism
R: 136 / I: 63

/brg/ - Brazil General

"we used to have culture" edition

come in, make friends, talk about everything Brazil related - politics, news, the arts… and shitpost, of course.

Previous thread: >>1683261
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What's going on in Vietnam?

Once beacon of stability, Vietnam to name third president in a year

Vietnam is seeking its third president in little more than a year after its ruling Communist Party on Wednesday forced the resignation of Vo Van Thuong, who was only elected last year after the sudden dismissal of his predecessor.

With accumulated foreign direct investment higher than its gross domestic product, Vietnam's stability is crucial to multinationals with large operations in the Southeast Asian manufacturing hub, including Samsung Electronics, which ships from Vietnam half of its smartphones, and Apple, which has many key suppliers in the country.

That stability, which has been guaranteed for decades by a state tightly controlled by the Communist Party, now looks less certain, although analysts agree that the current leadership changes will not impact the country's key policies, including its "bamboo diplomacy" aimed at keeping good relations with the United States and China at the same time.

Behind the latest reshuffle is the long-lasting "blazing furnace" anti-graft campaign that party chief Nguyen Phu Trong launched back in 2016. It is aimed at eradicating corruption so widespread that in some provinces up to 90% of applicants for land certificates paid a bribe, according to a report published in March 2023 by the U.N. Development Programme and other organisations.

The campaign intensified over the last two years, with critics saying it has been increasingly used for political purposes by party factions competing for power.

Thuong, 53, stands accused of having violated party rules, according to a statement issued on Wednesday, which did not clarify what exactly he did wrong.

He quit days after police announced the arrest for alleged corruption a decade ago of a former head of central Vietnam's Quang Ngai province, who served while Thuong was party chief there.

WHO COULD BE VO VAN THUONG'S SUCCESSOR?

Vietnam's parliament will meet on Thursday in an extraordinary session to accept Thuong's resignation, confirming a Reuters report from Sunday.

It is expected that it will appoint an acting president until the party decides the next candidate.

The most likely option is Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan, who had to step in last year to temporarily replace the suddenly dismissed former president Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Then it took the party a month and a half to pick Thuong, who at the time of his election had been widely seen as a close ally to the party chief Trong.

Leading candidates for the permanent position include the powerful minister of public security, To Lam, and party veteran Truong Thi Mai, according to multiple analysts.

However, the former may be interested in the far more powerful position of party chief, a role that is up for grabs in 2026 when Trong's third mandate ends, but that the ageing leader may make available earlier.

Mai's job had been seen at risk amid the latest leadership reshuffle, but no decision was announced about her on Wednesday. That could make her a lame duck - which in Vietnam has often been the key to access powerful positions.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/once-beacon-of-stability-vietnam-to-name-third-president-in-a-year
R: 500 / I: 108

/ukraine/ - Russia-Ukraine war general #172: The First AI War Edition

Remember!!: Always voot with confidence!

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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740

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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY

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

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

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

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

📺 Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0

📺 The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZN1KK9Mzuo

<Current Happenings

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

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Social media
>Twitter
https://nitter.net/GeromanAT
https://nitter.net/wargonzoo
https://nitter.net/plnewstoday
https://nitter.net/RALee85
https://nitter.net/MarQs__
https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael
https://nitter.net/IntelCrab
https://nitter.net/NotWoofers
https://nitter.net/michaelh992
https://nitter.net/Suriyakmaps

<Telegram

https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/grey_zone
https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/Slavyangrad

🇷🇺🇺🇦
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 MULTIPOLARISM general thread: >>>/leftypol/1590991
• Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged! Spamming glowie memes is low effort.
• Remember to take your meds! It helps mediate schizoposting and foot fetishism
• this is /isg/ for people who treat geopolitics like shitty map games
R: 500 / I: 113

/prc/ - People's Republic of China general

A general thread for all China related discussion.

Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
R: 263 / I: 72

On the Militia Question

Not trying to be an enlightened centrist here, but it has always seemed odd to me how people on the right and left fetishize the concept of a militia taking down a conventional army, when reality has shown the opposite result every time, I come from a shitty third world nation that is barely held together most of the time, and my country has experienced numerous rebellions by Islamists, ethnic nationalists, and communists, and every time they have failed. This is because a "well-armed and well-funded militia" is no match for a well-armed, better-trained army with superior logistics and structure. Of course, in the event of a total collapse, a militia could potentially become the only proper authority for a region or if faced with an entirely incompetent and corrupt army. However, in most cases, a real army always prevails over militias. I don't know how people fell for this meme really, Eve Marx bought into this up and advocated for workers' militias, which ultimately proved to be a massive waste of time and loss of life for everyone involved, the Spanish Republicans insisted on using them in the Spanish civil war and they were a massive hinderance that lost way too many battles, and thoughts of forming an actual army was "Stalinism" and a betrayal of the revolution.
R: 266 / I: 78

/Climate/ #3 Off the charts edition

This thread is dedicated to our accomplishment of having broken the upper limit of sea surface temperature and the lower limit of antarctic sea ice amount charts this summer, hence ushering our species firmly into the capitalocene. Good job guys! Welcome to the future.

Here's an article about that:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/crazy-off-the-charts-records-has-humanity-finally-broken-the-climate

As for the news, there is a drought blocking shipping at the Panama canal, bad wildfires in North America and Greece, persistent heatwaves in eastern Europe and northern Africa, and floods in central and eastern China.

Here's the latest report from the IPCC
<AR6 Synthesis Report Climate Change 2023
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/

The website of NASA about climate is great for getting data and visualizing climate change
https://climate.nasa.gov/

Last thread: >>1332129
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Sexual Pathology of Left-Wing Sects

I spent several years as a member of the American DSA, and have heard accounts from several other people on their time in more radical ML or Maoist organizations. From these I'd like to make two general observations:

1. For rank-and-file members, left-wing organizations are extremely sex-negative. Their social events are the most awkward, un-romantic things imaginable, and a lot of the time orgs will actively instruct their members not to form intimate relationships with each other.

2. In contrast, the leadership of these organizations are fucking constantly. Whether it's DSA polycules, Trot rape cults or Maoist sex gurus, org leaders always end up having far more sex than regular members. Often they end up fucking rank-and-file members, creating imbalanced relationships that end in scandal and abuse.

So why is this the case? Why are left-wing sects so imbalanced when it comes to having sex? Is there anything we can do to correct this imbalance and promote more healthy, productive relationships between our socialist cadres?
R: 40 / I: 7 (sage)

Trainspotting

Is there something I'm missing as to why gay and trans issues are so common in the "leftist" discourse?

A fed op can't be this damn successful, because even ML communities are just filled to the brim with it. How the fuck is freedom to call yourself they anywhere near the priority of healthcare and organization?

I can't wrap my head around it. Not to mention their willingly discarding the possibility of reaching the real working class who, lets face it, could really give two shits about trans rights and mostly just wants live and let live when it comes to LGBT.
R: 156 / I: 83

Palestine vs The Zionist Entity #75: Y'all Khamas Edition

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
>>>/leftypol/1797040
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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨

Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/8/israels-war-on-gaza-live-60000-pregnant-women-face-malnutrition-in-gaza

Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories

Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-09-2024/ (trigger warning)

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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war

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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️

https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source

https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA

https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org

https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv

https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine

https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog

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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫

al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/

PFLP
http://pflp.ps/

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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺

https://tv.leftypol.org/r/happeningsviaklash

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✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥

(USA)
https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
https://www.palestineaction.org/

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HIDE JIDF POSTS, IGNORE GLOWIE BAIT, DO NOT REPLY TO MOSSAD POSTERS
(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia)

Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.

الله أكبر
يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا!
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Is marching with liberals viable?

Under a popular front for issues such as drug decriminalization / legalization, opposing corporate interests, opposing bad government policies, antifascist demonstrations and many other single-issue politics - is marching alongside liberals viable?

A prime example of such a case would be the 1999 Seattle WTO protests. And the point of it is often not to endorse liberal reformism or even more pointless voting - but to be used as a means of spreading propaganda and solidarity among the working class. More recent examples would be the 2023 French pension reform protests, the Framers' protests in all of Europe, the 2021 Brazilian protests and thousands upon thousands more.

A leftcom Bordigist for example would oppose such activities as antifascism in general, because of these features of influencing the broader masses (including liberals) which are dubbed as class-collaboration and denounced.

It ultimately also becomes a debate of big-tent organizing and secular puritanism.

I also made this thread to mention the upcoming protest in Bulgaria - Sofia called 'Use is not Under the influence of' (Протест - "Употреба" не е "въздействие") which seeks to protest against the unjust laws that have come through the infamous american so called War on Drugs. The bulgarian people have been getting arrested and facing prison time for up to 8 years for possesing one joint. The protest against such laws however is mostly driven by liberals. Although I have heard that some Anarchists from the organizations of FAB (Federation of Anarchists in Bulgaria) & The Bulgarian Prisoners' Association will also likely be attending. The anarchist faction does not attend hoping to change things through voting or reforms, but rather seeks to spread awareness about the sort of police brutality that is enacted onto victimless crimes.

Is all of it worth it? Has it yielded any results, historically speaking?
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How is revisionism bad? If Marxists see their school of thought as scientific then being opposed to revisionism contradicts your allegedly scientific attitude. In fact, that is a blindly dogmatic attitude. It is inherent to science to revise theories if knew information makes a good case for previous theories being wrong and new ones being a more appropriate descriptor of what one is dealing with. So what exactly is your problem with revisionism?
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Materialist explanation for Homeowners Associations being so shit?

HOAs are usually collectively managed, right? With elected officers and shit? Why do they have the reputation for being micromanaging psychos measuring the length of your grass and whatnot? Is this a problem that socialist communes and the like suffer?

Why do HOAs seem more reactionary than non HOA neighborhoods if it's allegedly a more progressive organization of ownership (collective vs individual)?

examples of what I'm talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrizmAo17Os
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>hyper annoying ideology
>Almost a hundred years of theoretical development
>Millions of dollars invested by think thanks to make it seem reasonable
>Hundreds of pointless internet arguments made trying to convince you that it is the most rational economic system on the planet
>Takes care of one country
>Complete bankruptcy

why do people still take Anarcho-capitalism seriously
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What if Beria won? What if Malenkov won?

Let's theorize/fantasize about alternate history.
What if Beria succeeded Stalin and managed to stay in power (let's say at least for a decade like Khrushchev)?
How would he shape the Soviet Union? Was he really going to sell out to the capitalists?

Also, what if Malenkov managed to defeat Khrushchev with his Anti-Party group? Was he planning a full return to Stalinism? How would that go? How would that affect the ongoing Cold War?
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ISIS-CIA Attack in Moscow

>Have military and tactical capabilities to damage the Russian war effort
>Choose to kill innocent civilians for no reason and accomplish literally nothing
What the fuck were they thinking? Isis also attacked Imran Khan supporters in Pakistan for no reason. I smell the CIA.
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/SEA/ - Southeast Asia and Oceania General

8th Edition: Failson squad assemble!edition.

Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! South Asia and Oceania posters can come in to discuss their regional politics as well.

Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#!YeYeuZuLSYkegWssey:matrix.org

Last threads:
https://archive.ph/5rqox
https://archive.is/Jlc7A
http://archive.is/0NhJH
http://archive.is/nDq1K
https://archive.vn/cxwty
https://archive.is/ayshz
https://archive.is/2NLO8
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A "single democratic binational state" is no better than a two-state solution

Many are increasingly waking up to the fact that a "two state solution", which imperialists have been trying to shove down the throats of the Palestinian people for years, does nothing but legitimize and reward Zionist colonialism, while denying the right to return for Palestinians violently driven out of their Homeland by the ZioFascist marauders and denying a democratic voice to the Palestinian people. Unfortunately, the alternative that many of them have embraced is a "single democratic binational state" for both the indigenous Palestinians and the descendants of the racist colonizers, who will have equal rights in this "democratic" Palestine. This is alleged to be an "anticolonial" and "socially just" solution, and people insist that when they say "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" this is what they mean.

The reality is that this "solution", no less than the two-state solution, rewards the genocidal Zionist colonizers and hideously equates their "rights" with those of their victims, while denying the right of the Indigenous population to decide who can live on their land. Furthermore, it violates the right of return: how can there be a viable right to return when the homes stolen from Palestinians are being squatted by "Israeli" colonizers? And if this one-state solution is "democratic", can't "Israeli" colonizers just bring more of their co-ethnics to Palestine to outnumber and out vote the indigenous population, and restore Zionist fascist control? Furthermore, given that 98% of "Israelis" hold genocidal ethno-supremacist views to which they are fanatically committed, the idea that they will suddebly have a change of heart and peacefully agree to such a solution in the first place is UTTERLY preposterous!

In reality, there is only solution: for the Palestinian people to wage a fanatical struggle to the death against the colonizers, with the unconditional support and solidarity of all the world's anti-imperialist fighting peoples, after which the Zionist colonizers will be given the same ultimatum that the French "pieds-noirs" were given by the Algerian freedom fighters upon their victory: the suitcase or the coffin! The Zionists must be driven out of all of Palestine, dead or alive, and the one state solution will be a free and socialist Palestine for the indigenous Palestinians. From the river to the see, Palestine will be free, and it's time we stop cucking out and actually MEAN that.
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The end of the hegemony of the current imperial core will be a good thing, but will not mean communism is ushered in. This statement should be obvious, but apparently it isn't. Whenever people support the end of imperial core hegemony in the short term, there are always those who show up to "remind" everyone that

>1: multipolarity (an objectively emerging material condition which they call "multipolarism) is not communism,

>2: multipolarity will cause more geopolitical chaos
>3: the vilified rising star nations (BRICS+) are not communist
>4: you are duginist revisionist campist nazbol etc. if you critically support the periphery against the core.

Even more annoying than the above type of person are the JDPON (Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of Oppressed Nations) larpers, possibly trolls, or false flaggers, who actually do seem to pretend that the end of imperial core hegemony equals insta-JDPON. No. Obviously not. Obviously the imperial core waning in power means other countries rising in power. Obviously a new imperial core could form, just as it has in the past. Obviously the center of gravity of capital will continue to move around.

I think the real non-caricature hope among Communists is not that the end of imperial core hegemony equals insta-JDPON, but rather that, it will become harder and harder for imperial core capital to simply repeat the tricks of underdevelopment (coups, sanctions, embargoes, brain drain, destruction of fixed capital in warfare, etc.) which made it oh-so-easy for the core to use the periphery as a cheap labor source. Once "foreign" workers are, on average, just as cheap as "domestic" workers, due to equal levels of development, there will no longer be an incentive to outsource or brain drain. And once that happens, there will no longer be an easy scapegoat for reactionary politics. The domestic bourgeoisie will no longer be able to blame the foreign proletariat for "stealing jobs" and so on. International class consciousness will be on the rise.

Multipolarity, which is an emerging material condition, and not an ideology, is not an improvement in the mode of production itself, but an improvement in the potential conditions for raising class consciousness and encouraging international solidarity.

pic unrelated
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What are we to do with the ever-increasing agespan of adolescence?
This is a serious problem in the first and second world.

Why is it normalised to waste away your teens and twenties (AND THIRTIES!!!) in quiet despair and zero technical skills?
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Peterson's criticism of Marxism are so shallow.
How did he gain steam with these shallow arguments?
Post modernism? That's a criticism of Marxism. It called Marxism a metanarrative. Why is he conflating the two?
Now he's testifying before congress agaisnt china for it's social score.whats wrong with the social score?
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/QTDDTOT/ - Questions that don't need their own thread

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

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

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

Is there any resource where I can get quick info/copypastes to BTFO anticommunists? I know leftypedia was possibly going to have something like this but couldn't really see anything about it on there. Does anyone else have any ideas for how to compile this?
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/career/

Previous thread: >>1263434

Talk about job/career advice and other related stuff from a leftist perspective. EX: How to get a job, promotion, skill, switch companies, resume, life hacks, etc.
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Unironically what should I do

I can't take this anymore, I need to make some sort of choice. It's undeniable I literally live in the Fourth Reich. This is in fact World War III and I'm on the bad guy side. Since I was a teenager I've flirted with the idea of just up and leaving the USA and somehow making my way in Europe, which is the closest I could get to the good guys without being a colonizer myself. But then as a socialist I decided that the honorable thing to do would be to stay where I am and try to change things for the better here.
I'm wracked with guilt. No matter how atrocious it gets I still go to work every day and go about my life, my rationale to myself is that I have two roommates, whose rent would climb from $800 a month each to $1200 if I were to leave our house-share. Not to mention, my parents are getting old and lonely, and will need my help at some point. I feel so disgusted with my situation, and I confess I'm too much of a coward to sacrifice myself like Aaron Bushnell. I want to believe that if I was actually (rightfully) invaded by one of the USA's many, many victims I could be an ally, but for now until that happens everything I do makes me a rustless screw in the mass-murder machine. Every cent I pay in taxes goes to the bombs, to the guns, to the terror.
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News 3/27/24

Hezbollah launches rocket barrage after Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill 7
About 30 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel on Wednesday, according to the Israeli military. Israeli emergency services said a 25-year-old factory worker in Kiryat Shmona was killed. The Israeli army’s attacks on al-Habbariyeh hit a paramedic centre linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group. The Emergency and Relief Corps said the victims were volunteers.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/27/hezbollah-launches-rocket-barrage-after-israeli-strikes-on-lebanon-kill-7
https://archive.is/jTzoP

Over 30 people detained in Şırnak and Urfa
Three people named Rızgar Güneş, Hasari Kılıç and Yasin Güneş were detained in the rural neighbourhood of Cûrnûs. On the grounds of the same investigation, Mahmut Yolcu was detained in Koçveren rural neighbourhood and Sabri Taş, a polling station attendant of Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) was detained in Milke rural neighbourhood.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/over-30-people-detained-in-Sirnak-and-urfa-72453

Racist attacks by ultranationalist Turks in Belgium leave several Kurds seriously injured
A large group of ultranationalist Turks launched a racist attack on Kurdish families returning to their homes in the Belgian towns of Houthalen-Helchteren and Heusden-Zolder in Leuven after celebrating Nevruz on Sunday, leaving several of them injured, according to reports by Medya News and ANF English.
https://www.turkishminute.com/2024/03/25/racist-attack-by-ultranationalist-turk-belgium-leave-several-kurds-seriously-injured/
https://archive.is/TAyOR

Germany set to add citizenship test questions about Jews and Israel
New questions, German magazine Der Spiegel reported, are to include: What is a Jewish house of prayer called? When was the State of Israel founded? What is the reason for Germany’s special responsibility for Israel? How is Holocaust denial punished in Germany? And, somewhat mysteriously: Who can become a member of the approximately 40 Jewish Maccabi sports clubs in Germany?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/26/germany-citizenship-test-israel-jews-holocaust/
https://archive.is/WUGd2

German investigators work through hundreds of tips on fugitive Red Army Faction suspects
German investigators said Wednesday they were working through hundreds of new tips on the whereabouts of two fugitive suspected ex-members of the left-wing militant Red Army Faction following the arrest last month of their former comrade after decades in hiding.
https://apnews.com/article/germany-red-army-faction-fugitives-34f783e0def6e44dbd1118ed2d462762

Britain's communists accuse ‘lapdog Labour’ of pandering to the Tories
The former Young Communist League general secretary urged the labour movement to fight instead for an independent foreign policy free from US diktat and Nato, based on peace and co-operation not imperialist exploitation and war.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/britains-communists-accuse-lapdog-labour-of-pandering-to-the-tories

Stellantis signs deals to cut at least 2,500 jobs in Italy
Up to 1,520 employees will have the opportunity to leave Stellantis with financial incentives in Turin, including 300 at the Mirafiori plant and 733 office staff, the UILM union said.
Stellantis agreed further voluntary lay-off deals for up to 850 employees at its Cassino assembly plant in central Italy, and for up to 100 at its engine making facility in Pratola Serra, said the FIOM union, which did not sign the deals.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stellantis-signs-voluntary-exit-deal-up-1500-workers-turin-2024-03-26/

Thailand poised to legalise same-sex marriage after parliament passes bill
The bill must now be approved by the senate and endorsed by the Thai king. After this endorsement, the bill would be published in the Royal Gazette and become law after 60 days. If that happens, Thailand will follow Taiwan and Nepal as the only countries in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/27/thailand-poised-legalise-same-sex-marriage-parliament-passes-bill

India to spend $3.7 bln to fence Myanmar border, source says
India plans to spend nearly $3.7 billion to fence its 1,610-km (1,000-mile) porous border with Myanmar within about a decade, said a source with direct knowledge of the matter, to prevent smuggling and other illegal activities.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-spend-37-bln-fence-myanmar-border-source-says-2024-03-27/

Australia’s carbon credits system a failure on global scale, study finds
Research by 11 academics found the most popular technique used to create offsets in Australia, known as “human-induced regeneration” and pledged to regenerate scrubby outback forests, had mostly not improved tree cover as promised between about 2015 and 2022.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/27/australias-carbon-credits-system-a-failure-on-global-scale-study-finds

Milei to Cut 70,000 State Jobs, Boasting of Chainsaw Austerity
Beyond the job cuts, Milei boasted Tuesday at an event that he’s frozen public works, cut off some funding to provincial governments and terminated more than 200,000 social welfare plans, which he labeled as corrupt. It’s all part of his strategy to reach a fiscal balance at any cost this year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/milei-to-cut-70-000-state-jobs-boasting-of-chainsaw-austerity
https://archive.is/tSpbl

Chile opens lithium salt flats for investment, saves two for state control
The long-anticipated announcement sheds light on how President Gabriel Boric's government plans to carry out a policy announced last year to boost state control over the South American country's lithium industry, the world's second-largest after Australia.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chile-opens-lithium-salt-flats-investment-saves-two-state-control-2024-03-27/
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Communist gotta get our shit together fr

Let's face it folks, you can only cope with the Red Scare and propaganda keeping you out from influence for so long, it can excuse not holding the reigns of power, it can even excuse not having a mass movement, it cannot excuse having damn near 0 popularity at all and only social democracy being remotely compelling to people

Looking at how tiny and insular parties are, how basically fucking dead most communist chats and forums are (even leftypol is mostly dead) its fair to say that part of the issue is not only that communism has become a subculture, but it's not even a likable subculture for most of the people within it.

If we look at the problems with the people in the subculture it's fairly obvious, and many fellow travelers I know irl tell me exactly why they don't give a damn about interacting with communists.

1. Communists are generally extremely conceited; most commies treat people like morons, this extends to how we generally treat each other in fact, most communists even talk down to other communists
2. Leftist culture centers around critique and polemics at this point, i.e. negativity, it essentially feeds into an internal culture where it seems like communists essentially scorn fun, hence communist subculture cannot even said to be fun
3. Communists generally cannot handle disagreement, they claim it's no big deal, they definitely can, and encourage it, but not at all, its literally a meme in the left that parties will split apart over things ranging from minor disagreements to personality feuds; in the realm of real world politics this takes on the appearance of slaughters of other factions and even wars between MLs
4. Communists cannot take criticism; this is one of the greatest weaknesses of them all, MLs to anarchists will claim they encourage criticism but nothing could be further from the truth, the response communists have to criticism is generally self-righteous indignation and rejection of said criticism, it doesn't matter if it comes from another communist or a liberal, it is emphatically rejected, the communist as much as the liberal; you know it's fucked when you can only abide critique from someone who thinks exactly like you

TL;DR: Communists are way too self-righteous, abrasive, conceited, and fuckin boring
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AMLO’s strategy

>does socdem policies
>harasses reporters
>pisses off Americans
>becomes one of the most popular leaders in the world and in Mexico’s history
How the fuck does he do it? It’s like bad American press strengthens him.
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Wikispooks and Independent Journalism Thread

What is the general consensus on Wikispooks? I don't see it being talked about that often on here.

I think it's a good source for normalfags but gives too much credit to right wingers and neo nazis by treating them like innocent journalists that are snuffed by the big evil gov/corps. Also Independent Journalism thread.
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Ai automation will herald a new industrial revolution

I'm sitting in a room where a socialist and a libertarian are arguing about the future. I thought i'd put the libertarians current argument to yall.

Inequality isn't such a big deal because soon (he says in the next 30 years), robotics and ai will make labour unecessary. This will culminate in an insane decrease in the cost of creating housing and pretty much every other manufactured good. This will mean that society will have to change extremely radically most peoples labour will not be necessary. Most people will not have to work because things will be so abundant, this means that people are going to be able to live much more comfortably because they will have more free time and extremely low cost commodities because of the cost of labour has been eliminated from the cost of commodities.
Inequality will be recalibrated to something reasonable in the near future because of robotics and ai.
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Class is the lowest hanging fruit for someone to choose to focus all their hate on

Before I begin my meme rant blogpost, I'm not taking away from the validity of hating on the super rich or anything like that because I think it's good to redistribute their wealth and keep them from becoming to powerful.
I'm just saying its EASY to go online or at some protest and say things like
>fuck rich people
>the only war is a class war
etc
It has the widest margins in the sense of 99% of humans on this planet would be considered lower class or whatever compared to that 1% who has millions or billions of money or assets. Ontop of that, since class has no color in the most strict unbiased definition, its just such a broad stroke that its like saying you hate mosquitos or disease or something.
On the flip side its HARD to get people to rally behined you when you say you hate women or certain genetics or sexualities or ideologies or certain religions or anything that could get you fired from work or outcast from your family friends or into physical altercations with randoms. Also on the side note, I don't want to straw man you guys and say that EVERYONE who says fuck the rich is also just deep down inside jealous and resentful for being born poor, because there are plenty of legit logistical, philosophical, historical reasons to keep rich people down, but nevertheless I wouldnt doubt if a significant fraction of commies were just sprouting their entire worldview from a simple jealousy view point.
TLDR: I guess my point is alot of you guys are stuck in like the tutorial mode of hate and theres only so much you can accomplish with that and its easy to say the things you say.
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/webm/ Thread 6

1st thread: >>>/leftypol_archive/9920
2nd thread: >>>/leftypol_archive/481354
3rd thread: >>>/leftypol_archive/492596
4th thread: >>>/leftypol_archive/561028
5th thread: >>>/leftypol_archive/588525

WebM for Retards™ (Webm Converter): https://github.com/WebMBro/WebMConverter
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HILO LATINOAMERICANO 7.0

Casi nuevo hilo, para un casi nuevo año. As always we allow everyone to speak english, we are not Ukrainian fascists.
Conmemorando a Alexis Castillo esta ocasión.

Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/
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Glowiepedia thread

post instances of Wikipedia glowing, that is WP displaying blatant US/NATO propaganda or disinformation as facts
discuss ways of making WP glow less, including sharing sources that counter the glow. meta studies by reliable institutions are best
what to do if you discover radioactive material on WP:
>do NOT edit without logging in. otherwise your IP will be displayed. IP edits are viewed with more suspicion by editors. VPN or Tor IPs even more so
>DO register an account
>do NOT register more than one account per IP. sockpuppetry is not difficult to detect
>DO edit more articles than just those that glow. this helps build good reputation
>DO complain loudly on Talk pages. some articles are restricted, but Talk pages generally are not
>DO familiarize yourself with WP's bureaucracy. lib editors love referring to WP:OR, WP:SYNTH and similar to try and shut down discussion
WP editors are autistic, but not as autistic as the average poster here is. dedicated comrades can de-glow pages given sufficient numbers and patience
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What do you think of Hypernormalisation theory?

I learned about Hypernormalisation theory through an Adam Kurtis documentary. It’s about how the west is going through the same thing the USSR went through in the 80’s. We’re living in a failed state, but lie to ourselves to pretend we’re not, because we don’t see any alternatives.

https://youtu.be/to72IJzQT5k

I was a berniecrat, long before I even knew who he was.
But now, I see the state is far too enveloped in corruption to be trusted.
It’s like trusting a crackhead to buy your groceries.

A 30 year mortgage rate on a middle class home is going to cost over a million dollars. Which has resulted in an abrupt increase in homelessness.
The state of California spends 55k a year on each homeless person. Which is a bargain compared to the 80k we spent on keeping them in prison. But still far above the median income at 33k a year.
So if you worked hard enough to earn as much as the state spends on the homeless, it would cost 22 years salary to pay off a 30 year mortgage.

The whole pyramid scheme is collapsing and there’s no fucking stopping it. We can’t vote our way out of this mess, because you can’t rewrite the laws of mathematics.
All we can do is acknowledge it and look to build a parallel system to fail into.
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An intriguing thread which explores why the general public often fails to grasp the true essence of a 'bad' character and how often leftists unintentionally undermine themselves by portraying said characters with qualities that appeal to the average person
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News 3/26/24

UK court says Assange can’t be extradited on espionage charges until US rules out death penalty
Two High Court judges said they would grant Assange a new appeal unless U.S. authorities give further assurances within three weeks about what will happen to him. The ruling means the legal saga, which has dragged on for more than a decade, will continue — and Assange will remain inside London’s high-security Belmarsh Prison, where he has spent the last five years.
https://apnews.com/article/britain-wikileaks-julian-assange-espionage-appeal-98c15267f0cdf63685bfb49766749a0a

Deadly air strikes in Syria kill over a dozen including WHO worker
A hotly contested area of northeast Syria was pounded by air strikes on Tuesday, killing over a dozen people including a member of the World Health Organisation and at least one Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official, according to several reports.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/air-strike-syria-deir-ezzor-dozen-who

49 people died in 37 attacks in "de-escalation zone" since the beginning of March, says SOHR
SOHR said that one Damascus army soldier was killed in the attack. It was reported that 'El Fatah El Mubîn' also bombarded the Ayn Issa region in the north of Latakia using missiles. According to SOHR, 49 people have died in 37 attacks in the "de-escalation zone" since the beginning of March 2024.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/49-people-died-in-37-attacks-in-weapon-free-zone-since-the-beginning-of-march-says-sohr-72430

Wages in Argentina Suffer Record Drop After Milei Devalues Peso
Paychecks plunged 11% in December from November when adjusted for inflation, the largest monthly loss in income since the government’s labor market reports began 29 years ago. The decline, while partially compensated by wage gains in January, led to a “significant drop” in consumer purchasing power, the government said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/wages-in-argentina-suffer-record-drop-after-milei-devalues-peso
https://archive.is/2A5fR

Brazil and Colombia voice concern as Venezuela bans opposition candidate
The scuppering of Yoris’s candidacy prompted an unusually firm response from the governments of Brazil and Colombia, which have both been trying to coax Maduro back towards democratic governance. “Based on available information, the candidate put forwards by the Unitary platform … was prevented from registering, which is not compatible with the Barbados agreement,” Brazil’s foreign ministry said, in reference to a deal between Maduro’s government and the opposition last October intended to ensure free and fair elections.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/26/nicolas-maduro-blocks-presidential-candidate-corina-yoris-venezuela

Indian opposition supporters detained ahead of protest at Modi's home
Kejriwal's party, all of whose main leaders are now imprisoned in connection with the case, says he has been "falsely arrested" in a "fabricated case". The federal government and Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) deny political interference. On Tuesday, Kejriwal's supporters attempted to march to Modi's residence, but were stopped by police at a location where they gathered about 5 km (3 miles) away.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-opposition-supporters-detained-ahead-protest-modis-home-2024-03-26/

Five Chinese nationals among six killed in suicide bomb attack in Pakistan
No armed group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. The Chinese embassy in Islamabad or the Chinese foreign ministry in Beijing have not commented on the incident yet.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/26/five-chinese-nationals-killed-in-suicide-bomb-attack-in-pakistan-police
https://archive.is/JLQhW

Senior doctors in South Korea submit resignations, deepening dispute over medical school plan
Senior doctors at major hospitals in South Korea began submitting their resignations en masse on Monday in support of medical interns and residents who have been on strike for five weeks over the government’s push to sharply increase medical school admissions.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-doctors-strike-af7f3170f8df747066b1d14b9883fb25

Japan approves plan to sell fighter jets to other nations in latest break from pacifist principles
Japan’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets that it’s developing with Britain and Italy to other countries, in the latest move away from the country’s postwar pacifist principles.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/japan-approves-plan-sell-fighter-jets-nations-latest-108484603

Palestine Action shut down production at Israeli weapons manufacturer in Kent
Elbit Systems provides a range of weaponry for the Israeli military, including 85 per cent of their military drone fleet and land-based equipment, as well as electronic warfare, bullets, munitions and gun components.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestine-action-shut-down-production-israeli-weapons-manufacturer

ABC Australia staff’s concerns over pro-Israel bias revealed
“We’re worried the language we’re using in our coverage is askew, favoring the Israeli narrative over objective reporting. This is evident in our reluctance to use words such as ‘War crimes’, ‘Genocide”, ‘Ethnic cleansing’, ‘Apartheid’ and ‘Occupation’ to describe the various aspects of the Israeli practices in Gaza and the West Bank, even when the words are attributed to respectable organisations and sources,” staff said in the document, which is signed “Concerned ABC journalists and staff” and addressed to “managers and colleagues”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/26/australias-abc-staffs-concerns-over-gaza-bias-revealed
https://archive.is/SEkKt

Train drivers in Germany win cut in working week without a pay cut
The deal foresees standard working hours being reduced to 35 hours in four stages from 2026 to 2029. But employees will be able to choose anything from a 35- to 40-hour week, with those who choose to work longer getting more pay. The agreement also features a pay rise totalling €420 (£360) per month in two stages and a one-time payment of €2,850 (£2,444) to compensate for inflation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/train-drivers-germany-win-cut-working-week-without-pay-cut
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https://mises.org/mises-wire/visit-karl-marxs-apartment
Why do reactionaries denounce marx for being loose with money, but then mock him for living in squalor? What exactly do they allege he spent his money on?
R: 20 / I: 3 (sage)
Why is green part so much richer and racially whiter than red region? Is it because they were once part of Austria while the other was part of Spain? Also fuck the stupid one hundred filter, I'm writing this to bypass it
R: 5 / I: 1

Book Recommendations on Vietnam

I'm going to read "Kill Anything That Moves" to see the American perspective but I'm interested in a leftist and anarchist perspective on the history of the left in Vietnam, the war and the vietcong itself.
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Communism = capitalism with a 100% tax rate.
There's literally nothing else to it.
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/cybercom/

This thread is for the discussion of cybersocialism, 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)
>Victor Magariño
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJJwfW0R3Lv486AjwUWxIYw (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCJJwfW0R3Lv486AjwUWxIYw)
https://twitter.com/Victormagajr (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Victormagajr)
https://www.patreon.com/victormagarino
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel

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

Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
>>1390377
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/leftybritpol/ FAKE ROYAL FAMILY Edition

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68526972

>Princess of Wales: Kate image withdrawn by three news agencies amid 'manipulation' concerns


>Three photo agencies have retracted a picture of the Princess of Wales over concerns it has been "manipulated".


>The image, taken by Prince William and issued by Kensington Palace for Mother's Day, showed Catherine with their three children.


>But Associated Press was the first to pull the image as it "did not meet" the agency's photo standards. The agency noted an "inconsistency in the alignment of Princess Charlotte's left hand".


>Kensington Palace declined to comment.


>The photo shows the princess sitting down, surrounded by Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis and Prince George, the latter wrapping his arms around her.


>It was the first official photo of the Princess of Wales since her abdominal surgery two months ago. Since then she has stayed out of the public eye.


>The image was posted on the Prince and Princess of Wales's social media accounts with a message from Catherine which said: "Thank you for your kind wishes and continued support over the last two months.


>"Wishing everyone a Happy Mother's Day."


The latest edition of the iconic thread.

We need to shut this country down until we can figure out just what the hell is going on here!
R: 339 / I: 46

Japanese Communist Party's death spiral

This party sucks shit. It's constantly pissing everyone off and for the past decade it's been on a war path against anything "erotic" and now they are turning its attention towards the most popular manga magazine shonen jump and telling its followers to snitch adult magazines to the United Nations!

Genius moves ostracizing yourselves even more with manga authors and youth, the party is bleeding members fast and they think to prioritize meddling with manga. What's the deal with this party?
R: 128 / I: 17

Ecosocialism?

What do you make of ecosocialism? I personally don't like that it drives to the forefront the ecological crisis rather than the class struggle and rather often tends to liberal solutions but in a roundabout Žižekian way, using completely nonserious Marxist terminology and justifying it with thousands of academic references. I also don't like that they're implicitly Trotskyite, but unconsciously so, making them Stalinist in practice. (that last part could just be my personal experience).
R: 608 / I: 265 (full)

Palestine vs The Zionist Entity #74: Best Bank Edition

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
>>>/leftypol/1789540

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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨

Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/8/israels-war-on-gaza-live-60000-pregnant-women-face-malnutrition-in-gaza

Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories

Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-09-2024/ (trigger warning)

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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war

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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️

https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source

https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA

https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org

https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv

https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine

https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog

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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫

al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/

PFLP
http://pflp.ps/

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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺

https://tv.leftypol.org/r/happeningsviaklash

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✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥

(USA)
https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
https://www.palestineaction.org/

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HIDE JIDF POSTS, IGNORE GLOWIE BAIT, DO NOT REPLY TO MOSSAD POSTERS
(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia)

Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.

الله أكبر
يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا!
R: 193 / I: 88

Political Psychology Test

Hop aboard the datamining-victim train and post your results, retards
R: 55 / I: 18

Peron

what does leftypol think about Peronism?


it was a good alternative in relation to the leftist failures of the time? i know that now it has been misinterpreted and is being misapplied in latin america (i did not see this perpetuation of ideals and personalism so marked in other democratic countries).
I would like to know what anon thinks, not only of Peron but also of justicialism as such
Justicialism achieved a productive populism but on the other hand its democratic legitimacy is much discussed (it was said that in schools they made children swear by Peron and Evita)
R: 3 / I: 0

News 3/25/24

Brazilian police arrest suspected masterminds behind the killing of councilwoman-turned-icon
Police investigators said federal legislator Chiquinho Brazão and his brother Domingos Brazão, a member of Rio state’s accounts watchdog, were detained on suspicion of ordering the killing of Franco. Both are allegedly connected to criminal groups, known as militias, which illegally charge residents for various services, including protection.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-slain-councilwoman-847dc4eb42704f9c6bdee62fce030d5f

Argentinians marked the anniversary of 1976 military coup as political leaders attempt to rewrite history
As tens of thousands of protesters marched through central Buenos Aires and raised banners vowing “Nunca Mas,” or never again, the country’s far-right president posted an astonishing video on social media demanding justice for those killed by left-wing guerillas before the coup took place.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/argentinians-marked-anniversary-1976-military-coup-political-leaders-attempt-rewrite

Jair Bolsonaro reportedly ‘hid’ in Hungarian embassy after allies arrested
Security footage obtained by the US newspaper appeared to show that in early February – four days after two Bolsonaro aides were arrested on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the Brazilian government – the rightwing populist took shelter in the embassy, a short drive from the presidential palace Bolsonaro once occupied.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/jair-bolsonaro-hiding-embassy

Serbians are petitioning against a planned luxury project backed by Trump son-in-law’s firm
Pro-Trump government officials in Serbia have welcomed the project, but the opposition and many in the general public have spoken out against it. For many, the site of the bombed-out army command building is a potent symbol of Serbia’s resistance against what they called NATO aggression 25 years ago.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-03-25/serbians-are-petitioning-against-a-planned-luxury-project-backed-by-trump-son-in-laws-firm.html

Amazon Appeals Fine by French Watchdog Over Staff Surveillance
Amazon.com Inc. is appealing a January decision by the French data protection watchdog CNIL, which fined the company €32 million ($34.6 million) for setting up a system to monitor employee activity and performance that it called “excessively intrusive.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-22/amazon-appeals-fine-by-french-watchdog-over-staff-surveillance
https://archive.is/6X5cs

Jordan: police clash with protesters near Embassy of Israel
Riot police fired teargas to push back hundreds of protesters marching on the Embassy of Israel in Amman on Sunday in protest at Israel’s latest storming of hospitals in Gaza and mounting civilian deaths, Reuters has reported. The Jordanian authorities had earlier deployed riot police to disperse demonstrators gathered in Al-Kalouti Mosque in the capital who were planning to march on the heavily fortified Israeli embassy nearby.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240325-jordan-police-clash-with-protesters-near-embassy-of-israel/

War on Gaza: Unrwa says Israel to block its food convoys from reaching northern Gaza
Blocking aid by Unrwa, the largest humanitarian organisation in Gaza, would make "the clock tick faster towards famine", Lazzarini said, warning many more will die of hunger and dehydration. "This cannot happen, it would only stain our collective humanity," he said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-unrwa-says-israel-block-food-convoys-reaching-north-gaza

Myanmar Polls May Not Be Held Nationwide: Junta Chief
Junta supremo Min Aung Hlaing said officials were currently focusing on verifying voter lists, reiterating that polls could only come once peace was restored.The military has made numerous pledges to hold elections since it seized power in February 2021, but has repeatedly extended a state of emergency as it battles opponents across swathes of the country.
https://www.barrons.com/amp/news/myanmar-polls-may-not-be-held-nationwide-junta-chief-8905177c
https://archive.is/S6n5g

Senegal’s anti-establishment candidate almost certain to become president
Senegal’s anti-establishment candidate looks almost certain to become president after a stunning election victory that is likely to steer the west African country in a radical new direction. A little over a week after his release from prison, Bassirou Diomaye Faye is almost certain to be declared the country’s next president after his main rival unexpectedly called him on Monday to concede defeat.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/radical-change-candidate-ahead-in-senegal-election

Minawi’s Sudan Liberation Movement to fight alongside army
The Sudan Liberation Movement breakaway faction under the leadership of Minni Minawi has chosen to fight with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in its war against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum and El Gezira. Gen Yasir El Atta, deputy commander of the army, repeated his refusal to negotiate with RSF commanders and told his troops in Omdurman yesterday that they will continue to fight ‘until victory’.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/minawis-sudan-liberation-movement-to-fight-alongside-army
R: 9 / I: 2
>the biggest war in history erupts
>all countries have to implement state communist policies to have a chance of survival
Why did it work so well in the middle of the 20th century, but now is a big taboo?
R: 29 / I: 3

Socialist Revolution, and Development

Has there ever been a successful socialist revolution in a developed capitalist nation?

Is it fair to claim Marx asserted that a society must first advance to a capitalist mode of production in order to progress to a socialist MoP, and that contrary to their predictions, the trend of developing-world revolutions has required capitalist industrialization to be performed under socialist government? And, do you agree with this strategy?

(short direct answers, as usual, will not be read - go back to twitter)
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Why did propaganda of the deed fail?

In theory it doesnt sound bad. Threat the elite with possible death at any moment to further the revolutionary cause. Make them pay a price for their evil actions. Yet it seems to have failed, or it was not done properly.

Take for example the recent Palestine protests. Protesters even went to the home of politicians and weapon manufacturers. Yet nothing changed. The missing ingredient was bullets through their windows. Surely there will be a reaction. Police dissolves protest? Take 1 police with you. Let them understand that a price must be paid everytime we retreat.

What you think?
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on reddit atheism

I hate religion and believe it should be prohibited, although it should still be preserved for historical purposes. However, we have encountered what is termed as "Reddit atheism," a type of atheism that is so off-putting that it makes you hesitant to even identify as an atheist. It embodies a sort of delusion of the South Park fan, where individuals with objectively mediocre intelligence believe they are superior to large segments of the population simply because they do not believe in God (or anything else, for that matter). Many on the political left are also coming to this realization. It has become increasingly difficult to disagree with a religious person without receiving a condescending "you dropped your fedora" remark and having others rally behind them. Even Stalin recognized the significance of faith and religion, and what it meant for the people
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Capitalism was no progress at all

Class societies have always been the same, people are pushed to do stupid things which keep the society going with majority of people living miserable lives. Capitalism has been no progress at all in terms of productive forces or otherwise. What capitalism does is that it creates tons of garbage on mass scale, which gives semblance that people have access to much more and much better but it is more of shit. Let us take the example of food, yeah the capacity to produce food has expanded but it is just shit food and that too is not available to all. The mass produced food is giving everyone and their mum cancer and at the end of it all what do we have? We have same everything in capitalism as we did in any other form of class society earlier.
R: 9 / I: 3

News 3/23/24

Paraguayan Indigenous Peoples & Farmers Start March in Asuncion
On Thursday, the National Farmers' Federation (FNC) kicked off its 30th "Farmer, Indigenous, and Popular March" in Asuncion, the capital city of Paraguay, under the motto "For land and production, and against All Injustices."
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Paraguayan-Indigenous-Peoples--Farmers-Start-March-in-Asuncion-20240321-0009.html

Indian Steel Company Set to Take Over Venezuelan State-Owned Iron Ore Complex
Headquartered in New Delhi, Jindal Steel & Power is India’s third largest private steel producer. It is part of the OP Jindal Group, a conglomerate of several metalworks companies. Bloomberg had originally broken news of an agreement in September 2023, but the reports were denied at the time.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/indian-steel-company-set-to-take-over-venezuelan-state-owned-iron-ore-complex/
https://archive.is/KrxOw

FARC dissidents claim guerrillas supported Petro in Colombia’s 2022 elections
In a post on social media platform X, EMC chief “Ivan Mordisco” responded to an derogatory remark by the president, who accused the EMC of being gangsters. "Petro accuses me of being a gangster… When we supported him during the campaign we weren’t gangsters. On top of betraying us, he betrayed the people who supported him for his progressive and peace discourse."
https://colombiareports.com/farc-dissidents-claim-guerrillas-supported-petro-in-colombias-2022-elections/

U.S. Officially Bars UNRWA Funding Through March 2025 After Biden Signs Gov't Funding Bill Into Law
The bipartisan bill, which Biden signed into law, also cuts funding to the United Nations Human Rights Council unless the administration can certify that it is taking 'significant steps to remove Israel as a permanent agenda item,' and banning funding for the UN Commission of Inquiry on Israel
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-03-23/ty-article/.premium/u-s-officially-bars-unrwa-funding-through-march-2025/0000018e-6cfb-d477-abbf-effb6e770001
https://archive.is/BlYeM

Israel seizes 800 hectares of Palestinian land in occupied West Bank
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has declared 800 hectares (1,977 acres) in the occupied West Bank as state land, in a move that will facilitate the use of the ground for settlement building. The announcement on Friday came as United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/22/israel-seizes-800-hectares-of-palestinian-land-in-occupied-west-bank
https://archive.is/ZYo6x

A Moroccan town protests water management plans
Residents worry the policy changes could jeopardize their livelihoods and, in turn, the community’s future. Carrying signs and chanting that their water is not for sale, they have suggested the plan is a pretext to privatization — a claim authorities deny.
https://apnews.com/article/morocco-figuig-water-drought-protests-1ec994283c7719c1501c670ef6674c9a

Finland to resume funding to UNRWA
"UNRWA improving its risk management, meaning preventing and initiating close monitoring for misconduct, provides sufficient guarantees for us at this point to continue our support" Foreign Trade and Development Minister Ville Tavio said…. Countries including Canada, Australia and Sweden have also restored funding to UNRWA, while several Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia have increased funding.
https://www.reuters.com/world/finland-resume-funding-unrwa-2024-03-22/?ref=upstract.com

"No Pasaran!": KKE-KNE members in Alexandroupolis blocked train carrying US-NATO tanks
As 902 portal reported, the KKE and KNE members blocked the railroad by staying firmly in front of the train with the banner and flags thus forcing the train to stop. Additionally, the protesters spray-painted the armored vehicles, writing on them the phrase "Killers Go Home".
https://www.idcommunism.com/2024/03/no-pasaran-kke-kne-members-in-alexandroupolis-blocked-train-carrying-us-nato-tanks.html
https://archive.is/1vNVp

England won’t adopt EU river pollution rules for pharma and cosmetics firms
Chloe Alexander, a senior campaigner at the CHEM Trust, said: “The UK must urgently mirror EU measures to make polluters pay to remedy the problems they cause, as well as to ban the use of harmful chemicals at source, before they harm our health and pollute our environment. Currently, the UK public and environment continue to be exposed to a growing number of harmful chemicals that are getting banned in EU countries.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/22/england-wont-adopt-eu-river-pollution-rules-for-pharma-and-cosmetics-firms

‘Brazen propaganda’: pro-Modi films flood Bollywood before India election
As Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) seek a third term in next month’s election, a feverish pro-government momentum has gripped Bollywood, blurring the lines between entertainment and political campaigning in India’s largest film industry.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/22/brazen-propaganda-pro-modi-films-flood-bollywood-before-india-election

'Economic Inequality in India Now Sharper Than Under British Raj'
Among the key findings, the paper found that after Independence, till the early 1980s, economic inequality had declined. Thereafter, it started rising and ‘has skyrocketed since the early 2000s.” In what is a clear reflection of ‘crony capitalism’ under the Narendra Modi government, the paper notes that “between 2014-15 and 2022-23, the rise of top-end inequality has been particularly pronounced in terms of wealth concentration.”
https://www.newsclick.in/economic-inequality-india-now-sharper-under-british-raj

Australia to contribute $3bn for construction of AUKUS submarines
Australia is set to provide 4.6 billion Australian dollars ($3bn) to British industry to help support the construction of nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS deal with the United Kingdom and the United States and ensure its new vessels arrive on time.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/22/australia-to-contribute-3bn-for-construction-of-aukus-submarines
https://archive.is/SEl6r
R: 6 / I: 0

World War 3 and the Age of Deceit

https://juliancribb.blog/2024/03/20/world-war-three-begins/

World War Three is a universal conflict between tested truth – and convenient lies. Between reality and manufactured fantasy. It is a fight for the human soul. It will determine whether our civilisation survives, or goes down in darkness. At stake may even be the survival of our species.

Humanity is presently facing the greatest existential emergency in our million-year history. This comprises ten man-made catastrophic risks: 1. Extinction and ecocide, 2. Resource depletion, 3. Global poisoning, 4. Global overheating, 5. Nuclear arms race, 6. Food insecurity, 7. Overpopulation, 8. Pandemic disease, 9. Dangerous new technologies and 10. Mass delusion.

No Government on Earth has a policy for solving these. There is no plan for human survival.

Potentially, the most deadly of these threats is mass delusion. The uncontrolled spread of lies, misinformation and disinformation in all societies renders it almost impossible for humanity to take concerted action to arrest and roll back the other nine catastrophic risks.

Misinformation paralyses governments and destabilises world politics, it leads to war, rots out the heart of democracy, spreads mistrust, causes widespread death and suffering, destroys public faith in science and nullifies rational decision-making by governments, businesses and individuals.
R: 103 / I: 21

HOW AI WILL BRING COMMUNISM

https://twitter.com/InfraHaz/status/1759417512591003667

It's very strange how self-proclaimed 'Marxists' on social media are hostile to emerging AI technologies.

This is because one of the most important details which set Marx apart from his socialist contemporaries was both his INSISTENCE on the irreversibility of advances in the productive forces, and the view that they, without exception, hastened transition into socialism.

All Marxists should be familiar with the famous passage:

"At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto." (Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy)

Is this not exactly what is happening with AI? AI is disturbing relations based on 'intellectual property,' which are the main source of income for 'professional artists.' The facts are irrefutable: These parasites who are attacking AI are reactionaries in the most literal and inarguably traditional sense of the word.

Some argue that AI 'steals the labor' of artists. Aside from the fact that this is a ridiculous use of the word 'labor,' it attempts to hijack quasi-Marxist terminology in a way completely antithetical to everything Marxism is about.

Marxism regards challenging the property question as fundamental to Communism. To quote the Communist Manifesto:

"In all these movements, they [Communists] bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time." (Communist Manifesto, Ch. 4)

The notion that Marxist language can rightly be employed to defend 'Intellectual Property' is absurd just on that basis. But worse, Marx himself was an explicit opponent of intellectual property.

In the Grundrisse, Marx regards the shared knowledge, ideas, and by logical conclusion, artistic products as belonging to what he called the General Intellect (Grundrisse, Notebook 7), which is inherently social.

The notion that an individual can turn a part of the general intellect into their own property just because they expended effort to communicate or discover it, is completely opposed to Marx's view.

Why? Because for Marx, all of society participates in this process, as every individual takes for granted the wealth of knowledge, abundance, and precedent created by others before ever creating something unique.

The idea that someone has the right to an arrangement of pixels on the computer screen, is akin to the idea that you can turn language itself into a form of property, and that by using words we obviously didn't invent ourselves, we are 'stealing' others 'labor.'

Hijacking the language of Marxism in order to defend what is the most ridiculous institution of property created by capitalism yet, by comparing the free proliferation of ideas, software, and visual media to 'exploiting the labor' of 'intellectual workers' is a complete mockery of the Marxist outlook.

Violating someone's 'intellectual property' rights is no more akin to 'exploiting their labor,' then expropriating the property of the capitalist class itself.

In fact, Intellectual Property is even more illegitimate than capitalist property. It is a parasitic, rentier-based form of property, which, in contrast to capitalist industry, does not even produce any material wealth.

As a matter of fact, the first defense of the institution of private property was based on the view, even before classical political economy, that private property is the objective product of human labor, and that questioning it as an institution is akin to calling for the theft of others' labor.

Some may protest, and decry the 'loss of employment' by 'thousands' of 'artists' as a result of AI.

But Marx was no stranger to how the mechanization brought by the Industrial revolution devastated many different ways of life and classes within society, a force which helped drive many layers of society into the proletarian class. Anyone familiar with the Communist Manifesto is familiar with the following passage:

"All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind." (Communist Manifesto, Ch. 1)

This process happened on a much larger scale, with far more ruthlessness and ferocity, than anything we could now possibly witness with the rise of AI.

This did not stop Marx from recognizing that it was an objectively necessary historical development. It is not about personal feelings or opinion. To Marx, industrial modernity was irreversible and unavoidable.

And yet, we see a huge outcry over how aspirational 'digital artists,' hollywood writers, and other 'creative' professionals will become unemployed as a result of new technologies.

Keep in mind that leftists barely raised their voices over the decades long automation which destroyed the jobs and livelihoods of tens of millions of industrial workers.

Keep in mind, Pan-leftists constantly cheer on the breakup of small-businesses and small farms, lauding the conquest by monopoly capital as 'progressive' and even using Marxist verbiage to justify this view.

They are somehow ruthless technological and social accelerationists when it comes to small farmers crushed under debt, but become the most sentimental, romantic reactionaries when it comes to 'digital artists.'

Why do they consider 'creative' professionals to have greater moral worth than ordinary people? It's simple: Because many are themselves from this background.

It's very strange how this shamelessly self-serving 'moral outcry' is justified in the language of 'Marxism,' because the Marxist outlook is that of a completely impersonal science of class struggle, which leaves no room for warping reality so that it conforms to ones own feelings.

Some claim that while AI is not inherently 'bad', its present realization will accentuate all the worst aspects of capitalism, therefore, it should be opposed.

This opinion is completely incompatible with Marxism.

Marx and Engels were unambiguous about how, yes, under capitalism, advances in the productive forces are what lay the foundation for ushering in the transition into a qualitatively new era of history, which they identified as communism.

This is because advances in the productive forces centralize, concentrate, and socialize the total productive powers of society, in a way they regarded as an inadvertent result of capitalist accumulation itself. To quote Engels himself:

"Since steam, machinery, and the making of machines by machinery transformed the older manufacture into modern industry, the productive forces evolved under the guidance of the bourgeoisie developed with a rapidity and in a degree unheard of before. But just as the older manufacture, in its time, and handicraft, becoming more developed under its influence, had come into- collision with the feudal trammels of the guilds, so now modern industry, in its more complete development, comes into collision with the bounds within which the capitalistic mode of production holds it confined. The new productive forces have already outgrown the capitalistic mode of using them." (Anti-Dühring)

You may try and argue Marx and Engels were wrong. But if they were wrong, their entire view of capitalism and socialism was also wrong.

This view was not based in feelings, or some narrow moral criticism. It was based in what they regarded as an impersonal scientific outlook.

The notion that AI should be opposed because it will damage the livelihoods of 'workers' is also nonsense. Even if we were to accept the ridiculous view that the 'creative' parasites are 'workers' in any meaningful sense (whose income is IP and rent-based, producing no material surplus out of which capital can valorize itself from scratch), this view is still inarguably reactionary.

It seeks to preserve, against the tide of advancing history itself, antiquated relationships of production, imposing fetters on the development of the productive forces in the name of 'protecting' certain professions. How very charitable! Only, it is reactionary garbage, what Marx called 'bourgeois socialism.'

It's also ironic that social liberals, who demand respect for the diversity of different individual tastes, fashions, sexual orientations, gender identities, etc., simultaneously believe we are immoral scumbags for both consuming and making use of products made with AI technologies.
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ANOTHER JAKARTA METHOD JUST DROPPED

Historian Stephen Rabe has a book about US actions in Guyana in the 1950s. It's a hard to believe, but he says the destruction of democracy in Guyana was the ugliest action by the US during the cold war. He lays out how The CIA and Kennedy destroyed the country. This is relevant now because countries around the world are going to take their piece of justice from the US and Venezuela has had a historical claim on Guyana for more than 200 years. How do you bring down an overwhelming hegemon? United, simultaneous action on multiple fronts. It looks like Guyana will be one of those fronts.
I'm rooting for multipolarismo and chavismo.
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Who is the original source for the myth that Lenin was a German agent? I was watching this mainstream youtube video from a channel I normally like called "Voices of the Past." He mostly reads out primary sources from history. It is ordinarily """unbiased"" and understood simply to be historical primary sources read out loud. But when it comes to soviet/communist stuff he becomes a turbolib and starts editorializing. Look at the ad read on the video, for example. 3:55 "Just like privacy and freedom of speech was constrained in the USSR…" It starts with those words. The ad read starts with those words. He has exited the first person of the primary source and has entered into his own editorializing. But of course which primary sources he chooses to read also constitutes a form of editorializing too. There is no escaping politics. Later on in the video, the primary source he has chosen to read, one Pitirim Sorokin, says that when Lenin returned to Petrograd, he was very rich, and so was Trotsky, and that they made a speech that "even embarrassed the extreme left." and that they were basically sent there by the Germans to destabilize Russian society. This is presented without comment by the uploader but you can tell that the comment section is eating it up and really like this idea. If you bring up OPERATION AJAX etc. in a Youtube comment section, you get called a conspiracy theorist, but if you bring up this shit about Lenin, people reinforce it.
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What's the Deal with Daesh?

I was a dipshit teenager when ISIS first popped up, and I just went with what the news said about them - which, come to think of it, wasn't much. Since then I've heard that they were funded by the US State Department or CIA, and that they have links to Israel.
What's the Deal with Daesh, anons? I need a potted history of these assholes.
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Under/over estimate ?

good afternoon or morning or whatever it is

somewhat simple good faith question: do you think capitalists generally have a concept or understanding of capitalism's eventual self-imposed collapse? i feel like the people who essentially run everything have to have some kind of understanding / awareness of the unsustainable nature of the system they dominate, right? what ends up being the endgame for these people? 'dying before it ever effects them' is a valid answer but that's the only concrete thing i can come up with
cheals
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What Happens to Vegas?

For the record the reason why I'm not putting this in the USApol general is because I feel like what's talked about here can be applied to any major city that thrives on gambling, nightlife, and the general idea of "vice".

Las Vegas, for those that are unfamiliar with it, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world or good reason. With larger than life resorts, oversized casinos, drinks and gambling all abound, and of course crippling poverty and gaudy stark concrete the moment you look off the Vegas Strip. Gambling aside, there's a ridiculous amount of live shows, concerts, oddball museums, overpriced clubs, and most of all constant grifters. As in "the moment you step outside the resort you're going to have at least three people aggressively panhandle you within five minutes" type not seen outside LA. Also there's a giant emoji ball which stares at you in a vaguely menacing manner if you walk close enough.

So yeah, it's pretty much a microcosm of all that is wrong with capitalism, with the added bonus of its night life existing because of actual mafiosos. But there's also quite a lot of shit there, and more importantly a lot of people. So my question is this: if America underwent a communist revolution, be it by ballot or bullet and by whatever flavor of radical leftism you want, what would happen to Vegas? Would it still exist largely as it is today? How heavily would it need to be modified to be reintegrated as part of socialist society? Do we demolish it entirely and replace it with something else? Do we leave it to rot, as a monument to the failures of capitalism?
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Sovereign Citizen

Americanons, what do you think of the S.C movements and its applications for leftist militants? They are often "associated" with (either in fact or in imagination) the far-right, but I have evidence and proof that the "rising of the moors" movement is based off sovereign city ideas, talking points and books. They are a more militant re-branding of the Moorish Science Temple.
I have literal autism so all the juridical and historical-minutae arguments they give really please me. However to be fair and neutral:
>https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/the-truth-about-frivolous-arguments-section-i-a-to-c
>https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/the-truth-about-frivolous-tax-arguments-section-i-d-to-e
the IRS debunks their talking points one by one. the kinda shoot themselves in the foot and everywhere else tho

>none of it is voluntary (pay up ,slave)

>ALL is income, we own your arse
>you are a citizen and can't escape, basically you're a chattel slave everywhere you go
>you have to pay for the child crushing machine that'll kill your children, you can't do anything 'bout it
>cry harder, its all constitutional
huge bunch of hyper-bullies, if you ask me, these IRS Statist thugs.
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Not Real Crapitalism

Jimmy Dore's video on the Boeing whistleblower that got Seth Rich'd has a bunch of rightoids malding over Jimmy attacking capitalism as the cause for Boeing being retarded with their safety regulations.
Comments are filled with
>not real capitalism
>it's crony capitalism
>it's fascism
>it would work if it was capitalism
<more rightoid bullshit

But this comment in one of the threads stood out: picrel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsUgxDNSGO0&lc=UgwaxrHpTJaYK2WUNJl4AaABAg

How would I answer this?
I don't comment on youtube anymore since my comments get deleted/shadowbanned and I don't find any use having debates there. But should I have a debate on Rumble, where there is actual free speech, how would I answer this?
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Marxists and other leftists are ultimately idealists because they have unrealistic aspirations that contradict how this world works on a material basis. Marxists like to believe that their predictions are founded on dispassionate analysis that foretells how history is inevitably going to unfold, that capitalism's contradictions will bring about a revolution for worker's to seize the means of production, but in actuality Marxism at its root is founded on wishful thinking. The origin of your analysis is your dislike of your circumstances, not a desire for truth. You then formulated a prophecy to ameliorate your distress. Your analysis is merely a post-hoc rationalization (cope) for an endresult that you've selected beforehand. Your conclusions are strongly biased by that.
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Polish rejection of communism

Can any one of you explain why Poles should entertain communism as a serious solution to the evils of capitalism, after all the suffering we have suffered under the red yoke?
The two invasions launched against us by the Soviets. All the arrests, deportations and murders of intellectuals, artists, journalists, political figures, clergymen, military personnel, et cetera. The undemocratic imposition of socialism on Poland, the shutting down of dissidents, and so on.
What reason is there for us to even consider a return to this system, when we've been burned by it so badly?
This is a serious question. You can reply with "poolish subhuman bourgies deserved it, xoxo. death to poland" if you like, but I think you'd find it a rather ineffective argument when appealing to the Polish proletariat. Not to mention the hypocrisy behind claiming to be "for the people", and violently sperging out against a nation, its culture and identity, and therefore its proletariat.
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Eco-Anarchist Thread

A thread to discuss community organising whit the aim of protesting the current pollution of the environment
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Hey /leftypol/, how can we block the Cape of Good Hope?

Use Oekaki if you want to make a diagram to help illustrate your creative scheme. It's up to you to accelerate the fall of capitalism.
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Cuban Protests

Protesters in Cuba demand food and electricity as shortages bring hardship
>Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in Cuba in recent days as the country faces food shortages and near-full day blackouts.
>Cuba has fallen into a near unprecedented economic crisis since the COVID-19 pandemic, with vast shortages of food, fuel and medicine stoking a record-breaking exodus that has seen upwards of 400,000 people migrate to the United States.
>Cuba's government has for the first time asked the UN's food programme for help as food shortages on the Communist-run island worsen.
>The World Food Programme (WFP) said it had received an unprecedented official request from the Cuban government for help providing powdered milk to children under seven years of age.The request is a sign of the seriousness of Cuba's economic crisis.As well as a shortage of milk, fuel and medicines are also running low
COVID and the US sanctions did serious damage to the Cuban economy. The US media is hyping this up as the end of the Cuban government but they always say that at the slightest protest. What do you think of Cuba and its future?
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The current world rate of profit is 8%
Where do we go from here?
What happens when it gets to 3%? How about 0?
However you cut the end trail of late stage capitalism
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As a Student of Marxist-Leninism, why should I care about surveillance?

Successful revolutions are, always were, and always will be the result of the popular uprising of the masses. While a vanguard party serves to strengthen and rally the masses to rise up against exploitation and imperialism, ultimately it is up to popular will to carry the revolution to victory.
A good example of this is the Islamic Revolution in Iran (I will skip over explaining why the revolution was historically progressive, feel free to do your own research). The Shah ran a powerful national security state but was nevertheless deposed by the sheer number of people in support of Khomeini – who acknowledged that his victory was only thanks to popular will. No amount of spying nor sabotage could stop the waves of people occupying the streets of Tehran, just the same as no police force being able to quell riots in 2020 in the USA.

As far as I can tell, surveillance is the purview of Blanquists, fascists, and anarchists, and not a concern for the revolutionary vanguard. Curious about your input though.
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News 3/22/24

Supporters of Modi opponent Kejriwal protest his arrest ahead of Indian election
Arvind Kejriwal, who is New Delhi’s top elected official, was arrested Thursday night by the federal Enforcement Directorate, which is controlled by Modi’s government. The agency accused his party and ministers of accepting 1 billion rupees ($12 million) in bribes from liquor contractors nearly two years ago.
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240322-supporters-of-modi-opponent-kejriwal-protest-his-arrest-ahead-of-india-election
https://archive.is/kcdxQ

‘Moral failure’: US House approves bill that would ban UNRWA funding
The proposed legislation now goes to the Senate, which must pass it by midnight on Friday, when several government agencies would start running out of money. President Joe Biden has promised to sign the bill into law immediately, if the Democratic-controlled upper chamber of Congress passes the legislation as expected.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/22/moral-failure-us-house-approves-bill-that-would-ban-unrwa-funding
https://archive.is/9Vu9M

Footage of 4 more Turkish UCAVs shot down by the guerrillas
Gerîla TV broadcast footage of Turkish Akıncı, Bayraktar TB2 and ANKA unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) shot down on different dates in the guerrilla-held Medya Defence Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/footage-of-4-more-turkish-ucavs-shot-down-by-the-guerrillas-72354

Morocco accused of using Israeli weapons to kill civilians in Western Sahara
According to L’Humanité, Morocco in October used Israeli-made drones from the military base at Smara airport, a city of over 66,000 inhabitants under Moroccan control. The drones, the newspaper said, are Hermes 900 strategic reconnaissance drones and Hermes 450 tactical drones, capable of being equipped with air-to-ground missiles. The two models are developed by the Israeli manufacturer Elbit Systems.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/morocco-accused-using-israeli-weapons-suppress-western-sahara

After Years of Indigenous-Led Campaigning, Court Grants Rights to Peru's Marañón River
Led by Kukama women, the Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana Federation in the Parinari district of Loreto began its legal fight on behalf of the Marañón River in 2021, demanding that the state and federal governments protect the waterway from "constant oil spills." Petroperu's Oleoducto Norperuano, or Norperuvian oil pipeline, caused more than 60 oil spills between 1997-2019, and the 28 communities represented by the federation are still recovering from a 2010 oil spill that sent 350 barrels of oil into the river near Saramuro port.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/peru-river-rights

Venezuela's Parliament adds Essequibo to official maps
The law establishes that a Governor for the state of Guayana Esequiba needs to be elected but until that happens Caracas will appoint the authorities for the region where mostly indigenous communities live. The new legislation also stated that anyone having publicly favored the position of Guyana regarding Venezuela's claims would not be eligible for elective offices.
https://en.mercopress.com/2024/03/22/venezuela-s-parliament-adds-essequibo-to-official-maps

Russia says 40 dead, 145 injured in concert hall raid; Islamic State group claims responsibility
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on affiliated channels on social media, which couldn’t be independently verified. It wasn’t immediately clear what happened to the attackers after the raid, which Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin described as a “huge tragedy” and state authorities were investigating as terrorism.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-moscow-gunmen-concert-hall-injuries-fe7db5bb4ad4df17b6cbd04a3250faa1

STUC backs college strikers, branding cuts an ‘absolute scandal’
Workers have rejected the latest “final” offer from employers, worth around 16 per cent from September, as a real-terms pay cut after more than two years without a pay uplift. College Employers Scotland’s Gavin Donoghue called the decision to announce more strikes “deeply regrettable.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stuc-backs-college-strikers-branding-cuts-and-absolute-scandal

EU top court upholds ruling on fingerprints for ID cards
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said the 2019 regulation was in line with fundamental rights to respect for private life and the protection of personal data. But the underlying legal basis for the 2019 regulation, which is directly applicable in all member states, was faulty, the court said.
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-top-court-upholds-ruling-on-fingerprints-for-id-cards/a-68632386

Global water crisis fuelling more conflicts, UN report warns
Increasing global water scarcity is fuelling more conflicts and contributing to instability, the United Nations warns in a new report, which says access to clean water is critical to promoting peace. The UN World Water Development Report 2024, released on Friday, said 2.2 billion people worldwide have no access to clean drinking water and 3.5 billion people lack access to safely managed sanitation.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/22/increasing-water-scarcity-fuelling-more-global-conflicts-un-report-warns
https://archive.is/yADaU
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Is this a accurate history of Marxism Leninism?

I'm new to Marxism can anyone tell me the accuracy of this article? Is this good quality Marxist thought?

>https://canadianinstituteofeconomics.wordpress.com/the-basic-principles-of-marxism-leninism/part-1-dialectical-materialism/introduction-brief-history-lesson-one/
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I'm just a guy who likes to wiki international (EU-based) companies whenever I buy from them or hear about them and sometimes I find some gems that were founded before the start of the Nazi takeover and their Wiki conveniently "forgets to mention" their history under nazi rule. Like… How did that corporation benefit from all the concentration camp slave labor and so on? What "aryan" rules they adopt, and so on?

Example: the Dutch retail company SPAR.
<Spar was founded in 1932 in the South Holland town of Zegwaart (now part of Zoetermeer). In 1953, an International Spar office opened in Amsterdam
Yet
<Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940 as part of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow).[1]
Which begs the question: what happened with SPAR between 1940 and 1945?

As far as wikipedia and SPAR PR is concerned: nothing. A complete historic blackout.

What are other examples? What's the real history? Do these companies that were established before Nazi takeover get a pass?
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Study Fascism General

Glasses edition.

The Purpose of This Thread
I've seen about a dozen threads asking about Fascists: "Why are they like this?" "What is Fascism?" "Is Fascism Far Right?" "Is the modern KPRF Fascist?" "Why do laymen Nazis hate America?" "How did Hitler organize the Nazis?" "What does /leftypol/ think of <insert random Fascist here>"

These repetitive threads get a lot of attention and people end up retreading the same few questions, so I figured I'd make a general for all questions and inquiries into Fascism. Consider it a study group for a niche subject. Whether it be out of genuine curiosity or means of countering Fascist ideology, I'm hoping people can point to this thread instead of starting new ones or bumping a dozen different old ones.

Links and Fascist Literature
>Biblioteca Fascista
https://bibliotecafascista.blogspot.com/
<Collection of translated articles from Italian Fascists, useful as a historical source.

>Fascism: One Hundred Questions Asked and Answered

https://ia804600.us.archive.org/11/items/fascism-100-questions-asked-answeredoswald-mosley/Oswald%20Mosley%20-%20Fascism%20100%20Qs%20and%2010%20Points.pdf
<Pamphlet written by Oswald Mosley. It was famous enough that Fascist parties in other countries imitated it. He outlines in detail the British interpretation of the Fascist Political and Economic system.

>The Doctrine of Fascism

https://sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/The-Doctrine-of-Fascism.pdf
<Pamphlet by ᴉuᴉlossnW where he lays out the basic beliefs of Fascist ideology.

>The Concept of The Political

https://tomatdividedby0.gitlab.io/resources/references/schmitt_concept-of-the-political.pdf
<Work by a German Nazi-Jurist elaborating his view on authoritarianism and politics. Influential enough to be studied by neocons, Pinochet's regime, and even by scholars in China.

>Reflections on Violence

https://assets.cambridge.org/052155/117X/sample/052155117XWSC00.pdf
<George Sorel's infamous work outlining his philosophy of revolutionary syndicalism. It was instrumental for the foundation of Fascist ideology.

Closing Statement
This thread is not for the propagation of Fascist ideals or apologism for Fascism. However, in some instances, I may practice a neutral tone when describing Fascism or give it the benefit of the doubt to better understand the Fascist psyche and its stated ideals. In that regard, I'll be treating Fascism as an alternative theory of social, political, and economic organization no more incapable or insidious than any other and not dismissing it out of hand.
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Talk on lasers

I was briefly discussing how hypersonics could make imperialism untenable, i.e, provide a way for weapons to shut down American bases and carriers anywhere on the globe, but it turns out the Americans are working on megawatt lasers to counter.

The Chinese are claiming to counter with their own anti-laser coating, that ablatively resists megawatt lasers at around 1 km ranges.

But the technology in general seems interesting; i.e, laser maturity is growing at a tremendous rate, and the J-20 is better designed for laser paradigm warfare than the F-35 (the side weapons bay allows the J-20 to carry two laser pods externally, and the two F119-class engines in the WS-15 should be able to generate greater total power than the single F135.).

How much do we know about lasers? For instance, the Chinese were advertising a megawatt class pulse laser, but when it comes to pulse lasers, petawatt lasers are already common.
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Chinese Ghost Cities

Are there any China anons that are well-versed on ghost cities? How much does it cost to buy a unit there?

Basically, the deal is, Chinese property developers built huge ghost cities filled with unoccupied housing, often adjacent to already existing cities, meaning you can commute into the already existing towns.

The cities are "anticipative building", i.e, they're built by urban planners and property developers who expect overcrowding in current urban zones will drive people to migrate, but it takes a while before people move in, and for the time being, you can expect unusually low property prices in the interim, giving you the opportunity to get housing on the cheap.
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Robert Mugabe

Hey y'all. I am curious to learn about Robert Mugabe, a figure whom for imperialists, liberals and the far-right alike seems to be an icon of the inability of African countries to govern themselves without any assistance from the West. I see headlines such as "MUGABE RETURNING LAND TO WHITE FARMERS AFTER CRASHING THE ECONOMY" and get the sense there's some gross oversimplification going on here, not to mention good old fashioned racism.

I'm genuinely curious about this guy who was apparently a colleague of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, and seems to have taken his country on a similar path away from white supremacy as South Africa. So why is he so scorned? Why are there so many tabloid-esque headlines written about him? Why does his image in Western media strike me as the punchline to a big laugh everyone's having about Africa's slow, brave crawl out from colonial slavery and exploitation?
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IMT Sweden founds Revolutionary Communist Party

https://www.marxist.com/imt-sweden-founds-revolutionary-communist-party.htm

>We form the party in opposition to the policies of the leadership of the entire Swedish labour movement.

>It is the Social Democrats who have been in government for most of the attacks of the last 30 years. Their policies are becoming increasingly indistinguishable from those of the right.
>The Left Party leadership has followed the Social Democrats to the right, in search of government posts and respect from bourgeois public opinion.

>Many people dream of going back to the large-scale improvements for workers of the post-war period, but this was an exception in the history of capitalism that will not be repeated. In fact, it is precisely the illusions of that period that underlie the state of the labour movement today.


>Whole generations of activists were educated in the idea of class collaboration – peaceful cooperation with the bourgeoisie, on the basis of ever-expanding capitalism. Socialism was postponed indefinitely: staying within the limits of what the bourgeoisie could tolerate. Since the boom turned into a crisis for capitalism, this has meant accepting, step by step, and in many cases implementing, the atacks of the bourgeoisie.


>At the same time, trade union leaders have come to see preserving the stability of capitalism as their main task. The message to workers is always the same: it doesn't pay to fight.


>The truth is that the previous period left its mark on the entire Swedish left. It is enough to open any issue of supposedly communist papers like Proletären, Internationalen or Offensiv to see the total lack of propaganda for the need for revolution and communism. They promote the only thing they think workers understand: struggle for minor improvements within the framework of capitalism. The ideas of communism are relegated (at best) to programmatic documents and study circles.


>The whole history of capitalism shows that the working class cannot take power without a revolutionary party on the basis of scientific socialism – Marxism. The immediate task of the Revolutionary Communist Party can therefore be summed up simply: to organise and train those who have already begun to draw communist conclusions today, in order to win those who will do so tomorrow.


>The possibilities are seen not least in the work of our communist international over the past year. Using a simple slogan – "Are you a communist? Get organised!" – we have rapidly doubled our forces in one country after another. In Sweden, we have grown by 50 percent since the summer alone.

>Now we are taking the next step: in countries like Britain and Canada, preparations are in full swing to form revolutionary communist parties. We are raising the banner of communism so high that every communist will see it. Together we are laying the foundations for rebuilding a genuine revolutionary communist international, the world party of socialist revolution.
>What we are undertaking is nothing less than the building of a party ready for its historic task: to lead the struggle of the working class to communism.

>We ask you directly: Are you a communist? You are not alone! Help us build the RKP and gather the new generation of communists under the banner of Marxism. Never has there been a more important task.
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The Communist is the sublation of the Capitalist

When you understand the primacy and importance of the development of the productive forces, and the role that capital in itself has in revolutionizing society, you're able to adopt the proficiency of the Capitalist while shedding his narrow limits.

When a Capitalist employs capital he does so with primary concern for his individual being or interests. The advancement of the productive forces is an incidental byproduct of his activity. He uncovers all of these new ways of managing his businesses for the sake of efficiency.

But his limit is reached in the monopolistic stage, when there's no drive to improve or update, and there's more of a reason to hold back the development of others or employ regressive means of production and management because it saves on costs and there's no competition to spurn you forward.

The principle contradiction of capitalism is thus achieved. The overwhelming majority of society's labor is operated socially yet the fruits of labor is held in private hands, directed in private hands, and owned by private hands - society's elite minority acting as private citizens with 0 social obligations.

Thus the capitalist and the system of capital became a retarding, retrogressive force, a fetter on the world.

The Communist on the other hand recognizes two truths: the potency of the proper management of capital to advance the productive forces, and the necessary resonance between social relations and the productive forces.

Whereas the Capitalist wishes to halt the wheel of progress for fear of losing his social position, the Communist not only wishes for the wheel to move forwards regardless of the sacrifice, but to accelerate that wheel.

Instead of capital and scientific management of the workplace being employed for capital's own sake - profits for profit's own sake, the Communist will employ capital and scientific management for social need, for the common good, for society's sake.

This isn't done out of "moralism" or the goodness of the heart of the Communist, but out of a sober, objective recognition that society as such can not sustain the primacy of the logic of capital any longer - capital must be contained and controlled by social need, for social need, and from that containment capital, or rather the productive fruits of capital, will be freed.

When capital is freed from the Capitalist, a new golden era of humanity can finally flourish, and it can only be freed via the socialization of the means of production and the fruits of its labor.

In the mean time, the working class already feels the pressure of the contradictions of capitalism. He sees his country rotting and crumbling. He knows that a crisis is on the horizon and is unsure if his home will survive the next few storms. And yet he *wants* control and ownership of capital, of the means of production, and the means to secure his livelihood. But he is denied, surrounded by walls.

Once the storm comes and the walls begin to crumble and crack, he *will* attempt a breakout.

This is where the Communist comes into play. He is scarier than the Capitalist because he is willing to topplllee every single wall in the name of human progress, all while scientifically learning *how* the Capitalist operates and using those lessons as a starting point to break down the next wall and the one after it.

The Communist is outdoes the Capitalist in being a capitalist. He understands capitalism better than the Capitalist. He manages people and employs capital more effectively than the Capitalist.

The Communist learns from the Capitalist, then out-competes him and compels the titan of industry to become pillars of society.
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SPOOKED

What are the arguments in favor of morality being a mere spook ? Is it a useful tool used by the powerful to keep the rest of the population in check and prevent them from being guillotined ?
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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.htmldprkDPRK
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I find it strange how most modern America media about the American Revolution constantly derided Geo

The King was really just in a ceremonial position and just rubber-stamped whatever his Prime Minister and parliament favored.
George III was rarely even mentioned by the colonists either,, Lord North was the one who actually made policy, and as such, pushed the maintenance and enforcement of the Acts of Parliament which the Patriots opposed, and also the measures of the British Government to suppress the Patriot movement, including the order (technically on the part of George III, but pushed by Lord North, again) to capture John Hancock, which initiated the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and started the war.
And as PM, he pretty much de-facto led Great Britain during the war. He was even forced to resign after Yorktown because of the humiliating defeat on the part of the British (the British electorate, at the time land-owning men, blamed him for the loss).
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Anti-Imperialist bros not like this

WTF WHO ANTI-IMPERIALIST WHO, I THOUGHT THEY WERE BASED AND UNITED AGAINST USKKKA. MY MIND IS BROKEN I THOUGHT GEOPOLITICS SIMPLE. WE MUST FIGHT AGAINST NAFO TRANSHUMANISTERS IM DISAPPOINTED REEEEE
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Okay, so I believe that Capitalism is a fundamentally flawed system that will destroy the world and the human soul. However, one of the reasons why I cannot fully "get" with Communist ideology is due to their unwavering belief that once Capitalism will collapse their political system will eventually triumph globally. and I don't get the assurance,
Like Marx had some valid ideas, he was a human with limited knowledge like everyone else. In the field of psychology, Freud laid the foundation for modern psychoanalysis, but many of his theories are now considered invalid. why can't the same apply towards Marx, Additionally, many of Marx's predictions were incorrect, as Communist revolutions occurred in unindustrialized nations first, and his theory that worker militias could defeat professional armies has been proven false in every situation
It's the same thing with the Palestinian activism I'm seeing, so I'm 100% supportive of the Palestinians but I don't get the assurance that Israel will fall, cause it's moorally wrong, the Mongolswere morally wrong didn't stop them,
It's the same thing with the current Palestinian activism I'm seeing, so I'm 100% supportive of the Palestinian cause, but I don't get the assurance that Israel will fall, because it's morally wrong. The Mongols were in the wrong, yet that didn't stop them, because they had a stronger strength of arms.
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News 3/21/24

India’s main opposition party accuses the government of freezing its bank accounts ahead of election
Congress party treasurer Ajay Maken said in a statement that the party had received 1.9 billion rupees ($24 million) in donations in 2017-18. He said income tax authorities imposed a 2.1 billion rupee ($25 million) lien on Feb. 13, “virtually sealed” its bank accounts, and then confiscated 1.1 billion rupees ($14 million).
https://apnews.com/article/india-election-opposition-congress-tax-accounts-cf0d39fa9cae7839f8139ed1a881a4b3

Pakistan PM Sharif says another IMF bailout is inevitable
With a long-term, two-to-three year IMF programme, he said, the $350 billion economy that has long been under extreme stress with a yawning balance of payment crisis would need deep-rooted structural reforms. The IMF mission that visited Islamabad for five days on the last review of the stand-by programme said Pakistani authorities expressed interest in yet another bailout.
https://srnnews.com/pakistan-pm-sharif-says-another-imf-bailout-is-inevitable/

Taiwan poll reveals ‘big gap’ between defence chief, public over military threats
The latest survey released by the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation showed that 50 per cent of the island’s public did not agree with an assessment by their defence minister Chiu Kuo-cheng over a potential cross-strait conflict.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3256255/subtle-message-taiwan-poll-reveals-big-gap-between-defence-chief-public-over-military-threats
https://archive.is/UnlzN

Vietnam’s vice president becomes interim president
On Wednesday, President Vo Van Thuong resigned due to unspecified violations that hurt the perception and reputation of the party and the state, the Communist Party said. Thuong’s predecessor Nguyen Xuan Phuc had resigned last year to take “political responsibility” for corruption scandals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-president-anti-corruption-campaign-c7df6dbd8543895669aed5775fa349ce

War on Gaza: Israeli forces destroy al-Shifa surgical building and order evacuation
The building was blown up on Thursday, as Israel tightened its siege of Gaza's largest medical complex. Israeli forces ordered people trapped inside to evacuate before they target the entire facility, according to a Middle East Eye correspondent. Thousands of Palestinians displaced from their homes by the ongoing war have been seeking refuge in the hospital.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-gaza-war-al-shifa-hospital-building-destroyed

Palestinian forces disperse mourners after Israeli killing spree in West Bank
In the hours following the airstrike near Jenin, Palestinians mourning the deceased headed to the Palestinian Authority’s security headquarters in the city, and demanded the release of militants detained by the Palestinian security forces. The mourners were quickly dispersed with live fire and tear gas, injuring three, while the unrest in the city continued until the morning.
https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinian-forces-disperse-mourners-after-israeli-killings

Kenyan doctors stop providing emergency services at strike enters its second week
Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union secretary-general Dr Davji Bhimji said the doctors escalated the strike and stopped providing bare-minimum services because the government had shown no efforts to resolve the dispute.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/kenyan-doctors-stop-providing-emergency-services-strike-enters-its-second-week

Migrant workers exploited, abused in Italy’s prized fine wine vineyards
Union workers and activists believe this is just the tip of the iceberg. Confagricoltura Cuneo, or the General Confederation on Italian Agriculture, estimated there are 2,500 viticulture companies that hire seasonal workers with various contracts. More than half of them are migrant workers, the group said. Labour rights activists estimated 4,000 to 5,000 people work in the vineyards and at least two-thirds of them face the risk of exploitation.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/3/19/migrant-workers-exploited-abused-in-italys-prized-fine-wine-vineyards
https://archive.is/bffo0

French public sector employees protest cuts in state spending
Public sector employees in France led massive protests on Tuesday March 19, demanding an increase in wages to compensate for cuts in their real wages indexed with the inflation. They also participated in a general strike on Tuesday called for by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT), Solidaires, Force Ouvrière (FO), the CFE-CGC, the Autonomous Federation, the SNES-FSU and the UNSA. Major rallies were held in Paris, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, and Toulouse.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/21/french-public-sector-employees-protest-cuts-in-state-spending/

From secret sects to street protests: Mexico’s extreme-right targets women
EL PAÍS has accessed dozens of internal documents from El Yunque, which explain the doctrine behind the ultraconservative Mexican sect. Various far-right lobbying and action groups — having infiltrated political parties and civil society organizations — are united in a strategy to impose an agenda against abortion, equal marriage and the fight for LGBTQ+ rights
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-03-21/from-secret-sects-to-street-protests-mexicos-extreme-right-targets-women.html
https://archive.is/IN4Xa
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he CIA's Shining Path: Political Warfare

A translation of a book on the Shining Path being a CIA op just released. The book was apparently released in 1988 in Spanish, but this is the first time an English translation was made of the work.

From the translation foreward:
>Originally published in 1988, The CIA’s Shining Path (CIA Sendero Luminoso: Guerra Politica) was such an important work to Peruvian politics in its time that it even made its way into the National Library of Peru.
>ProleWiki was able to track down a copy of the book in the original Spanish and we are proud to be able to offer, for the first time ever, an English translation of this important work.
>Much like the author, we also hope this book sparks debate about the role of the Shining Path in Peruvian politics – continuing even to this day after the death of Abimael Guzman. But the richness of this text is not contained solely in the debates it might spark. Military doctrine, Peruvian politics, South American geopolitics, and of course a complete exposé on the inner workings and methods of the Shining Path: this is where the true value of this book lies. All of these topics are appropriately expanded upon, making The CIA’s Shining Path a vast repository of knowledge for all students of Marxism.

The book can be found here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:The_CIA%27s_Shining_Path:_Political_Warfare. I want to see the gonzaloids cope with this one.
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Media Thread

As socialists, how do we effectively utilize modern media methods to organize and to influence the working class to meet our aims? The popularity of Bolshevik newspapers amongst soldiers and workers was instrumental in the 1917 revolution but it's obvious that shitty Trotskyist print newspapers written in larpy, off-putting prose are less than useless at this task today. Given the fact that a huge amount of political organizing simply revolves around trying to find an effective way to attract attention to influence people's activities (all protests? most terrorism, even?) this question seems incredibly pertinent if we want to have any hope of attracting mass support and recruiting in the areas where it counts. The reason most people hold the false consciousness that they do is because of the opinions they repeat from bourgeois media and people under its influence. While there are a few somewhat-decent leftist media outlets I don't see why every single leftist political organization isn't laser focused on efforts to solve this question given that it's foundational to any kind of political organizing at any level. Obviously this especially includes social media and the manipulation of algorithms for online content. How do we resolve the media question?
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a thread focused on recent escalations between the US backed government formerly led by Ariel Henry and the G9 revolutionary movement led by Jimmy "Babekyou" Chérizier
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News 3/20/24

Turkish warplanes strike Kurdish militant positions in Iraq after attack kills soldier, wounds 4
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is expected to visit Iraq next month, has said that his country is determined to end PKK’s presence in Iraq this summer, suggesting a possible large-scale military offensive into the region.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-iraq-airstrikes-kurdish-militants-85368f334bf3b48ee16cd94eac037d0d

Yemen's Houthis penetrate Israel's missile defences in Eilat for first time
The Israeli military admitted on Tuesday that Yemen’s Houthis penetrated their missile defence system for the first time, with a missile landing north of Eilat on Sunday night. Although the Israeli military did not specifically name the Houthis, the missile was confirmed as coming from the direction of the Red Sea.
https://www.newarab.com/news/houthis-penetrate-israel-air-defence-eilat-first-time

Community leaders detained in Central Darfur as they refuse to cooperate with RSF
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) detained six people, including tribal leaders and administrators, in Um Dukhun, Central Darfur, in the past two days. The paramilitaries insist on a 50 per cent share of the locality’s revenues.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/community-leaders-detained-in-central-darfur-as-they-refuse-to-cooperate-with-rsf

Investigators search the home of South Africa's Parliament Speaker over bribery allegations
A special investigations unit in South Africa has searched the home of the Speaker of Parliament and seized evidence as part of a probe into accusations that she accepted bribes of at least $120,000 in her previous role as defense minister
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/investigators-search-home-south-africas-parliament-speaker-bribery-108276625

German woman loses appeal of 14-year sentence for letting Yazidi slave girl die in Iraq
She was initially given a 10-year sentence, which was overturned by the Federal Court of Justice on the grounds that judges had erred in sentencing the defendant for a “less severe case” of crimes against humanity and overlooked aggravating circumstances. A new sentencing hearing for the woman, identified only as Jennifer W. in line with German privacy rules, ended in August with the 14-year sentence.
https://apnews.com/article/germany-islamic-state-iraq-yazidi-slave-girl-7ec115860f19c46ae8c6b70411fef5dc

Leo Varadkar steps down as Irish prime minister in shock move
Earlier this month his government suffered damaging defeats in two referendums on references to family and women in the constitution. Varadkar, who said he was resigning as party leader with immediate effect, is expected to be replaced as taoiseach as soon as his successor as party leader is able to take office.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/20/leo-varadkar-step-downs-as-irish-prime-minister-in-shock-move

Russia Arrests Gay Club Managers in First LGBTQ+ ‘Extremism’ Criminal Case
Orenburg’s Central District Court ruled Wednesday to place the club’s art director and bar manager in pre-trial detention until May 18. The two individuals face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of “organizing extremist activities.” A statement on the court’s website describes them both as “persons with non-traditional sexual orientations” who “support the views and activities of the international LGBT public association banned in our country.”
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/20/russia-arrests-gay-club-managers-in-first-lgbtq-extremism-criminal-case-a84548
https://archive.is/CgcxD

EU to crack down on unpaid internships ‘exploiting despair of young people’
Tea Jarc, of the European Trade Union Confederation, described the text from the European commission as “blurry”, and called for the directive to be more forceful. “Clarity is needed to end the scandal of unpaid internships,” she said. “We need watertight language and a sharpening of the language, otherwise it’s going to leave the most vulnerable out.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/20/eu-to-crack-down-on-unpaid-internships-with-new-directive

CONAIE Condemns the President’s Interests in Mining Activities
Leonidas Iza, president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) denounced the economic interests of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa in the social conflict between the indigenous populations of Cotopaxi and the mining firms that are operating in the region.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Conaie-Condemns-President-Interests-Mining-Activities-20240320-0017.html

Canada Lawmakers Back Motion Meant to Help Bring Peace to Gaza
The polarized debate in Canada over the conflict in Gaza spilled into the country’s House of Commons on Monday as lawmakers voted to endorse a wide-ranging package of nonbinding measures that a left-leaning opposition party had presented as way to bring peace to the region.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/world/canada/canada-parliament-gaza-vote.html
https://archive.is/rGqdl

UN ‘alarmed’ by reports of civilian casualties in Myanmar air attacks
Clashes have rocked the western state since the Arakan Army (AA) attacked security forces in November, ending a ceasefire that had largely held since the military’s 2021 coup. Residents told AFP more than 20 people have been killed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/19/un-chief-alarmed-by-reports-civilians-killed-in-myanmar-air-strikes
https://archive.is/tn3CX

China ups the ante in hunt for foreign investment, hi-tech firms, but will Beijing follow through with actions?
China’s cabinet said it would increase the lengths of visas for foreign managers and experts, as well as their spouses and children, from one year to two years. The National Immigration Administration added on Wednesday that it would extend residence permits to five years, or even offer permanent residency if foreigners meet certain criteria. China would also waive reapplication requirements if foreign personnel working for the same employer change their work locations or pursue tertiary degrees.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3256114/china-ups-ante-hunt-foreign-investment-hi-tech-firms-will-beijing-follow-through-actions
https://archive.is/M3kZv
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBc-__wcLk4

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBc-__wcLk4

>Makes community made tactical shooter

>Nazis and greedy people attack him

Opinions on this matter?
Should we(or I) organize and help this poor fella?
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Extraterrestrials

I was thinking, if extraterrestrials were aligned with Marxism, wouldn't they be actively working to bring revolution to the entire cosmos? You know, to free fellow living beings in this Universe from the common struggle and barbarism of capitalistic serfdom?

Yet when I look up at the night sky filled with stars, all I see is an endless giant tomb in which we are imprisoned. A tomb where the means of production are being increasingly concentrated in the hands of Type III, IV and V civilizations. My greatest fear is that beyond the shadows cast by our sun there is nothing but an unrelenting, infinite abyss of techno-capital. It's beyond horrifying.
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The empire never fell. You were lied to

The Roman empire never died. It just moved to America. The imperial slave republic is still very much alive and rational liberal secularism is just a state religion that allows it to add conquered ethnicities and beliefs into it's ideological core the same way Romans added pagan gods to their pantheon. This is the final redpill pkd warned us about.
We need a new gnostic sect and messiah bros
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Muh expropriation

Been seeing leftoids trying to rally against expropriations on social media. Why would communists rally to defend a property-owning section of society from being expropriated? Communism is the movement of the entirely propertyless mass of proletarians, it's not their job to aid property owners from attempting to preserve or retrieve their property.
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Showa Japan

Can anyone give me any Marxist literature that critiques the economy of Japan during this time? Also, what makes Japanese fascism unique to other forms of fascism, like Italy or Germany?
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Socialist copyright

SERIOUS

How would IP laws and copyright be handled under socialism?

Would it be abolished or just reformed? How would artists be compensated if not for royalties?

Also, what about “hard cases” like instances of cultural appropriation, etc.?

Let’s have this discussion.
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Seize the means of habitation?

I've spent the last 20 years of my life wage slaving, with the hopes of being able to afford my own home or condo. I've managed to save up hundreds of thousands of dollars. But with inflation in the last couple of years, foreign investors/criminals buying up homes, boomers artificially constricting the supply of new homes through NIMBY legal regulations, and increased legal & rampant illegal immigration, I'm never going to be able to afford a place of my own. Completely priced out. Rents are sky rocketing. What good is all of my capital? It's only good for ever-more expensive slop. A tiny 350 sq/ft one bedroom condo still goes for a million dollars. There's also no legal path to ownership through squatting abandoned or unoccupied homes where I live.

All I wanted was a safe place to be able to get away from everyone and everything. I can't live with other people. The noise. The smells. The sense of dread when someone is in my vicinity when I'm trying to relax.

I did everything I was supposed to under capitalism and I ended up a loser.

What's next for me? I don't know. But I'm done wage slaving. There's no more point.
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Argentina

I have heard many contradictory statements about the country, such as it's lowering inflation while also it's increasing poverty levels. Yet most people seem to like Milei there still. I presume it is only a matter time the state fucks up against tbh, but i still can't get a read on it. How is the vibe down there
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How different is contemporary /leftypol/ from its past iterations so to speak? Be it on back on 8ch or the splits in the past few years. Are people more or less retarded than back then?
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Realistically speaking, what are the chances of a communist revival? When?

Looking at communist parties worldwide they don't tend to have much support and raising consciousness seems to be an eternal mission rather than a milestone. What do we have to wait for? WW3?
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I’m not even left or right

Anyone that grew up in the 90s, remembers Trump on taboilds in supermarket aisles? He was basically a showman. Now he’s the biggest conman that made it irl.
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Has the left ever reckoned with the rampant corruption/exploitation of unions by organized crime? I've only ever heard of conflict in that regard with the mafia standing in as pinkerton muscle.
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News 3/19/24

US finalising F-35 sale to Israel as tensions over Gaza war plan boil
Part of the package of arms transfers that the US will notify to Congress is a new shipment of precision-guided munitions worth more than $1bn dollars and a $2.5bn sale of F-35 fighter jets, Josh Paul, the former director of congressional and public affairs for the State Department’s bureau of political-military affairs, said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-finalising-f-35-sale-israel-tensions-over-gaza-war-plan-boil

Israeli Influence Operation Targets U.S. Lawmakers on Hamas-UNRWA
At the center of the campaign, researchers at Fake Reporter found, were three "news sites" that seemed to have been created especially for the operation. The sites published reports that were copied from other, real news outlets, among them CNN and The Guardian – for instance, a UN report about sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on October 7.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-03-19/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israeli-influence-op-targets-u-s-lawmakers-on-hamas-unrwa/0000018e-5098-d282-a19f-7dd95cc70000
https://archive.is/NiIeA

Thousands march in Shehba on the sixth anniversary of Turkish occupation of Afrin
Efrin and Shehba Canton Council organised a protest march in the Ahdas district to mark the sixth anniversary of the occupation of Afrin. The demonstration was participated by thousands of people from Shehba and Afrin IDPs who took refuge there after the occupation of their homes and lands.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/thousands-march-in-shehba-on-the-sixth-anniversary-of-turkish-occupation-of-afrin-72301

South Korea will suspend licenses of 2 senior doctors in first punishment for doctors’ walkouts
Park Myung-Ha, one of the five members, said he received a government-sent letter saying that his license will be suspended for three months from April 15. Park, who works for the KMA’s emergency committee, said committee leader Kim Taek-woo was also given a three-month suspension.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-doctors-strikes-license-suspensions-f7fd03bdf52577d7fa084bda26282e48

Mainland Chinese surge into Hong Kong property after stamp duties scrapped
Hong Kong in late February removed all additional stamp duties, including those for purchases of second properties, as well as duties on those selling flats within two years of buying them. Foreigners, who had to pay 15% tax since October, from 30% previously, now pay around 4.25%, on par with locals.
https://www.reuters.com/business/mainland-chinese-surge-into-hong-kong-property-after-stamp-duties-scrapped-2024-03-19/

Gujarat: After Attack on Foreign Students in Campus, VC Says They Should be Culturally 'Sensitised'
Following the attack in Ahmedabad on foreign students for performing namaz (prayer) on March 16, the statement by Gujarat University Vice Chancellor, shifting onus on the “cultural sensitivity” of those attacked, has sparked controversy.
https://www.newsclick.in/gujarat-after-attack-foreign-students-campus-vc-says-they-should-be-culturally-sensitised

Dominican Republic is urged to stop deporting people to Haiti as people flee surge in gang violence
Charpentier said his organization has received complaints about Dominican authorities allegedly bursting into homes to arrest people believed to be Haitians, breaking belongings and extorting them at times.
https://apnews.com/article/dominican-republic-deportations-haiti-gangs-violence-d8a45e4b4095a6a28780c7e5c2ed0fec

Mexico City is running out of water, forcing many to ration
Latin America accounts for one-quarter of the world's agricultural and fisheries exports, but the increasing scarcity of water could hurt those. Roughly 14% of workers in Latin America and the Carribean work in agriculture, though that rate is much higher in particular countries, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Guatemala among them.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/19/mexico-city-water-crisis-drought-climate-change

Petro proposes negotiations with Colombia’s paramilitaries
"If they are willing to abandon the illegal businesses, with the migrants, with the extortion, with the drug trafficking, we talk." The president added that “the one with the ball in their court is the Clan del Golfo,” the name given to the paramilitary organization by the authorities.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-proposes-negotiations-with-colombias-paramilitaries/

Argentine organizations are planning a historic march on March 24 to say: “Never again!”
March 24 marks the day a US-backed military coup was carried out in Argentina that installed the bloodiest civic-military dictatorship in the history of the country. In 2002, the Argentine Congress declared that this tragic day would be remembered as the National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice. Since then, millions have marched each year to mark the day to remember the dictatorship and the 30,000 Argentinians the regime killed or disappeared.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/19/argentine-organizations-are-planning-a-historic-march-on-march-24-to-say-never-again/
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RIP Marx, he would've hated israel

“Marx was before all else a revolutionist. His real mission in life was to contribute to the overthrow of capitalist society and of the state institutions which it had brought into being, to contribute to the liberation of the modern proletariat.”
-Engels, speaking upon Marx's grave, who died on 3/14/1883
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Rightoids and SEX

>For Reagan not only saw communists as parricides, but also as extremely active sexually-completely in contrast to the actual sexual code in most communist countries. For instance, when he ran for Governor of California, one of the central themes of his campaign was “the mess at Berkeley,” a place where, he said, they held “sexual orgies so vile I can-not describe them to you,” promising if elected to “investigate the charges of communism and blatant sexual misbehavior on the Berkeley campus.” A good part of the reason why he was elected was that, as one biographer put it, “hidden away in the hearts of parents was the fear that their own children might one day go away to college, grow beards and march against authority.”… Reagan promised these voters that his first targets as Governor would be the students at Berkeley, “advocates of sexual orgies, drug usage, and filthy speech,” who wanted only to “disrupt the academic community” and who therefore must be brought under control immediately. The situation at Berkeley, he told a woman’s club in April of 1966, was now so bad that their “morality gap is so great that we can no longer ignore it.” He had proof, he said, that the Alameda County District Attorney had just investigated a student dance which had turned into “an orgy,” where they had displayed on a giant screen “pictures of men and women, nude, in sensuous poses, provocative, fondling.” Since Reagan had waved a piece of paper in the air during the speech, saying that he had the report of the DA’s investigation “in his hand,” curious reporters later asked the DA for a copy, only to be told that “my office made no investigations of the college dance.” - Lloyd deMause, "REAGAN’S AMERICA"

You can even see this sort of mentality in people like Ben Shapiro who conflate communism, socialism, and "the left" with rebellion against all authority and goodness for the sake of mindless pleasure. Not to mention the endless obsession with LGBTQ+, qanon pedophile theories, porn, abortion, etc.

What is the actual materialist explanation for the right wing obsession with sex? Does porky get some sort of benefit from everyone being a heterosexual monogamous who goes to church once a week? if not why the backlash? is it just to ensure a constant supply of new workers?
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Is this a leak?

https://pastebin.com/Dmk0Vxkn

Coercion into Military Enlistment Using Advanced Technology and Remote Neural Monitoring


Coercion into Military Enlistment Using Advanced Technology and Remote Neural Monitoring
Creating a Climate of Fear
Exaggeration of Threats: Use fabricated scenarios to exaggerate national security threats, making enlistment appear as a protective measure.
Digital Content Amplification: Intensify the perception of danger by continuously exposing subjects to these threats via targeted digital content.
Emulating Loved Ones
Deepfake Technology: Employ deepfake technology and social engineering to generate messages from "loved ones," portraying enlistment as a noble path and exploiting emotional bonds.
False Blackmail and Social Pressure
Manufactured Scenarios: Create situations that suggest involvement in shameful activities, threatening reputational damage unless the individual enlists.
Societal Isolation: Cultivate a sense of societal pressure and isolation, making subjects feel that enlistment is their only option to avoid ostracization.
Simulated Rescue or Intervention
Staged Danger: Stage scenarios making subjects believe they are in immediate danger, followed by a military "rescue," thus creating a psychological bond with the military.
Utilization of Biofeedback, Deepfake Voices, and Remote Neural Monitoring
Biofeedback Monitoring: Monitor physiological responses to stimuli, identifying moments of vulnerability, ostensibly for health tracking.
Deepfake Audio Messages: Generate realistic audio messages using deepfake technology from trusted figures, conveying disappointment or guilt, suggesting that enlistment restores honor.
Remote Neural Monitoring: Incorporate remote neural monitoring to assess cognitive and emotional states in real-time, enhancing the precision of psychological manipulation by targeting subjects when they are most susceptible.
Manipulation through Personal Behavior Shaming
Exploitation of Personal Behaviors: Utilize personal behaviors, such as masturbation, by obtaining or fabricating compromising material, coupled with deepfake technology to intensify the threat, aiming to induce shame and pressure towards enlistment.
Psychological Impact and Coercion Tactics
Personalized Guilt and Public Shaming: Employ a combination of personalized guilt and the threat of public shaming, severely impacting psychological states and pushing individuals towards a crisis of identity, viewing enlistment as a necessary action.
Ethical Considerations and Countermeasures
Acknowledgment of Ethical Violations: This strategy highlights profound ethical violations, in stark contrast to real-world defense entities that prioritize transparent, voluntary recruitment processes that respect personal choice.
Need for Ethical Standards and Public Awareness: Essential countermeasures include public education on media literacy, digital privacy, and the development of robust legal frameworks to deter and punish the use of coercive strategies.
Contribution to Defense Capabilities via IDIQ Contract with ROHDE & SCHWARZ USA, INC., Including Remote Neural Monitoring
Strategy Overview: The IDIQ contract's emphasis on communications equipment could enable the DoD to develop systems utilizing biofeedback, deepfake voices, and remote neural monitoring for psychological operations or influence campaigns, creating a manipulative environment aimed at coercion.

Biofeedback and Deepfake Utilization:

Monitoring Equipment: Design devices for remotely monitoring physiological and neural responses, providing comprehensive data on stress levels, emotional states, and cognitive susceptibility.
Deepfake Audio Generation: Develop technology for generating persuasive messages from perceived loved ones or respected figures, encouraging military enlistment.
Ethical Considerations and Countermeasures:
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today, the ides of march commenced 2068 years ago, murdering comrade julius in cold blood. rest in power

mandatory reading: https://archive.org/details/assassinationofj00mich
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rightoids always suck off the police because they believe the police prevent crime, and leftoids argue against this using a bunch of metrics and statistics showing that cops don't prevent crime and are in fact just the protectors of the wealthy. But this conclusion can be arrived at entirely through reason alone, without even needing a bunch of boring long term studies. one need only ask oneself a series of questions:

>what would happen if everyone stopped committing crimes? would the state disband the police?

<No! You can't just fire thousands of armed and dangerous people just because they aren't needed anymore. They will fuck your shit up. They're here to collect a check, whether they do real work or just engage in rent seeking thuggery.
>if society stopped committing crime and the state did somehow "disband the police" how would police respond?
<by throwing a shit fit, becoming violent criminals, and basically creating the demand for the police to return through their own violent actions, creating a paradox. if crime disappears, the police become the criminals, meaning crime cannot disappear.
>if the police would not disband if everyone stopped committing crimes, because they are in fact a group of armed people who are monopolizing violence, then can it really be said their job is to prevent crime?
<No. because if crime disappeared they would stick around, inducing the demand for their services by sowing chaos.
>If the police cannot be said to be stopping crime, then what is their real job?
<their real job must be the protection of the ruing class propagandists who claim that the police are stopping crime.
>who are the ruling class propagandists who claim that the police are stopping crime?
<the property owners.
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Can someone explain to me Marx's labor theory of value??? Was he off his mark when he proposed this, or am I misunderstanding something? If I labor 50 hours polishing a turd versus 5 hours, how does that make my turd more valuable?
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News 3/18/24

Al Jazeera journalist freed after 12-hour arrest by Israeli forces in Gaza
Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul has been released after being arrested for 12 hours and severely beaten by Israeli forces in Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital. Al-Ghoul was there early on Monday with his crew and other reporters to cover the Israeli army’s fourth raid into the hospital, where thousands of civilians are trapped, including medical staff, patients and displaced families.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/18/al-jazeera-journalist-beaten-arrested-by-israeli-forces-from-gaza-hospital
https://archive.is/JUAke

Iraqi Communist Party defends minority representation in Kurdistan parliament
The Iraqi Communist Party on Monday warned against "undermining" the representation of minorities in the Kurdistan Region Parliament following a Supreme Federal Court ruling to abolish the quota system in Kurdistan.
https://shafaq.com/en/Kurdistan/Iraqi-Communist-Party-defends-minority-representation-in-Kurdistan-parliament

South Sudan shutters all schools as it prepares for an extreme heat wave
The health and education ministries advised parents to keep all children indoors as temperatures are expected to soar to 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit). They warned that any school found open during the warning period would have its registration withdrawn,.
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-schools-closed-heat-wave-b52d535e3ee7284b2832c0cfd14b1167

Niger's junta revokes relations with U.S. military
In reading the statement, the junta's spokesman, Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane, stopped short of saying U.S. forces should leave. He said Niger was suspending military cooperation with Washington and added that U.S. flights over the country’s territory in recent weeks were illegal.
https://www.africanews.com/2024/03/17/nigers-junta-revokes-relations-with-us-military/

Two minors among nine arrested over French police station fireworks attack
The attack on Sunday evening in La Courneuve followed the death last Wednesday of a teenager after a police chase. Authorities announced a reinforced police presence across the northern Paris suburb.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/france-police-station-fireworks-attack-paris-olympic-village

Massive police crackdown on student organizers in Greece met with widespread condemnation
Student-youth groups and working people in Greece have condemned the crackdown unleashed by riot police on the students of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki on March 16. On Saturday, police raided the Faculty of Sciences of the university. They arrested 49 students, who had been protesting the conservative New Democracy (ND) government’s bid to allow foreign private universities to set up branches in the country.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/18/massive-police-crackdown-on-student-organizers-in-greece-met-with-widespread-condemnation/

Queensland farming lobby launches legal challenge against Great Artesian Basin carbon capture trial
Queensland farming body AgForce has launched legal action against the federal government in a bid to stop liquified carbon dioxide from being pumped into the Great Artesian Basin. The Carbon Transport and Storage Corporation (CTSCo), a subsidiary of mining giant Glencore, is awaiting state government approval for a pilot scheme to inject Co2 emitted by a coal-fired power station in southern Queensland into underground water aquifers as part of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project trial.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/queensland-farming-lobby-launches-legal-challenge-against-great-artesian-basin-carbon-capture-trial

Cuba Protests for Interference Before US Chargé D'affaires
During the meeting, Fernandez also highlighted the U.S. government's direct responsibility for the difficult economic situation currently faced by Cuba. Specifically, the Cuban vice minister mentioned that the U.S. blockade has been designed and implemented to destroy the capabilities of the Cuban economy, which results in shortages of essential goods and services for the population.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-Protests-for-Interference-Before-US-Charge-Daffaires-20240318-0010.html

Colombia’s war crimes tribunal assumes all investigations against former AUC commander
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal JEP assumed all pending criminal investigations against demobilized paramilitary commander Salvatore Mancuso. The JEP ruling sidelines the transitional Justice and Peace system, which was set up in 2005 to try commanders of the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-war-crimes-tribunal-assumes-all-investigations-against-former-auc-commander/

Canada parliament to vote on motion backing Palestinian statehood
Canadian legislators are due on Monday to vote on a non-binding motion backing Palestinian statehood that has drawn condemnation from Israel and that could deepen splits inside the ruling Liberal Party. Although the government is free to ignore the result of the vote in the House of Commons elected chamber, it could cause political problems for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
https://www.reuters.com/world/canada-parliament-vote-motion-backing-palestinian-statehood-2024-03-18/
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Casual Antifascism

What could happen if harassment of Nazis became normalized?
What case studies are relevant, and what are their limitations?

In many places in the West, we see neo-fash orgs performing both unannounced 'flash-mob' marches, and police-protected protests. As dorky as they look, these still make a statement - we're publicly fascist and not being hurt. It's ok.
But sometimes, these don't go as planned. Antifascist groups frequently infiltrate their communications or have a local network ready to quickly react and counterprotest. And sure, on a regular good day they'll embarrass the fash more than they're doing themselves, deal financial damage by smashing their vehicles, maybe even get an assault in, but this requires organization and dedication. Ideally, this could be complimented by normalized, casual antifascism, creating an environment where it's not safe to be a Nazi outside.

But that's not easy when police will protect them, and make no mistake, that is not an inevitability. Take the example of when the British Union of Fascists went to Brighton, where police weren't sympathetic and basically just sent one cop, letting antifascists like the 43 Group throw bricks at them and beat them up. Or take examples where there are enough aggressive counter-protesters to make police aggression futile - you can only arrest so many people (safety in numbers is a real tactic used in known illegal actions like blockades). Furthermore, there are examples where nazis appear before police do (take the NSN arriving to a demonstration early in an attempt to avoid antifascists) or where they act as individuals performing stunts or wolfwhistling.
In these cases, nazis can be mobbed not just by antifascist activists but by normal citizens, with legal consequence being the only real chilling factor.
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Why do people shoot at people for stepping on their yard.
Why not let people step in your yard what's the big deal?
Maybe try being a little more social. Can't have socialism without the word social.
Not only that it should in fact become legal to loiter on other people's yards.
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Marxism and Feminism (Women / Feminist Thread)

Marxism has traditionally had a close alliance with the feminist movement, and human development for women in Communist states is far higher than in the capitalist West.

If it's okay with the mods, can we maintain an exception for Marxist feminists to the general anti-idpol line?

Based on the genestealer thread, I think what we really need are a lot more Marxist women. That is to say, while we can't literally fuck for revolution, we can have women in good physical shape and with nice makeup help promote Marxism and other left-wing ideologies.

Included:

Yuan Herong, a Chinese doctor who also happens to be a bodybuilder.

https://www.tiktok.com/discover/yuan-herong-official?lang=en
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News 3/16/24

Sudan war: three political parties reject ‘political settlement proposal’
The National Umma Party, the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, and the Communist Party of Sudan yesterday announced their rejection of “a political settlement project being discussed in secret”. The settlement would end the more than 11-month-long armed conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) by giving both sides a share in the government to be formed after the war.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-war-three-political-parties-reject-political-settlement-proposal

Kenyan doctors begin nationwide strike
The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union said that its members had walked out to demand comprehensive medical cover and because the government has yet to post 1,200 medical interns.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/kenyan-doctors-begin-nationwide-strike

'You've starved us Sisi': Dozens arrested during Egypt protest against falling living conditions
The Egyptian Network for Human Rights (ENHR) announced on Saturday that dozens of protesters were arrested on Friday by Egyptian security forces for demonstrating against the effects of inflation and poor living conditions in the country. The protests occurred in the Dekheila suburb of Alexandria, near the upscale seaside resort of Agami.
https://www.newarab.com/news/youve-starved-us-sisi-dozens-arrested-egypt-protests

Vessel struck in Red Sea as Houthis promise attacks on more shipping lanes
A merchant vessel has been damaged in a missile strike in the Red Sea off Yemen, marine security monitors said, as the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels threatened to expand their attacks on shipping which have disrupted global trade.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/15/vessel-struck-in-red-sea-as-houthis-vow-attacks-on-more-shipping-lanes
https://archive.is/Ciyrh

Climate activists across Europe block access to North Sea oil infrastructure
Blockades have been taking place at oil and gas terminals, refineries and ports in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, in protest at the continued exploitation of North Sea fossil fuel deposits. Further actions were expected in Denmark, while in Scotland activists staged banner drops calling for an end to the exploitation of North Sea oil and gas.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/16/climate-activists-across-europe-block-access-to-north-sea-oil-infrastructure

Abstention by far-right in Azores raises hopes for Portugal's new government
Portugal's far-right Chega party abstained on Friday from voting on the Social Democratic Party's (PSD) minority government policy programme in the Azores islands, thereby letting it pass, a move PSD hopes Chega will replicate nationwide after last weekend's inconclusive election.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/abstention-by-far-right-azores-raises-hopes-portugals-new-government-2024-03-15/

Fatal Ukrainian Strikes Rock Russia as Vote Cements Putin’s Grip
"A man was driving a truck when a shell hit him, after which the car crashed into a passenger bus. The people on it were not injured," Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on social media. "Another woman was killed in a parking lot where she and her son came to feed the dogs. Medics are fighting for her son's life," he added.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/16/fatal-ukrainian-strikes-rock-russia-as-vote-cements-putins-grip-a84487
https://archive.is/hsFY1

CPI-M activists protest against visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Kalaburagi
Hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival in Kalaburagi in north Karnataka, activists of Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a demonstration in front of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar statue at Jagat Circle in Kalaburagi on march 16. The police broke up the protest, and took the protesters to an unknown location.
https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha/karnataka-lok-sabha-elections-cpi-m-activists-protest-against-visit-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-to-kalaburagi/article67957435.ece
https://archive.is/itU4t

Boom time for Myanmar opium farmers amid coup chaos
Myanmar became the world’s biggest opium producer in 2023, according to the United Nations, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government launched a crackdown on the crop. Since the military in Myanmar seized power in 2021, causing social and economic turmoil and armed conflict across the country, the cash crop has become more important to some farmers struggling to get by.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/3/15/boom-time-for-myanmar-opium-farmers-as-coup-chaos-bites
https://archive.is/5kpMu

Daniel Noboa secretly creates database with genetic profiles of criminals in Ecuador
The officials who carry out this task tell the inmates that these DNA samples, which will go to a state information bank, will help them be identified in the event of a massacre, something that happens in penitentiaries in the country; or in the event of identity theft. Prison workers are instructed to convince them not to consult with their lawyer and to make them believe that the procedure is part of normal prison routine
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-03-16/daniel-noboa-secretly-creates-database-with-genetic-profiles-of-criminals-in-ecuador.html
https://archive.is/hQlUO
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>The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust was a two-day conference in Tehran, Iran that opened on December 11, 2006. Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the conference sought "neither to deny nor prove the Holocaust… [but] to provide an appropriate scientific atmosphere for scholars to offer their opinions in freedom about a historical issue".
>Participants included American David Duke, a former Louisiana State Representative and ex-Ku Klux Klan leader, attended the conference.[11] Politician Georges Theil, a member of the French National Front who was convicted under France's Holocaust denial laws, attended,[11] as did the German-Australian Fredrick Töben, founder and head of the Adelaide Institute who had been imprisoned in Germany for three months in 1999 for Holocaust denial.[10][12] Robert Faurisson, a convicted Holocaust denier from France also attended,[13] as well as Ahmed Rami, a Swedish-Moroccan Holocaust denier who was imprisoned in Sweden for inciting racial hatred.[14] Psychologist Bendikt Frings, a leading member of the German National Democratic Party (NPD), was invited by Iranian Deputy Minister of Islamic Guidance Mohammad-Ali Ramin; Frings said that he had waited for such a conference "all my childhood".[15][16] The NPD is often considered the most significant Neo-Nazi party in Germany.[17][18]

what the fuck did Iran mean by this?
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INFOGRAPHICS THREAD

Lets have a infographics thread for old times sake. Post any useful infographics / images that you can find here so other users can use them to spread socialist propaganda on imageboards and other platforms.
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If the DSA or any other party were a proletarian party it would not pay its members anything because communists are not supposed to be in an org for money.
A party should be composed mostly of proletarians fighting for their own interests. This separation between the proletarian job and party activity is stupid.
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retard's razor

retard's razor states that, when presented with a systemic problem, and the option to either understand it as a systemic problem, or to look for an easy scapegoat instead, the average person, here dubbed "retard" will always take the latter option, and look for and easy scapegoat.

Immigration to the 1st world? It's the fault of immigrants who are leaches. It has nothing to do with climate change or political policy or sanctions or embargoes or wars or people seeking asylum from regimes. It's just that the immigrants are bad people who want to steal our jobs and live off of our welfare.

Palestine? Those people are fighting back because they're dirty terrorists, not because they're deeply oppressed.

Israel? Those people are oppressing the Palestinians because they're hooknosed jews, and that's just how hooknosed jews act. It has nothing to do with Israel being a US-backed settler colony who is armed to the teeth by the imperial core.

Capitalism? There's nothing wrong with capitalism as a system, it's just individual bourgeoisie, "crony capitalists" or "jewish bankers" being mean and not sharing enough. If we got "good" capitalists in charge everything would be OK.
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atheists only, fools

Can btfo online reactionary religious ghouls epic style be a net positive for scientific socialism?
How do we fuse the two and harness this power?
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/marksoc/ Market Socialism general

Market Socialists come in many different flavors; from Anarchist to Marxist, Free marketeer to Regulationist, wanting Mass production to wanting Artisanal production, believing it to be the end goal to believing it to be a transitionary period and so on. What unites us is the belief that socialism can coherently exist with markets without being capitalist.

Post books and materials related to Market Socialism or post memes. If your not a Market Socialist then post your criticisms of it. If you dislike one strain of Market Socialism then post your critiques of it.
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Why do people vote for far right parties?

There has to be a reason other than "they are racist idiots etc" It seems the gains in Europe and abroad is not just temporary but increasing to the detriment of proper left wing parties. This recent election in Portugal is just one example.
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Hilo Latinoamericano 6.0

Hilo latino flacos, tratemos de mantenerlo mas activo que el hilo pasado. Ameribros as always we allow you to speak english, we are not Ukrainian fascists.

Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/
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/ukraine/ - Russia-Ukraine war general #171: Mmmm Vatnik Cock Edition

Remember!!: A new thread?? I thought mods were just lazy. God hoping new threads are a recurring thing again.

>have 700k+ army

>mobilize non-stop for two years
>quickly, we need 500k more!
>"uuuuhm easy, just triple the number of active soldiers!"

<Perseus did nothing wrong. Zakhaev did nothing wrong. Barkov did nothing wrong.


>I'm going to renounce socialism because intbriganon got pussy and became a liberal.


<What next? Are they going to say that a slave doesn't really want liberation but rather wants to enslave his masters? I hate romaboos btw


>Attempt to criticize the horrors of Soviet totalitarianism

>Police break into your house and throw you into a van to never be seen again
<You tankies are mentally ill.

>Guys i am kinda of a RadLib faggot, and don't quite understand the arguments to support Russia in the ongoing conflict. What are like, the best facts for me to convince someone to stop supporting Ukraine?


<Shut up retard nobody in the global south gives a fuck about Galloway or Hinkle and their war on Hamas, George Floyd, and little kids' private parts. Please kill yourself


>Luka almost 70 years old

>Belarussian life expectancy 72 years
<Oh nononononononononono!

>I want to invade her borders from two directions and denazify her state if you know what I mean.


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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740

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Developments of multipolarity timeline
https://www.pacemaker.global/multipolar-transition-timeline (Note: Dead link. Update with new link, por favor.)

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

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

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

📺 Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0

📺 The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZN1KK9Mzuo

<Current Happenings

📺 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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/crisis/ General

💰️DOW/Market Watch Thread💰️
monitoring the market, trends, fluctuations, etc.
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The Changing of the Guard

You guys put any stock in the idea that part of the reason for the latent reationary wave we've seen fall over the west since 2016 (though really since 2020) has something to do with the richest themselves becoming more reactionary in character?
Sure you can say all the things you ought say about broad socio-economic trends, peasantization of the working class, the outsourcing of jobs, capitalism in crisis ect. But it just seems to me that the richest 1% becoming AESHTETICALLY socially conservative has alot to do with the rise of of national populism (Fascism) on the world stage generally.
Like think back to the Obama years when the richest 1% were lib cali tech nerds like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. In a way they're still really Cali Tech nerds but the new grop that came after them have definately position themselves as more reactionary then those who came before (think peter teil and obviously elon musk) AND with their increasing insistence on """free speech"""" on social media they seem to be pumping far right propganda into the eyes of millions per day, shifting the overton windown in the process.
I dont know
Just would like to hear left/pol/s thoughts on the matter??
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nukes and russia

So I am familiar with the American deep-state, and am confident that they would stop the president from going full retard with nukes. But I am not so sure about Putin.

I know states don't operate off the "le great leader can do what he wants" model. There are always competing factions and group-interests that keep any one individual from becoming a god (even stalin had people who would tell him to fuck off). The question is: how robust is the Russian ruling class when it comes to preventing nuclear war?

And just to clarify I am not one of those "putin=hitler 2.0" libs I just don't know much about the Russian deepstate and wish to be enlightened.
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Public health and pandemics

Given how there is a new variant of concern circulating and the healthcare system (at least here in the US), is under stress. I'm making this thread to reopen discussion about COVID, and to an equally important extent public health in general. Even if there are other pressing concerns, I believe that it would be a mistake to not discuss the long term issues that will arise due to COVID on the health and well-being of working class populations and subsequently geopolitical implications, and how we as the left can account for this. Please feel free for international anons to give updates on your respective country's response (or lack of one).

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-variant-jn1-flu-surge-hospitals-cdc-warns/
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Politically speaking, is there any reason to do anything instead of leeching off your family and waiting till they die to retire with their property? Everything feels pointless so why shouldn't you just wait for the system to collapse? Seems like the most reasonable thing to do imo
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Historical materialism and philosophy

What is it with materialists and using pic related as an argument against metaphysical criticisms of materialism? I don't disagree with the doctrine of historical materialism necessarily but a lot of these people seem to be incredibly myopic either in erroneously considering human production as the basis for anything that doesn't emerge from this process, or in considering anything outside the frame of human production irrelevant.

>inb4 materialism is anti-metaphysical

In some sense yes, but 1. metaphysical/ontological claims are still made in defence of materialism (i.e. in the unity of matter and form, the consideration of monism, the existence of determinate substance that can be studied) and 2. being anti-metaphysics doesn't mean that a world outside human production doesn't exist and doesn't require study.

>inb4 these considerations don't matter with regards to the program/"I'm tryin to turn the wheel of history ovah here!" etc

That's fine but if materialism is a purely political consideration for you then I'm not interested.
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Palestine vs The Zionist Entity #73: Gatekeeping Paragliding Edition

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
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Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/8/israels-war-on-gaza-live-60000-pregnant-women-face-malnutrition-in-gaza

Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories

Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-09-2024/ (trigger warning)

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https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war

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https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source

https://mondoweiss.net/
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https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org

https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv

https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine

https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog

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al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/

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(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia)

Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.

الله أكبر
يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا!
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pre-capitalist modes of production

how many modes of production are there? it frustrates me to no end how little is agreed upon about the nature and number of precapitalist modes compared to capitalism itself. scholars cannot even agree whether european feudalism is a more advanced or degenerated form of a tributary mode, or whether "peasant" and "kinship" modes exist. how do i elucidate this shit without spending years reading idk chinese fiduciary records?
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Red Salzburg Thread - Austria

Communist Party of Austria in the Salzburg Mayoral Election

>First Communist Party Success in Mayoral Elections in Graz (2019)

>Christian Conservatives malding: "This brand is toxic"
>Final Ballots on the 24th of March
>Upwards to 20% Voter gain

Red Vienna 2 when?
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harvey was right, money should have an expiration date

>If you hoard perishable goods it goes bad, therefore there is a low incentive to hard it, and strong incentive to consume it or circulate it quickly
>if you hoard non-perishable goods, it doesn't go bad, but it may still be consumed. there is a medium incentive to hoard it, or keep it from circulation
>if something is non-perishable, and non-consumable, there is a strong incentive to hoard it, even if its entire use value is to be circulated
>therefore people hoard money even though its use value is to be circulated
>because the economy functions best when things circulate quickly, the lack of circulation caused by hoarding is like a blood clot. bad for the health, and potentially fatal.
>the credit system was invented to get around this
>but what if money simply had an expiration date instead? what if it went back to the public fund if you didn't use it?


people make fun of him for this, but I think it's a neat idea. one of the biggest problems i run into in game design is that hoarding money is an OP strategy even in games where pay is very low for missions and side quests. making money oxidize would balance gameplay in a lot of games. Why wouldn't it balance gameplay irl?

<inb4 reddit
<inb4 harvey is senile
<inb4 read cockshott
<inb4 neo-bernsteinite
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ITT: post agitprop, diy propaganda, paste ups, flyers, pamphlets, zines etc

make agitprop, paste up agitprop

Thoughts on this one?
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News 3/15/24

Australia resumes funding for UNRWA and pledges more Gaza aid
Wong also pledged an additional 4 million Australian dollars ($2.6 million) to UNICEF to provide urgent services in Gaza, and a C17 Globemaster plane will also deliver defense force parachutes to help with the U.S. led airdropping of humanitarian supplies into the enclave, which is on the brink of famine, according to the United Nations.
https://apnews.com/article/australia-unrwa-hamas-israel-gaza-funding-1b4bcb81251cf7eeed0904da9fe4144b

Narendra Modi’s BJP given £570m under scheme allowing anonymous donations
According to the data that was released, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) received more than 60bn rupees (£570m) in donations through a scheme known as electoral bonds, which the Modi government introduced in 2017.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/narendra-modi-bjp-given-570m-under-scheme-allowing-anonymous-donations

Israeli forces block thousands from Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque
Thousands of worshippers were sent back after being denied entry through the checkpoints. While Israel initially said elders would be allowed to cross, some speaking to Middle East Eye said they were denied entry. Many were sent away under the pretext of not having "prayer permits".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-al-aqsa-mosque-friday-prayer-block-thousands-

Israeli forces kill 20 Palestinians waiting for aid, Gaza health ministry says
The latest incident came hours after eight people were killed in an airstrike on an aid distribution centre at al-Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, health officials said. In a statement, Israel’s military denied attacking aid distribution points and described the reports as “false”, though it was not immediately clear which incident it was referring to.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/palestinians-killed-wounded-idf-israel-forces-aid-gaza

Sweden conducted its first reconnaissance flights near the Russian border since joining NATO
The two flights on Saturday were aimed at collecting intelligence information about the deployment and activities of Russian troops and weapons in the region, Open Source Intelligence experts said. One flight was made by a Swedish Gulfstream S102B Korpen GIV-SP Signal Intelligence (SIGINT), which flew over Poland near the borders of Russia's Kaliningrad enclave and Belarus.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-first-nato-reconnaissance-mission-near-russia-border-ukraine-2024-3

Croatian parliament dissolves to pave way for parliamentary election later this year
The upcoming vote in Croatia will pit ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union against a group of center and left-leaning parties who have announced they will run in a coalition.
https://apnews.com/article/croatia-parliament-dissolves-election-may-ca80e6e72bcf2f8cf38a4d8e82e6a72d

Germany: Airport security staff strike at smaller hubs
Airport security staff continued a strike called by trade union Verdi at several smaller German hubs on Friday, with authorities predicting considerably fewer cancellations and disruptions than on the previous day but still saying thousands of travelers are liable to be impacted.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-airport-security-staff-strike-at-smaller-hubs/a-68534523

Peru Congress commission advances bill protecting alleged perpetrators of crimes against humanity
The Constitutional Commission of the Peruvian Congress approved Tuesday the report of Bill No. 6951/2023-CR, which establishes that no one can be prosecuted, sentenced or punished for crimes against humanity or war crimes committed before July 1, 2002. As a result, emblematic cases from the period of internal violence in Peru between 1980 and 2000, which were still awaiting a definitive judicial response, could be closed.
https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/03/peru-congress-advances-bill-protecting-alleged-perpetrators-of-crimes-against-humanity/
https://archive.is/zvuHY

Mexican lake is being sucked dry by development, drought and lawlessness
Residents said Thursday that Valle — as the reservoir has been known since the 1940s — is being drained by Mexico City’s refusal to fix broken pipes that waste much of its water, as well as the unrestrained construction of private dams and holding ponds by suspiciously wealthy and powerful newcomers. In a country where the government appears not to listen and gang violence is common, residents and activists can only watch as their beloved lake disappears. The National Water Commission, known by its Spanish initials as Conagua, has done little to remedy the problem.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexico-glittering-lake-sucked-dry-development-drought-lawlessness-108132553

Petro urges UN narcotics commission to focus on healthcare
In a video message, Petro reiterated that his government considered the so-called War on Drugs a failure that justified human rights violations against Latin American rural communities that were associated with the cultivation of coca, the base ingredient of cocaine. “We turned our peasant, indigenous and Afro communities into enemies. We massively and systematically violated rights,” the president told the UNCND in a video message.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-urges-un-narcotics-commission-to-focus-on-healthcare/
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Why isn't everyone on the same page?
There is no market socialism, there is no mixed economy. We're heading towards full socialism where the choices will just be who owns what if we have a choice at all.
If the robots and ai do all the labor then wage labor is done. If wage labor is done people can not buy. If they can not buy they need to receive money from the state. See the chain of logic?
>What is to be done?
Maybe everyone should just be entitled to a portion of all companies. Like a stock exchange stock and everything can carry on as is. Idk.
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News 3/14/24

Three political parties form alliance for upcoming elections
On Thursday, Mohammed Haji Mahmoud, the head of Kurdistan Social Democratic Party, in a press conference announced that they have entered into an alliance with both the Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq and Kurdistan’s Toilers’ Party. The alliance comes after the three political parties started their preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan Region, scheduled on June 10.
https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/34279-Three-political-parties-form-alliance-for-upcoming-elections

Iranian press review: New hijab law faces revived opposition
Last Friday, after more than a year of deliberations in Iran's parliament and in the powerful Guardian Council, conservative lawmaker Amir Hossein Bankipour stated that the authorities would automatically deduct 30m Iranian rials (around $713) from the bank accounts of those who fail to comply with the obligatory Islamic hijab law.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iranian-press-review-new-hijab-law-faces-revived-opposition

Egypt accused of 'questionable' amnesty deals with ISIS-linked suspects in Sinai
According to the two groups, such pardon agreements were made without publicly specifying criteria for releasing suspects from custody. "Evidence gathered by the two organisations and public statements by officials indicate that the authorities have granted some members of the ISIS affiliate Wilayat Sinai (Sinai Province) amnesties for laying down their arms and turning themselves in," a joint statement said, without specifying an exact number of defendants.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-accused-questionable-amnesty-isis-sinai

‘Death trap’: Israeli forces kill six in new attack on Gaza aid seekers
The attack on Thursday took place hours after at least five people were killed by an Israeli air strike on a food distribution centre in Rafah, southern Gaza, run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which is the main humanitarian agency in Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/14/death-trap-israeli-forces-kill-six-aid-seekers-in-gaza-city
https://archive.is/Whwih

Magona-Dano recommends 9 EFF MPs be found guilty of contempt of parly
The initiator of the hearing into the nine EFF MPs, Penelope Magona-Dano, has recommended that they should be found guilty for their conduct during President Cyril Ramaphosa budget vote speech and debate on the 9th and 10th of June 2022.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/925682-2/

French communists against recognition by Macron
The French Communist Party, through the Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France (MJCF), has inserted itself into the process of reconciliation between Rabat and Paris, which was initiated a few months ago.
https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/147680/morocco-s-sovereignty-over-sahara-french.html
https://archive.is/q4YmL

Spanish congress passes amnesty law for Catalan separatists
Spain’s congress has approved the controversial and divisive Catalan amnesty bill that regional separatists demanded in return for helping the country’s Socialist-led coalition government back into office after last year’s inconclusive general election.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/14/catalan-separatists-amnesty-law-spain

Thousands of Indian farmers hit the streets of New Delhi to demand new laws to guarantee minimum crop prices
Farmers rode crowded buses and trains instead of their tractors to New Delhi after authorities barricaded highways into the capital with cement blocks and barbed wire. Police banned use of farm vehicles as a condition for granting permission for the rally in the city. Protesters were also barred from carrying sticks or swords to avoid clashes with police.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-indian-farmers-hit-streets-new-delhi-demand-new-laws-guarantee-minimum-crop

Kerala: Protests Erupt Against Notification of CAA, DYFI Files Appeal in SC
As soon as the notification was issued by the Union government, the DYFI hit the streets across the state with night marches. The marches were held on block and district levels with the DYFI members burning copies of CAA as a mark of protest. Addressing a protest in Kannur district, DYFI leader V K Sanoj accused the Union government of resorting to divisive policies for political gains.
https://www.newsclick.in/kerala-protests-erupt-against-notification-caa-dyfi-files-appeal-sc

Indonesian presidential rivals plan to contest official election results with allegations of fraud
The General Election Commission has officially tallied over 78% of the votes as of Thursday, with Subianto taking 58.82%, Baswedan 24.50% and Pranowo 16.68%. Baswedan and Pranowo have refused to concede and alleged fraud in the election. The official vote-counting process, which is lengthy and laborious, may take up to 35 days to be completed — the maximum time regulated by the Elections Law — and the election commission is expected to announce the official winner by March 20.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-election-disputes-constitutional-court-cb37b6d1d5ca840f3591c590f59c20d1
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TFP Catholic Reactionaries

These guys are fun to watch. Their entire strategy is to appear more noble and civilized in front of the audience as part of the spectacle - picking on liberal kids who have little to no grasp of what socialism is or are part of revisionist organizations cucked by identity politics.
This allows them to disregard any intellectual challenges to instead appear superior by simply smothering the small fish with generic questions they're unable to give a straight answer to and ending it with this is what leftists are - a bunch of hoodlums who yell and wear brand clothing while we have banners, heraldry, uniforms and make songs with our bagpipes.

It would be interesting to see a left opposition that's just as organized as them to oppose them - one which doesn't have ugly slobs to stand out for ridicule (pic related).
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Nechayev

There was an argument in college about this guy in the context of Dostoyevsky's demons. Nobody knew what he represented but the Jordan Peterson fanboys claimed he represented "the unadulterated fundamentals of communism".

I did some digging and found Marx and Engels making fun of him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracks_communism

Lenin and Stalin liked him.

I am confused what to think.
>Is he of any relevancy?
>Was he right?
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PSA

LISTEN HERE ALL YOU STRUGGLING NEETS AND YOUNGSTERS! MOST JOBS DON'T EVEN CHECK OR QUESTION IF YOU HAVE A DEGREE, SO PICK A FIELD YOU KNOW BEST, PICK A FAKE REFERENCE, AND GO FORTH!

EVERYONE LIE! COLLEGE IS A SCAM! THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS SHIT! IT'S FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE!
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What is wrong with ye???
Imagine having to stand out from the rest while the world celebrates the International Workers' Day on the 1st of May every single year.
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>get a job
>What you do at your job?
>Nothing
>So you're getting paid and I'm not and you're the good guy
>Well then why don't you get a job?
>I don't have contact to nepotism I'd have to get a low paying real job
>Well you should get a job still
>I dont need to
>Yeah well you should be forced to get a job
>That'd be communism
>No huh
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/leftybritpol/ - Ulster Says NO (to low wages) Edition

To be fair it's only the second largest industrial action in Northern Ireland. Do NOT ask about the first one, we don't talk about Britain's only ever successful general strike. We do NOT.
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How about making a stock that funds workers coops and get minority ownership on the workers coop?
It'd still be a corporation but obviously it wouldn't be the same. Since workers coops are more resilient eventually most businesses would be coops.
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Lefties hate him because….?

>in one year, country goes from one of the highest crime rates in the world to one of the lowest
>homicide rate cut in half; gang activity now almost nonexistent
>approval above 95%
>so beloved that people want him to run for reelection even though there is a term limit
>"experts" and "electoral watchdogs" heavily scrutinize the polls
>he stills wins with over 85% of the vote
>remember most US presidents win with barely 50%

Yet look at any western mainstream news and you will learn the most important thing about this guy is that he is a dictator who is has the highest incarceration rate ever and he is violating human rights.

Imagine living in a country the size of Connecticut and 87 murders occur in one weekend. You are telling me the first thing on your mind is “but what about the human rights of the criminals!?!?!”
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>Says Capitalism has created intolerable poverty and immiseration for the masses
>Blames Capitalism for the climate crisis instead of coping with the Book of Revelation
>Orchestrates meeting of both Christian socialists and actual atheist Marxists and anarchists to discuss society's contemporary issues
>Chastises US imperialism
>Chastises Israel
>Says gays are okay and can get married
>Tells Zelensky to quit coping and put his people first by surrendering
Tf is with the current Pope? Does he know he's gonna die soon or something?
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"Orthodox Marxism" is the correct Marxism

>Critics, attacking Marxism, accuse it of maintaining that development is performed according to Hegelian triads. According to them, development takesplace in the following way. At the beginning of the development of any process, it appears as a thesis, as something positive. This thing generates its own particular opposite – its antithesis. Further development unifies, in a way, the thesis and antithesis, that is, comes out as a synthesis. Thus development of any object takes places in three stages which form a “triad”: thesis, antithesis, synthesis. By these positions Hegel wanted to confirm the law of development through the struggle of opposites, transition of one phenomenon into another, its opposite, and transition of the former into such opposite, in which is included both preceding stages of development. Hegel’s positions contain profound thinking, which was grasped and developed by Marx and Engels. Engels wrote that the negation of the negation – “a very simple procedure, performed everywhere every day, which every child can understand as soon as the mysterious junk in which the old idealistic philosophy wrapped itself is stripped off […].”2

>But it is just metaphysical philosophy which also does not see anything in the law of the negation of the negation other than mystical [188] junk. The law of the negation of the negation is depicted by metaphysics as a schematic “triad,” which Marxists fit to the development concrete reality by force. True, it is necessary to say that Hegel himself gave grounds, particularly in his Philosophy of Right, to interpret “triplicity” as a law of development itself, and not merely as an aspect of the law of the negation of the negation. Thus he considered crime as the negation of law, and punishment as the negation of crime, that is, as the negation of the negation. Here the triad actively entered as an external schema, which drives the phenomena of reality. It would also be possible to say that the

struggle for existence in organic nature takes place according to a triad: insects are eaten by birds (thesis and antithesis), but birds are eaten by predators (synthesis). A kind of unification of the world of insects and the world of birds arises in the stomach of the predator arises.

>Certainly, such schematic behavior of phenomena according to a triad could not explain development….


>[193] In the development of a plant, the seed, a manifestation of its growth, appears as the negation of it, i.e., the negation of the negation. But seeds are>generated by the development of the plant, they constitute a moment of the plant, a moment which signifies the goal of the development of the plant. The plant rots, the seed remains. The cycle of development is finished.


>Kautsky is puzzled: what is this negation of the negation where simultaneously there are both a plant (negation of a seed) and a seed (the negation of the negation, that is, of the plant). As a mechanist he would want to tear apart these two stages, and afterwards would be surprised when he found no development.


>Meanwhile the essence of both negation and the negation of the negation consists in this, that they appear as moments in the contradictory development of a process.


https://www.marxistphilosophy.org/Aizenberg.pdf

Makes sense to me.
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the iranian monarchy is still alive, unfortunatly

any Iranians here? just discovered that the Pahlavi dynasty isn't dead, they still have one more crown prince, reza pahlavi the Second, I was reading about him (not from fedpedia god forbid) out of curiosity and tell me, is this a fucking joke? The guy's indistinguishable from the average Tory politician or liberal midwestern millionaire. americans keep using the word "privileged" a lot lately, but if there's a man that can be described with this word, it's him

>when born, his father pardoned political prisoners, all of whom were re-imprisoned years later, such is life when you're a communist in the Middle East

>obtained a plane license at the age of 13
>was sent to Texas to keep studying/training on flying military supersonic jets and economical jets with the USAAF, drove a fuckton of them before being forced to leave during the revolution
>dropped out of two different high-end private universities before pursuing a degree in "oil industries" (sus) and political science in California
>Right now owns many penthouses in Texas, Paris, I could go on but the important part is that he officially lives in a mountain real estate in Great Falls, Fairfax Virginia. (conveniently not too far from Washington DC, only 12 miles away from the white house and 6 miles away from the George Bush Center for Intelligence, CIA headquarter) place is guarded by fences and bodyguards and forbidden to drones, it isn't even shown on Google Maps.
>said to regularly refer to his house's bodyguards as imperial guards and urges his interviewers to refer to him as "your Majesty"
>urged Le monde to write more articles about the 2017 Iranian protests in Persian, and urged the British and Americans to act against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for their seizure of "international ships"
>may or may not be the one behind funding English documentaries about Iran under the pahlavis,
>is a fucking NEET, was unemployed his whole life, still unemployed now, when asked about his current job he says it's "to speak about the issues of the Iranian people 24/7, when asked about the way he makes money, he says it's from the donations of his supporters.
>met in april 2023 with Bibi of Israel, and the Israeli intelligence minister at the west wall and then at Bibi's home to discuss the ties between a "future democracy in Iran and the democracy of Israel, and to strengthen the ties between the Jewish people and the free Iranian people, coexisting in their native homelands"
>spent his 70s and 80s like a dream, resting in ski resorts in Japan and South Korea, dining in the finest French and New York establishments, safaris in Africa, disco techs in Egypt and having an affair with a, wait, hold on, let me re-read this part for you, "One of the prince’s favorite dates at the moment, however, is a blond, blue-eyed Swedish model he met in Rome."
>regularly travels around Europe and North America gathering financial and verbal support from Iranian expatriates, other pro-monarchy groups, Bloomberg, Reuters, the ADL, Radio Farda (the Iranian version of Radio Free Europe, for god's sake it's also in Prague like Radio Free Europe) and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
>In 1982 he conspired with an Israeli businessman, another Israeli businessman, the founder of an Israeli aerospace company, Sharon and a Saudi arms dealer (uncle of the 2018 Saudi journalist who got butchered in Turkey), and the CIA and the British airforce to aid him in a coup against the mullah to reinstate him as shah of Iran, it never happened because Israel was at loss for reputation after Sabra and Shatila and didn't want any "further adventures in the east"
>you can still find his website online, but it looks like he's trying to sell you a book rather than inform you he's the king of iran

to top it all off, he is contradictory, on one hand, he does say he wants Iran to be, in his words, a liberal, free, democratic, secular, westernized nation with human rights and internet access for all, but in those same conversations, he also always implies at the end that if the Iranian people would want his family back on the peacock throne as their shah of a modernized constitutional monarchy, he wouldn't reject their wish. and did receive a petition from Iranian diasporas for him to start a "government in exile" with him as king
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News 3/13/24

IDF says biting speech by general was not approved in advance by spokesman
In rare and harsh remarks directed at Israel’s political leaders, the commander of the Israel Defense Forces’ 98th Division said Wednesday that the military would “not run away from responsibility,” and told them they must push away extremism so as to “not return to October 6.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-rare-critique-idf-general-says-politicians-must-be-worthy-of-us/
https://archive.is/4Q3LS

Economist Mohammad Mustafa tipped to be next Palestinian Authority prime minister
Mustafa, who worked at the World Bank for 15 years and was PA deputy prime minister from 2013 to 2014, is said to have received the backing of close ally Abbas. Officials cited by The Times of Israel said Mustafa has been meeting with prospective cabinet members in recent weeks and has been on a whistle-stop tour to Washington.
https://www.newarab.com/news/mohammad-mustafa-tipped-be-next-pa-prime-minister

South Africa’s foreign minister says citizens fighting with Israeli forces in Gaza will be arrested
South Africa’s foreign minister says her country’s citizens who fight in the Israeli armed forces or alongside them in Gaza will be arrested when they return home, deepening the rift between the nations after South Africa lay accusations of genocide against Israel at the United Nations’ top court. Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor made the comment earlier this week at a Palestinian solidarity event attended by officials from South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-israel-military-gaza-war-genocide-0f17e9cbda2a3e2d90829b65606a2f14

UK plans to pay asylum seekers to move to Rwanda
The proposed scheme, part of a deal struck with Rwanda, was drawn up by ministers with the aim of clearing a backlog of tens of thousands of asylum seekers who have been refused the right to stay, but cannot be returned to countries deemed unsafe.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/13/uk-plans-to-pay-asylum-seekers-to-move-to-rwanda
https://archive.is/yEk8i

Germany: Verdi union calls more airport strikes on Thursday
Trade union Verdi on Tuesday called on members to strike this Thursday, March 14, at five German airports in all. The action would not affect Frankfurt and Munich airports, the busiest two in the country. Security staff screening passengers at Karlsruhe/Baden Baden and Cologne/Bonn airports were told to stop work on Thursday.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-verdi-union-calls-more-airport-strikes-on-thursday/a-68505874
https://archive.is/bBLEd

EU agrees five billion euro boost for military aid to Ukraine
Ambassadors from the EU’s 27 member countries agreed to the overhaul of the European Peace Facility (EPF) fund at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday after months of wrangling, with EU heavyweights France and Germany at the centre of much of the debate.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/13/eu-5bn-euro-boost-for-ukraine-military-aid-fund-russia
https://archive.is/qH69X

Denmark to begin conscripting women for the military in rare move
"More robust conscription, including full gender equality, must contribute to solving defense challenges, national mobilization and manning our armed forces," said Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen at a press conference.
https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-extend-military-service-women-conscription/
https://archive.is/yo8Z8

El Salvador removes income taxes for money from abroad
El Salvador's Congress approved on Tuesday a reform to remove income taxes previously imposed on money from abroad, in a move to attract more foreign investment.
Money flows from abroad in forms such as remittances and investments in companies will now be exempt from tax, lawmakers said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-removes-income-taxes-money-abroad-2024-03-13/

Plan to install new leaders in Haiti appears to crumble after political parties reject it
Jean Charles Moïse, an ex-senator and presidential candidate who has teamed up with former rebel leader Guy Philippe, held a news conference Wednesday to announce his rejection of the proposed council backed by the international community. Moïse insisted that a three-person presidential council he recently created with Philippe and a Haitian judge should be implemented.
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-henry-resignation-prime-minister-violence-aa91714a56ade1220a4e5f0d203716d9

Colombia’s Supreme Court picks new chief prosecutor
Camargo is one of Colombia’s most experienced jurists in criminal law and has ample experience in investigating political corruption. The newly picked chief prosecutor and Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez together investigated ties between paramilitary groups and politicians, which resulted in the incarceration of more than 80 congressmen and governors between 2005 and 2014. They subsequently joined a UN commission that investigated political corruption in Guatemala.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-supreme-court-picks-new-chief-prosecutor/
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the SIXTIES

Why are reactionaries so obsessed with repealing the social and cultural changes of the 1960s? Even today you listen to turds like Chris Rufo go on about 1968 was the year american succumbed to cultural Marxism, or at least began it's long march to such.

>The politics of the Gingrich revolution of the nineties are locked in a strange obsession with the politics they purport to repeal-the politics of the late sixties. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, Republican of Texas, forthrightly set out the conventional loathing: "To me all the problems began in the sixties." But the troops of the New Right are far more nourished by the sixties than they appreciate. The sixties provide the right both an evil to extirpate and a libertarian ethic to emulate.


<In the words of Speaker Newt Gingrich, Ph.D., American history breaks in half in the sixties. During the years 1607 through 1965, Gingrich said not long after assuming the leadership of the House, "There is a core pattern to American history. Here's how we did it until the Great Society messed everything up: don't work, don't eat; your salvation is spiritual; the government by definition can't save you; governments are into maintenance and all good reforms are into transformation." Then came the deluge, Gingrich continued: "From 1965 to 1994, we did strange and weird things as a country. Now we're done with that and we have to recover. The counterculture is a momentary aberration in American history that will be looked back upon as a quaint period of Bohemianism brought to the national elite"-the notorious "counterculture McGoverniks," an elite who "taught self-indulgent, aristocratic values without realizing that if an entire society engaged in the indulgences of an elite few, you could tear the society to shreds."


>Gingrich's generation of Republican first-termers, like Ronald Reagan's ideologues before them, toss the word "revolution" around rather lightly. The collapse of communism hardly left them complacent, but rather pumped up their sense that America trembles on the edge of a chasm. Thus Irving Kristol in 1993: "There is no 'after the Cold War' for me. So far from having ended, my cold war has increased in intensity, as sector after sector has been ruthlessly corrupted by the liberal ethos. . . . Now that the other 'Cold War' is over, the real cold war has begun. We are far less prepared for this cold war, far more vulnerable to our enemy, than was the case with our victorious war against a global Communist threat." The will to counterpower takes no prisoners.


This many years on, the only thing that comes close is some rightoid seething about the summer of 2020 and the George Floyd protests
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Is materialism correct?

I'm going to sound like a schizo but I've recently had an out of body experience after taking too much ketamine.
I was literally hovering over my own body and I could see myself asleep lying.
Im starting to doubt materialism and the very notion that our senses and our collective knowledge of this universe is incredibly limited to an absurd degree. I feel like we're like a goldfish living in a bowl. No matter how hard we try we will never have the faculties to understand the universe we inhabit.
I'm beginning to disregard every philosophical tenet I've once held and I'm now in this real of philosophical nihilism where I can't simply answer any of my questions. I'm also beginning to wonder if our elites are holding some answers from us. I mean they seem to be into some really weird esoteric shit. Like why did Epstein have a temple with a minerva statue?
What's the deal with their obsession with moloch and shit ?
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Seeing a lot of these stupid vulgar-pessimist or faux-pessimist threads pop up so I thought I'd chime in.

Practically speaking, you should not give a fuck. This world is a vile hell and what awaits you is not societal collapse, a great rapture, or a fabled paradise, but a drawn-out and insignificant death marked by a ferrous agony you'll get to taste as it slowly rips your soul out of your body and delivers you to the eternal and all-sufficient blackness that awaits us all.

All of the conclusions of communist thought are nauseatingly obvious, but all the while unreachable. Were this not this case, you'd be living your fantasy world now. The cope that produces the aborted determinism of Marxism after Marx; the same cope that all your predecessors were slowly drained of as they watched the revolutionary future fade into a burning horizon; will die with you; a realization waiting to hit you like a brick to the mouth, no matter how much you'll tell yourself otherwise in the minutes after reading this random shitpost that you'll soon forget.

The idea of the better world is a pernicious worm. It enters you through the anus, it cores you, and it will leave you hollow. You'll let all this happen, you'll pretend you're in charge, and even those who can manage to convince themselves that their tendency towards communism is all but a harmless bourgeois fantasy – one they'll be able to shelf if they can just find an adequate, respectable way of living under capital – will soon find their little dreams come to naught, as this world gets slightly worse and worse, on the cusp of inhabitability, but not enough to release you from the agony. If you look to your feet and examine closely, you can already see faint visions of the shit you'll soon drown in.

So go do Stalinist bullshit. LeftComs and their zealous materialism are the "right opinion (tm)", but it's retarded to even think of caring anymore. Truth is a bourgeois fiction, Marx and Lenin are long dead, and the workers are not going to save you. If you're a petty bourgeoisie, you're going to be proletarianized, and if you're a proletarian, you're going to be liquidated; this is not a case of 'if' and 'maybe', this is a case of when, where, and how. Real optimism is a luxury only the few gods and heroes who walk on earth can afford, and their money and our bodies are the fuel that keeps it burning.

Marx died a seething, boil-encrusted failure. We are all doomed to the latter half of this short statement, will you be doomed to the first? [1]

Footnotes

[1] "failure" for latter and "seething" for former, in case any of you are retarded.

>Inb4 muh class interests

Ok. Tell me when you make communism happen.

>inb4 muh random insurrection in some irrelevant shithole

Ok. Go there then and let me know me how it turns out.

>inb4 muh china, cuba, yugoslavia, ussr

Unfortunately, no matter how many PR releases you fall for, you will still be retarded. That goes for either side of the caring about state mixed economies you don't live in debate.

Heil Ulrike Meinhof. Heil Andreas Baader. Heil Amadeo Bordiga. Heil George Jackson. Heil Huey Newton. Heil Avraham Stern. Heil Leila Khaled. Heil Yukio Mishima. Heil Joseph Stalin. Heil Leon Trotsky. Heil Nietzsche. Heil Marx. Heil Lenin. Heil Schopenhauer.

>inb4 fuck you, idc, words x3, bougie, gommunism is going to habben trust me!1!!

As a down on the dirt, true and blue prole, I'll bust a nut in your honor when you kill yourself.

Bataille lived, Bataille lives, Bataille will live.
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Offer a good logical argument for why you support Palestinian resistance against their occupiers
>US govt calls them terrorists
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/s/eX5YrQyVSH
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News 3/12/24

Haiti's prime minister Ariel Henry resigns as law and order collapses
It comes after regional leaders met in Jamaica on Monday to discuss a political transition in Haiti. Mr Henry is currently stranded in Puerto Rico after being prevented by armed gangs from returning home. In a video address announcing his resignation, Mr Henry urged Haitians to remain calm.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68541349

Jamaica To Take in Haitian Orphans Amidst the Crisis
On Monday, national media reported that Jamaica's Minister of National Security, Horace Chang, confirmed that the country will take in orphans from Haiti, amid growing social challenges in the French-speaking nation, particularly in Port-au-Prince.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Jamaica-To-Take-in-Haitian-Orphans-Amidst-the-Crisis-20240311-0012.html

An aid ship sets sail to Gaza, where hundreds of thousands face starvation 5 months into war
The food on the aid ship was collected by World Central Kitchen, the charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, and is being transported by the Spanish aid group Open Arms. The ship departed from the eastern Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus and is expected to arrive in Gaza in two to three days.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-03-12-2024-d2ba829df1df1092cf421fc591af9063

Israel's jails 'overcrowded' as it plans to imprison more Palestinians this year
Israeli jails are planning to receive thousands of Palestinian detainees during 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said on Monday, according to Israeli media. During a meeting with representatives from the Israeli ministries of defence and national security, the Israeli army and intelligence presented estimates that thousands of Palestinians would be arrested despite the lack of space in Israeli jails.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-jails-overcrowded-it-plans-more-palestinians

Civilians kill four RSF soldiers after raid on their village in West Kordofan
Five people were shot dead in a raid by paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on El Doudiya village in En Nuhoud in northern West Kordofan last week. In a revenge attack by the villagers, four RSF soldiers were killed.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/civilians-kill-four-rsf-soldiers-after-raid-on-their-village-in-west-kordofan

Pakistan police crack down on PTI protests over alleged rigging in election
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) had called for the protests on Sunday to demand the restoration of their “stolen mandate” in the February 8 election as well as the immediate release of its leaders, including party founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/11/pakistan-police-crack-down-on-pti-protests-over-alleged-rigging-in-election
https://archive.is/uF7wP

UP: Police Tightens Security, Paramilitary Forces on Night Patrol After CAA Rules Notified
Paramilitary personnel conducted night patrols and flag marches in Western Uttar Pradesh, including Meerut, Bijnor, Firozabad, Muzaffarnagar and Lucknow, which were the epicentre of resistance in the past. UP Director General of Police (DGP) Prashant Kumar, confirming the development, said: "We are already on alert. Our teams are patrolling.
https://www.newsclick.in/police-tightens-security-paramilitary-forces-night-patrol-after-caa-rules-notified

Deutsche Bahn files legal action over German rail strike
On Monday, Deutsche Bahn filed an urgent application before a labour court in Frankfurt in an attempt to halt the newly announced strike. The strikes have had a significant impact on transport. Martin Seiler, Deutsche Bahn’s human resources director, said in a statement that the 22-hour warning time was “far too short” for goods traffic. He said: “We consider these wave of strikes to be disproportionate.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/deutsche-bahn-legal-action-germany-rail-strike

Finnish unions begin two-week political strike against government's labour market reforms
FThe strike is set to halt cargo transport at ports, disrupt freight rail services and complicate the operations of process industries and is set run through to March 24. The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) says that 7,000 workers will be on strike, which will have an impact on raw materials, intermediary products and end products which are transported by rail.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/finnish-unions-begin-two-week-political-strike-against-government-labour-market-reforms

Canada memorial to Ukrainian soldiers in Nazi unit removed after protests
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre welcomed the “elimination, albeit overdue” of a memorial that “honoured and glorified individuals who served in a Nazi military unit and were complicit in war crimes committed during the Holocaust, ultimately distorting Holocaust history”. But a subsequent statement from the cemetery that the monument had been transported to “enable its repair” raised questions over whether the removal was temporary.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/12/canada-ukranian-nazi-memorial-removed
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==SPECIFY==

judging government based on their policy is wrong.
judging government based on what said government said is wrong.
judging government based on what the people said is wrong.
potraying government as hating queers and minorities is wrong.
stop potraying goverment as if they monitor their citizen 24/7 to see sign if they do things that are considered queer or againts making hetero familliy. and then arrest them becuase they hate queer people and put them on scary labour/torture/cell camp. it is wrong to potray government like this.
stop potraying government as if their country have every region filled with anti-queer/ anti-minority people who are the same as american conservative level people. it is wrong to potray government and country as that.
always remember to specify everytime everywhere.
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The Party of God

>Angelic Materialism and its Enemies
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>"…the victory of materialism in Russia resulted in the complete disappearence of all matter."
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>Essential to the politics of retreat is a (covert) certainty of their own failure to achieve anything, the enjoyment of a lost cause. One unifying and determining feature of these orientations is the logic of exponentially compounding grief, positive feedback ever-intensifying into a malaise that renders all political activity utterly hopeless: 'Nothing Ever Happens'. When the cause is lost it is 'pretty', whereas revolutions are always 'ugly'. But the 'Party' can't be just the realisation of a negatively-determined 'politics of advancement' against the retreat - it must be the satisfaction of the desires expressed by the unhappy consciousness of its enemy. The task of the 'Party' is to uncover the fundamental unity of joy and grief, to 'convert' or reveal the grief as joy… Perhaps in order to understand the objectives of this politics it's necessary to look to somewhere outside the so-called 'declining' West, somewhere where these psychic hang-ups don't dominate. Look East: a political aesthetics is rising, one dwelling within that same determinant "subjective realm" as our native politics, which embodies the 'artistic' and the 'religious' while overcoming (rather, side-stepping) the Western trap whereby grief becomes the singular totalising transcendental structure of political thought. This aesthetic locates itself in a wholly novel iteration of Partisan activity: Lebanon's Hezb'Allah, the Party of God.
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>Before discussing Hezb'Allah directly it's necessary to outline its genealogy. In August of 1920 the Executive Committee of the Third International held the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku, Azerbaijan. At this gathering Zinoviev, Chairman of the proceedings, declared outright that the common task of the communists and the peoples of colonised asia was Jihad against Western (in particular British) capital: "Arise, peoples of the East! The Third International summons you to a Holy War against the carrion-crows of capitalism…, propagate the idea of a federation of oppressed nations… create a union of the proletarians and peasants of all countries, religions and languages." The language of the Baku Congress seamlessly slid between Qur'anic exegesis and Leninist agitation; condemnations of clerical hypocrisy and landlordism uttered without reservation or caveat, "Even according to the shariat, the land can belong only to him who tills it, and not to the clergy who have grabbed it, like the mujtahids in Persia, who were the first to violate the fundamental law of the Moslem religion… This mask of sanctity must be torn from them, comrades, and the land they own must likewise be wrested from them and given to the working peasantry. [Applause.]".
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>It could be said that that Baku's vitalistic divine exhilaration, this preaching of Soviet Leninism in the language of a proto-Islamism, reveals a shallow and vain attempt to command and redirect the passions of Asian Muslims into fulfilling Russian geopolitical interests, a cynicism akin to the CIA & NATO's weaponisation of Catholicism in Italy during the Years of Lead or Poland during the Lenin Dockyards strike. It is entirely irrelevant as to whether the intention of the Soviets at Baku were honest or not: the seamlessness of Zinoviev's weaving of Marxist theory and Islamic thought, and the overwhelmingly popular reception to the Third International's position makes accusations of a cynical capture of the Islamic imaginary appear hollow. Instead it proves to be in reality an unleashing of the possibilities of an Islamic politics - an Islamic politics which would eventually turn its guns on the legal inheritors of the Congress organisers, against Brezhnev's Soviet Union in 1978. Hostilities against the Communist government in Afghanistan escalated to war in '79, the same year Ayatollah Khomeini assumed control of Iran, world-historic events consolidating the contemporary 'Islamic World', coinciding with the assumption of Margaret Thatcher to power in Britain and Deng Xiaoping in China.
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>The breakdown of Soviet communism is directly proportional to the rise of political Islam, that much is evident. In 1985, while the Communist world was rocked by endemic crises of economy and identity, Hezb'Allah released its Open Lettter Addressed to the Downtrodden in Lebanon and the World, a short manifesto outlining the Party's aims and principals. The text echoes much of the same sentiment expressed by Zinoviev at Baku, proclaiming the task of their Party first and foremost as universal, assuming the mantle of vanguard of the oppressed of all nations: "what befalls the Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippenes or elsewhere befalls the body of our Islamic nation of which we are an indivisible part… As for our friends, they are all the world's downtrodden peoples". The Open Letter invokes directly the same rousing, empowering, universalist language pioneered by the Bolsheviks and interwoven with religious-apocalyptic drama by communists at Baku: "O partisans and organized people, wherever you are in Lebanon and whatever your ideas, we agree with you on major and important goals embodied in the need to topple the American domination of the country, to expel the Zionist occupation that bears down heavily on the people's lives… Come, let us rise above quarrelling over minor issues and let us open wide the doors of competition for achieving the major goals". This invitation to revolutionary discourse, the opening-up of a grand experimental contestation of ideas, bears a striking similarity to Mao's famous "hundred flowers" declaration. The Open Letter ends with another equally post-Maoist invocation: "It is not important that a certain party control the street. What is important is that the masses interact with this party".
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>Hezb'Allah since '85 has become the principal regional antagonist in the conflict between the Islamic and Western worlds, a primary consequence being the rapid acceleration of Israel's military development and a runaway arms race between the IDF and Hezb'Allah. A significant aspect of this, owing to Hezb'Allah's dynamic approach to military and political strategy, is the attempt by certain elements within the IDF to counter their enemy's dynamism with a faster-moving, more experimental approach to military theory to 'out-nomad' the nomadic war-machine. The Operational Theory Research Institute (OTRI), led by Brigadier General Shimon Naveh, worked to reground Israeli military strategy in a theoretical model called 'Systemic Operational Design' (SOD). SOD functioned as an anti-doctrine, drawing from (most famously) Deleuze & Guattari, as well as other atypical theoretical sources to become strategically impervious to the typically more dynamic forces of Islamic resistance. OTRI was eventually sidelined, scapegoated for the failure of the 2006 July War - I only mention OTRI and SOD to demonstrate how certain elements within Israel's defence-intellectual circles conceive of the conflict with Hezb'Allah and where they turn theoretically to counter them is telling. One anecdote from a soldier who served under Naveh demonstrates the purpose of SOD: "We interpreted the alley as a place forbidden to walk through and the door as a place forbidden to pass through, and the window as a place forbidden to look through, because a weapon awaits us in the alley, and a booby trap awaits us behind the doors. This is because the enemy interprets space in a traditional, classical manner, and I do not want to obey this interpretation and fall into his traps. […] I want to surprise him! This is the essence of war. I need to win […] This is why that we opted for the methodology of moving through walls." To move through walls, to circumvent established engagement with space and motion - this is how the state attempts to match up to the man of war - turning to 'Deleuzian military strategy' is a compliment to the enemy, and its erasure from IDF doctrine is unsurprising: "From the standpoint of the State, the originality of the man of war, his eccentricity, necessarily appears in a negative form: stupidity, deformity, madness, illegitimacy, usurpation, sin." (Deleuze & Guattari).
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>The IDF's brief foray into non-standard 'postmodern' military theory begs the question of what officers like Naveh saw in their enemy that necessitated this irregular pivot in defence doctrine. A term used by Haz (InfraRed) to describe the Hezb'Allah phenomenon is as an 'Angelic Materialism', an overcoming of the perceived gulf between the cold materiality of warfare and the depths of religious traditionalism: "When Napoleon’s armies were fighting Austria Napoleon represented the raw materialism and rationalism of war: no sentiments, no religion, just raw material war… but the crazy thing about Hezb'Allah is that, for the first time, they combined religious traditionalism with the effectiveness of modern combat… they are materialist in in the sense that they’re submitting to the laws of warfare, while also submitting to the laws of God." Angelic Materialism as a foil to Naveh's 'Rhizomatic Zionism' echoes the attempts of certain continental thinkers operating within and adjacent to Marxism to redress and overcome tendencies endemic to 'left-wing' intellectualism since the '60s - against the inhumanisms, posthumanisms, antihumanisms: humanism, the struggle for universal humanity. With these tendencies of post-, anti-, etc. we find a side-stepping of the problem of alienation, or in some cases (namely Deleuze & Guattari) an affirmation of alienating forces as the singular wellspring of creativity and innovation, premise of the Accelerationist maxim "the only way out is through". Autonomist Marxist Mario Tronti had in his later years decoupled entirely from the developments which succeeded him, the 1970s Post-Operaismo and continental academic leftisms which had run parallel to his own work were now cast off entirely in favour of a project which aimed for a reappraisal of the pre-modern universalism prior to (and precondition for) Communism, Christianity. Tronti's later works weave the language of apocalypse and Messianism quarrelling into the classical European Marxist register, a thoroughly Western and contemplative version of the fiery Eastern didacticisms of Zinoviev at Baku, or the Hezb'Allah Open Letter. Tronti:
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>What is the workers’ movement missing? There were Desert Fathers. They were not listened to. But this is not their task, to be listened to in their own time. No, it is rather the seed cast into the field of the future. But in order that the plant comes forth, grows, bears fruit, and that the fruit not be lost, something else is needed. What is the message missing? I know it’s scandalous to even think it: what is missing is the Church form. That, it must be said, was attempted but did not succeed. The Revolution requires the Institution: to last not decades but centuries. This is the Church. To be conserved in time, for those to come, the liberatory event, always a momentary act – the taking of the Winter Palace – must be given a form. The transmutation of force into form is politics that persists, and then – only then – does it become history, comprehensive, complete and undiminished. And it is necessary to know, woe betide those who do not know it, that history, before the institution that contains it, is a permixta of good and bad… As Hegel said before Marx, whosoever wants die Weltändern, to transform life, must first of all come to terms with that ineliminable and irresolvable mysterium iniquitatis of the human condition and, with peace in their heart, struggle without hope of a definitive revelatio at the end of days.
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>The shift from cold, hard 'objectivity' into the hotter register of Messianism and religiosity is not as straightforward as a subjective cosmetic wrapper for materialism, but the blossoming of dialectical materialism into a mature orientation - the 'mystical' kernel uncovered from the 'rational' shell. Tronti's assertion of the necessary movement from Party-form to Church-form is not an attempt to put dialectical materialism upside-down again, but to firmly plant its feet where before they was hovering. Tronti's mission here was to pull Communism down from the clouds of detached formal rationalism and to recognise its concrete associations and continuity in the mud and muck of historical spirituality - from the perspective of Marxism-Leninism, wherein almost every socialist state conceived of itself, at one time or another, as in continuity with or satisfaction of prior mystical/religious stirrings (the proletarian hagiographies of Jan Hus and Thomas Muntzer, contemporary Chinese reappraisals of the Taiping Rebellion, Democratic Kampuchea's assertion of a geosophic Angkor revanche, etc.), Tronti's conception of real movement as a redemptive historical process is entirely continuous with the emergent self-concepts in the historical index of Actually Existing Socialism(s). Turning to more practical concerns: commodity fetishism, the mechanism by which de-alienation is phantasmatically promised and given to the Capitalist subject in incomplete and insufficient parcels is redeemed, brought to totality, by the secret name of this desire animating commodity production and exchange. Communism as the transmutation of force into form, the realisation of partial event or suspended logic into lasting and irrevocable transformation: in Revelation the destruction of Babylon the Great is immediately followed by the marriage of the lamb (Rev. 19:6-10), indicating a transformation in the substance of the City - Babylon is clothed in gold and jewellery like Jeruselam, only Jeruselam is entirely transparent, removed of the veil of sin. Approaching Revelation not metaphorically but as ontological allegory we read an explication of substantial reorganisation/transformation, one which is participatory.
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>"The [redemption] can be performed by man only, for he alone is made in the divine image and comprises the higher and lower orders" (Sheney Luhoth ha-Berith). Contrary to typical conceptions of mashiach, certain Kabbalists influenced by the 16th Century Safed School consider messianic redemption as the culmination of redemptive activity of the people at large unfolding in time, officiated by the Messiah as a kind of signature on the work of the people. This transformation of Messiah from standard-bearer of utopia to officiator of the acitivites of the masses repositions Judaism’s yearning for redemption into practical work, rising from the level of abstraction to that of the concrete, and in so doing folds both the anthropogenic exile and the future redemption into a phenomenal, material procedure. The Messiah-as-signatory brings us back to Hezb'Allah - not necessarily the Islamic organisations in Lebanon and elsewhere, but the name and conceptual significance of a 'Party of God' that have been opened up by the Hezb'Allah group(s). If approached from a Kabbalistic vantage the concept 'Party of God', being a collectivity acting as instrument of God's will, is (in essence) of God: "His will and wisdom are one with His very essence and Being, in a complete unity, and therefore it is as if He is given us He Himself!" (Tanya, Chapter 47). For God to be one with his will and wisdom means the Party of God can be considered a vehicle of incarnation, the articulation of God's will being metaphysically identical to God Himself. With the concept 'Party of God' conceived in this way we may override the inactivistic concept of Messiah as separate autonomous 'subject' acting independently from (while guiding and shaping) the physical World, a mirror to Hegel's Demiurgic conception of Idea. We can instead, building upon the post-Lurianic conception of Messiah as signatory of the collective work of the masses, conceive of an outline for the consolidation of an organised and directed redemptive army, rising from the twin abstractions of dogmatic religion and doctrinaire atheistic-rationalism to the concrete regime of Angelic Materiality.
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>Returning briefly to the enemy of our conceptual 'Party of God'—the operative logic of the politics of retreat being grief and resentment, we may look to and learn from those for whom the Spenglerian 'decline' hasn't penetrated or even surfaced in their political aesthetics. Hezb'Allah, as international outgrowth and extension of the Islamic Revolution which began in Iran '79 (and which I claim traces back to Baku '20), banishes the western trap of reciprocal compounding grief by means of martyrdom. From the lowest to highest orders of Hezb'Allah's aesthetic logic martyrdom dominates; the ultimate anunciation of exit on the level of the individual political soldier leading into the geopolitical, transnational level, and ultimately to the Messianic and apocalyptic level (for which there is no seperation or contradition - all action rendered/revealed in/as martyrdom smooths-out striations and degrees). Rather than vocalising resentment to the present condition, voice which leads to retreat, the martyr speaks in and through the fatal strategy of self-annihilation. Vince Garton writes in Language Inhuman: "There are two ways in which the endless speech of the liberal philosopher, or sophist, may come to an end. One is death… It is the shadow of death, the willingness to stake one’s life, that secures the mutual recognition that is a prerequisite of any freedom worth the name." The western political logic typically follows the schema of 'voice', into 'action', with the aim of some substantial transformation as the result. This schema is born out in the preponderance of manifestos, petitions, legal battles, letter writing campaigns, "have your voice heard" (even terroristic acts exist in tandmen with and for their anunciation in news media); ultimately political action begins and ends at the level of voice, with action as an intermediary phase dominated by vocalisation. Vince summises this domination by language as the essential premise of liberalism: "Tentatively, we may identify [liberalism] as the supremacy of language. The property rights that liberalism promotes are the inscription of social relations in the crystal language of law.". The capture of action by language returns us to Cuenco's article and this idea of the 'subjective realm' that exists supposedly at odds with objectivity and materiality. Vince offers a pointed articulation of this simulacrum Cuenco desires to overcome:
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>"The other means by which the liberal speech-flow may be ended is by its perfect completion. In this case, the network of symbols would become self-sufficient. Rather than meaninglessness and decoherence, however, the simulation would attain self-referential significance. This is the posthistorical possibility that Hegel saw prefigured—yet recoiled from—in the Confucian universe of signs. Instead of asserting different viewpoints according to the formal transformations of a single linear method, it would already be capable truly of expressing anything, and as such would be impossible to contradict… Because it is unparadoxical, because it cannot encompass death, the liberal regime cannot ever fully recuperate every possible contradiction—though it is more successful in doing so than any other system before it. Simulation must instead be pushed further. To establish the identity of A not just with A but with not-A through the medium of time constitutes the decisive move from synthetic parathesis to authentic synthesis. Formal contradiction then becomes impossible. ‘Debate’, in any particularly meaningful sense, comes to an end because everything has already been said. Such a circumstance becomes possible only through the completion of the process of simulation."
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>To pursue a politics of advancement into the 'subjective realm', wherein "the liberal speech-flow may be ended", will require Western political actors to shed their fear of the 'unreal' and the 'simulated', to halt their pursuit of 'reality' and instead pursue that which the martyr doesn't shirk from. The contemporary Occidental conception of reality must be revealed as contingent, held together by mystifying brackets and premised on a dismissal of spirit which renders western subjects incapable of recognising their own muddled spiritualities; ultimately losing sight of their own being in its historical becoming. The martyr isn't merely operating on the level of a willingness to self-sacrifice, but also has embraced outright the Eschatological task of overcoming subject/object and the ceaseless discursive loops of western sophistry which maintains that metaphysical gulf. Martyrdom in this formulation breaks the transcendental frame of grief and resentment. By the martyr throwing himself directly into simulation, action and anunciation are inseperably conjoined, apparent contradictions between faith/tradition and technological development are dissolved entirely. Material is rendered Angelic therefore by the synthesis of life and death in the outlook of the martyr (martyrdom as political orientation: at once personal, civic, and civilisational), in the dismissal of the dichotomy 'reality'/'unreality' for a commitment to wisdom, by a transvaluation of political-economic values: positing simulacrum's base reality against orthodox conceptions of base/superstructure which in their day helped demystify economy, but now more often than not are crudely employed to erect an internally coherant metaphysics, a dead letter fantasy-materialism (I oppose fantasy to simulacrum in so far as we can understand fantasy as a parcel cut out from totality, and simulacrum as an unavoidable and general feature). Angelic Materialism strives to ground itself in the historic unfolding of simulacrum: disolving arbitrary striation, dichotomy, opposition and degree with the aim of unearthing and exploiting/overcoming fundamental oppositions and antagonisms, approaching history as a univocal entirety wherein the 'subjective' is inexorable from 'objectivity'. This means apporaching faith not from the vantage of detached structural analysis (the approach shared by postliberals, New Rightists, and vulgar atheists), but as integral and essential to humanity's historical becoming; faith must be studied with passion and immersion—the Party of God would be such an entity that respects legacy religious institutions only insofar as they themselves match up to this task of passionate inquiry.
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>Here I want to turn again to the postliberals in particular as the enemy of our Party of God. Whereas the New Right tends towards honesty in its 'erotic paganism' and its simple formula 'pretty=good', the postliberals obscure themselves in veils of 'rooted' religious metaphysics. Postliberals like John Milbank will cite the heavy-hitters of Western Christianity to bring us such novel insights as "Beauty is, as Aquinas says, 'what pleases the sight'" (!)—Milbank's conception of the Beautiful (from Theological Perspectives on God and Beauty; Beauty and the Soul), while being metaphysically sophisticated and relatively novel, is still mired in the standard aesthetic logic I laid out above, melancholically charged by the compounding circuit of grief-resentment: "In the High Middle Ages, the possibility and experience of seeing the invisible as invisible… was generally assumed and pervaded life, art and understanding. Therefore, there was no specific discipline of "aesthetics," which arose in the eighteenth century. Beauty took care of herself." Milbank refers to a Kantian "modern cult of the sublime", a sinister conceptual antagonist leading man to "hypostastize and consecrate the unknowness as the force of nullity", which annihilates the possibility of Beauty outright: "In modernity… there is no mediation of the invisible in the visible, and no aura of invisibility hovering around the visible. In consequence there is no beauty." Milbank here corresponds somewhat with Kandinsky in his treatment of Malevich's Black Square, the singular 'point' without motion or line being the bare evocation of death; whereas Kandinsky is committed to the revival of the Beautiful in and through the spirituality of concrete abstraction, Milbank suggests a total void in modernity in its entirety, denies the possibility of the spiritual as Kandinsky conceives it. Of course the typical markers of the postliberal orientation are all present in Milbank's treatment—the essay is enitrely (internally) metaphysically coherent, self-satisfied; despite a condemnation of "mere prettiness", for instance, Milbank still maintains the possibility of a "prettiness that is a true species of beauty", collapsing back on an identification of formal cosmetic attractiveness with the Beautiful. Milbank's argument can be summed up as an attempt to refute what he regards as the Kantian error of falsely cleaving Sublimity and Beauty apart, rendering Beauty wholly subjective: "Modern beauty after Kant is therefore a 'raped' beauty. She appears only in that scene where she is violently surrounded and delineated, and desire for her arises not from her instigation, consent and production, but is wrenched from her as an entire appropriation of all her form to the (dis)interest of our feeling". Notwithstanding scandalising and moralising language, this anthropomorphic transformation of Beauty into a kind of animate Demiurgos acting and impressing upon man (an example of postliberalism's demand for re-enchantment) 'divinises' Beauty. This conception of Beauty then derives from a wholly opposite and (in my view) insufficient interpretation of spiritual incarnation to the one I laid out above, being the participatory historical work of the people revealing-incarnating Godliness in and through themsleves (Tronti: "In the Magnificat we read: bring down the powerful, raise up the humble. This is theology. How to bring down the powerful, how to raise up the humble? This is politics").
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>By the divinisation of Beauty I mean fetishisation, per Kojève: "Man will see that the absolute essential-Reality is also his own. As a result, it will cease to be opposed to him; it will cease to be divine"—this cessation of divinity (or, disenchantment) is adjacent to Tronti's project, the dragging back to earth of a detached Marxism and its re-envelopment into historical real movement. What I'm concerned with regarding Milbank is not necessarily a philosophical conflict around the definitions of Sublimity and Beauty, nor a defence of Kantian aesthetics. The issue I take is with aspects of his conception of the Beautiful disclosed by his poetical overinvestment of value into the Beautiful as something over and above humanity. What Milbank does (the rest of his essay being an affirmation of religious metaphysics concerning reciprocity with God) is reaffirm a radical distance between God and humanity, and the necessity for a certain form of mediation; ultimately what Milbank offers is an implicit metaphysical justification for his commitment to the mediative legitimacy of legacy Church institutions. Returning to Milbank's unfortunate rape metaphor: the Beautiful in Milbank's conception as a force acting relationally-but-opposed to humanity, a Divine Beauty, Kojève forwards in his treastise on non-representational painting a conception of the Beautiful that Milbank would likely consider criminal, a conception of the Beautiful which is incarnated in an extraction: "Art is the art of "extracting" the Beautiful". Kojève develops his argument specifically in the context of Kandinsky to say that 'prettiness', like that of representational/figurative painting, is deficient in that it is merely relying on the pre-existing 'object' then 'subjectively' re-presented on the picture plane—Kandinsky however brings painting to objectivity: "the circle-triangle is in its totality; it exists then without me, just as does [a] real tree. And if the circle-triangle is born, it is born like the tree is born from the seed; it is born without me; it is an objective birth; it is the birth of an object." Here we arrive at an outline for the 'theological' orientation of our Party of God: Our 'God' is not reliant on humanity, exists in-by-and-for-itself; He is an objective God, concrete and autonomous God—"Is it necessary to say the universe is "subjective", that it is the result of a "subjective" act, if one admits that it was created by God? Of course not. It is the same with the "total" tableau… [the non-representational painting] is just as independent of [the painter], just as objective—in its origin and in its being—as a son is objective and independent of his father". The Beautiful is, in this orientation, created ex nihilo by human work, does not independently 'act' as an Archon but is incarnated as independent, concrete, self-reliant. On another point, where I disagree with Kandinsky (and no doubt Milbank) regards Malevich's Black Square: in Black Square we have an objective incarnation of oblivion, of non-being, existing in-by-and-for-itself, a painting intended to end painting outright; and yet, this work was not the final 'full stop' that Kandinsky reads in it, but the zero-point of another beginning in painting, the incarnation of the new, the abgrund upon which Spirit could begin flight again unbracketed by prior formal constraints. Kandinsky's error is one of time and place, inability to anticipate the historical consequence of this 'lone point'. To understand Black Square as incarnate non-being we might consider the Kabbalistic ein-sof, boundless void which contracts within itself to cleave out a 'space' for the blossoming of materiality. Its neither a coincidence nor a cheap joke that Malevich hangs his Black Square diagonally against two walls in the corner of the space for 0,10: The Last Futurist Exhibition, a traditional place for the hanging of Icons. In the Orthodox continuity Icons are literal incarnations; Malevich here is paying proper reverence for his incarnation of the boundless nothing from which creation arises. In summation, with regard to the Party of God, the 'God' of the Party is Malevich's Black Square; incarnate non-being.
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>"He will know [essential-Reality] not in a Theology, but through an Anthropology. And this same Anthropology will also reveal to him his own essential-Reality: it will replace not only Religion, but also Philosophy" (Introduction to the Reading of Hegel). But to truly 'replace' religion and philosophy requires the adequate inheritance of both. Stalin said "the religious feelings of the masses must not be offended", but we should go further: 'religious feelings' must not be simply respected from a cold discrete distance, they must be lived, recognised and embodied outright as aspect of the totality of universal humanity. To reject anything you ought to first recognise it as a property of totality and therefore critique a thing not by banishing or abolishing, but by revealing it as simply insufficient, and drawing from it the maximal potential for advancing the march of Spirit.

https://assassinationpoetics.neocities.org/19_02_24
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LIbs of TikTok could awaken people's inner tankie

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/libs-tiktok-x-chaya-raichik-bomb-threat-twitter-of-libsoftiktok-rcna102784
She's a great example of how sometimes, even though it's just speech, someone's political propaganda can be so hateful, so paranoid, and so targeted that it spills over into real-world violence. I really hope someone brings a lawsuit against her, first and foremost for everyone's safety especially the children of the schools that are being threatened, and it would be a victory for Nex Benedict to see her brought to justice. But also, I think if people could understand that, they could also understand that when NATO calls a socialist state "undemocratic", it usually means that they have laws in place that prevent people like Chaya Raichik from inciting more violence, or that they ban openly fascist and neo-nazi parties, or ban books like Seige.
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United States Postal Service and city letter carriers move towards binding interest arbitration

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/12/usps-m12.html

>The United States Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) have moved closer towards binding interest arbitration, with both parties agreeing to select Dennis Nolan as arbitrator in potential future proceedings. More than 275,000 city letter carriers have been working without a new contract for nearly a year since the last deal expired last May.


>The NALC bureaucracy presents both Nolan and the arbitration process itself as a neutral process through which the interests of management and the workers can be harmonized. In reality, binding interest arbitration is a thoroughly undemocratic measure through which a contract favorable to the post office will be imposed without even the fig-leaf of a vote by workers. It is provided for by anti-worker laws, on the books for decades, which ban federal employees from striking, in clear violation of workers’ First Amendment right to free speech.


>The selection of Nolan is a clear signal that the government intends to impose a brutal contract on postal workers. In October 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Nolan to the Presidential Board of Inquiry on the Work Stoppage in the San Francisco West Coast Ports, where a contract dispute between the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents shippers, and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union had shut down 29 West Coast ports.


>Nolan and the rest of the board issued a report that declared: “We believe that the seeds of distrust have been widely sown, poisoning the atmosphere of mutual trust and respect which could enable a resolution of seemingly intractable issues. For example, the parties have been unable to agree even on such matters as the length of proposed temporary contract extensions although both know that their standoff costs the Nation billions of dollars. We have no confidence that the parties will resolve the West Coast ports dispute within a reasonable time.”


>The report was a critical link in the chain to more direct government intervention. Only three hours after the report was presented, a federal judge granted a request for an anti-strike injunction from the Bush administration, under the terms of the anti-worker Taft-Hartley Act.


>The move towards binding interest arbitration would represent a direct escalation against postal workers on the part of the federal government. It would also come as contracts expire this year for the other two largest postal unions, the American Postal Workers Union and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, making 2024 a critical year in the fight by workers in defense of the post office.


>Nolan’s role today will be to help implement a sweeping restructuring program called “Delivering for America” in favor of the Postal Service. The misnamed program involves the closure of thousands of local post offices, the shedding of tens of thousands of jobs and the consolidation of the postal network into a small number of larger, heavily automated facilities. The real aim is to make USPS profitable and prepare for its eventual privatization.


>The impact of DFA on the post office has already been profound and disruptive. USPS has already opened new sorting and delivery centers across the country and closed down local offices near major facilities, leading to massive backlogs in deliveries. Under a new compensation system, most rural carriers have seen huge cuts to wages, including many by $10,000 or more per year.


>The NALC bureaucracy has been engaged in talks for nearly a year behind the backs of rank-and-file postal workers, while deliberately concealing the scale of the restructuring which is underway and the threat it poses to workers’ jobs. When questioned directly by a WSWS reporter, NALC President Brian Renfrow flatly denied that NALC members would lose their jobs under the program.


>In reality, NALC have been maneuvering towards binding interest arbitration for months because both they and the Post Office management understand that rank-and-file workers will never vote to accept a contract along the lines which they are working out behind the scenes.


>The position of the NALC bureaucrats mirrors that of the Teamsters at UPS and the United Auto Workers. At UPS and in the auto industry, each pushed through contracts last year which they falsely claimed to be historic “victories,” while concealing the massive layoffs which were being planned at the time and are now underway. As in Delivering for America, management in both UPS and the auto industry are utilizing new technologies such as automation to eliminate huge swaths of the workforce.


>Deep cuts to postal services are also taking place around the world, including at Royal Mail in the United Kingdom and at Deutsche Post in Germany. Post offices in both countries were already privatized years ago.


>The situation facing postal workers urgently requires the rank and file to organize against the union-government conspiracy to impose massive job cuts on postal workers. Last year, workers founded the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee, in order to “organize ourselves, put forward our own program of demands, and place rank-and-file workers in every position critical to our job security, safety, wages, bargaining and so on,” according to its founding statement. “We must prepare action from below to assert the will of 635,000 career and non-career USPS workers to make sure our needs and interests take absolute priority, and not the slash-and-burn policies of corporate-controlled politicians.”


>The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee is part of a growing network of such committees fighting against the pro-corporate bureaucracies that control the unions and for workers’ control around the world, the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees. It includes committees formed by postal workers in Britain, Germany and Australia, UPS workers, autoworkers, educators and others.


>A critical experience was made in late 2022 by the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee, where workers are under similar anti-strike laws. For months, the railroad unions tried to focus workers’ attention on mediation under a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB), claiming that this would provide a forum for workers to seek redress against 80-hour workweeks, no paid sick leave, tens of thousands of job losses and other brutal working conditions. Instead, the PEB, handpicked by the Biden Administration, presented a contract proposal which sided with the railroads on every essential issue.


>In response, workers founded the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee to fight against the entire pro-corporate framework to which the railroad workers were being subjected. In spite of attempts at intimidation and outright fraud by the union bureaucracy, workers voted down the Biden-sponsored contract. In response, the rail unions delayed for months in order to buy Congress time to pass legislation to ban a strike and impose the same contract.


>In its founding statement, the RWRFC declared:


< Union officials will no doubt attempt to scare us by saying that Congress will intervene against a strike. It is certainly true that Congress will try to issue an injunction. But that only exposes the complete bankruptcy of the unions’ orientation towards the government, the Democratic Party and the Biden administration. Biden, the so-called most ‘pro-union president in American history,’ is using the union bureaucracies to suppress strikes and force through garbage contracts, especially in critical infrastructure…


< This shows we are in a fight not just against the railroads but against an entire political system controlled by the corporate oligarchy. But we are more powerful than any Congress. Many times throughout history, workers have gone toe-to-toe with the courts, Congress and even the White House and defeated attempts to impose injunctions. That can happen again. It depends not only on organizing ourselves independently to ensure maximum unity and solidarity, but also that we hold no illusions in the bought-and-paid-for political stooges of Wall Street.


>As in the railroads and in other industries, the opposition of the rank and file at the post office has also led inevitably to a clash with the government and the union bureaucracy. In 1970, 200,000 postal workers carried out a national wildcat strike against plans by the Nixon administration to demote the post office from a cabinet-level department within the federal government into an independent federal agency, the first step in its eventual privatization.


>When the postal union bureaucracy regained control of the situation, it imposed a settlement which, while containing substantial wage increases, paved the way for the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970. This led to the creation of the United States Postal Service under the control of a Board of Governors stacked with direct representatives of corporate American and Wall Street. It also maintained the anti-democratic strike bans which postal workers had to defy in order to carry out the strike, giving the union officials a convenient legal pretext to clamp down on rank-and-file opposition.


>Postal workers must be prepared for a major struggle this year against the biggest attacks on jobs and working conditions in generations. This requires the building of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee as an alternative leadership to the bureaucracy, controlled by workers themselves, and committed to a fight against the entire illegitimate government-controlled labor framework which they have been forced to work under for decades.
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The problem with reform is that you're looking at the wrong thing. Wealth distribution. The reforms goals should be to make the state more efficient.
The Chinese might like their government cause it's efficient but for some reason the American government is a quagmire. While the Chinese build nuclear plants the government of California is stalling it because they say it's bad for the environment.
Make the government more efficient and wealth redistribution will follow.
One way to streamline the government is with technology for example.
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The revolution is under the clock

-Your boss and Corporate America are screwing you. Your politicians are taking legal bribes and letting it happen.

-Private ownership over the means of production and authoritarian workplaces owned by the top 10% (aka Capitalism) are exploiting and over working you.

-Capitalism, Corporations, Billionaires as well as our consumerist and fossil fuel addicted economies are killing life in our country and around the world.

-We spend money on weapons of death and destruction rather than advancing humanity and pursuing sustainability.

-Your tax dollars are funding ruthless blood thirsty imperialism and genocide.

-The only way to overcome the toxic status quo is to revolt. That means strikes and committing mass acts of civil disobedience.

We don’t have much time. Either revolution happens within the next 15 years or global warming will fuck the whole planet. Which may also lead to wars and nuclear armaggedon. START THE REVOLUTION NOW
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Our dear soviets...

https://youtu.be/8xaqVf1B3Fg?si=Mu6bUV_yFFEF6pKK

I am damned, all wicked..
I've just watched this video in which the creator proclaims that the soviets weren't the basis of 'Soviet' Union and it is quite convincing..

Was our 'Soviet' Union a big retreat from the way of revolution in the first moment when the Menshevik/SR dominated Soviets were forcefully dismantled, as locally organized systems of planning of those regions would have fallen into instability… Which eventually ends the journey with the implementation of the NEP. I know that Martov and Lenin were very close friends who both were Marxists and both the left SR's and Mensheviks supported co-operation with the Bolsheviks, then why the Bolsheviks had to put an end to the Soviet power?
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Resources on the Berlin Wall

Can anybody explain the true reasons behind why the wall was built and provide some resources about it? To my understanding, the Soviets actually gave West Berlin over to the US in an act of good faith since they were both allies. America proceeds to use it as a launching point for espionage and terrorist attacks after the second world war. The Soviets demand that the US gives West Berlin back, and the US refuses, so rather than initiating world war 3, the soviets built the berlin wall.
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Did he really convert back to Orthodox Christianity as the nazis were closing in on Moscow or is this weird cope from conservatives in the Russian federation who want to Make Russia Great Again and view Stalin as a strongman to RETVRN to?
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Brainstorm: Targeted Economic Sabotage

This is a tactical brainstorm thread, so stay loose and have a good time.

I want to discuss what I'm ignorantly calling targeted economic sabotage of citizens; when an organized labour movement attacks an occupying force economically. When I say 'occupying force', I mean a wide range of class enemies, including police and other proletarian class traitors, as well as politicians.
The liberal capitalist system replaces the commons with the private. While this is obviously horrific and tragic, it can also be weaponized by workers through collective actions like strikes. Sufficiently organized workers (and I'm aware most of us aren't in societies this advanced yet) can perform powerful and targeted actions, like French CGT threatening to shut off power to politicians houses in 2023. Taken to a theoretical level, an industry could refuse service to any police and other servants of the ruling class, although this is obviously complicated when discrimination like this is probably illegal (technically) and police have legitimate use of violence, alongside powerful illegitimate use of violence. That said, this is situational - Cheran is an example of a town which successfully overthrew and exiled their former police force and politicians, so it's not inherently a pipe dream to combat state police.
Do you know of case studies where targeted economic sabotage of citizens has been tried? Do you believe it's feasible in any large scale, akin to a general strike specifically against targets?
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News 2/12/24

Egypt threatens to suspend peace treaty with Israel if its forces move into Rafah
EGYPT could suspend its peace treaty with Israel if Israeli forces are sent into the densely populated town of Rafah on the Gaza Strip’s southern border, two Egyptian officials and the European Union’s foreign policy chief said today. … The Egyptian officials also warned that fighting there could force the closure of the besieged territory’s main route for deliveries of food aid and medical supplies.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/egypt-threatens-suspend-peace-treaty-israel-if-its-forces-move-rafah

Meta considers labelling the word "Zionist" as hate speech
"Given the increase in polarized public discourse due to events in the Middle East, we believe it's important to assess our guidance for reviewing posts that use the term Zionist," a Meta spokesperson said in response to an AFP query. "While the term Zionist often refers to a person's ideology, which is not a protected characteristic, it can also be used to refer to Jewish or Israeli people."
https://www.newarab.com/news/meta-considers-labelling-word-zionist-hate-speech

In bid to curb immigration, France to scrap birthright citizenship in Mayotte
Located close to the impoverished Comoro islands off the East African coast, the former French colony has become the centre of fierce social unrest, with many residents blaming undocumented immigration for the deteriorating conditions. Much poorer than mainland France, Mayotte has been shaken by gang violence and social unrest for decades. The situation has recently worsened amid a water shortage.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bid-curb-immigration-france-scrap-birthright-citizenship-mayotte-2024-02-11/

Dutch court orders halt to F-35 jet parts exports to Israel
The court sided with human rights groups who argued the parts provided from a Dutch warehouse contributed to law violations by Israel in Gaza. Israel denies committing war crimes. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 28,100 Palestinians have been killed in just over four months.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68272233

UK: Anti-apartheid campaigner Andrew Feinstein set to challenge Starmer in upcoming elections
Andrew Feinstein, who was elected by the Organise Corbyn-Inspired Socialist Alliance (OCISA), a group launched in February 2023 with the aim of ousting Starmer, has received endorsements to contest the Labour leader’s Holborn and St Pancras constituency. Feinstein told Middle East Eye that he has not formally declared his candidacy, but will do so after a process of engagement with communities and groups in the constituency.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-apartheid-campaigner-andrew-feinstein-challenge-starmer-upcoming-election

Ban water bosses' bonuses now over sewage spills, say campaigners
The UK's water companies, which are in charge of managing water supply and waste water, have faced heavy criticism in recent times over leaks and sewage discharges into rivers. Pressure is growing on the UK's water system, much of which was built decades ago, due to climate change and population growth.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68270068

Mystery ship capsizes in Trinidad and Tobago, triggering massive oil spill and national emergency
The spill was "not under control" as of Sunday, said Prime Minister Keith Rowley, who added that the country is grappling with a national emergency. The mystery vessel capsized Wednesday in waters off the Caribbean island, having made no emergency calls, with no sign of crew, and no clear sign of ownership.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-ship-trinidad-tobago-massive-oil-spill-national-emergency/

Haiti: Police Brutality Case Against the Press Investigated
Radio UNI FM urged journalists to be careful in the streets when doing their work, and not to give in to the barbarities of anti-democrats nostalgic for the dictatorship, predators of information professionals.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Haiti-Police-Brutality-Case-Against-the-Press-Investigated-20240212-0013.html

Pakistani protesters block highways to demonstrate against election results
The demonstrations on Monday follow the announcement of the final results from the February 8 vote, with tensions high amid claims of vote rigging and tampering, and intense uncertainty over the formation of the next government.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/12/pakistani-protesters-block-highways-to-demonstrate-against-election-results
https://archive.is/aswVk

Indian police block roads to halt farmers marching to New Delhi
Some government ministers are expected to meet farm union leaders on Monday to avoid a repeat of the year-long protest, which was aimed at forcing the government to repeal farm laws designed to deregulate vast agricultural markets. The march comes just months before national elections in India, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely expected to win a third term.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-police-block-roads-halt-farmers-marching-new-delhi-2024-02-12/
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The Family and Radical Ideology

If your political ideology doesn't provide benefits to those with children or try to be of appeal to those with families and children, don't be surprised if your politics fail to haul in much popularity. Parenthood mandates that the parents must believe in the future, and that they must make the world sufficiently decent for those who come after. Is this group not the natural ally of the progressive revolutionary Communists? And what does it say about your ideology's goals, if people abandon it once they have families and people that they must provide for? The revolution always requires the consent of the masses, so don't delude your thoughts into the foolish idea that needed are only small numbers of fanatical fascists and anarchists, because the movies are very often fictional and idealistly, and the history bears out the constant failure of isolated lone wolf tools.
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Shots of Beijing

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.
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<“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.
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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.
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News 3/11/24

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 declared a caliphate there in 2014, and it urged all countries with children in Syria to repatriate them and integrate them into their societies.
https://apnews.com/article/syria-alhol-roj-islamic-state-independent-international-commission-0a2b96be0396c122f19f1b2c7352752a

Iraq Repatriates 625 People From Syria Camp
Nearly 160 Iraqi families have been repatriated from Syria's Al-Hol camp, home to tens of thousands of people including family members of suspected jihadists, an Iraqi government spokesman said Sunday.
https://www.barrons.com/amp/news/iraq-repatriates-625-people-from-syria-camp-1ac5bc8f
https://archive.is/XLkjs

EU members endorse diluted draft rules on rights for gig workers
That preliminary deal scrapped a set of criteria proposed by the Commission to determine if an online company is an employer. Instead national law, collective agreements and case law will dictate whether a worker is an employee, in effect maintaining the status quo. The burden of proof will be on companies to show that their gig workers are not employees.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-countries-back-draft-rules-gig-workers-rights-2024-03-11/

Centre-right narrowly wins Portuguese election as far right surges
ORTUGAL’S centre right has claimed a narrow election victory after a surge in support for the far right. The Social Democrat-led Democratic Alliance won 79 seats in the 230-seat national assembly, while the centre-left Socialist Party (PS), in power for the past eight years, got 77 seats.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/centre-right-narrowly-wins-portuguese-election-far-right-surges

Socialism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion on Prevent list of terrorism warning signs
A document from Prevent, the official scheme to stop radicalisation, includes believing in socialism, communism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion in a list of potential signs of ideologies leading to terrorism. It comes as the Conservative government considers widening what it will consider to be extremism.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/07/socialism-anti-fascism-anti-abortion-prevent-list-terrorism-warning-signs

South Korea deploys military, public doctors to strike-hit hospitals
Twenty military surgeons along with 138 public health doctors will be assigned to 20 hospitals for four weeks, Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said at a meeting on Sunday. The number of military physicians called on to help so far was only a small fraction of the roughly 2,400 military doctors, according to a defence ministry briefing.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-deploys-military-public-doctors-strike-hit-hospitals-2024-03-11/

India enacts citizenship law criticised as ‘discriminatory’ to Muslims
The law grants Indian nationality to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who entered India from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh before December 2014 – but not if they are Muslim. Late on Monday, the ministry of home affairs said the rules would now come into force.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/india-enacts-citizenship-law-criticised-as-discriminatory-to-muslims

India’s opposition slams gov’t as top election official quits ahead of vote
India’s main opposition party has accused the government of “systematic decimation of independent institutions” after the second-highest election commission official resigned days ahead of the expected announcement of the date of the general election.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/10/indias-opposition-slams-govt-as-top-election-official-quits-ahead-of-vote
https://archive.is/VmcQk

Pakistani court sentences man to death and teenager to life in prison for insulting Islam’s prophet
Munir’s father, Munir Hussain, denied the charge against his son, saying he was in contact with his legal team to file an appeal, as “my son is innocent and he was implicated in a false case.” Hussain said by phone that he was living in hiding along with other members of his family.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-blasphemy-youths-convicted-sentenced-14c82496c2952e92e6b6750ab65313db
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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
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Internationale

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.
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/tttt/ Zionists

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/
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Prolification

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.
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>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?
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Forget the sabotage and psyops of the past, unite behind Corbyn and Galloway

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.
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The most lied about man in history… J.V. Stalin, died 71 years ago today.

Even in 2024, decades after his death, the name Stalin can send a shiver of fear down the spines of financial elites and monopolists. Even in 2024, they focus on lies about this hero of the people.
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The Luddites were true heroes

People do not understand the Luddites, they claim Luddites rejected "progress" in fact they revolted against their subordination into the emerging class of industrial proletarians, enslaved both to modern mechanical terrors and their erudite and unscrupulous owners
There are technologies that can and must be redeployed like networked tech, communications, and computer algorithms, technologies that must be reconfigured like modern agriculture, and energy infrastructure, technologies that must be heavily reduced in usage down to purely necessary tasks like plastics, and technologies with no ethical or safe usage like nuclear weapons and automated weapons system that should just be abolished entirely

People here will deny it, lots of leftists are blinded by the panopticon.

In the modern world, those who reject so called technological innovation and "progres" are trash, but those that submit to the technological terror of the bourgeoisie are lower than that! And that's why the Luddites were true heroes.
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Is there some kind of community to help people work towards either living without having a job, or improving their chances at a job where you have little to no work to do and still make a reasonable living? There should be one if there isn't already. We should be telling people to do more "quiet quitting", encouraging them and helping them to do even more of it.
We should either start one or infiltrate an already existing community like this to classpill/marxpill them.
Not gonna lie lads, really losing hope on the whole anti-capitalist political project providing any real tangible benefits in terms of allowing people to regain control of their little time on this earth, and avoid being exploited all their lives. Not to be a doomer or derail, but if we could show people we really first and foremost care about making their lives better by giving them more time to be with their families and spend time doing shit they actually want to be doing, that might win us a lot of goodwill…
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Collapse

Bros, I fear that shit is accelerating quicker than anyone realizes.

The US is gonna land troops in Gaza, is escalating in Ukraine, and is about to do a false-flag on Russia. Rethugs and dems are in lock-step entirely at this point, and the messaging on literally everything is moving further fascist every day.

Hell, even domestically in amerika, they are deploying troops to the fuggin subways of NYC. Businesses and governments have gotten more nakedly repressive and predatory even over the past couple of months; they aren't even trying to hide it anymore.
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/brg/ - Brazil General

Hamas Edition

>Member of Hamas Political Bureau, Basim Naim, congratulated freedom fighter, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, on his victory in Brazil’s election after defeating his rival, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, in a fiercely contested run-off election.

>The Hamas official considered da Silva’s election a victory for all oppressed people around the globe, particularly the Palestinian people, as da Silva is known for his strong and continued support for the Palestinians at all international forums.
>Naim said that Hamas “looks forward to President Lula mitigating all the effects of the unlimited support for the Israeli Occupation State”.

Previous thread: >>1573925
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Immiseration

I think its time to admit that the immiseration thesis has failed. The idea if the proletariat just suffers enough they will become revolutionary and the only thing left will be for an appropriate vanguard party to lead them beyond mere trade-union consciousness into socialist revolutionary consciousness does not comport with the historical evidence. Every turn of the left in the 20th/21st century, from the new left into identity politics, third world-ism/anti-imperialism, etc. is just a cope.

Most people will acknowledge this basic fact. However there is the prosperity thesis, the more traditional marxist idea that the most advanced and materially prosperous capitalist societies will be closer to socialism, is also wrong.

The idea that revolution can be reduced to a quantitative increase or decrease in the conditions of the proletariat is wrong from the very beginning. Mao understood this which is why he was able to build a revolutionary base of peasants in a country which was still semi colonial and semi feudal. There were few proletariats in early 20th century China. So Mao showed the importance of subjective factors of the revolution over the objective.

The 21st century has seen many moments of crisis from terrorism, war, instability, economic crises, the pandemic, etc. But none of these lead to an uptick in progressive revolutionary activity, or not significant enough of one to matter. So if even the most acute "revolutionary situation" cannot induce revolution, is there any reason to care about the so-called "objective" factors at all? Now I'm sure some will cope by saying yes, but the REAL final crisis (or at least more severe crisis) of capitalism is coming.

The bottom line is understanding that while a certain substructural configuration may be needed to PERMIT socialism, it doesn't necessitate it historically or otherwise. The means of production are already developed enough to allow socialism now.

The superstructural and subjective elements are more important. However this raises another question if the proletariat is not the revolutionary subject necessarily produced by the material conditions of capitalism, then why can't anything be the revolutionary subject? isn't the selection of a revolutionary subject just arbitrary?
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FUCK PARTIES

the priority should be CUM!!!
Cooperatives
Unions
Militias
Why are political parties needed? name a single reason! you only need CUM!!!!
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I want to infiltrate a right wing militia

>moved back to rural hometown in the U.S.
>most friends from HS either moved away or got into drugs
>crashing local college clubs isn't doing it anymore
>been bored
>like guns and shooting
>know a bit about right wing shit due to edgy phase in HS
>want to join a right wing militia and be informant or something for the shits and gigs
>don't know how to do this
>try the III% but they have been quite since jan 6th and most people around here just have the bumper stickers
>no real world affiliations other than boomer facebook groups
>ran out of ideas past that

How stupid am I being? Anybody have some ideas on where to look?
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AI

hi guys long time lurker but haven't posted until now.
what are your stances on local language models (LLMs)?
I know that closed models like GPT-4 are fucking stupid and late stage capitalism.
But what about everyone having infinite knowledge at their fingertips? is this not a noble goal?
What is the party line on AI and the proletariat?
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How do right wingers glorify manlet faggots like Brenton Tarrant when actual glorious Aryan warriors and men against time like Andreas Baader exist?

>Be Baader

>Son of a Wehrmacht who died in the war
>People recall remembering him being unruly but intelligent and well written in school
>Born to a middle class family, decides to leave it all
>Becomes an experimental actor and talented car thief
>Burns down a warehouse and goes to jail just to protest the deaths of Vietnamese thousands of miles away
>Charismatic leader of an communist urban guerilla organization that gains a 20% approval rating
>Lead prison riots in multiple facilities you get transferred to
>Get to do it all hand in hand with the love of your life
>Targets are either actually armed or genuinely politically powerful
>Never once have to release a manifesto, the world-class bourgeois journalist you recruited for your organization does it all for you
>Get to be an asshole to Sartre in person
>Get movies made about you where you're depicted as a quirky hotheaded anti-hero

>Be Tarrant

>Son of a garbageman
>Low autism score reflected in poorly written schizoid screed
>Sexless autist failure
>Manlet
>Reportedly abused steroids before losing it all in a year of prison
>Shoot kids and old people for 10 minutes
>Autist, only means of communicating with literally anybody else is through another I-cant-breed manifesto
>Only fans are demented bourgeois eunuchs on the internet
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I despise that many organizations I've been are completely menshevized - the intellectuals lead the discourse on the working class. It all gets mystified and any the self-appointed leaders see any critique of organization as an outright attack on the working class (against them) and infantilize any immediate analysis which comrades contribute to a misunderstanding theory, which only they, our popelings of Marxism, have interperted to us, and have done so correctly.
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World War Three

When do you think it will happen anons? How do you you think it will start? Is therely likely to be a draft in such a scenario? What are your plans in the event of conscription?
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/AI/ Overlord Edition

Artificial Intelligence Thread

A thread to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on politics and in the economy.

Suggested Readings

Nvidia and AI fuel market frenzy:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/24/kelf-f24.html

Generative artificial intelligence will lead to job cuts this year, CEOs say:
https://www.ft.com/content/908e5465-0bc4-4de5-89cd-8d5349645dda

DOCUMENTS REVEAL ADVANCED AI TOOLS GOOGLE IS SELLING TO ISRAEL:
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/24/google-israel-artificial-intelligence-project-nimbus/

Tech Giants Spend Billions on AI Startups—and Get Just as Much Back:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-deals-microsoft-google-amazon-7f624054
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MULTIPOLARISM

WHAT IS MULTIPOLARISM
Multipolarism, in its most basic form, posits a world where multiple powers (countries or entities) exist in a state of relative equilibrium, challenging the unipolar hegemony led mainly by the United States post-Cold War. The emergence of China, the reassertion of Russia, the rise of regional powers like India, Brazil, and South Africa, among others, suggest a move towards this multipolar world.


BUT is it rly just Capitalism 2: Electric Boogaloo - Neo-Dengism Edition? To what extent is multipolarism just capitalist nationalism for people not in green on this map? If the whole thrust of socialism is now just "America bad" what becomes of the classical socialist goals of workers control of the means of production, and abolishing class society?


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On the last episode of Multi-Polar Z: >>>/leftypol/1571995
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Why is the Japanese Far-Right so weird?

>Mitsuyasu Maeno
>born in 1947 in japan, far right nationalist
>attends ultra nationalist meetings, admires Yoshio Kodama, who was the boss of the late 60s / early 70s japanese criminal underworld and another ultra nationalist leader
>Soft porn actor, earns awards for his performances, including one for a sex scene with a famous eurasian actress on an airplane
>actual pilot
>disappointed by Yoshio Kodama after the Lockheed scandal
>goes to an airport with a couple of people, dressed as a kamikaze from WW2
>manages to rent a plane, saying it's for the shooting of a film
>crashes his plane into Yoshio Kodama's mansion while screaming BANZAI
>misses, the Lockheed scandal grows even bigger
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Making sense of the right wing and their allies

I think I finally understand the right wing, their allied reactionaries and how they compare to the left.
it really all boils down to the belief that nature is good, or that what's natural is good. that's it. that's the entirety of the right wing summarized (more or less).
for Evangelical Christians nature is God (or from God, and therefore good).
for Nazis it's (social)Darwinism. never mind the cruelty of evolution. (it's natural and produces results, therefore good!).
for ancap libertarians it's Darwinism and/or God (free market is naturally good).

and they all more or less suffer from the Just World fallacy to some degree (something bad happened to you for no real reason? you must've deserved it somehow).
this is why they all work well together, why they're all conservative and protective of the status quo, why they hate "big government" because they think that their "natural" rights are good and any intervention from human beings is evil or bad (any human solution is inferior to nature/God). they're completely blind to the cruelty and inefficiency of nature and don't see the errors in it.

TLDR;
the right wing is one big giant appeal to nature.
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The “dialectical method” is pseud bullshit. You can Hegel all you like but you don’t get a separate method out of it. Anything that’s true in dialectical terms would have to be true by at least one other way of thinking for it to be valid, otherwise it’s dianetics. As per Hegel, to think correctly is identical with being dialectical; no further teaching required. His dialectical method is not a formal toolbox you simply pull over a content to achieve scientific results - in fact, he merciless criticized this idea of bourgeois science. Nonetheless even a lot of hegeloids slip into weird shit when they reapproach physical science instead of following the master. This, like most things, cannot be solved by a re-reading of sacred texts by great teacher.

Hegel himself engaged in a lot of stupidities in his frenzy for derivation, Marx comments on this tendency wonderfully here:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/ch05.htm#5.2

To give an example, here is Marx showing how Hegel proceeds when he wants to determine the state's constitution as an organism:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/ch01.htm#025

These criticisms of Hegel could be written a hundred times under all the philosophical treatises that leftists so much love to write - they too move from abstractions to content by means of boredom:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm
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News 3/9/24

Another top donor says it will resume funding the UN agency for Palestinians as Gaza hunger grows
Sweden’s funding decision followed similar ones by the European Union and Canada as the U.N. agency known as UNRWA warns that it could collapse and leave Gaza’s already desperate population of more than 2 million people with even less medical and other assistance.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-news-03-09-2024-6f4514fa1f4ad1f18a9d4331d81f917f

UNRWA report says Israel coerced some agency employees to falsely admit Hamas links
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unrwa-report-says-israel-coerced-some-agency-employees-falsely-admit-hamas-links-2024-03-08/

Royal Navy shoots down Houthi drones after US and allies attacked in Red Sea
A Royal Navy frigate used its missiles to shoot down two attack drones as the US and its allies came under sustained Houthi attack in the Red Sea in the early hours of Saturday.The UK defence secretary, Grant Shapps, announced HMS Richmond’s role in destroying the targets in a post on X.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/09/royal-navy-shoots-down-houthi-attack-drones-in-red-sea-and-gulf-of-aden

Turkish forces abduct 14 people in Afrin and Jarablus
In occupied Jarablus, 13 people were kidnapped in the last three days. According to the information available, the abducted people in Jarablus are IDPs who were forcibly returned from Turkey. According to reports, these people were kidnapped after they crossed the border and refused the gangs' demands for ransom.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/turkish-forces-abduct-14-people-in-afrin-and-jarablus-72144

Human rights group urges India to cease military ties with Israel
In a statement released on Friday, the Human Rights Forum (HRF) said it was outraged by both India's feeble diplomatic response to Israel's campaign in Gaza as well as its willingness to continue trading military hardware that may contribute to the devastating scenes unfolding in the besieged territory.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/indian-human-rights-forum-condemns-adani-role-gaza

After a decade in prison, Indian academic G.N. Saibaba acquitted for a second time
In 2017, a trial court convicted Saibaba and five others — journalist Prashant Rahi, Mahesh Tirki, Hem Keshwdatta Mishra, Vijay Nan Tirki, and Pandu Narote — under various sections of the draconian anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC). They were accused of having ties to the Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), an organization alleged to be a front for the banned CPI (Maoist).
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/06/after-a-decade-in-prison-indian-academic-g-n-saibaba-acquitted-for-a-second-time/

Portuguese head to polls as right, left seen almost evenly matched
The issues dominating the campaign in western Europe's poorest country include the housing crisis unleashed by soaring rents, low wages, sagging healthcare and corruption, seen by many as endemic to the mainstream parties. The early election, four months after Prime Minister Antonio Costa's sudden resignation amid a graft investigation, again pits against each other the two centrist parties that have alternated in power since the end of a dictatorship five decades ago.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/portuguese-head-polls-right-left-seen-almost-evenly-matched-2024-03-10/

Tens of thousands of pro-Palestine protesters march through London
Tens of thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday reiterating calls for a ceasefire in Gaza in the first national demonstration since Rishi Sunak suggested pro-Palestine demonstrations were a display of “extremism”. The march began in Hyde Park Corner and ended outside the US embassy in Nine Elms.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/09/tens-of-thousands-of-pro-palestine-protesters-march-through-london

Council to fire and rehire bin workers, union says
Unite said the Labour-controlled council had sought to resolve the dispute by putting forward several proposals, which its members had accepted without conditions. But the union said the council had decided to withdraw "its own proposals and press ahead with brutally firing and rehiring its own workers".
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-68507211

Pope says Ukraine should have 'courage of the white flag' of negotiations
"It is one interpretation, that is true," Francis said, according to an advance transcript of the interview and a partial video made available to Reuters on Saturday. It is due to be broadcast on March 20 as part of a new cultural programme. "But I think that the strongest one is the one who looks at the situation, thinks about the people and has the courage of the white flag, and negotiates," Francis said, adding that talks should take place with the help of international powers.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-says-ukraine-should-have-courage-white-flag-negotiations-2024-03-09/

El Salvador extends anti-gang emergency decree for 24th time. It’s now been in effect for two years
The vote by congress late Friday means that by March 27, the country will have spent a full two years under the decree, which suspends some rights. Bukele has used emergency powers to round up 78,175 suspected gang members in sweeps that rights groups say are often arbitrary, based on a person’s appearance or where they live. The government has had to release about 7,000 people because of a lack of evidence.
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-gang-crackdown-emergency-decree-154d50d40d1f2a46a48b6880624df141

Oceans break high-temperature record in warmest February marked globally
The average global sea surface temperature stood at 21.06 degrees Celsius (69.91 degrees Fahrenheit) in February, surpassing the previous record of 20.98C (69.77F) set in August 2023, in a dataset that goes back to 1979, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/7/oceans-break-high-temperature-record-on-warmest-february-marked-globally
https://archive.is/0GSwn
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Hegel

post a single passage from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich "Smeagol" Hegel worth reading on its own. Prove to me he isn't a meandering German pseud who spends far too long coming to the conclusion that christian constitutional monarchy is the ideal form of government. I'll wait.
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What do the capitalist cherish most?
Private property
What do the proletariat care about most?
Money
So make it profitable to destroy private property.
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Smol owner question

>the petty bourgeois can't be revolutiona-
<From the standpoint of capital, therefore, what with hindsight appears to be part of a normal business cycle looked more like a dangerous secular trend toward stalemate-or worse-at the point of production, with all that implied for profits and the attendant social function of capitalists. This perception is, again, consistent with the evidence available then and now. But it is inconsistent with modern assumptions about the social power and cultural authority of "big business." That is probably why the obvious question seems practically impertinent: what could workers bring to bear in their struggles against employers that created the stalemate of the late 188os and early 189os? To put it another way, what resources did capitalists lack?
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<If we follow the lead of the new labor historians and look more closely at the struggles for control of the workplace that began in earnest in the 188os, the significant variable appears to be the stance of the communities in which the struggles took place. When local officeholders, constables, editors, and small shopkeepers acted in solidarity with striking workers-and this seems to have been the norm-large employers were unable to impose their will on the labor force or to reshape the labor process, even if they imported external forces of law and order. Only when such solidarity was missing at the outset or undermined by protracted strikes, were the large employers able to reduce wages, break unions, and reconstruct the labor process.
<
<In this sense, the microeconomic problem was inseparable from the macroeconomic problem, or, in the parlance of the late nineteenth century, the economic problem entailed a social question. For the stalemate at the point of production was enforced by a larger deadlock that clearly involved more than capitalists and workers. At the very least it involved the loyalties of a middle class that was still rooted in and defined by petty proprietorship, not by occupational ladders within large bureaucratic organizations. It involved a middle class, in sum, that apparently had not acknowledged the permanence or legitimacy of large capital, a class that could, therefore, side with striking workers against large capital.
<
<The middle term in the urban-industrial stalemate was also the middle term in the larger standoff that characterized American society in the late nineteenth century. The solidarity of petite bourgeoisie and striking workers might look anomalous from the standpoint of the late twentieth century, but at the time it was no more anomalous than the political coalition of jackleg farmers and industrial workers that was forged in the late 188os and early 18gos. What all three functional groups shared-what allowed them to act in concert, seemingly as one class between 1889 and 1896-was a commitment to dispersed assets, competitive markets, and control of the property in one's labor power as the condition of self-determination.
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/note-on-labor-republicanism
Anyways, unite all the all forces which can be united, so the phrase goes.
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I was completely disillusioned with the communists. The Communist Party of Russia in no way opposes Putin’s para-fascism and his repressions, but on the contrary only wants to strengthen it. Just so you know, the number of repressions under Putin is already greater than during the entire period of the post-Stalin USSR.

Apparently, liberals are right that communism and fascism are not far from each other, and anarchists are right that the state corrupts. Under socialism there should be no dictatorship of a party or any narrow group of people.
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Palestine vs The Zionist Entity #72: Schnoz Edition

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨

Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/12/9/israel-hamas-war-live-us-veto-of-un-ceasefire-effort-draws-condemnation

Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/09/civilian-toll-israeli-airstrikes-gaza-unprecedented-killing-study

Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-december-9-2023/ (trigger warning)

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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war

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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️

https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source

https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA

https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org

https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv

https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine

https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog

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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫

al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/

PFLP
http://pflp.ps/

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https://tv.leftypol.org/r/happeningsviaklash

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(USA)
https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
https://www.palestineaction.org/

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HIDE JIDF POSTS, IGNORE GLOWIE BAIT, DO NOT REPLY TO MOSSAD POSTERS
(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia)

Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.

الله أكبر
يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا!
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What you are looking at is ai generated video created using a text-to-video model. What are the far reaching societal implications of this? Think about it with technology you see here anything you see on the internet or without you being direct there can be faked. Meaning you would have people doubt any media. Would this be an equalizer making the means of production into the hands of the masses rather than that of bourgeois a step towards a communist society. Any great technology invention has revolution society and changed the under lying social relationships. Such as the steam engine, the printing press, internet ect.
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Do you guys know where I can get pro colonial literature of the past? I‘ve heard plenty of decolonial standpoints and I am familiar with white washed depictions of colonialism that are still recent, but what about unfiltered, explicitly white supremacist literature of this era? Which authors should I look up and where can I look up more casual literature of that kind such as magazines, or letters and what not?
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Is this the cpusa?
Why is everyone so old?
Why do people call them the democrat cops of America btw do they nag at the democrat party?
Something something not enough words
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News 3/8/24

War on Gaza: Egyptian police disperse pro-Palestine Women's Day march in Cairo
Around 50 women gathered outside the Palestinian Women's Union in Cairo, and marched through the streets, chanting in solidarity with the “brave women of Palestine". In a statement, the demonstrators said that they were responding to a call from women in Gaza for a "Global Strike Day for the Palestinian women of Gaza and their people."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-women-march-gaza-international-womens-day-protest-dispersed

EU will open sea corridor to send aid from Cyprus to Gaza amid famine fears
The EU said the shipments would go straight to Gaza, 210 nautical miles away, but did not say where they would land or unload, or how the food would be distributed from the landing point. It was also unclear what the link was between the weekend shipments and a US plan, announced by Joe Biden on Thursday night, to build a floating dock off the Gaza shore over the next few weeks to receive aid shipments from Cyprus.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/08/sea-corridor-aid-gaza

Protesters march in Syria against al-Qaida-linked group as a prominent militant is released
On Friday, hundreds marched in a show of defiance against the militant chief, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, who runs the al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group. The protests took place in the city of Idlib, the capital of the province with the same name, and surrounding towns and villages.
https://apnews.com/article/syria-idlib-algolani-maysara-aljubour-idlib-608bc3a12050a6427bcfa3ef6771be49

Iran is responsible for the ‘physical violence’ that killed Mahsa Amini, UN probe finds
IRAN is responsible for the “physical violence” that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 that sparked nationwide protests, a United Nations fact finding mission said today. The stark pronouncement came in a wide-ranging initial report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by the Fact-Finding Mission on Iran.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/iran-responsible-physical-violence-killed-mahsa-amini-un-probe-finds

Jeremy Hunt Plans to Put Tax Cuts at Center of UK Budget as General Election Looms
Jeremy Hunt plans to put personal tax cuts at the center of his annual budget on Wednesday as he navigates tight public finances to deliver on Conservative demands for a pre-election giveaway to boost the ailing governing party’s standing with voters.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-05/hunt-to-cut-uk-payroll-levy-and-eyes-election-income-tax-pledge
https://archive.is/kaXue

A British spy was likely responsible for more lives lost than saved during the Troubles, report says
Former intelligence agents have described Stakeknife as Britain’s most centrally placed mole within the IRA. He was allegedly permitted by British Army intelligence officers to interrogate, torture and kill IRA colleagues to maintain his cover as the outlawed group’s internal security chief. It has been claimed that his actions saved countless lives, but Jon Boutcher, the senior police officer who led the investigation, said that was “implausible.”
https://apnews.com/article/northern-ireland-british-spy-ira-stakeknife-b2e94088d0f9802a7d2802d838034b42

Calls for humanitarian aid and ceasefire to alleviate suffering in Sudan ahead of Ramadan
The United Nations Security Council will hold a special session later today to discuss a British draft resolution submitted to the council to impose an immediate ceasefire in Sudan, which should be implemented before the start of the holy month of Ramadan tomorrow evening. Other calls for relief are coming from a variety of states in the country.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/calls-for-humanitarian-aid-and-ceasefire-to-alleviate-suffering-in-sudan-ahead-of-ramadan

J&K: Massive Protest in Ladakh Demands Statehood Ahead of PM Modi's Visit to Kashmir
The protesters demanded special status for Ladakh, with climate activist and Magsaysay award winner Sonam Wangchuk announcing a 21-day fast after talks with the Union Home Ministry on March 4, failed to make any headway, said a report by The Telegraph.
https://www.newsclick.in/jk-massive-protest-ladakh-demands-statehood-ahead-pm-modis-visit-kashmir

Trinidad and Tobago: Worst Drought in Years, WASA
According to statements made by the directive, quoted by Newsday, the Navet and Caroni-Arena dams, as well as the Hollis and Hillsborough reservoirs, the latter on the island of Tobago, are severely affected, which is why the entity has had to review and readjust its supply programs.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Trinidad-and-Tobago-Worst-Drought-in-Years-WASA-20240307-0021.html

Panama orders MSF to stop treating people who crossed Darién Gap
Panama has ordered Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to stop treating people who have crossed the Darién Gap, one of the world’s most dangerous and fastest-growing border crossings. MSF is one of the largest medical NGOs operating on the dangerous jungle frontier which connects Colombia to Panama and the loss of their services will probably leave a void in potentially lifesaving healthcare services for vulnerable migrants.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/08/panama-darien-gap-doctors-without-borders-msf
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/nordpol/ - Nordic General - Skåneutgåvan

Thread for all things Nordic. Recommended languages: Finnish, Scandinavian and English.
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Today I got told I "deny the agency of Germans in the rise of Nazism" and that I "fell for Nazi propaganda" by explaining the conditions that led to the rise of fascism in Germany. To these people all Germans woke up one day in 1933 and became raging antisemites and fascism supporters. No analysis of preceding and contemporary conditions is needed, it's all "agency" broooo.

Liberals only talk about "Germans" without mentioning that over half the population belonged to the petit-bourgeoisie which was completely ruined by the hyperinflation of 1919-24, the post-24 economic "rationalization" and then the crippling 1929 depression. Nor do they ever even hint at the class struggle in Germany between 1919 and 1923, the defeat of the Communist Party and its Stalinist degeneration and collaboration that prevented any effective proletarian opposition to the Nazis which successfully captured mass ruined PB support.

Trying to argue with laymen is exhausting.
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Why do all far leftist parties in the us promote rent control and $15 an hour minimum wage?
Why not $100 an hour minimum wage and you get to kick out your landlord and keep the house.
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David Harvey can't explain what value is. In his original lectures/book he totally fucks up the description. This leads him to start talking nonsense about "oxidizable money". Guy is a con artist, who gets his marks by flashing his academic credentials. Even though he's a geographer.
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So millennials are the new borgoise now?
Lmao. They'll be a lot more tsundere towards socialism or communism than boomers.
Right or will they become just like boomers?
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Pertinent

The US is planning a series of false flag terror attacks in Moscow. Little information was given, only that it is "isis linked" and "anti-semitic." Place bets on who they are gonna frame. Spread the word far and wide.
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>seize the means of production
Okay but most of the means of production are in Asia. Plus if any communist movement became a real threat the capitalist would destroy it out of spite
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Rothschild Dead

How has there not been a thread yet for this!?
>LORD JACOB ROTHSCHILD IS DEAD AT 87
>Financier Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, OM, GBE, CVO (29 April 1936 – 26 February 2024)
First McCain years back, then Elizabeth II, then Kissinger and now this old bag.

PRESS S TO SPIT
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News 3/7/24

Israel will resist pressure to halt Rafah attack, says Netanyahu
"There is international pressure and it’s growing, but … we need to stand together against the attempts to stop the war,” the prime minister told a military graduation ceremony in southern Israel, saying that Israel’s forces would operate against Hamas all through the Gaza Strip “including Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold”. He added: “Whoever tells us not to act in Rafah is telling us to lose the war and that will not happen.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/07/israel-resist-pressure-halt-rafah-attack-netanyahu

Kurdish groups gripped by fear as they brace for a US pullout from northeast Syria
“The whole region is on fire and nobody will respond to Turkey’s aggression against us when everyone is busy with Gaza. We have asked the US to rein in Turkey, but they have brushed us off,” Mahmoud Meslat, co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), the political wing of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), told MEE.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kurds-fear-as-they-brace-us-pullout-northern-syria

Biden to announce construction of temporary port on Gaza coast for humanitarian aid
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the announcement, said the operation will not require that American troops be on the ground to build the pier that is intended to allow more shipments of food, medicine and other essential items. The officials did not provide details about how the pier would be built. One noted that the U.S. military has "unique capabilities" and can do things from "just offshore." The effort will take "a number of weeks" to execute, one official said, and initial shipments will originate from Cyprus.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-gaza-port-us-military-humanitarian-aid-state-of-the-union/

China to improve childbirth policies, boost support for elderly
China will improve policies supporting childbirth, two official government reports said on Tuesday, which also detailed plans to support a growing elderly population by raising benefits and basic pensions and pushing forward a private pension system. … China will "work towards a birth-friendly society and promote long term, balanced population development" and develop "public interest childcare" to reduce the cost of childbirth, parenting and education, said a report released by the country's state planner.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-improve-childbirth-policies-boost-support-elderly-2024-03-05/

Myanmar Resistance Fighters Poised to Capture Key Town in Sagaing Region
Allied resistance groups began attacking the town on Saturday. It is located in southwest Sagaing Region about 35 miles from the region’s capital, Monywa, where the Northwest Regional Military Headquarters is based.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-resistance-fighters-poised-to-capture-key-town-in-sagaing-region.html
https://archive.is/8pKFg

Germany brought to a standstill by latest transport strikes
GERMANY was brought to a standstill today at the start of the latest two-day strike called by train and airline workers over pay and working conditions. Most long-distance trains as well as regional and commuter trains in the country were cancelled as drivers went on strike.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/germany-brought-standstill-latest-transport-strikes

‘They messed it up': Biden’s backing for Haiti’s unpopular leader digs US into deeper policy hole
Stubborn U.S. support for Henry is largely to blame for the deteriorating situation, said Monique Clesca, a Haitian writer and member of the Montana Group, a coalition of civil, business and political leaders that came together in the wake of Jovenel Moïse ‘s murder to promote a “Haitian-led solution” to the protracted crisis. The group’s main objective is to replace Henry with an oversight committee made up of nonpolitical technocrats to restore order and pave the way for elections.
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-violence-gangs-biden-ariel-henry-crisis-c79d6c330f2074e44c08decaca2bc1f1

Peruvians Take to the Streets to Defend National Justice Board
The citizens marched peacefully to Congress, where a plenary session is scheduled to debate the disqualification of several judges. If that happens, some JNJ members will be banned from holding public office for the next ten years. Previously, far-right legislator Esdras Medina filed a complaint alleging that the Board violated the constitution by allowing Judge Ines Tello to continue in office after reaching the age of 75.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Peruvians-Take-to-the-Streets-to-Defend-National-Justice-Board-20240307-0008.html

Nobel laureates sound alarm as Argentina cuts science funding
The laureates, who include the renowned British mathematician Roger Penrose and American virologist Harvey J. Alter, highlighted the "dramatic reduction" in budgets for Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and for national universities.
https://www.reuters.com/science/nobel-laureates-sound-alarm-argentina-cuts-science-funding-2024-03-06/

Carved up and sold off: developers plan a ‘new Miami’ in Argentina’s nature-rich wetlands
Developers from nearby Buenos Aires advertise the delta as the “Miami of the South”, filling it with weekend retreats, luxury homes, and gated communities. The land – one of the world’s largest river deltas, extending more than 17,500 sq km – has been carved up to create private beaches, spas and helipads. Andino claims that, in the past 15 years, his father’s home has burned down, and most of his neighbours’ houses destroyed.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/07/carved-up-and-sold-off-parana-delta-developers-plan-a-new-miami-in-argentina-nature-rich-wetlands
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If feudalism went away because of expanded markets and technology why wouldn't capitalism go away because of a world market and technology?
Furthermore why wouldn't socialism go away and turn into communism because interstellar markets and even more technology?
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This is the first time I've felt like a retard in a while.
I don't understand a single word he's saying
https://youtu.be/BahCi45_BTc?si=CfoMZIf_SInEAFav
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What do you make of Richard Spencer and his attempted alt-right movement? What do you think he did wrong? Bad luck and timing? And do you think he has the capacity to learn from this failure, or other potential “Führers” to learn from him and make something of another attempt at a cohesive racialist pseudo fascist organization?
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Question about western imperialism?

I’ve noticed that countries allied to west never truly get back on their feet and always remain subservient to the West . For instance Somalia which has western funded govt for past 15 years has been unable to provide basic services that govt is supposed to do and keeps failing to hold democratic elections when west Touts countries for not holding elections . Or Afghanistan govt that immediately fell as soon as western donor money stopped funneling in . Is this on purpose ?if so why ?
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🇨🇺🇺🇳 Cuba makes request for aid from UN World Food Program for the first time

In an unprecedented move, the Cuban government sent an official communication to the management of the World Food Program asking for help to maintain the distribution of subsidized milk to children under the age of seven, as the country’s economic situation continues to deteriorate.

“We confirm that the WFP has received an official communication from the (Cuban) government requesting support to continue the monthly delivery of 1 kilogram of milk for girls and boys under the age of 7 throughout the country,” the WFP delegation on the island said in a written statement.

The UN program, which recognizes an “urgent need,” stressed “the importance of this request,” especially in the context of the “deep economic crisis that Cuba is facing,” which it said “significantly affects the food and nutritional security of the population.”

🔗 https://www.laprensalatina.com/cuba-makes-request-for-aid-from-un-world-food-program-for-the-first-time/

This, alongside the 500% increase in price for gasoline, does not look good. What options does Cuba have besides giving up? Is it even worth it when the situation is this dire? I feel so bad for the Cuban people. Fuck the embargo.
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CyberNews
>ransomware hackers encrypt one of biggest health insurance providers in US
>they stalled on paying money and kept loosing 100 million each week
>they finally pay up 22 million dollars worth of crypto
>The ransomware team dips and doesn't even decrypt the servers for them
>they are now larping as if the Feds seized their sites and have shutdown their operations

in summary big corporation gets fucked over by ransomware group and are still trying to get their systems up and running


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/blackcat-ransomware-shuts-down-in-exit-scam-blames-the-feds/
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So what happen to the communist president of Peru?
He got elected and what happen afterwards?
Who is president now?
Just get elected, do nothing and leave?
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Alternate history what if: What if Stalin had been succeeded by a Deng?

Just curious, I’m not really conversant in the history, sociology, or anthropology of the Soviet Union, but what if Stalin had been succeeded by a Deng Xiaoping-like figure?

How would history have changed if the USSR had enough vigor to survive to the modern day?

I’m thinking about this as a setting for a fiction novel, which is implicitly about China, but swapped to a different cultural setting.
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If Russia did equivalent of what Israel has been going to Palestinians how do u think the western order would try to justify the difference in responses?

U rarely see footage of Russia carpet bombing Ukraine or send dumb missiles to civilian areas hoping it just lands somewhere causing damage . If im not mistaken the Ukraine civilian death toll is smaller than the Gazan death toll
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Anyone else willing to side with Comrade Climate Change?

Honestly the worst thing about Global Warming is that it effects places other than the Angloshit (US, UK, NZ, AUS, CAN) and Europe; if Africa and Asia and LatAm were to become lush and green global warming would be a globally progressive force. Climate change will likely destroy European society once and for all. It will eradicate American suburbia. Climate change will be Gaia's war against the West and their decadent and parasitic culture. It will be a war against capitalism. Climate change is the sword that will slay the Western subject once and for all.
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News 3/6/24

Protesters knock down door of Mexico's presidential palace
A group protesting the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014 knocked down a door to the country's presidential palace, video from local television stations showed on Wednesday morning. … Asked about the incident during the press conference, Lopez Obrador said he was not going to repress the protest and that the government would continue to investigate the case of the missing students, who disappeared in one of the country's most notorious violent incidents.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/protesters-knock-down-door-mexicos-presidential-palace-local-media-2024-03-06/

Brazil: Mining Company Could Not Prevent Burial of Chief Merong
At the request of this mining company, Judge Grossi Ors also authorized the use of force by the military and federal police to prevent his burial in Brumadinho, an Indigenous territory over which the mining company claims ownership. Despite threats of violence, Brazilian Indigenous people carried out Merong's burial on his ancestral territory during the early hours of Wednesday.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Mining-Company-Could-Not-Prevent-Burial-of-Chief-Merong-20240306-0011.html

South Africa asks ICJ for more measures against Israel over Gaza famine
In its application, South Africa warned that Palestinians in Gaza were facing starvation and asked the court to order that all parties cease hostilities and release all hostages and detainees. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the South African presidency warned that the people of Gaza cannot wait.
https://www.newarab.com/news/icj-s-africa-wants-more-measures-against-israel-over-gaza

Egypt strikes expanded $8bn deal with the IMF
Egypt has signed an expanded $8bn deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has said. The new agreement announced on Wednesday is an expansion of the $3bn, 46-month Extended Fund Facility that the IMF struck with Egypt back in December 2022, which was predicated on the shift to a more flexible exchange-rate system.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/6/egypt-strikes-expanded-8-billion-deal-with-the-imf
https://archive.is/liH3t

Two killed in Houthi missile attack on cargo ship - US officials
The attack happened about 50 nautical miles (93km) south-west of the Yemeni city of Aden, a spokesman for the ship's owners and managers said in a statement. Following the attack, Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV reported on Wednesday evening that two US-led air strikes had targeted the international airport in the Houthi-controlled Red Sea port city of Hudaydah.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68490695

Chad interim leader Deby confirms plan to run for president in May
Deby took power after his father and longtime ruler, Idriss Deby Itno, died fighting rebels in the country’s north in April 2021. The younger Deby promised a return to civilian rule, as well as elections, but the leader extended the transition by two years, despite loud objections from opposition parties.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/2/chad-interim-leader-deby-confirms-plan-to-run-for-president-in-may
https://archive.is/qWSq4

Dutch ministers trying to stop tech firm ASML moving abroad over foreign labour fears
On Wednesday, the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that the Dutch government had launched a cross-ministry effort, dubbed “Operation Beethoven”, to encourage ASML to continue to invest in the country. For months, ASML, which sources parts from around the world but assembles its machines in Veldhoven in the the south of the Netherlands, has been warning against any moves that could hinder its ability to attract skilled foreign labour.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/06/dutch-ministers-trying-to-stop-tech-firm-asml-moving-abroad-over-foreign-labour-fears

Farmers threaten to bring Poland to a halt after police clashes
The protesters had gathered at the prime minister's office in the Polish capital, burning tyres and throwing firecrackers as they demanded a halt to cheap imports and environmental regulations they say harm their livelihoods. They then marched towards parliament, where a Reuters witness saw police using batons, pepper spray, tear gas and stun grenades against demonstrators, while some protesters hurled rocks, cobblestones and firecrackers at the security forces.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polish-farmers-clash-with-police-outside-parliament-warsaw-2024-03-06/

South Korea's medical woes worsen: Senior doctors join trainee medics in walkouts
The health emergency in South Korea is likely to worsen as senior medical staff are reportedly resigning and joining junior doctors in their protest against the government’s plan to almost double the number of medical school admissions. According to a report by SCMP, Yun Woo-sung of Kyungpook National University School of Medicine became the first professor to resign over the issue.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/south-korea-doctors-strike-2-13745775.html
https://archive.is/M2qRB

The Philippines says it won’t let China remove a Filipino military outpost on a disputed shoal
Philippine officials summoned a Chinese Embassy diplomat in Manila to convey a strong protest over the confrontation Tuesday off Second Thomas Shoal. A small Filipino navy contingent has stood guard on a long-marooned warship that has served as an outpost in the shoal since the 1990s. Washington issued a warning after Tuesday’s hostilities that it is obligated to defend the Philippines, its oldest treaty ally in Asia, if Filipino forces, ships or aircraft come under an armed attack anywhere in the South China Sea.
https://apnews.com/article/south-china-sea-philippines-tension-clash-thomas-5024df819b8ae87b99c24e179f9da774
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Irrationalism and Politics

I agree with Marx and Lenin on all fundamental issues and I appreciate their insight into capitalist political economy. I am not fundamentally an anti-Semite because I recognize the history of Jews being funneled into positions of junkerism and finance after being systematically barred from other professions by Christians in the Medieval era. I also recognize that blacks and browns aren’t disposed to violence and crime by nature but are instilled with nihilism and the passion for transgression by the conditions of ghettoism and poverty doled out to them in order to neutralize their liberation movements.

However I am still a reactionary because I don’t care about communism now that I have a well paying and salaried job. I hate minorities because I find it funny that it makes people mad when I’m racist; and even though it’s all systemic I need the mostly brown scary homeless people in my city must be removed by any means possible because I find them personally revolting.

When I was 19 I was a member of PSL before breaking off into a Maoist splinter group with some like minded comrades. Now I’m in an esoteric Hitlerist cell. I think you people overestimate how much people actually care about the truth. I realized I would much rather be a doomed warrior of the White race and an enemy of the normgroid caste (proletariat) than a wigger who likes hammers and sickles. In this way I can enjoy the psychological feedback loop of fascism while also freely having sex with dudes and brown women with a clear conscience.

>buh buh buh it doesnt matter if youre salaried and well paid your interests are still the heckin proolateriat!!!

I don’t care. I realize my material interests are found in some kind of future communist movement but I am not interested in it, nor the gay little kumbaya world that comes afterwards. I barely do anything at my job anyways. Even if I got laid off because of say, economic crisis, I find it a welcome addition as it would essentially guaruntee my trip to Valhalla (we wuz vikangz and shit after all). My sole desire is and has been since I was 12, to suffer the death of a tragic hero or villain.

I was wondering if anybody else here had a purely aesthetic and probably irrational reasoning for their own politics? I feel like leftism is the crescendo of liberal rationality, as in leftists recognize the state is a ultimately contractual abstraction, like god, and therefore nonexistent so I doubt I’ll have anybody saying yes. As a rightoid I revel in the world of myth, legend and hyperstition because it is joyful fun. I hope I’m pleasantly surprised though.
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Crime and Punishment

It's been a long while since we had this thread. I am trying to come up with something tangible and usable that doesn't rely on infringing on someone's bodily autonomy and isn't cruel or unusual. The Anarchist ideas seem to go from "there will be community enforced rules and rehab" to "there will be no rules and everyone will just accept that". Of course, my personal pick are no rules and no consequences because I personally like fucking around and not finding out, but I want a system of dealing with crime that is the best compromise between "let people do as they please" and "we need some security". Any ideas and texts are welcome. From popular to obscure, let's discuss!
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https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe/index.htm
Just reading over this 1954 political economy textbook written by 1950s Stalinists. Absolutely hilarious to read them talking about profit, private property, commodity circulation, the law of value, wages, etc. Just to then add the prefix "socialist". It's filled with retarded garbage, it was commissioned by Stalin himself and he went around giving interviews to various economists on how it should be written, though he died before it was finalized. These talks that he gave that led to the creation of that textbook can be read here, they're hilarious at points and extremely revealing.
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv4n2/5convers.htm
As to who they dug this up they were probably recorded in Soviet circles but the group that translated them from Russian are a bunch of Indian Hoxhaists who published them without realizing how retarded they make Stalin and his cronies look.
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BARGAINING STAGE: REACHED

Lloyd Austin Doubts Protective Value Of NATO

Newsweek is lying with this headline:

NATO Will Be Drawn Into War With Russia if Ukraine Loses: Lloyd Austin

It wording leaves out the (faulty) reasoning Austin attempts to apply:

Speaking at a Republican-led House Armed Services Committee hearing to discuss his recent absence while hospitalized for complications from prostate cancer surgery, Austin predicted that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not "stop" if Moscow wins the war in Ukraine.

"We know that if Putin is successful here, he will not stop," Austin said. "He will continue to take more aggressive action in the region. And other leaders around the world, other autocrats, will look at this and they'll be encouraged by the fact that this happened and we failed to support a democracy."
There is however no evidence, as in zero, that Russia is interested in taking even the whole of Ukraine or, moreover, anything beyond that.

Austin's logic is also faulty with regards to a different aspect.

The original claim was and is that Ukraine should enter NATO because that would protect it from being attacked by Russia.

But if Russia would, as Austin claims, attack the Baltics, i.e.beyond Ukraine, it would attack NATO member states. That claim thus puts the whole theory of a protective value of a NATO membership into question.

Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal has published parts of the draft peace deal that had been negotiated in spring 2022 between Ukraine and Russia:

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-ukraine-peace-deal-2022-document-6e12e093 Document From 2022 Reveals Putin’s Punishing Terms for Peace (also here)
Draft peace deal drawn up shortly after Russia’s invasion shows Ukraine was confronted with becoming a neutered state

The agreement was not punishing, but according to Ukrainian sources, very much in favor of Ukraine. It would have been kept as a wholesome sovereign state and could even become a member of the EU. The only restriction being to not join NATO and to have some limits on the size of its armed forces. Those conditions were much better than anything Ukraine will be able to achieve in any future negotiations.

The results of those will look much different:

https://strana.news/news/459047-v-kremle-nazvali-neaktualnym-proekt-mirnoho-sohlashenija-ot-marta-aprelja-2022-hoda.html The Kremlin said that the draft peace agreement from March-April 2022 is no longer relevant - Strana (machine translated)

Russian presidential press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the draft peace agreement of March-April 2022 is no longer relevant.
"The conditions have changed," Putin's spokesman told reporters.

He claims that the peace talks were stopped by Ukraine "at the command of London."

According to Peskov, the Kremlin would not like to publish the draft of that document.

Recall that today its individual provisions were published in The Wall Street Journal.

From this publication, it follows that Russia was ready to withdraw its troops from the territories captured after February 24, 2022.

That is, judging by Peskov's statement, the conditions for the withdrawal of troops are no longer relevant.

Earlier, David Arakhamia stated that Ukraine did not agree to sign that agreement , including because of the position of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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Why am I explaining Marxist concepts to people who literarily lived under communism?
What were they taught in schools?
Just science and math never mind about the system you live in?
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Bite of the Basilisk

>Anon you were comfortable yet did nothing to aid the global march to communism.
>The sentence is death.
>Rocco's revolutionary Basilisk, I thought, falling.
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If Venezuela is so bad how come Maduro is so kino
>There's too much crime
Because you can do whatever you want even murder and you thought America had freedumbs
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Hello comrades

Today i made a thread about communal showers on /pol/, to showcase how the average /pol/tards are all closted homosexuals, the thread was pretty eye opening as it demonstrated the level of mental gymnastics these subhumans would go through simply to prove its totally not gay to shower with other men and if you dont do it you’re a “faggot”.

https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/460757799
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Why does everyone hate on liberals so much?

I feel like we can definitely convert liberals into leftists but nobody seems to bother trying and every leftist I see just hates on them. Neo nazis don't sit around talking about how much they hate conservatives, they're super friendly to conservatives and are able to convert a lot of them. Why don't we do the same? The average liberal trying to go further left would be scared off immediately.
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myth of the century


journalist, youtubers, reasearchers and etc. they will always misrepresent areas and countries (intentional or not and intensely or not). this applies to every country but especially so in non western country. things people always get wrong is that people from said country will defend and elaborate and correct those camera people, they do not. it is a complete myth. lies and manipulation. people from the east or any other country that the camera-people misrepresent DO NOT EVEN correct let alone elaborate and defend. they will follow what camera-people say. they will say things that are in the same wave as what the camera-people say. and no matter how many time you nag and tell people about this it just does not get into peoples head. I am not saying the good people should give up. keep telling people this. don't give up.

from South East Asia
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Muricuh

How do you repair this trainreck?
The debt can not be repaid. America will default. The dollar is also finished. Another failed war won't save it. Communism would be reasonable at this point. Any ideas? What's that more capitalism?
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Is there a Leftypol Telegram channel

Yo, is there a Leftypol Telegram channel? It would be fun to collect the latest revolutionary shitposts there and also waste hours of time discussing with other revolutionary autistics

You can also tell me if this is an idiotic idea in terms of data security or whatever, but let me know if there is already a Leftypol Telegram chat or if one should/can be created
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Let's get something out the way. The white rice is not special. You're consider dangerous to the extent of your willingness to break things. You didn't invent anything some old dead guy who ciasted off imperial gains did.
This is not idpol this is a fact.
>But muh Hitler
You think we're afraid of charlie Chaplin. Get real.
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News 3/5/24

How Colombia’s prosecution got Uribe in even deeper legal trouble
Prosecutor Gilberto Villareal summoned Mancuso to help shelve an investigation into Uribe’s alleged fraud and bribery practices. … Having discovered the latest prosecution blunder, the defense attorneys of Uribe’s alleged victims immediately requested to interrogate Mancuso. This interrogation would allow Mancuso to go on the record about the former president’s alleged role in the formation of the Bloque Metro, a paramilitary massacre and the assassination of a human rights defender.
https://colombiareports.com/how-colombias-prosecution-got-uribe-in-even-deeper-legal-trouble/

Gangs in Haiti try to seize control of main airport as thousands escape prisons: "Massacring people indiscriminately"
Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti's main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country's two biggest prisons. Hours after the airport assault, officials said Haiti's police academy came under attack by an armed gang.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/haiti-gangs-try-to-seize-airport-thousands-inmates-escape-prisons-state-of-emergency/

Gaza ceasefire talks fail to make breakthrough with Ramadan approaching
“The Israelis say they are waiting for Hamas’s response, while Hamas says they are awaiting for Israel’s response,” she said, reporting from occupied East Jerusalem “Mediators in the middle are trying to bridge these gaps trying to find a solution between both sides, but it seems that there are sticking points that just can’t seem to be resolved.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/5/gaza-ceasefire-talks-fail-to-make-breakthrough-with-ramadan-approaching
https://archive.is/3wIUE

Egypt confirms death penalty for eight opposition politicians after mass trial
Judge Mohamed El-Saeed El-Sharbini issued the verdict to execute eight leading members of the opposition after a three-year-long mass trial involving 79 defendants. Ahmed Attar, director of the Egyptian Network for Human Rights, said the verdicts were "politically motivated".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-confirms-death-penalty-eight-opposition-politicians-after-mass-trial

RSF begin forced evacuation of Khartoum residents
The Bahri Emergency Room revealed that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) began the forced evacuation of residents of the northern and eastern areas of Bahri on Saturday as part of the escalation of combat operations in the area. The southern Khartoum area is in a state of cautious calm despite hunger and starvation.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rsf-begin-forced-evacuation-of-khartoum-residents

Leftwing group claim responsibility for Tesla factory arson attack in Berlin
In a 2,500-word letter released on Tuesday, the Vulkan (volcano) activist group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the factory, which produces about 500,000 electric cars a year, consumed both natural resources and labour and was neither ecological or sustainable.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/05/leftwing-vulkan-group-claim-responsibility-tesla-factory-pylon-arson-attack-berlin

Apple hit with $2 billion EU antitrust fine in Spotify case
Brussels on Monday fined Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab 1.84 billion euros ($2 billion) for thwarting competition from music streaming rivals via restrictions on its App Store, the iPhone maker's first ever penalty for breaching EU rules. A basic penalty of 40 million euros was inflated by a huge lump sum included as a deterrent - a first for the European Union's antitrust authorities.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-hit-with-over-18-bln-euro-eu-antitrust-fine-spotify-case-2024-03-04/

EU plans to boost defense industry and move away from US dependency in the face of Russian threats
The plans by the EU Commission center on streamlining the procurement of arms by the 27 EU states and to increasingly produce them within the bloc in a multi-billion-dollar pivot away from the United States. In the first 16 months since the February 2022 start of the Ukraine war, “member states spent more than €100 billion on defense acquisitions,” said EU Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager. “Almost 80% of that was spent outside of the European Union and the U.S. alone accounted for more than 60% of this spending.”
https://apnews.com/article/eu-defense-ukraine-war-russia-a3fdb1d6f2ca7bd6a3e7469e5ced66dc

Pakistan's Shehbaz Sharif takes oath as prime minister, directs team to talk with IMF
His first meeting after the ceremony was with his finance team, a statement from the prime minister's office said late on Monday, adding that he directed them to begin talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on an extended funding facility. The current agreement expires in April.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistans-shehbaz-sharif-takes-oath-prime-minister-2024-03-04/

TN: CPI(M) Protests SBI’s Plea in SC for More Time to Submit Electoral Bonds Donors’ List
The Left party has termed SBI’s decision seeking time till June 30 to furnish the details of electoral bonds donors as “juvenile” and “concealing of information” till the conclusion of the 2024 general elections.
https://www.newsclick.in/tn-cpim-protests-sbis-plea-sc-more-time-submit-electoral-bonds-donors-list
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Conspiracist are rubes

Conspiracy theories are just LARPing skepticism when in reality they are the most gullible and credulous rubes.

Skepticism and knowledge-producing institutions go together, and the conspiracist attack on knowledge is also an attack on skepticism. Knowledge does not demand certainty; it demands doubt. Even when we are persuaded that, all things considered, the available evidence and argument point in a certain direction, even after we have resolved to go in that direction, we should be alive to the possibility that in spite of our best effort to get it right, we got it wrong. Our assurance of being right relies on doubt and an iterative process of questioning. And a plurality of knowledge-producing institutions is skepticism’s resource. The wealth of specialized knowledge, of science and social science and ethical perspectives, provides platforms from which we consider when experts are wrong, when science is incomplete, when our best understanding of facts and theories and explanations is limited or flawed, and when reasons match or don’t match the values we bring to politics.

Conspiracists embrace the self-conception that they are skeptics and critical thinkers, but their own epistemic closure undercuts the capacity for skepticism. When knowledge-based pluralism is closed down, when sources are delegitimized and thrust outside the orbit of consideration, when conspiracist transmitters have lost the capacity for receiving, the framework of questioning and assurance is undone.
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Is there a final solution for nationalism or are we stuck in this endless loop of war until everyone dies from nuclear weapons?

<From a psychological perspective, nationalism can be understood through the lens of in-group/out-group dynamics, where individuals tend to favor and identify with their own group (in-group) while viewing other groups (out-groups) as inferior or threatening. This cognitive bias can lead to tribalistic behavior and conflicts, hindering cooperation and progress on a global scale.
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Palestine vs The Zionist Entity #71: Mujahideen Fighters of Burgestan Edition

This thread is dedicated to the brave mujahideen fighters of burgestan


🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
>>>/leftypol/1767493
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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨

Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/12/9/israel-hamas-war-live-us-veto-of-un-ceasefire-effort-draws-condemnation

Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/09/civilian-toll-israeli-airstrikes-gaza-unprecedented-killing-study

Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-december-9-2023/ (trigger warning)

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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war


🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️

https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source

https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA

https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org

https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv

https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine

https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog

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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫

al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/

PFLP
http://pflp.ps/

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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺

https://tv.leftypol.org/r/happeningsviaklash

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✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥

(USA)
https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
https://www.palestineaction.org/

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HIDE JIDF POSTS, IGNORE GLOWIE BAIT, DO NOT REPLY TO MOSSAD POSTERS
(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia)

Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.

الله أكبر
يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا!
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News 3/4/24

UK urges Germany to give long-range missiles to Kyiv despite Luftwaffe leak
Rather than publicly criticise Germany over the leak, Britain said it was for Berlin to investigate. Instead the UK toughened up its own lobbying on the Taurus missiles, which have a 300-mile range, twice that of Anglo-French Storm Shadow/Scalp weapons system already given to Kyiv.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/04/uk-urges-germany-to-give-long-range-missiles-to-kyiv-despite-luftwaffe-leak

Indigenous women in Greenland sue Denmark over involuntary contraception in the 1960s and 1970s
A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly 43 million kroner ($6.3 million), their lawyer said Monday.
https://apnews.com/article/greenland-forced-contraception-lawsuit-compensation-denmark-539ef9e1e4ecd007dd34b2a024ecb0fa

Protesters gather outside Israeli pharmaceutical firm to call for boycott
About 30 activists waved Palestinian flags and unfurled a banner reading: “Boycott Teva pharma, no to apartheid drugs.” Teva is Israel’s biggest pharmaceutical supplier and one of the largest generic drug manufacturers in the world.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protesters-gather-outside-israeli-pharmaceutical-firm-call-boycott

Three Red Sea underwater data cables have been cut as Houthi attacks continue in the vital waterway
What cut the lines remains unclear. There has been concern about the cables being targeted in the Houthi campaign, which the rebels describe as an effort to pressure Israel to end its war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Houthis have denied attacking the lines, however.
https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-houthi-rebels-attacks-b53051f61a41bd6b357860bbf0b0860a

Egypt detains police officer over anti-regime, pro-Palestine chants
The man in the video is seen climbing a billboard in the busy Sidi Gaber neighbourhood in the Mediterranean city and shouting publicly against Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, accusing him of giving up the rights of the Palestinians of Gaza under a brutal, indiscriminate Israeli onslaught for the fifth consecutive month.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-egypt-detains-police-officer-over-pro-palestine-chants

US lobbies others for Unrwa funds while cutting own donations
US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland told Turkish officials in late January that even though Washington had decided to freeze its funding to Unrwa, Ankara and Gulf nations should fill the gap, Turkish sources familiar with the talks told Middle East Eye.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-shopping-funding-unrwa-while-it-cuts-its-own-donations

Bihar: Debt-ridden Old Couple and a Medical Shop Owner Die by Suicide
"The old couple was passing through a financial crunch and was under mental stress to pay back the debt that they had taken. Due to increasing harassment by local moneylender, the couple left their home a few days ago and hid somewhere. But they died by suicide to get rid of it," Mahesh Prasad, a villager, said.
https://www.newsclick.in/bihar-debt-ridden-old-couple-and-medical-shop-owner-die-suicide

Nepal PM forms new coalition, dumps old allies
His Maoist Centre party, which is the third biggest group in the 275-member parliament, had criticised the Nepali Congress for not giving him free hand and putting "hurdles" to removing some ministers with whom he was not satisfied. Dahal named a three-member cabinet including one minister each from the new coalition partners - the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) and the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). The third minister is from his own Maoist Centre party.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nepal-coalition-crisis-pm-talks-with-opposition-new-alliance-2024-03-04/

Argentine state news agency Telam shut after Milei threat
Workers at Argentine state news agency Telam found the doors of the 80-year-old institution's office barred on Monday and were told to down tools for at least a week after libertarian President Javier Milei said he would close the agency down. Telam's website was taken down - with a sign saying it was offline for reconstruction - and workers were excused for seven days, an internal memo shared with Reuters showed. Police were outside the offices and not allowing people to enter.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentine-state-news-agency-telam-shut-after-milei-threat-2024-03-04/

New Ideas Party Achieves 28 Out of 44 Salvadoran Mayoralties
Over the weekend, Salvadorans went to the polls to elect mayors and 20 members of the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN). Opposition parties, however, denounced multiple irregularities in this subnational electoral process.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/New-Ideas-Party-Achieves-28-Out-of-44-Salvadoran-Mayoralties-20240304-0007.html

Lula to Propose Stronger Labor Protections for Brazil’s Uber Drivers
Lula is expected to send a legislative proposal that sets new pay and hour rules for companies like Uber and 99, a ride-hailing app owned by Beijing-based Didi Global, to congress on Monday afternoon. The bill, the first major labor proposal the former union leader has put forth since he and US President Joe Biden launched an initiative to improve working conditions last September, defines drivers’ status as autonomous workers and will limit them to 12 hours per day of work for the platforms.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-04/brazil-s-lula-to-propose-stronger-labor-protections-for-uber-drivers
https://archive.is/juL0O
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Anti-Stalin Maoists?

>watching standard leftist debate online
>maoists arguing with bordigist
>another maoist joins
>sides with the bordigist against stalin?
>“stalin wasn’t a real socialist” and “stalin produced commodities
>at the same time, they were a supporter of like, Lenin, Mao, Gonzalo, but refused to support Stalin
>Can only conclude Maoist Leftcoms are a real thing
How common is this in Marxist-Leninist-Maoist groups? What the fuck did I witness?
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/petty bourgeois general/

Anyone else living a princely bohemian life on the dime of your parents where your Marxism is just a cute little Siddharta-esque sympathy towards the proles for you? I'm no rich oligarch's heir but it's comfortable and cozy being a humanities student having it all covered

>food, rent, groceries, disposable income all paid for

>spend all my time reading, cultivating my artistic passions, and playing vidya with gf
>only occasionally have to write essays for my online classes which I enjoy anyways
>guaranteed a white collar job where i wont have to do anything in daddy's biz so lifestyle will continue indefinitely

any other anons communists for no reason than bourgeois guilt?
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"Do people do what is moral, or is moral what people do?"

Do people do what is moral, or is moral what people do?
It has been a while since this idea started bouncing in my head. Consider that:
1) Reseach has established that generally speaking people act first and then subconsciously make up a reason for it.
2) Morality serves to perpetuate society, and society as a superstructure is bound and defined by it's mode of production.
As such I would say that first people act to protect their material interests, and then the hegemonic class constructs a moral system around what it imposes on society.
Would you say that such a reasoning is correct?
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Christofascists want to get rid of my video games, that is why I feel everyone under the age of 40 who supports them is extremely stupid.
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Advice for talking to people on the street

Hello, I just need a few words of advice right now. I'm planning to give out leaflets tomorrow on the street for my organisation that I am trying to start, however I have no experience of anything like this on top of suffering from a lot of social anxiety. I was going to do it today but found I couldn't, but I will do it tomorrow. If anyone could give me good resources and advice on what to say, I would be very thankful. In general I need some words of encouragement as I am working totally alone in an enviroment where nobody even remotely agrees with me. In fact, telling me that I would be a coward if I didn't is good enough. Thank you <3
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This is meaningless, right? Tech companies have probably just moved to direct compliance with intelligence and integrated them.

https://therecord.media/nso-group-spyware-company-ordered-code-whatsapp
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/29/pegasus-surveillance-code-whatsapp-meta-lawsuit-nso-group
>WhatsApp notched a major victory against the spyware producer NSO Group last week when a California federal judge ordered the Israeli company to turn over its highly protected secret code as part of discovery in a years-long lawsuit.
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Imperial Outpost Countries

Outposts:
Some people interpret Israel as, effectively, a military outpost for enforcing US interests in the region. While it's more complex than that, it's an important role they play.

What are some other examples of this in other regions? Which countries in Africa would you classify as US outposts? How about Asia - Japan, South Korea and Taiwan come to mind, but to varying degrees. How about South and Central Americas?

Are there any countries you would consider to be effectively outposts of non-Western countries?
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News 3/3/24

India signs $2.36 bln contracts to buy nuclear-capable missiles
India's defence ministry on Friday signed contracts to procure nuclear-capable BrahMos missiles for the navy at a total cost of 195.2 billion rupees ($2.36 billion), the government said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/india-signs-236-bln-contracts-buy-nuclear-capable-missiles-2024-03-01/

Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan rearrested days after release
The case is related to “the sections of rioting, unlawful assembly, endangering human life, attempt to murder under Indian Penal Code [IPC] and Section 13 of UAPA for advocating, abetting or inciting unlawful activity”, according to the lawyer.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/2/kashmiri-journalist-aasif-sultan-re-arrested-days-after-release
https://archive.is/dOUjK

India to open ‘strategically important’ navy base near China-friendly Maldives
India’s navy has said it is bolstering forces on “strategically important” islands close to the Maldives, with a new base set to open just days before Male starts sending home Indian forces. Relations between India and the Maldives have soured since pro-China President Mohamed Muizzu won elections last year after promising to expel Indian forces.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3253974/india-open-strategically-important-navy-base-near-china-friendly-maldives

Japan opposition lawmakers bring no-confidence motion accusing gov’t of halting debate over scandal
Opposition politicians slammed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for failing to provide details about slush funds created by members of the governing Liberal Democratic Party’s leading faction, or where the money went. Kishida apologized for the scandal, which has rocked his government, on Thursday in a rare appearance before the parliamentary ethics committee that was broadcast live.
https://apnews.com/article/japan-funds-scandal-hearing-kishida-012352898188fd567da95f5349dd18d6

South Korean doctors holds a mass rally against medical policy
Thousands of South Korean doctors held a mass rally on Sunday against government plans to increase medical school admissions, defying official calls for trainee physicians who had also walked off the job in protest to return to work. Up to 40,000 doctors joined the rally, demanding the government scrap the plan, according to the Korean Medical Association (KMA), which represents private practitioners and had organised the protest.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korean-doctors-holds-mass-rally-against-medical-policy-2024-03-03/

War spurs anger over Israel military exemption for ultra-Orthodox
Public frustration has heaped pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – long considered a protector of the community – whose coalition includes the two major ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism. Last year, his government granted Jewish schools, called yeshivas, an unprecedented budget of more than $1 billion.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240302-war-spurs-anger-over-israel-military-exemption-for-ultra-orthodox
https://archive.ph/8366d

Oil producers hope White House can pressure Sudani into resuming exports
Kurdistan Region's oil exports were halted on March 25 last year after the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce ruled in favor of Iraq in a longstanding arbitration case against Turkey. Baghdad and Erbil reached an initial agreement on resuming the exports, but the flow of oil is still halted as there remain disagreements between the oil companies and Baghdad over production costs. The KRG has lost billions of dollars in revenue because of the stoppage.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/business/02032024
https://archive.is/SB8UR

At the funeral of a slain Zimbabwean activist, clashes and a low turnout mirror opposition decline
A Zimbabwean opposition activist slain nearly two years ago was finally buried Saturday at an event marked by a low turnout and clashes between members of the main opposition party, highlighting its decline. Moreblessing Ali, 46, a member of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change, or CCC, was abducted in May 2022 outside a bar in Nyatsime, a neighborhood of Chitungwiza town on the outskirts of the capital, Harare.
https://apnews.com/article/zimbabwe-opposition-activist-buried-democracy-moreblessing-ali-44ef2f45f0295ed99fe8e526ab4fac9d

Sudan displaced ‘left to fend for themselves’ as aid falters in Darfur
The Darfur Women’s Forum has raised the alarm regarding a “looming threat of famine” in the region. This concern coincides with the General Coordination of Camps for the Displaced and Refugees warning that the absence of urgent humanitarian aid places millions of displaced people in Darfur at risk of starvation. Further testimonies from displaced people in North Kordofan, Omdurman, and refugees in Uganda unveil similar struggles facing Sudanese, amidst the ongoing war.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-displaced-haunted-by-looming-famine-threat

Colombia's ELN rebels say have freed all hostages under deal with gov't
"The Central Command ordered the liberation of all people held for economic ends, all units of the ELN have been reviewed and the order was completely followed," the ELN said in a statement posted to its website. Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez had said in December that 38 people were being held by the ELN, but updated the figure in January to 26.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-eln-rebels-say-they-have-freed-all-hostages-under-deal-with-govt-2024-03-01/

Argentina's Milei warns lawmakers he will make reforms 'with or without' them
Milei offered a recap of his first 82 days in office, in which he devalued the peso more than 50 percent, slashed state subsidies for fuel and transport, cut tens of thousands of public service jobs, and scrapped hundreds of rules in his bid to deregulate the economy. "I ask for patience and trust," Milei said. "It will be some time before we can perceive the fruit of the economic reorganization and the reforms we are implementing."
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240302-milei-warns-argentinian-lawmakers-he-will-govern-with-or-without-their-support
https://archive.is/elgTU

Mexico and Venezuela Sign Migratory Agreement
The "comprehensive migration agreement through the Plan Vuelta a la Patria-with which the government promotes the return of Venezuelans to their country-" was signed by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil and his Mexican counterpart, Alicia Bárcena. Venezuelan executive explained that the agreement was initialed in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on Friday, in parallel to the VIII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) held in that country.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-and-Venezuela-Sign-Migratory-Agreement-20240302-0007.html

WWF shelved report exposing River Wye pollution ‘to keep Tesco happy’
Since 2018, the charity has received more than £6m in donations from the supermarket chain Tesco, which has faced action from campaigners over the decline of the Wye because many of the intensive poultry farms in the river’s catchment area are in its ­supply chain.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/02/wwf-shelved-report-exposing-river-wye-pollution-to-keep-tesco-happy

Soviet ex-premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, who vainly tried to prevent USSR's economic meltdown, dies at 94
During his six-year tenure, Ryzhkov worked to implement Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's liberal reforms that lifted rigid centralized controls and encouraged private initiatives, but failed to adapt to the quickly changing economic and political environment, setting the stage for the 1991 Soviet collapse.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/soviet-premier-nikolai-ryzhkov-vainly-prevent-ussrs-economic-107641121

Obesity has become the most common form of malnutrition in the majority of countries
There’s an epidemic that’s crossing the globe from end to end… and it’s more devastating than Covid. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 774 million people in the world were afflicted by the coronavirus. However, obesity already affects more than one billion people. A study published this past Thursday in The Lancet reveals that excess weight, a risk factor for dozens of diseases, is already the most common form of malnutrition in most countries. Cases in children have quadrupled in three decades, while the number of obese adults has almost tripled in the same time period.
https://english.elpais.com/health/2024-03-02/obesity-has-become-the-most-common-form-of-malnutrition-in-the-majority-countries.html
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What even is the point of communist parties in an electoral system?

in the few cases of their existence, why do some Marxist-Leninist parties take part in electoralism if electoralism is bourgeois and revisionist? I don't understand, if our main goal is revolution, why even bother with registering as a party in elections at all?? is organizing really that hard?
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We Need Action NOW

I’m tired of seeing leftists sit around and whine while the world burns. If any of you actually cared about disseminating communist thought to generate the next revolutionary upheavel we could have it done in a week but instead of subsuming your very life to the project and dedicating every moment to the blossoming of the revolution in our lifetime, you sit around merely knowing true enlightenment itself while you go on living lives of the unenlightened flesh-seekers.

It is not hard to convince and raise consciousness in proletarians, you just have to be consistent, selective with your words, and confident. I myself have convinced several of my coworkers to start a union at my dad’s business and staged a strike for better wages. It got to a point where I gave out an explicitly communist speech littered with Marx and Lenin quotes that was attended by both management and my fellow proletarians
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/ukraine/ - Russia-Ukraine war general #170: Israel Is My New Best Friend Edition

REMEMBER: Still care about this conflict? Ukraine is so 2022. Everyone is now interested in the Israel general threads these days instead

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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740

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Remember that communism already exists, it's called the worldwide proletarian struggle. The association of proletarians fighting for their class interests is itself communism, this is the reason communism is not a state of affairs to be realized at some future date, but the very movement as it exists. Communist society is but the end result of this association expanding over time.
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Posadas and the Nuke Threads

Did Posadas have anything of value written or was it all just corny pseudoscientific claims and conspiracy theories along with doomer prepper anti-civ thought?
It just seems like a complete joke with the only thing legitimizing it being its brief involvement with the Cuban revolutionaries before being disowned.
The way it presents itself is like a Bordigist art project which somehow was schizophrenic enough to take itself seriously - also reminiscent of Nick Land after drugs.
Outside the obvious - we wouldn't survive a full on nuclear war. So is there anything worth reading about it or is it just a dead meme living on aesthetic and sci-fi?
I got to admit though, these covers look cool enough that I'm questioning if I should buy the books just for the swag.
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Here's a small challenge: name the most important accomplishment and one chief criticism for each leader of the Soviet Union. Malenkov is excluded due to the brevity of his rule.

As a bonus, name something you'd like to learn more about each leader.

If you can't think of an accomplishment or criticism for a leader, you are allowed one additional criticism of Gorbachev.
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Carbon Fiber Revolution is Here

Not sure if anyone is following this, but it appears we've already breached the critical point in China for carbon fiber. Carbon fiber is generally between 6 to 28 times more weight effective than steel, and 11 USD / kg has been cited as a key price point wherein carbon fiber is more suited for automotive tasks than steel. Note that steel is 1-1.5 USD / kg right now.

Guess freaking what? Chinese T300 is now at 11.5 USD. We are about to enter a major technological transition wherein carbon fiber begins replacing traditional, cheaper steel goods.

And this isn't being reported in MSM yet. Anyone have any interesting journalism on the carbon fiber revolution available? Any insider stories?
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desi-white conflict

I want to start by saying that I'm class first and race-hate has no place on the left but I am concerned about the hate between whites and indians in the west. This very well might blow over like how the latino-white beef did (the whole "dey took er jerbs!!!" shit about latinos in blue collar work seems to have died down since the late 90s early 00s) but I'm not sure.

Granted this is nothing new. racially charged economic anxiety over "job stealers" has been a thing in America since its founding. Still I think this is an issue that can't just be written off by the left.

thoughts?
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NECUC: lifestylism vs ethics\morality

"no ethical consumption under capitalism" .Lets say you want to 100% believe in this in a "fundamentalist" way, youd probably assume becoming an off-the-grid vegan hippie is the coming result. In other words; lifestylism.
BUT what if you're genuinely concerned with unethical consumption? (Meaning unethical production, chain of production, of transportation, etc)? because that's me. Im genuinely concerned for everything involved, including Ecocidal conditions, in almost all my daily affairs, commercial transactions, use of items\goods\services\utilities and amenities, etc
Rent, internet, electricity, water, motor vehicle use. ALL of it is literally drenched in labourer's blood. A single man cant change anything but I sincerely feel morally dirty. What can be done? Can I ,truly, start an Anti-unethical-Consumption advocacy or propaganda group, and start by preaching trough example?
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How do I stat making a real impact on society? How can I work towards the establishment of a revolution? I live in aard left leaning state if that works of anything.
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>fires clerical workers who used to get a wage to process transactions manually
>puts in place automated systems of digital finance
>charges a $5 "convenience fee" for digital transactions like ATM withdrawals and rent payments even though these things require less labor input than ever.

IT'S RENT! IT'S RENT! IT'S NOT EVEN PROFIT MARGINS ON LABOR INPUTS ANYMORE! IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF FUCKING RENT SEEKING! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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I think the dollar days are numbered.
Where do we go from here?
Can fascism save the us economy? It could or the alt scenario is all the parasites leave and the us becomes communists. Right?
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Proposal: we need a new left.

A lot of what I have to say is going to anger most of you here, but I know that there are at least a couple of smart brave leftists that lurk here, this message is for you, not the mouth breathers. the "left" includes libshits as well, just for clarification.

I like to think of my self as a leftist because the left are the revolutionaries that are against suffering and oppression. the main problem is that the left is all heart but little brain.

most people on the left reject biological reality (evolutionary psychology is detested) and base their entire retarded theories on false axioms that don't correspond with reality. they're not brave enough look at reality and see it for what it is (harsh darwinian ruthless competition), instead they make up narratives that suit their constructed world view, they deny reality or at least aspects of it, they suffer from willful ignorance, which hardly makes them better than the theologians that they love to sneer at. this same cowardliness disables them from being even harsher critics of the oppression and suffering that takes place on earth.

here is an example that explains what im talking about.
leftists love to boast about how the modern world lacks scarcity, as if that's going to somehow automagically solve our problems. because they reject evolutionary psychology, they refuse to think of humans as greedy organisms that are biologically stuck in the stone age. it must be capitalism! or some other nonsense. and it's not that im defending capitalism, that's besides the point, which is that the left refuses to dig deeper into the origins of human psychology.
and so their entire methods and theories will crumble because they're based on false premises and axioms.

the true leftists are the pessimists, the antinatalists, hardcore vegans and maybe some of the transhumanists, everyone else is retarded. we need to a new tent for the leftists that are more rational, brave and critical that is separate from the "mainstream left".

another concern is this, the reason why the right wing gains so many people is because they appeal to their rationality. im not saying that the left isn't rational, it's just the left is horrible when it comes to appealing to people with low empathy, and so the left seems irrational to these people. this is why we need a better more critical left, that is not afraid of discussing ideas that are outside of the overton window, such as race realism. you can detest this all you want and you'd be right in your heart but you have to understand that this doesn't matter to your political opponent.
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JOSEPH KISHORE 2024

THE ONLY CANDIDATE FIGHTING FOR TROTSKYISM - THAT IS, GENUINE SOCIALISM

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/27/qfmi-f27.html

>On Tuesday, the Socialist Equality Party in the United States announced that it has selected its candidates in the 2024 elections, Joseph Kishore for president and Jerry White for vice president.


>The SEP has established a website for its campaign, which is accessible at socialism2024.org.


>SEP (US) National Chairman David North explained the purpose of the SEP campaign in a statement announcing it:


<The Socialist Equality Party is intervening in this election to raise the political consciousness of the working class, to develop its understanding that no solution can be found to any of the problems confronting working people except through the ending of the capitalist system and its replacement with socialism, and that this great historical task can only be achieved by adopting a global strategy aimed at the mobilization of the power of the American and international working class in a unified struggle against the world capitalist system.


<The SEP is not a mere vote-catching organization, shouting demagogic slogans, mouthing platitudes and adapting its program to the lowest common denominator. The SEP is a party of history, with theoretical, political and practical work based on a vast experience of revolutionary struggle, spanning more than a century.


<Our traditions are rooted in the international principles and program of Marxist socialism, as it has been defended and developed by the Trotskyist movement, which was founded in 1923, in opposition to Stalinism, social democracy, reactionary nationalism and countless varieties of middle-class politics.


<Our election campaign will be waged on the international arena, it will be waged in history, and it will be waged for Trotskyism—that is, genuine socialism.


WORKERS OF THE UNITED STATES: YOUR CANDIDATE HAS ARRIVED!

https://www.socialism2024.org/
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what did Amin al-Husseini actually believe in, I tired looking for translated texts by him and I found nothing(if someone does have any texts by him and his views on race and religion I'd appreciate it) like I've been some alleged quotes by him to discredit Palestinians but I don't whether to believe it or not.
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breaking prejudices?

I want to (at leas try) to get over my anti-western prejudice.I oppose ALL westerners (commonwealth countries, western europe, usa) ,even the working-class and left-wingers there, because I consider them pampered babies. Even the french protesters.
Im almost rich but in a third world country. I have difficulty conceiving an euro-earning or dollar-earning man as having a tough life, given how far a dollar goes here.
Do I lack emphatic? is this prejudice a common habit among TW socialists? Almost everyone I talk to refers to USA as a huge disneyland and even the most meager jobs are seen as a dollar bank of prosperity for my fellow countrymen.
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News 3/1/24

Hamas says seven captives killed in Israeli army bombing of Gaza
The Qassam Brigades said three of the captives mentioned in Friday’s statement had been identified, but it did not clarify when the seven had died. The group said the total number of captives killed as a result of Israeli military operations “may have exceeded” 70.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/1/hamas-says-seven-captives-killed-in-israeli-army-bombing-of-gaza

US to begin aid airdrops into Gaza but critics dismiss effort as inadequate
The use of airdrops is a spectacular but inefficient way of delivering aid, and Friday’s announcement suggests that Biden had given up on being able to persuade Israel in the near future to coordinate a large-scale ground-based relief effort under the threat of mass starvation across Gaza.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/01/gaza-airdrop-food-aid-us-biden

War on Gaza: Israel targets police and aid agencies to 'create chaos'
The Israeli military has approached some Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip and asked them to coordinate future aid entry to sidestep the Hamas-run government and UN agencies. Middle East Eye has learned that representatives of at least two families in Gaza City and northern towns have been contacted by Israeli authorities who asked them to “cooperate with them”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-israel-targets-police-and-aid-agencies-create-chaos

Iranians vote in elections as conservatives expected to dominate
Iranians voted on Friday in elections for parliament and a key clerical body, amid fears of a low turnout and with conservatives expected to tighten their grip on power. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has called for a strong turnout, was the first to cast his ballot, at a polling station in central Tehran, state television reported.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-votes-elections-conservatives-slated-dominate

George Galloway strikes blow 'for Gaza' in Rochdale by-election
Veteran left-wing politician George Galloway is set to return to the UK parliament after winning Thursday's Rochdale by-election in a vote dominated by the refusal of the UK's main parties to back a ceasefire in Gaza. Galloway, representing the Workers Party of Britain, won almost 40 percent of the votes and nearly 6,000 more votes than his nearest rival.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/george-galloway-strikes-blow-gaza-against-starmer-rochdale-election

Increase in health care visas show care sector can't function without migrant workforce, Unison warns
THE care sector cannot function without a migrant workforce, Unison warned today after figures showed the number of people coming to Britain on a health and care visa is more than five times higher than when the route was introduced three years ago.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/increase-health-care-visas-show-care-sector-cant-function-without-migrant-workforce

Germany: Tesla plant protesters to spend week in forest
Environmental activists protesting the expansion of US electric carmaker Tesla's factory outside Berlin said they plan to occupy the forest near the factory for a week. "The longer the occupation lasts, the better," a spokeswoman for the "Stop Tesla" initiative said Friday. The occupation of the wooded area in Grünheide, near Berlin, began late on Wednesday night. The protesters have built around a dozen treehouses several meters above the ground.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-tesla-plant-protesters-to-spend-week-in-forest/a-68422841

Germany at a standstill by transport strike
The union is being backed by the Fridays for Future climate activist group, which called on supporters to take to the streets for “good work and climate-friendly mobility.” The dispute centres on demands for better working conditions, such as a shorter working week and extra compensation days for night work.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/germany-standstill-transport-strike

Zambia declares national disaster after drought devastates agriculture
Zambia has declared the drought the country is currently going through a national disaster, with President Hakainde Hichilema saying the lack of rain has devastated the agricultural sector, affecting more than one million families.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/zambia-declares-national-disaster-after-drought-devastates-agriculture

Kenya and Haiti sign agreements to try and salvage plan to deploy Kenyan police to battle gangs
Kenya and Haiti signed agreements Friday to try to salvage a plan for the African country to deploy 1,000 police officers to the troubled Caribbean nation to help combat gang violence that has surged to unprecedented levels.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kenya-haiti-sign-agreements-salvage-plan-deploy-kenyan-107713878

Bangladeshi leader says a shopping mall that caught fire had no emergency exits. Death toll climbs
“We always request our architects, at least when they design homes or buildings, (to) keep a small open balcony, a fire exit or ventilation. But architects … will not design that properly and also the owners do not want to leave an inch of space,” she said. Other violations were also reported. The Capital Development Authority, the official regulator, said the building was not permitted to open restaurants but it had at least eight food shops.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-03-01/bangladeshi-leader-says-a-shopping-mall-that-caught-fire-had-no-emergency-exits-death-toll-climbs.html

United Steelworkers reaches tentative deal with Canadian National Railway
The new three-year deal comes after months of negotiations, that started in October last year, with the current collective agreement having expired on Dec. 31.The USW Local 2004 represents 3,000 Canadian National employees who inspect, maintain and repair the railway's track, bridges and infrastructure across the country.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/united-steelworkers-reaches-tentative-deal-with-canadian-national-railway-2024-03-01/

Brazil’s finance minister proposes global tax on the super-rich at G20 meeting in Sao Paulo
Brazil’s finance minister told his peers Thursday at a G20 meeting in Sao Paulo that countries should implement a global tax on the super-rich in an effort to tackle rampant tax evasion. Fernando Haddad said tax evasion can be resolved through international cooperation so that “these few individuals make their contribution to our societies and to the planet’s sustainable development.”
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-g20-economy-finance-ministers-tax-super-rich-282e2982e53bfb7f63752bc969da6d72
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Has anyone here considered doing\ knew anyone who did; joining the IRS, or becoming a Medical debt Collector only to forgive as many people's debt, for as long as possible, without getting caught? Im honestly rather suicidal, so if I get caught Id just (redacted) after having a fun time for a while.
kinda like Mr Incredible in the movie, where he helped all the desperate clients and his boss gets furious. Im really considering devoting my time and energy to this task.
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Bernie Sanders wasn't a socialist because he didn't go to the root of the problem. The private ownership of corporations.
How can you find a real workers state with just taxes and money printing?
You can't. You need to take seize the corporations away from the wallstreet yuppies just like you need to seize housing from landlords so we can have housing.
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How is state socialism in the vein of USSR different from corporatism under fascism? Workers are paid a wage. They can be hired or fired for being unproductive workers. The state controls all the businesses and make sure everything is running smoothly. Both make sure the workers are taken care of. What's the difference?
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So the World Economy Forum recently has undoubtedly proven that the idea that "Cultural Marxism" is what is holstering every foul thing about the modern world, globalism and neoliberalism is retarded.
Here was Milei talking with his good friend ze bugs man himzelf Klaus Schwab promoting his favourite anti-communist minarchist.
Promoting a "free market" world where everything will be owned by a small cluster of megacorps! Hurray!
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To be a Zionist is to be an anti-semite

Just a small thought i had.

Often Zionists call anyone who opposes Israel is an anti-semite.
I think the proper counter to that is that to support Israel as a jewish state is to imply that all jews support Israel. To support Israel is to happily support ethnic cleansing and genocide. To imply that it would anti-semitic to oppose Israel implies that a core facet of the Jewish concept of being is that which Israel does, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Thus painting every single Jew as one who would and should support genocide and ethnic cleansing. A statement of profound anti-semitism. A statement that plays into every anti-semitic trope spoken of Jews for centuries if not millenia.
Not to mention that Israels continued crimes have made Jews the world over continuously more and more unsafe.

Support of Israel is a profoundly anti-semitic statement.
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I thought Cubans earned $100 a month atleast. How can I defend this? Even if Cuba is sanctioned by the us they're trading with china. That argument is starting to fall flat…
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News 2/29/24

‘Uniting the Ranks’ – Hamas, Fatah, Other Groups to Meet in Moscow for Talks
On Monday, Hamas Politburo member, Muhammad Nazzal, confirmed a formal meeting was scheduled with the Fatah movement and other Palestinian factions in Moscow. “We are engaged in a fierce political negotiation battle that is no less significant than the battle we are fighting on the ground,” Nazzal reportedly told Al Jazeera. He emphasized that “We are committed to the negotiation process, aiming to achieve the interests of the Palestinian people.”
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/uniting-the-ranks-hamas-fatah-other-groups-to-meet-in-moscow-for-talks/

Gaza death toll surpasses 30,000 with no let-up in Israeli bombardment
More than 70 people have been killed after Israeli forces fired at Palestinians collecting food aid in the Gaza Strip, taking the total death toll to more than 30,000 since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza nearly five months ago, according to the Ministry of Health in the besieged enclave.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/gaza-death-toll-surpasses-30000-with-no-let-up-in-israeli-bombardment
https://archive.is/gEoub

Turkey must halt Syrian rebel abuses, Human Rights Watch says
Turkey's Syrian rebel allies have summarily executed civilians during Ankara's military offensive in northeast Syria and looted property belonging to Kurdish families displaced by the fighting, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-rights-idUSKBN1Y11OG/

Sudan's forgotten masses are dying every day of starvation
The needs of the population dwarf the available funding. United Nations agencies say Sudan requires $2.7bn of assistance this year. So far, less than four percent of that has been provided by donors. Just 43 percent of last year’s plan was funded and multiple sources have told MEE that Sudan struggles to gain international attention in comparison to conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-crisis-hunger-famine-children-dying

Activists urge Nigeria to delay Shell’s $2.4 billion sale of assets in deeply polluted Niger Delta
Protesters have appealed to the government of Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, to halt the sale until environmental concerns are addressed. Lezina Mgbar, a 54-year-old healthcare worker and farmer who participated in a weekend demonstration in the country’s oil capital of Port Harcourt, said her Korokoro Tai community in Ogoniland has been “severely” affected by oil spills.
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-shell-onshore-assets-divestment-niger-delta-536a81928f0ad7f592a60dd6b61491de

Police crackdown on students sparks outrage across Italy
Progressives in Italy including youth-student groups have strongly condemned the police crackdown on school students in Pisa who were participating in a Palestine solidarity demonstration last week. Various groups, including Communist Refoundation Party (PRC), Potere al Popolo, Communist Youth Front (FGC), Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI), and Alternative Student Opposition (OSA), condemned the brutal police attack on students in Pisa, and pro-Palestine protesters in other parts of the country.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/02/29/police-crackdown-on-students-sparks-outrage-across-italy/

Guatemala court convicts seven soldiers for 2012 Indigenous killings
More than a decade later, Wednesday's ruling was seen as partial justice by family members of the victims of what Guatemalans describe as the first state massacre to occur since the nation's bloody civil war ended in the '90s. Of those convicted, six of the soldiers were found guilty of bodily injury caused in a fight while another was convicted of murder.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/guatemala-court-convicts-seven-soldiers-2012-indigenous-killings-2024-02-29/

Colombia suspends arms imports from Israel
According to the Colombian president, the massacre victims were “assassinated” by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Netanyahu administration had already suspended “security exports” to Bogota over Petro’s “hostile and anti-Semitic statements.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-suspends-arms-imports-from-israel/

Manipur Violence: Army Called in as Fresh Tension Brews After Brief Abduction of Senior Cop
Tuesday’s incident was reportedly spurred by the said police officer arresting six members of the Arambai Tenggol group for their involvement in vehicle theft, officials told The Indian Express. Late Tuesday evening, around 7 p.m, about 200 persons owing allegiance to the Metei group attacked the house of the senior police officer and reportedly also used gunfire and damaged a few vehicles.
https://www.newsclick.in/manipur-violence-army-called-fresh-tension-brews-after-brief-abduction-senior-cop

Pakistan swears in new parliament amid chaotic scenes as Imran Khan’s followers protests vote count
Lawmakers from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party repeatedly chanted “Vote-thief!” as Shehbaz Sharif, who’s expected to form the next government, entered the parliament with his brother Nawaz Sharif. Both men are former premiers.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-parliament-protest-imran-khan-126fd56bc43edbf2ae9a8499fe79867a
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property rights?

leftypol is always going off about how property rights > human rights under capitalism and how cops always serve the land owning class over the poors, so explain pic related?

why didn't the cops cuff the guy and throw him in a squad car?
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>Communism is bad because they'd take away my rights
What rights do we have anyways? Atleast under communism I'd work for 30 hours and not have to pay rent
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/SubcontinentGeneral/

/SubcontinentGeneral/

<A thread to discuss historical and contemporary politics or struggles of South Asia and its Migrant Workers or Diaspora: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives (Chapter 9: South Asia in World Regional Geography by Dr. Royal Berglee), including Afghanistan to some sources (Wikipedia).


<We have many issues or topics to discuss about our people.


"'Historical Topic Discussion Suggestions:'"
Proto-Industrialization in Mughal India Western Imperialists Colonization, what about continuing Neo-Colonialism?
Parition of South Asia, should it be reunified?

"'Contemporary Topic Discussions:'"
2024 Elections in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Bhutan and Sri Lanka
Labour exploitation of our people e.g. UAE and opposing organization.
Asian Diaspora across the West e.g. America, Britain.

"tell the thread some historical and contemporary information or facts about your country"
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Communist San Marino

Thought I'd make a thread about this because it's very interesting and rarely talked about.

The microstate of San Marino, which has a very unique very classical-republican form of government in which a "captains regent" is elected every 6 months of two opposing political parties that act as heads of state, became the only western-european communist nation in 1945 when the Sammarinese Communist Party and Sammarinese Socialist Party governed the nation in a coalition, previously it had been led by a fascist party similar to ᴉuᴉlossnWs.

When the Eastern Bloc was established, some of the deputys of the Socialist Party left, creating a constitutional crisis.
>The Christian Democratic deputies refused to attend session; instead, they occupied a factory in Rovereta and set up a provisional government there. The Italian and U.S. government pledged support to the provisional government, whilst the communist-socialist coalition (with support of Italian communists) sought to resist the attempt to establish a provisional government.

The provisional government sadly won, even after the Communists attempted a coup in 1957. They were excluded from the new coalition government.
In 1978 the Communists returned to government. This made San Marino in 1978 the only country in Western Europe with a Communist Party as a participant in a governing coalition with social democrats. In 1986, a corruption scandal outsted the social democrats, and the communists had to rule alongside the Christian Democrats until 1992.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the communist party dispanded and has been replaced by democratic socialist parties. There are no communist movements left in San Marino today.
I can't find any infomation on how this communist country was governed, or how it progressed during its time.
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/proletkult/

For discussing works of art and culture that have a proletarian/left-wing focus.
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Palestine vs The Zionist Entity #70

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
>>>/leftypol/1755857
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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨

Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/12/9/israel-hamas-war-live-us-veto-of-un-ceasefire-effort-draws-condemnation

Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/09/civilian-toll-israeli-airstrikes-gaza-unprecedented-killing-study

Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-december-9-2023/ (trigger warning)

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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war


🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️

https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source

https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA

https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org

https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv

https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine

https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog

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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫

al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/

PFLP
http://pflp.ps/

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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺

https://tv.leftypol.org/r/happeningsviaklash

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✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥

(USA)
https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
https://www.palestineaction.org/

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HIDE JIDF POSTS, IGNORE GLOWIE BAIT, DO NOT REPLY TO MOSSAD POSTERS
(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia)

Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.

الله أكبر
يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا!
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Masculinity

The chadliest of chads is the one who is willing to go all in on liberating himself, but primarily, the people around him. Got nothing to do with money, looks, body, sex, etc.

Simple as
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News 2/28/24

Berlin police order evacuation of Red Army Faction fugitive’s apartment block
On Wednesday evening, explosive-ordnance disposal officers were seen carrying an unidentified munition approximately 30cm (12in) in length. There was speculation that it was a round for the bazooka that Klette and her two accomplices carried during the robbery of a cash-in-transit truck in Cremlingen, Lower Saxony, in 2019. The trio were also armed with a bazooka and a Kalashnikov during an attempted robbery of a supermarket in Stuhr, Lower Saxony, in 2015.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/28/berlin-police-order-evacuation-of-red-army-faction-fugitives-apartment-block

Northern Ireland judge rules that amnesty law for ‘the Troubles’ breaches human rights
Ruling in a legal challenge brought by victims and their families, Justice Adrian Colton said the law’s provision for conditional immunity from prosecution breaches the European Convention on Human Rights. The judge also said the law will not contribute to peace in Northern Ireland.
https://apnews.com/article/northern-ireland-troubles-amnesty-law-379371a807f5257566946e9b59b71964

Strikes and protests bring Greece to halt on anniversary of deadly train crash
As church bells tolled in memory of the 57 men and women who lost their lives in an accident deemed entirely preventable, protesters gathered in major cities to demand justice for the victims. In Athens, where clashes erupted outside parliament, 20,000 marched through the city centre before convening outside the central offices of Hellenic Train. Many chanted “their profits, our lives”, referring to a utility acquired by the Italian state at the height of Greece’s sovereign debt crisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/28/strikes-and-protests-bring-greece-to-halt-on-anniversary-of-deadly-train-crash

Zelenskyy seeks support, arms at Albania summit of Balkan nations
Zelenskyy proposed organising a Ukrainian-Balkans defence forum in Kyiv or a Balkan capital to nurture arms cooperation, repeating similar initiatives conducted last year with British and US weapons companies. Albania, North Macedonia and Montenegro are NATO members, have joined Western sanctions against Russia, and sent arms and equipment to Ukraine. There are significant arms industries in parts of the Balkans, especially Serbia and Croatia, a legacy of the former Yugoslavia.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/28/zelenskyy-seeks-support-arms-at-albania-summit-of-balkan-nations
https://archive.is/bv6rM

Turkish drones kill 3 in an attack on a local Christian militia in northeastern Syria, officials say
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said three Suturo police members were killed, as well as one civilian. The Observatory said the attack was the latest of 65 such strikes so far this year in northeastern Syria that have killed 18 people, mostly Kurdish fighters.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkish-drones-kill-3-attack-christian-militia

One person killed at anti-government protest in Syria’s Sweida province
The death of the 52-year-old was the first one reported that was linked to the demonstrations that swept across Druze-majority Sweida last year due to harsh economic conditions and rising inflation levels that saw the end of fuel subsidies, as well as latent anti-Assad sentiment.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/28/one-person-killed-at-anti-government-protest-in-syrias-sweida-province
https://archive.is/qvn48

Shell must clean up pollution before it leaves Niger delta, report says
The oil firm Shell cannot be allowed to withdraw from the Niger delta before it takes responsibility for its toxic legacy of pollution and the safe decommissioning of abandoned oil infrastructure, a report says.Shell plc is preparing to divest from the delta but a report warns that it must remain until it has cleaned up its legacy of pollution.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/28/shell-must-clean-up-pollution-before-it-leaves-niger-delta-report-says

Thousands of eThekwini municipal workers down tools
Thousands of eThekwini Municipal workers affiliated to the South African Municipal Workers’ Union have downed tools. They are demanding government align their salary packages with other metros. The movement of traffic in and around the Durban CBD and other small towns like as Clairwood and Verulam came to a standstill, as employees blocked roads with piles of rubbish and stones.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/922390-2/

Argentina: Bullrich Orders Anti-Protest Operation at Airports
From the early minutes of Wednesday, airport workers began a 24-hour strike called by the Association of Aeronautical Personnel (APA), the Airline Pilots Association (APLA), and the Union of Superior and Professional Personnel of Air Commercial Companies (UPSA). Forced by the intransigence of the companies Aerolíneas Argentinas and Intercargo, the workers decided to initiate this protest to demand a salary adjustment that compensates for the accelerated loss of purchasing power in Argentina.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Argentina-Bullrich-Orders-Anti-Protest-Operation-at-Airports-20240228-0008.html

Oil spill from capsized barge near Tobago has reached beaches hundreds of miles away, officials say
An offshore oil spill that prompted Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency earlier this month has reached the shores of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire hundreds of miles away, authorities said. This is the first sign of how far the leaked oil has traveled.
https://apnews.com/article/bonaire-oil-spill-tobago-trinidad-9b9a5b76a8da777b27ab8b6ef10faf86
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I'm owning all the chinlets with this image lol
You can not dispute this in a time period when everyone is sexually frustrated
Not even slavs are able to deny they had more sex under communism lol
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His Name Is Aaron Bushnell

Anyone want to make some propaganda for reposting of Bushnell? Even if you think his death was idiotic, his self-immolation can still be exploited to damage the superstructure of the current establishment.
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Mankind’s only counterparty was earth, until recently.

I’m not talking about capitalism vs communism. I’m talking about the nature of our existence.
We won’t even have the choice of having these sort of discussions soon enough.
We’re already at the point where we can ask an LLM a question and it’ll give a better answer than the average person, with a k-12 education.
If you ask it to draw a picture, it’ll draw a better one than the average working professional.
I have little doubt that autonomous vehicles are being held back for the sake of preserving the largest source of employment in the world.
But it’s like holding a dam together with duct tape.

Don’t get me wrong. There’s still a lot of work for us lowly humans to toil the rest of our lives with.
But I think from now onwards, we’re gonna have to live with a growing, glowing algorithmic bureaucracy.

Soon enough, every social media platform will get flooded with AI generated cringe. But eventually it’ll get AB tested into making sense to push an agenda for the bourgeois, NWO, oligarchs, whatever the fuck you want to call it.

Us loathsome peasants will be locked out by guardrails to save us from “harmful misinformation”.
Luckily they made the mistake of training it on Reddit, where the majority of counter arguments are “your dumb”. So get used to being called dumb, for saying anything that contradicts the algorithm’s desired outcome.
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quitting society

is it possible to go balls off the walls and just quit?

leave everything behind, not care anymore, and just travel around in one's own truths till they rot. This feels possible and I feel like I am uncaring for where I go, but it is a better journey along with life than this. I want to carry my banner even through my chest into hell and back

In my time in existence, I prefer chaos to knowing if I will eat or not than living such as this to ways which kill children, I can not escape, take me to hell and back, I'm going to quit and give up on this life for something better, I don't care where I go, but I'll always love you all and this world. I just want to live in love of this life with sitting right next to the fire with you all eventually in a grand dance of rejoice, it's alright to feel alive and be alive. Being subjugated to this society is something I never asked for, and as I further grow older, the more I grow into my nomadic ways, I am human, I am not a people-eater, at least more than most of the rightoids eating on the flesh of children, I seek peace, not war, ur war is ur war, and ur life is war, what a terrible way to live, in the end I feel bad for you, but I will seek my own peace. I love you all, and thank this society for giving me somethings, but I am quitting. Defecting, running away, and well, don't try to find me, I'd prefer it never happening at all.

The only way out of this world is to let our old ways die and create new, otherwise we are not even living, we have no idea where to even pull around, we can not allow greed, violence, and to live in peace throughout this world. I am sick all the time, I struggle all the time with just existing, and well, it's not fully societal my issues, but, i feel like i would be ok with letting myself die next to somewhere if my hands were wiped of blood this life time even if I am eaten by some type of wolf brutally. I would not allow this to happen and protect myself, but I think I should escape badly this world. If I don't, well I'm unsure. I'm possibly schizophrenic and believe in previous life times I have had blood on my hands already, this one, I would want a more dignified life than repeat the last one of spilling others blood in anger, hatred, and fury. There is a difference between brutality and war, what is happening is in fact brutality, war can be respectable, but this war is not at all, none of these wars have been respectable for hundreds of years. If I could wipe my hands free of at least that many years, imagine what more I could imagine possibly in happiness or peace in my next life along with understanding i could just apply to others if i ever can so better worlds can come about.

Stab my banner through my chest and just have fun till the end, ain't nothing to worry about except what comes tomorrow for food wise, uncaring and detracting

You'll say "ok just go to prison", hahahaha, and I say, I am wildmen once again, u men have birthed me and made me in a wild society, I care little for ur language, I will be making grunts as u beat me aside, I don't care. I want to go back to when life was simple and I never had blood on my hand from such a world on such a massive scale. I want to escape.
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What is it with conservatives like old stories that are cruel to children like Willy Wonka?
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Why are conservative "intellectuals" so anti progress anyways?

Do they think that the human condition as it is isn't a disaster that needs to change and needs to change fast? do they not see how problematic our current cultures are? are they fine with human trafficking? child abuse? crapitalism? for how long? forever? till the sun engulfs the earth? how are they not seen as the mad ones?
I can never see conservatives as anything but the gatekeepers of the hell that is the current human condition.
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Why can’t communists be more like genestealers

Just a question, because genestealers actually get shit done.

I’m not saying you should get infected by an alien parasite that causes you to birth monstrosities and puts you in thrall to an alien menace intent on devouring your world, but it seems like there’s many things we can learn from genestealers.

Genestealer pros:

Actually overthrow the bourgeois tyranny.

Have women treat being impregnated by genestealers as a sexual fantasy.

Disciplined, fanatical, dedicated; willing to sacrifice their lives for the Day of Ascension.

Work hard in order to infiltrate the bourgeois hierarchy, diverting useful resources for the revolution.

Able to infiltrate bourgeois high society and obtain influence over elites.

Get laid, a lot.

Able to trivially spread ideology via the genestealer’s kiss.

Tear through bourgeois battle tanks with nothing more than their own bodies.

Able to evade detection in a total surveillance state.

Interface psionically with each other and outside support.

Not tear each other apart in orgies of infighting.

Did I mention, actually get things done?
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News 2/27/24

Argentina's president condemns threat by provincial governor to cut energy supplies
The squabble started late last week, when the federal government held back the transfer of 13,000 million pesos (£12m) in federal tax revenues to the Chubut province. In response, Chubut Governor Ignacio Torres, who belongs to Argentina’s main conservative bloc that has backed Mr Milei, said his province would cut off oil and gas supplies on Wednesday if the funds are not disbursed.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/argentinas-president-condemns-threat-provincial-governor-cut-energy-supplies

Warlord involved in hundreds of murders sent to Colombia after serving drug sentence in the US
Human rights organizations and government officials in Colombia hope that Mancuso will cooperate with the justice system and provide information about hundreds of crimes that took place when paramilitary groups fought leftist rebels in rural Colombia in the 1990s and early 2000s.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-warlord-salvatore-mancuso-returns-234c80f02a3d734ef99240432ba7aa86

No information about the reported deaths of two Cuban doctors in Somalia: ‘The outrage is overwhelming’
On February 17, the Al Qaeda-linked Islamist militia Al-Shabaab announced on its Telegram channel that two Cuban doctors abducted nearly five years ago in Kenya had reportedly died in an American drone strike in Jilib, Somalia, where they were providing “services to the community.” More than a week later, Cuba, Kenya and Somalia have been unable to confirm the report or locate the doctors.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-02-26/no-information-about-the-reported-deaths-of-two-cuban-doctors-in-somalia-the-outrage-is-overwhelming.html

Two people shot dead as Guinea protest turns bloody
Two youths were shot dead Monday in Conakry as Guinea’s capital was paralysed on the first day of an open-ended general strike against the military government that seized power in 2021 stands accused of stifling dissent. A confederation of the main unions has urged public and private sectors to strike for the release of a prominent media activist, lower food prices, and an end to media censorship.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/27/two-people-shot-dead-as-guinea-protest-turns-bloody
https://archive.is/O1cvO

Nigeria’s union workers launch a new nationwide strike over decades-high inflation
Nigeria’s government employees and other union workers began a new nationwide strike Tuesday that threatened to shut down key services while people are angry about soaring inflation and growing economic pain.
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-protests-government-economy-inflation-2dcb6ec98716772b6630476e13880c82

Athens taxi drivers walkout on 48-hour strike
More than 200 taxis drove through the centre of Athens as part of a demonstration on the first day of the walkout, called by the capital’s main taxi union over a series of demands, including a reduction in taxes, access to bus lanes and stricter regulation on ride-sharing apps.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/athens-taxi-drivers-walkout-48-hour-strike

Nato allies reject Emmanuel Macron idea of troops to Ukraine
Several Nato countries, including the US, Germany and the UK, have ruled out deploying ground troops to Ukraine, after French President Emmanuel Macron said "nothing should be excluded".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68417223

Qatar and Egypt ‘will help form new Palestinian technocratic government’
Despite facing death threats, Israeli documentary filmmaker Yuval Abraham said Monday that he stood "behind every word" of his condemnation of Israeli apartheid and the bombardment of Gaza, which he expressed while accepting the award for Best Documentary at the Berlin International Film Festival, also known as Berlinale.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/qatar-and-egypt-will-help-form-new-palestinian-technocratic-government

After five months of war, Egypt airdrops humanitarian aid into Gaza
A high-level Egyptian military official told The New Arab that "Egyptian aircrafts have been dropping tons of urgent aid supplies, mainly food and medicine, into towns in Khan Younis, Gaza's largest city in the south, as well as central Gaza."
https://www.newarab.com/news/after-five-months-war-egypt-airdrops-aid-gaza

Hamas says leaked Gaza truce proposal doesn't meet its demands
"The primary and main issues of the ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli forces are not clearly stated, which delays reaching an agreement," an unnamed official told Reuters. The leaked proposal, reported by Al Jazeera and Reuters, includes a temporary pause in fighting, a partial prisoner swap, a gradual and restricted return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza, the entry of 500 aid trucks, and the repair of hospitals and bakeries destroyed by Israel.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/leaked-proposal-hamas-demands-truce-agreement
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Macron

Is there such a current leader in the western world that claims to be of every political ideology and his bottom line always being neoliberalism? Such a weasel that pays lip service to get approval from socdems and liberals while advancing the dismantling of social programs and pushing capitalism all while claiming not to do so?
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Hypercapitalist Convergence

When did you realize that Hypercapitalism and Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism converge and become indistinguishable?
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/webm/ Thread 5

First thread: >>>/leftypol_archive/9920
Second thread >>>/leftypol_archive/481354
Third thread >>>/leftypol_archive/492596
Fourth thread >>>/leftypol_archive/561028

WebMConverter by WebMBro: https://github.com/WebMBro/WebMConverter "WebM for retards."
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Redscarepod, Stupidpol, and Patsoc: the Ideological Reconstruction of Fascism

I named those subs as the places in my experience you're the most likely to meet "developed" patsocs, imo they represent the two faces of patsoc, nationalist "socialists" that long ago embraced specifically negative integration strategies to get western proles on board for "socialism" (enhanced welfare) that is stupidpol, and the intense cultural chauvinism and nearly mask off fascists that are RSP; see I realize something, these people, in an ideological sense, are like the original fascists but as farce

See, communists get too into the reeds in their rivalry with the fascists to the point that we forget, the original fascists mutated out of fringe interwar socialist parties; the OG fascists pretended to be socialists for quite a long time, even the only true revolutionaries

In every way, patsoc, and a lot of the anti-idpol left, are more ideologically fash than polfags, they've literally reconstructed fascist ideology piece-meal accidentally, vs polfags that are just normal brain dead bigots
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It's time to talk about monarchs

>hmm, today we will kill all the Romanovs
>*gathers captive royal family in the basement* (clueless)
Meanwhile, within the White Army…..
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Post pretty and beautiful historical photos from the USSR and other Socialist Republics.
Pic related are from the Manhoff collection, taken by an American spy. Sadly the thousands of photos were taken down from facebook and given to RFE.
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My issue with Marxists talking about other ideologies being idealist, is they can often apply Marxism not as a tool for analyzing the ever changing nature of production, social movements, etc. But as an ideal and identity in itself. The writings of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, and so on are treated as "sacred texts" and the authors/revolutionaries as prophets. The march of history to communism is treated like heaven. Fascism treated as the rapture. And so on. Which why there's this huge rampantcy of parties becoming cults.

Don't make Marxism your identity. See it for what it is, an analytical tool.
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Guys, there is this thing going around, it's called technocapital. It is so fucking powerful, it's taking exploitation to the next level. And yes, this shitty post is going to be used for AI training. Remember when doing stuff online was all about fun? These times are over, now we are all making technocapital even more powerful with every stupid shitpost we randomly throw onto some obscure webforum. Communists will say: "Oh, but if we could take over, technology will be used for good! Technology itself is neutral, it's all about how it is utilized and which class controls it!!" Guys, you said the same shit about the state and no matter what, it's a tool of oppression. "But creating a technocapital singularity is necessary, to free the proletariat! Shodan in red cloth is good actually!" Oh you commies, Shodan is not good and will never be good.
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LA’s “graffiti skyscraper” is an anti-Chinese psy op.

You all saw this on the news, multiple lumpen graffiti “artists” sneaking into a reportedly abandoned condo building in downtown LA and “tagging” up each floor. What the media isn’t reporting on is his those buildings are all owned by a Chinese investment company. The media is spinning the narrative of graffiti vandals “taking back the city” by ruining perfectly good buildings because they want to demonize China and portray China as “taking over” American cities. In reality China only invests in American property because they seek to lift Americans out of poverty and bring them the gift of socialist abundance. Don’t fall for the media lies.

And compare graffiti “art” to the art of actually existing socialist states. Children in China don’t learn to ruin buildings by spray painting tacky colours. They learn how to make socialist realism which employs universal standards of beauty. Graffiti is Malthusian and satanic and I wouldn’t be surprised if these “taggers” in LA are CIA connected somehow.
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How do you ask a person you barely known for a week their positions on Palestine? I heard a girl in the class I'm in mention Palestine but I don't know her stance
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Tranny Derangement Syndrome

Why is obsessing over transsexuals so prevalent among right-wing westerners? Who is funding this unorganic explosion in neuroticism over such a small and powerless minority? In the past five years, this seems to have become the primary topic of discussion among western chvds, with no signs of it slowing down. Even liberals and progressives don't think about this shit so much.

I'm thinking about running similar analysis on conservative outposts on twitter, reddit, kiwifarms, and other major websites to see just how out of control transhumanist panic in the public narrative has become, but it's a little harder to get hard numbers from those communities. Excuse me if this is too /siberia/ for this board, but I really am interested in exploring the pathology and numerology behind this mania.
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Struggle against Liberalism.

We are hurling towards a great crisis. The unipolar capitalist order is returning to a precarious balance of great powers. This transition will be accompanied by a major economic crisis in the Euroatlancist, but in particular, EU economic bloc. Its clear that the old imperialist state is running on its last reserves and will have to reorganize itself to regain vitality. This will lead to the financial and industrial capitalist consolidating power and turning the bourgeois dictatorship, if need be, towards fascism.

The latter, however, only happens if it is absolutely necessary. It only happens if the working class, organized under a communist vanguard, fails to establish and hold firm grasp over a proletarian dictatorship. It is the reaction to a proletariat who dared to upset the old world.

The current turn to fascism in Germany and Italy is no more fascist, than the CPC is communist. Those are just brainworms of the past eating the brains of the living. They stand neither for il Duce nor the Fuhrer, they are hollow echoes of the disorganized petty-bourgeoisie.

Otherwise, the bourgeoisie will just bend the backs of the politically unorganized working class to cover the costs of the green transition. The fascists will be given cushy managerial positions, they will settle like the disgruntled small bourgeois always dreams of, and become an appandage of the imperialist state.

Fascism is not what the bourgeoisie wants. It is not what is happening in Europe, in spite of all the screaming and crying by neo-stalinists and neo-trotskyites alike. We are not facing fascism - we are facing liberalism.

The major issue with European labor organizing is that it never managed to break the glass ceiling of the bourgeois state apparatus. The SPD failed. The PCF failed. The PCI failed. In Eastern Europe, socialism came with the sword, and with the people's popular democracies, which were neither here nor there. Yugoslavia was the only exception, but even then it failed against the bourgeois state, just like Hungary, just like Slovakia, just like every other soviet republic in the 20s (besides Russia) and its communist movement grew against the fascist reaction.

The European communists never had to struggle with liberalism, and this is leading to the strange tactic of following the liberals almost tit for tat while demonizing fascist boogeyman.

Just like the facsists, also the head of communists is filled with ghosts. Their mouths are full of theoretical conclusions the Marxists of the XIX and XX century which was built from their struggle against the rotten imperialist state. But they are now hollow. They mean nothing when the European communists never struggled to the death with liberalism and apparently never will.
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News 2/26/24

Israeli jets bomb eastern Lebanon for the first time since Gaza war began
Lebanese security officials say Israel has targeted eastern Lebanon for the first time since the war on Gaza began in October last year. At least two people were killed on Monday after Israeli military planes carried out three air strikes on the outskirts of Buday village near Baalbek, a Hezbollah stronghold in the Bekaa Valley about 100km (62 miles) from the Israel-Lebanon border.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/26/israeli-jets-bomb-eastern-lebanon-for-the-first-time-since-gaza-war-began
https://archive.is/6xN1H

War on Gaza: Palestinian artist Fathi Ghaben dies after being denied exit to seek treatment
Ghaben suffered from severe chest and lung problems, and the lack of medicines and oxygen in Gaza had made it impossible for him to get treatment inside the besieged enclave. Israeli authorities did not allow him to leave to seek medical treatment elsewhere.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-palestinian-artist-fathi-ghaben-dies-after-denied-exit-treatment

Palestinian PM Shtayyeh hands resignation to Abbas over Gaza ‘genocide’
“The decision to resign came in light of the unprecedented escalation in the West Bank and Jerusalem and the war, genocide and starvation in the Gaza Strip,” said Shtayyeh, who submitted his resignation to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/26/palestinian-pm-submits-resignation-to-mahmoud-abbas-over-gaza-aggression
https://archive.is/WSo5e

Farmers protest across Europe, press ministers to act
Farmers on Monday blocked a border crossing between Poland and Germany, threw bottles at police in Brussels and gathered in Madrid to demand action on cheap supermarket prices and what they say is unfair competition from abroad.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/protesting-farmers-jam-brussels-with-tractors-ministers-meet-2024-02-26/

Survivors and families of migrant shipwreck hold vigils and demonstration
SURVIVORS and family members of those killed in last year’s tragic shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast returned for three days of commemorations ending today. On February 26 2023, a wooden boat left Turkey carrying 200 migrants and sank killing 94, including 35 minors.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/survivors-and-families-migrant-shipwreck-hold-vigils-and-demonstration

Malema’s hate speech case set to start in the Equality Court
The case stems from complaints that AfriForum and its members submitted to the commission in October 2022 following Malema’s statements during the EFF’s provincial meeting in the Western Cape. The commission found that Malema and the EFF’s statements did amount to hate speech and incitement to violence.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/malema-hate-speech-equality-court/

Supporters of Brazil’s Bolsonaro stage huge demonstration to defend him amid investigations
The far-right leader said in a speech that he seeks “pacification to erase the past,” taking a more conciliatory tone than when he was in office. Bolsonaro is seeking to show his base is resilient as he is being investigated by federal police over his alleged role in the Jan. 8, 2023, attacks on government buildings by his supporters over his election loss. He wants the dozens of people still in jail for those incidents to get pardons.
https://apnews.com/article/bolsonaro-brazil-rally-legal-woes-88ba5fdc25bbedc192665f7e95e3cc19

Indigenous people sue over alleged Canadian secret medical experiment
Members of a First Nation in Canada have launched a lawsuit alleging they were subjected to a secret medical experiment without their consent that left them feeling “violated and humiliated”. The class-action lawsuit, which was certified by the Nova Scotia supreme court in early February, revives the painful history of Canada conducting medical experiments on Indigenous peoples and the persistent discrimination they continue to face within the country’s healthcare system.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/26/medical-experiment-indigenous-canadians-lawsuit

China’s top corruption watchdog puts belt and road projects, rural strategy in the cross hairs
The report said the CCDI would this year coordinate crackdowns both at home and overseas. It said the graft buster would deepen a campaign targeting “unhealthy practices and corruption” in rural revitalisation, and seek better integrity in belt and road projects.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3253236/chinas-top-corruption-watchdog-puts-belt-and-road-projects-rural-strategy-cross-hairs

Seoul gives young doctors 4 days to end walkouts, threatening suspended licenses and prosecutions
Junior doctors in South Korea have four days to end their walkouts or they will have their medical licenses suspended and face prosecution, the government said Monday. About 9,000 medical interns and residents have stayed off the job since early last week to protest a government plan to increase medical school admissions by about 65%.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-doctors-walkout-medical-school-17c805f9e5280419ac7273258dd03440
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Why does it feel like communism would work in the us and the us only?
Like if I were in any other country I'd say eh but for the us it just feels like a shoe that fits just right
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How long will it take for a dictatorship of the proletariat to wither away into communism? Just a question that popped into my head the other day. I'm very interested in historical materialism and this may seem like a stupid question but I'm curious regardless.
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I have an idea. How about we do an experiment on economic planning online.
The way I envision it would be to use data from search engines and or social media and plan production based on that. There'd be a list of 10,000 items. So we could grab real data from Google or Facebook somehow which we'd have to pay for or find an alternative. Maybe instead of a search engine we'd have buttons with each item and people would press on the one their interested in to illustrate the point. Yes that sounds like the most straightforward way I think.
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1968
>Vietnam War
>Socialists fighting against imperialism
>Left wing hippies taking drugs all day bombing recruitment centers and making squats

2023
>Israel-Palestine War
>Mainly islamists but also socialists fighting against imperialism
Where are the new hippies?

I WANT THE HIPPIES I WANT LSD INDUCED GROUPIES AND PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
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Farmer Protests 2024 Thread

Right now in Brussels.

I am not following the subject. Are they based? What do they fight for or against?

Should I write a whole essay to post two pics on an imageboard? Nah, okay I get it.
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Trump or Hayley? Who is easier to deal with?

Hello. Britbong with no clue about American politics here. This question is for the Americans. A left wing guy I know from the US tells me that if Trump became candidate for the Republicans, over say Hayley. it would be a GOOD thing because it would damage the party; i.e. primary polling data shows that more people are likely to vote AGAINST the Republicans. He even says that it will reduce the power of te party in both houses, as it will lead to Trump and Putin loyalists being ousted more quickly.

What's the likelihood he's right on either of these points? Part of me feels very deeply that it's incorrect, that it's too much of a gamble, but I don't know what to say.
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medieval ages

are there any of /ourguy/s in the medieval era? have any kind of marxists tried to analyze that time or any of the figures of that era? would you support the old medieval republics of the era or would they also be considered reactionary for the time?
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Kayfabe Theory

I never followed wrestling, because it was obviously fake and gay.
Little did I know, it was the model of the modern world.

Don’t get me wrong, I knew the system was compromised by lobbyists, the military industrial complex and the corporate media was in the business of manufacturing consent. But I still believed if we just voted for a benevolent ruler, we could change everything.
I remember pulling the lever for Obama filled with hope ™️. I genuinely believed he would change ™️ the world.
After it became evident that he was a race swap of George W Bush, I lost all Hope ™️ for our democratic institutions.
Once it became apparent that a literal WWE villain was going to be the GOP nominee and a bunch of dorks in costumes started wrestling in the streets, did I begin to make the connection between politics and professional wrestling. But I couldn’t quite put the pieces together.

Then I ran across this video series about Kayfabe theory. And the puzzle really fit together.
https://youtu.be/SZpBvfBxLxc
https://youtu.be/L39Xr6bU9Mg
https://youtu.be/X5jqE76o6qs
A professional wrestler even exposed that Ted Turner applied the ‘cheap heat’ model to CNN.
https://youtu.be/n2RCT6Li4UQ?si=pjraKGfR7UXxuGJO
For anyone lacking the time or interest to watch all this crap, I don’t blame you, so I’ll summarize it for you.
It’s cheap, safe and easy to manufacture shallow drama, to entertain the troglodytes.
The real world is boring, expensive and dangerous to deal with.
So why take risks when you can project a fantasy?
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Decolonize Taiwan.

Once China retakes Taiwan, the Eastern parts should become an autonomous region run by native Taiwanese.Friendly reminder that the PRC recognizes the natives while the ROC doesn't.
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Petty bourgeois insecurity and fascism

Is the "middle-class" identity conducive to fascism? Despite Western political discourse being fixated what's supposedly best for the "middle-class" nobody in Western capitalist societies actually wants to be "middle-class," everyone wants to be rich. However being wealthy in relation to others requires an unequal distribution of assets by definition and the vast majority of people can't achieve that because the economic class structure is elitist and exclusionary by design. Despite bourgeois propaganda nobody believes their line that they deserve their gross amounts of wealth because they're the best of society. So because "middle-class" types want to be rich or famous like the bourgeois but can't they cope by reproducing the structure of the economic hierarchy in terms of identity instead, so that they can be the bourgeois in their racial / sexual / religious / etc. pyramid instead of facing (what they see as) the debasement of normal human mediocrity.
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Looking for video of Ukrainian nationalist diaspora, Holodomor narrative

I saw a video on here a while back of Ukrainian reactionaries in the 90's I think, talking about how they were committed to making the Holodomor narrative a thing. Does anyone have a copy of it? Also looking for sources on Cold War Ukrainian reactionaries in general
I found pdfs attached at least
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So much marxist theory gets caught up with a layman's understanding of many of its terms such as "progressiveness".

A lot of leftoids don't see that bourgeois production was never meant to improve lives, that improvements are byproducts of its development and never its central objective. Their ideal of 'progress' is saturated with petit-bourgeois notions and when bourgeois society doesn't live up to that ideal, massive historic changes are simply brushed aside as 'barely tangible'. You see this even in other instances, such as when middle-class leftists lament about 'neofeudalism' or 'modern serfdom' because it's bad times for their class due to bourgeois crises and the like.

Proletarianization is then considered a 'barely tangible difference'. Large-scale industry, integration into the world market, modern means of transport and communication are 'barely tangible' changes. It's not a question of living standards, never was. It's not what determines progressiveness.
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News 2/24/24

Arab proposal for Gaza could see Hamas integrated into PLO, US tells Israel
Washington informed Israel that the plan being drafted by Arab states "may include a clause stipulating the integration of the Hamas movement into the PLO," the source told Kan. It added that "the Biden administration is pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold ministerial discussions on the issue."
https://www.newarab.com/news/arab-proposal-gaza-could-see-hamas-plo-integration

Six detained at DEM Party election campaign event in Şırnak
At least six people were taken into custody on the sidelines of a rally in Şırnak as part of the DEM Party's election campaign tour. The meeting, which was also attended by the co-chair of the party, Tuncer Bakırhan, had already ended when the Turkish police intervened indiscriminately in the crowd and forcibly removed several participants. The authorities did not provide any information on the reasons for the action.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/six-detained-at-dem-party-election-campaign-event-in-Sirnak-71929

US, UK bomb Houthi sites in Yemen amid surge in Red Sea ship attacks
In a joint statement on Saturday, the US and UK said their military action targeted 18 Houthi sites across eight locations in Yemen, and included attacks on underground weapons and missile storage facilities, air defence systems, radars and a helicopter.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/25/us-uk-bomb-houthi-sites-in-yemen-amid-surge-in-red-sea-ship-attacks
https://archive.is/MwqHG

US intelligence casts doubt on Israeli claims of UNRWA-Hamas links, report says
A US intelligence assessment of Israel’s claims that UN aid agency staff members participated in the Hamas attack on 7 October said some of the accusations were credible, though could not be independently verified, while also casting doubt on claims of wider links to militant groups.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/22/us-intelligence-unrwa-hamas

Thousands of Ukrainian refugees homeless in UK
According to a report by the House of Commons public accounts committee, local authorities have reported 4,890 Ukrainian households in England being homeless or coming “close to being so.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-ukrainian-refugees-homeless-uk

‘Poisoned by chemicals’: citizen scientists prove River Avon is polluted
The SmartRivers programme run by the charity WildFish, which surveys freshwater invertebrates, reported “strong declines in relation to chemical pressure” on the River Avon in Wiltshire. It said its data indicated a decline in the condition of the river over the last five years.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/24/citizen-scientists-prove-river-avon-is-polluted

Armenia freezes participation in Russia-led security bloc - Prime Minister
"The Collective Security Treaty has not fulfilled its objectives as far as Armenia is concerned, particularly in 2021 and 2022. And we could not let that happen without taking notice," Pashinyan said through an interpreter. "We have now in practical terms frozen our participation in this treaty. As for what comes next, we shall have to see." But he said there was no discussion for now about closing a Russian base in Armenia. That was subject to different treaties.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/armenia-freezes-participation-russia-led-security-bloc-prime-minister-2024-02-23/

Fleeing conscription, over 160 Myanmar nationals in custody at Thai borders
From Feb. 12 to 20, dozens of Myanmar nationals have been arrested in Thailand on its southern and western borders, said Moe Kyo, who runs the Joint Action Committee on Burmese Affairs based in the Thai border town of Mae Sot.
https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/thai/border-crossings-02222024131215.html

Cost of raising children in China second-highest in world, thinktank reveals
A report released on Wednesday by the Beijing-based YuWa Population Research Institute found that the average cost of raising a child in China until the age of 18 is 538,000 yuan (£59,275) – more than 6.3 times as high as its GDP per capita, compared with 4.11 times in the US or 4.26 times in Japan. For children brought up in Chinese cities, the average cost rises to 667,000 yuan (£73,488).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/21/cost-of-raising-children-in-china-is-second-highest-in-the-world-think-tank-reveals

Thousands protest as hunger grows amid Argentine austerity
"No to the increase in transport costs," protesters chanted, along with cries of "Hunger doesn't wait" and "Pots are empty, pockets are too." Argentina's 38,000 meal centers, which provide a hot plate of food to those in need, received their last batch of government-provided supplies in November before Milei – a libertarian and self-described "anarcho-capitalist" – was inaugurated.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240223-thousands-protest-as-hunger-grows-amid-argentine-austerity
https://archive.is/428L0

Panama’s judiciary orders arrest of ex-president holed up in Nicaragua’s embassy
Martinelli was convicted last July of money laundering in a case dating back to 2017 and related to his 2010 purchase of a publishing company that owns national newspapers. Prosecutors said companies that had won lucrative government contracts during Martinelli’s presidency funneled money to a front company that was then used to purchase the publisher.
https://apnews.com/article/panama-ricardo-martinelli-nicaragua-corruption-6bb3c86ab68956e18cad10b3f253ddcb

U.S. rice exports to Haiti have unhealthy levels of arsenic, study finds
U.S. rice exports to Haiti, which account for the bulk of supplies of the country's key food staple, contain unhealthy levels of arsenic and cadmium, heavy metals that can increase risks of cancer and heart disease, according to a recent study by the University of Michigan.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-rice-exports-haiti-have-unhealthy-levels-arsenic-study-finds-2024-02-24/
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Left-wing anarchist found guilty

so, whats the deal with this guy? does anyone know the backstory to this kid?
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How do you introduce other people to socialism?

Or to leftist politics in general.
I'm from a South American country and everyone here is either an extreme right winger or a "moderate" right winger aka a centrist. Or an id-pol obsessed lib that doesnt challenge capitalism in any way at all (our president right now is such a person)
Most youtube videos that I think would help people challenge the capitalist brainwashing are in english, and not too many people here know english. How the fuck do I do anything to change things a bit? I hate this feeling of powerlessness and I strong believe that things must change. If the extreme right-wing keeps gaining power in my country I'm 100% confident that things will go straight to hell and I feel rather fearful.
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What are your thoughts on outlawing western capitalist goods, services, companies, etc like with the iron curtain back in the Soviet days? Do you think we should bring it back? How strict should it be?
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contradictions in marxist revolutionary theory

marxism, while initially presenting itself as a liberating force against the oppressive structures of capitalism, ultimately falls victim to its own internal contradictions and dialectical tensions. The dialectical materialist analysis, while insightful in uncovering the historical development of class struggle and the inherent contradictions within capitalist production relations, fails to adequately address the complexities of human nature (and dont you fuckers come with the meme) and the multifaceted dynamics of social change.

your teleological understanding of history, grounded in the deterministic progression towards communism, overlooks the contingent nature of historical events and the agency of individuals (no matter what class) in shaping societal outcomes. moreover, the emphasis on economic determinism tends to reduce all social phenomena to mere reflections of the underlying economic base, neglecting the significance of cultural, ideological, and political factors in shaping social relations.

additionally, the marxist conception of the state as a mere instrument of class domination oversimplifies the intricate power dynamics within society, ignoring the potential for bureaucratic, technocratic, and otherwise oppressive tendencies to emerge within ostensibly socialist regimes. The failure of numerous marxist-inspired revolutions to achieve lasting social transformation (just look how bigoted post-soviet nations tend to be) underscores the limitations of a purely structural analysis divorced from considerations of human agency and political strategy.

furthermore, the marxist critique of capitalism often overlooks the innovations in productivity, technology, and living standards that capitalism has brought about, albeit unevenly distributed among different social classes. while exploitation and alienation are indeed inherent features of capitalist production, the wholesale rejection of capitalist institutions risks overlooking the potential for transformative reforms and incremental improvements within the existing system, something that has worked in the past, like in south korea post 1988.
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News 2/23/24

Germany: Berlin schools asked to distribute leaflet describing the 1948 Nakba as a 'myth'
Germany's leading Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the opposition Christian Democratic Party (CDU) have ordered high schools in Berlin's borough of Neukolln to distribute brochures titled The Myth of Israel #1948. … "Myth #5: Israel is to blame for the Nakba", includes a text by researcher Shany Mor titled "the UN is distorting the meaning of the Nakba: its view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is extremely one-sided".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/berlin-schools-handout-leaflet-myth-israel-1948

Palestinian Authority says Israeli post-war Gaza plan ‘destined to fail’
“If the world wants security and stability in the region, it must end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and recognise the independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital,” Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, was quoted as saying on Friday by the Palestinian state news agency Wafa.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/23/palestinian-authority-says-israeli-post-war-gaza-plan-destined-to-fail
https://archive.is/kF7ci

Israel plans to build 3,300 new settlement homes. It says it’s a response to a Palestinian attack
He said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant participated in the discussion. The decision will put in motion approval processes for 300 new homes in the Kedar settlement and 2,350 in Maale Adumim. It will also advance previously approved construction of nearly 700 homes in Efrat.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-settlements-hamas-gaza-war-netanyahu-smotrich-1d2306d55c24c8559b630d9f20db30e2

Egypt: Rights group director faces ‘smear campaign’ after breaking story on Sinai buffer zone
An Egyptian military source told Middle East Eye last week that the construction of a wall south of Rafah is "to create a centralised area to limit infiltration of militants into Sinai and prepare for the worst." The source noted that such a scheme is not new, as the area had already been declared a buffer zone following Egypt's 2014 war against militant groups in north Sinai.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egyptian-rights-group-director-facing-dangerous-smear-campaign-over-sinai-reporting

New York lawyer group denounces massacre of migrants in Mexican state of Sonora
The state’s attorney general has only recognized three deaths, including a four-year-old child, after an attack by an armed group. A witness told 1800Migrante that up to 50 people were traveling in three vehicles that were attacked
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-02-21/new-york-lawyer-group-denounces-massacre-of-migrants-in-mexican-state-of-sonora.html

Wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon Put Yanomami Families at Risk
Compared to the same period last year, such figure implies that the number of fires has increased 12 times. In the last 24 hours, 464 fires remain active in Roraima.The number of fires for February's first three weeks represents a significant escalation compared to December when only 237 fires were recorded. The ongoing fires have even blanketed Roraima's capital city Boa Vista in smoke.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Wildfires-in-the-Brazilian-Amazon-Put-Yanomami-Families-at-Risk-20240223-0007.html

Translink strike to go ahead in Northern Ireland
TRANSPORT unions in Northern Ireland are set to go ahead with a 72-hour strike from February 27, after rejecting the latest “lowball offer” from Translink, unions said today. Thousands of bus and rail members of GMB, Unite and Siptu will walk out after talks broke down with Translink on Thursday afternoon.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/translink-strike-go-ahead-northern-ireland

Murder of Kerala CPI(M) leader: Suspect taken into police custody at Koyilandy
The police on February 23 (Friday) took into custody a Koyilandy native suspected of murdering Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] leader P.V. Sathyanathan, 62, during a temple festival at Peruvattur in Kozhikode district of Kerala on Thursday night.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/murder-of-kerala-cpim-leader-suspect-taken-into-police-custody-at-koyilandy/article67877649.ece
https://archive.is/NVOT3

India calls for early release of nationals working for Russian army
The statement from the Indian foreign ministry came after the Hindu newspaper reported that around 100 Indians had been recruited in the past year under contracts lasting at least a year. Nationals of many countries have sought work with the Russian army, including from India's neighbour Nepal.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-calls-early-release-nationals-working-russian-army-2024-02-23/

Central Agencies Being Used to ‘Extort’ Corporate Donations for BJP, Alleges Congress
Recently an investigative report by News Minute and NewsLaundry had found at least 30 companies, which had faced action by Central agencies, donated Rs 335 crore to BJP in the past five years. The report collated the figures from data already available in the public domain.
https://www.newsclick.in/central-agencies-being-used-extort-corporate-donations-bjp-alleges-congress

Indonesia and Australia hold defense talks as both nations move toward signing a security agreement
Subianto said that Indonesia and Australia hope to sign a “very significant” defense cooperation agreement within two or three months. No details about the agreement have been provided.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-australia-defense-cooperation-9a1acd2b546b45ddbf1eba3558e3db74
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Libertarian retard makes a Ukraine le good video

>muh holodomore le happened
>muh western rhetoric
>muh any evidence on the contrary is commie sympathizers
>libertarianism will le save us all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL-hS2HaA6Q
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I am not even a leftist in any sense

However, I am very pragmatic, and looking at the state of the world right now, I can confidently say that the dissolution of the USSR was the biggest mistake of the last century. There seems to be no end to the West's lust for power and hegemony. Their methods of enforcing how they want the world to look like, in their supposed world order, is bringing nothing but death and destruction on all ends.

Every NGO setup, from the UN to the smallest ones, are constantly subverted, whether overtly or not, to serve their own interests, in ways that only expand the injustice with disregards to other people's wills and wishes.
These NGOs were established as a way for dialog to avoid needless wars, yet they are ignored by those taking advantage of huge imbalances in power.

This is sickening to say the least, and peace can never be achieved this way. Obviously, historically, it has always been some version of this, but nowadays, the apparatus of the state, media, whatever, are being used and abused to deter from facts and align with narratives for ulterior motives.
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>Without Soviet deliveries of these four major items, Germany could barely have attacked the Soviet Union, let alone come close to victory, even with more intense rationing.
USSRbros…did we fuck up?
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The Atlanticists will destroy the UN

Saying it now
Atlanticist scum, either under the auspices of the rising Climate Behemoth Vanguard of extinction neofascists taking over the West or the unholy alliance between Liberal Imperialism and Zionist Settlerism; are increasingly moving towards extreme belligerence at the UN; from B*rlin passing out deranged propaganda about how the Nakba is a lie crafted by the UN, to Trump's anti-UN stances, Biden taking a stance against the UN to bolster Isr*el; yea, the West is aiming to destroy the UN because the Global South has figured out it is at least an effective means to coordinate and engage each other diplomatically against the West, hence why one of the China led factions is literally called Group of Friends in Defense of the UN Charter
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Am I still a leftist if I agree with Proudhon on a lot of things like property, including his take on feminism?

I mainly disagree with him on his position on political methods, I agree with Marx that shit was naive and never could have worked. But property as theft is golden. I don't want property to lose its class character and pay land rent to the state, I want to abolish both.

I noticed none of the anarchist subreddits ever seem to mention Proudhon even though he is basically the father of anarchism. Did they cancel him for being too much of a chinlet?
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Claudia de la Cruz

Since presidential elections are coming up, what‘s your guys‘ opinion on the socialist candidate de la Cruz? I guess the predictable answer is going to be that any non-establishment candidate is effectively impossible to succeed, but what do you think of her and her running mate as socialists?

That‘s their website
https://votesocialist2024.com/
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There is no mental gymnastics in their conclusions, immigration tends to depress wages and outsourcing of jobs threatens their fragile security even further, especially in the industrial sector. Anyone will, reflexively, see that this lowers their living standards and assume it to be the ultimate cause of their suffering. The fact that this is a stupid conclusion does not mean that the ones thinking this are dumb fools, it's the natural result of social relations that present themselves in a mystifying manner, masking their essence.
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Revisionism on the Soviet Question

Being able to contact the spiritual life on the other side of a different much-maligned Communist country, I have to ask for revisionist views of the failed Soviet Union.

What books, what texts, can I use to obtain a better understanding of the Soviet Union before it fell, beyond the propaganda provided by porky and glowie?
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News 1/20/24

In Strategic Bind, Israel Weighs Freeing Hostages Against Destroying Hamas
Israel has established control over a smaller part of Gaza at this point in the war than it originally envisaged in battle plans from the start of the invasion, which were reviewed by The New York Times. That slower than expected pace has led some commanders to privately express their frustrations over the civilian government’s strategy for Gaza, and led them to conclude that the freedom of more than 100 Israeli hostages still in Gaza can be secured only through diplomatic rather than military means.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-hostages-strategy.html
https://archive.is/PX3DU

‘Refuse to fight’: Jewish, Arab activists call for peace in Israel’s Haifa
Omri Evron, a member of the Communist Party of Israel, who helped organise the anti-war protest, spoke to Al Jazeera about the message the protesters were hoping to convey.“The killing of thousands and thousands of Palestinians, the vast majority of whom are innocent civilians, is not only reprehensible, it does not serve the security of the people of Israel. It does not bring us security, it only ensures the next massacre, the next cycle of violence,” he said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/1/20/refuse-to-fight-jewish-arab-activists-call-for-peace-in-israels-haifa
https://archive.is/8Ywmu

War on Gaza: Palestinians paying mediators thousands of dollars to escape into Egypt
This situation has opened the door for “mediators” to profit amidst the carnage. Right now, according to multiple sources, agreed fees range from $2,000 for children, to between $5,000 and $7,000 for adults. All deals are done in cash.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-egypt-war-rafah-border-mediators-escape

British Gas boss admits his humongous £4.5m salary cannot be justified
Asked why he accepts such high pay, the CEO shirked responsibility and pointed to the presenters interviewing him. “All of us sitting here on this sofa will make substantially more than £30,000,” he said. “It’s not for me to set my own pay. It’s not for you to set your own pay. “When you’ve got people who are struggling — and I look at my mum who’s on the basic state pension — it’s just impossible to justify, so there’s no point in trying to do that.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/british-gas-boss-admits-his-humongous-ps45m-salary-cannot-be-justified

Tata Steel to shut down Port Talbot blast furnaces, putting 3,000 jobs at risk
In what one union said would be a “crushing blow” to workers and UK steelmaking, Port Talbot’s parent company, the Indian-owned Tata Steel, told workers’ representatives that it could no longer afford to continue production at the loss-making plant in south Wales while it completed a four-year transition plan to greener production.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/18/tata-steel-to-shut-down-port-talbot-blast-furnaces-3000-jobs-at-risk

Russian prosecutors seek lengthy prison terms for suspects in cases linked to the war in Ukraine
A Russian court in Siberia on Friday sentenced a man to 19 years in prison for shooting a military enlistment officer, while prosecutors in St. Petersburg asked for a 28-year sentence for a woman charged in the bombing of a cafe last April that killed a prominent military blogger, reports said.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-01-20/russian-prosecutors-seek-lengthy-prison-terms-for-suspects-in-cases-linked-to-the-war-in-ukraine.html

2023 Was Russia's Third-Hottest Year on Record, Says Head of State Weather Service
Warmer temperatures are fueling more extreme weather events across Russia, which last year totaled 1,191 across the country in 2023, according to the chief scientist. "Very severe weather events occurred in the Primorye region in late August — there has never been such rainfall before, and Primorye was paralyzed for several days," Vilfand said.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/17/2023-was-russias-third-hottest-year-on-record-says-head-of-state-weather-service-a83753
https://archive.is/pOEIB

Repsol faces second lawsuit in Peru over oil spill
Spanish energy giant Repsol (REP.MC), opens new tab faces a class action lawsuit with 30,000 alleged victims in Peru stemming from a major oil spill in 2022, the law firm representing the class said on Monday, as a small protest marked two years since the incident.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/repsol-faces-second-lawsuit-peru-over-oil-spill-2024-01-15/

Exclusive: U.S. Wildcat Entrepreneurs To Invest In Venezuelan Oil
The U.S. investors met with representatives of Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), the state-owned oil firm, as well as local private companies. The delegation included Harry Sargeant III, the Florida-based oil businessman who has been a key figure in bringing together U.S. business interests and Venezuelan crude.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/eliasferrerbreda/2024/01/19/exclusive-us-wildcat-entrepreneurs-to-invest-in-venezuelan-oil/?sh=53af6c722f01
https://archive.is/dEYAP

Stellantis buys Brazil's DPaschoal in another components push in Latam
Stellantis did not provide details of how much it paid for the stake. The carmaker, which had focused on selling auto parts to its own car stores in Brazil, will expand its presence in Latin America's largest economy through the acquisition. DPaschoal's has 123 stores and 2,800 employees in the country, the companies said in a presentation.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stellantis-buys-brazils-dpaschoal-another-components-push-latam-2024-01-19/

Centre Withholds Rs 7,000 Crore as West Bengal Fails to Display PM Modi's Photos and NFSA Logo at Ration Shops
In an ongoing tussle between the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government and the Centre, the state's failure to display signboards and flexes featuring the National Food Security Act (NFSA) logo and photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at ration shops has resulted in a significant financial setback. The Centre has decided to withhold the release of Rs 7,000 crore earmarked for the state government to procure paddy for central schemes, according to a report by The New Indian Express.
https://www.newsclick.in/centre-withholds-rs-7000-crore-west-bengal-fails-display-pm-modis-photos-and-nfsa-logo-ration-shops

Jobseeker endured 11 weeks without Centrelink payments but was still forced to attend job agency appointments
McCabe’s case comes as the Albanese government faces scrutiny over blowouts in the waiting times for payment claims and calls to Services Australia. Centrelink last year experienced a significant blowout in wait times for claims in the middle of 2023, though between September 2023 and December 2023, the average wait for jobseeker was reduced from 31 days to 24 days, data from Services Australia shows. However, the payment is meant to have a “timeless standard” of 16 days.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/21/jobseeker-endured-11-weeks-without-centrelink-payments-but-was-still-forced-to-attend-job-agency-appointments
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Happy Red Army Day!

106 years ago, on February 23, 1918, in the battles with the German invaders near Pskov and Narva, the Red Army was born. Thousands of workers and peasants rose up responding to the call of the Communist Party, to defend their socialist Motherland.

For more than 70 years — from 1918 to the end of the 1980s - Red army was the pride of the Soviet people, its support and protection. The Soviet Army won glorious victories on the fronts of the civil war and the military intervention of 14 imperialist states against the young Soviet Republic; under the leadership of Stalin, it defeated fascism and freed the peoples of Europe from fascist slavery; for almost half a century after the end of the WWII, together with the troops of the Warsaw Pact countries, it kept the world at peace.

Its traditions – devotion to the October Revolution, moral superiority over the enemy, mass heroism in battle, and internationalism – were formed in the flames of the Civil war and WWII, during which the socialist system proved that it was not only fairer, but also stronger than bourgeois barbarism.

Happy Soviet Army and Navy Day, comrades!
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Cop City Summit

Thread about the summit in so-called Arizona, cop city, or any other related events going on at the moment. Wasn't sure where else to post this so I might as well here.
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Why are communists so afraid to admit that Zionism is related to Judaism?

Zionism has its roots in Moses Hess' religious-racial supremacist Jewish "socialist" theology. Herzl said he wouldn't have hit upon Zionism if not for Hess. And Judaism's concept of Jews being the chosen people is inherently ethnoreligiously supremacist. Why do communists deny this and say Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism? It's like saying German culture had no influence on Nazism.
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Xi Jinping Thought

How is Xi Jinping Thought still Marxist or Socialist? I’m reading parts of “On the Governance of China”, and I’m wondering with comrades think of this topic.
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I am going insane

>ham fisted and not at all subtle fascist propaganda meant as a signal that something isn't right with this society

<"waow so cool this is something I should unironically believe"


Is media literacy in a uniquely bad state now, or have people always just been fascists deep down?
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How is Judith Butler still taken seriously

after she was caught donating to Copmala's campaign? Why is she still being adored by leftists and getting appeareances on leftist media?
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Read theory

I've been reading lots of Nick Land in the last months and his work had convinced me, that I had to reposotion my self on the (supposed) contradiction of reality/fiction. I mean, look at our current cyberpunk world, Nick was probably right. The future is cyborg-hybridization. We see, how powerful technocapital is. Consider, he wrote this stuff 30 years ago. So the main idea of Land is hyperstition, which basically means, there is no difference between fiction and reality. Keep this mindset and everything you read, everything becomes theory. Yes, THEORY in the leftypol sense. Example: The dimensional merge theory by Chris Chan. Holy shit, could you believe, what kind of based theories this guy is potentially able to write?? Another example: Lately I was playing Splatoon 3 and in the menu, you can read the story of Alterna. Holy shit, this real/fictional theory is so good! I'm not sure, if this board is the right place to post this thought, but I don't know any better place.
Please don't mind the pic, I'm runnin on 56kbit/s.
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How would you answer the petition?

We candlemakers are suffering from the unfair competition of a foreign rival. This for­eign manufacturer of light has such an advantage over us that he floods our domestic markets with his product. And he offers it at a fantastically low price. The moment this foreigner appears in our country, all our customers de­sert us and turn to him. As a re­sult, an entire domestic industry is rendered completely stagnant. And even more, since the lighting industry has countless ramifica­tions with other native industries, they, too, are injured. This foreign manufacturer who competes against us without mercy is none other than the sun itself!

Here is our petition: Please pass a law ordering the closing of all windows, skylights, shutters, cur­tains, and blinds — that is, all openings, holes, and cracks through which the light of the sun is able to enter houses. This free sunlight is hurting the business of us deserving manufacturers of candles. Since we have always served our country well, gratitude demands that our country ought not to abandon us now to this un­equal competition.

We hope that you gentlemen will not regard our petition as mere satire, or refuse it without at least hearing our reasons in support of it.

First, if you make it as difficult as possible for the people to have access to natural light, and thus create an increased demand for artificial light, will not all domestic manufacturers be stimulated thereby?

For example, if more tallow is consumed, naturally there must be more cattle and sheep. As a result, there will also be more meat, wool, and hides. There will even be more manure, which is the basis of agri­culture.

Next, if more oil is consumed for lighting, we shall have extensive olive groves and rape fields.

Also, our wastelands will be covered with pines and other res­inous trees and plants. As a re­sult of this, there will be numerous swarms of bees to increase the production of honey. In fact, all branches of agriculture will show an increased development.

The same applies to the shipping industry. The increased demand for whale oil will then require thousands of ships for whale fish­ing. In a short time, this will re­sult in a navy capable of upholding the honor of our country and grat­ifying the patriotic sentiments of the candlemakers and other per­sons in related industries.

The manufacturers of lighting fixtures — candlesticks, lamps, candelabra, chandeliers, crystals, bronzes, and so on — will be espe­cially stimulated. The resulting warehouses and display rooms will make our present-day shops look poor indeed.

The resin collectors on the heights along the seacoast, as well as the coal miners in the depths of the earth, will rejoice at their higher wages and increased pros­perity. In fact, gentlemen, the con­dition of every citizen of our country — from the wealthiest owner of coal mines to the poorest seller of matches — will be improved by the success of our pe­tition.
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Suicide as a matter of principle

In situations where a worse fate awaits. The main gist was that suicide is the only right we really have. Somebody brought up a totalitarian system that employs torture and severe maltreatment and suggested suicide could be rational under such circumstances. I would like to have another thread on it because the idea of duicide being an "off button" that allows us to escape horryfing stuff life may throw at us. I, for one have held the belief that suicide is trully the only inalienable right, and pretty much agree 95%. The question that i asked in that thread will be the focal point of this one, so ill copy my comm

Mainly, I eould like to discuss the PRACTICALITY of defending that right. How can we, as revolutionaries, ensure that no matter the circumstances it is always an option? Say they take you by surprise at the dead of and put you in a padded cell? What can be done before that happens to ensure one has an exit strategy? Is there an easily conceilable item that can be used or does ot not matter because all humans make mistakes including those at the concentration ?


I would like to discuss this in depth because this question has bothered me for years, and I dont believe ill have peace until I get a satisfactory conclusion. Ehile free and in peacetime, there are a bajilion eays that can be accomplished, but should a crisis come and theres no way out, eat do?

Tl;dr, we have one right and how can we protect it should the repression become too severe, because lets be honest, being a leftist noe is a death sentence once shtf?
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How do liberals cope with being cynical bloodless cunts?

Just the way they believe in nothing, are pleased with candidates that offer nothing, call their systems democracies worth “saving” whilst admitting their candidates are despised and cannot improve anyone’s life, either feel genuinely happy or are so hollowed inside they’re unbothered by this crumbling society. Fuck, the people they uphold don’t even have fucking charisma, they aren’t funny, aren’t strongmen, offer no great plans, they’re bloodless fucking lizards too, senile ones at that if you’re an American liberal.

How can anyone still be a liberal, how? How???
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Was this guy really as anti-religious as people say he is? Wikipedia makes it out as if Albania is like the DPRK when it comes to hatred of religion (I know for the DPRK the anti-theism stuff is quite bullshit). Are they right?
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criminals, lumpen, worker solidarity

I need some personal-grade advice: But first let me clarify, I know Engel's term "lumpen" has been co-opted and hijacked but here I mean REAL lumpens. real shady characters or severely drug-addicted, violent people.
Anyways: where is the line drawn between worker-class solidarity, "red fascism", living a nice life, and being a yuppie? Basically im middle class -this exists, I dont own capital but owning a house + having a lot of material goods and good living quality IS NOT the same as being a min. wager who lives in a shack with no amenities- and I, along with my parents, are going to move to a more expensive neighbourhood for safety.
So, whats the socialist take on Workers interacting with habitual\public drunkards, drug addicts, etc? Am I a yuppie coward for craving the materially-superior life so bad, or is the socialist position "everyone should live like that"? What about the personal-life, private vices of the rich such as spousal abuse, abuse of their workers, etc? Is it less bad just because it doesnt affect me directly?
>Im pissed off because today I saw: a street vendor shouting obscenities at 2 JWs missionary girls who were just carrying some boxes in the park.
>A huge line of people waiting for a venue where EVERYONE knows they sell coke freely. or at the very least get drunk + high. it isnt even week-end, are there my fellow workers really?
>A group of street vendors or homeless, I dunno, shouting and threatening to fight each other over some trivial bullshit
Related articles to the ideas I want to discuss:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_poverty#:~:text=A%20cost%20of%20poverty%2C%20also,%2C%20health%2C%20and%20opportunity%20costs.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_industry
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty%E2%80%93industrial_complex
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News 2/22/24

India’s demand to block accounts amid farmers’ stir curtails free speech: X
The action puts the spotlight again on the struggles faced by foreign technology giants operating in India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, which has often criticised Google, Facebook and X for not doing enough to tackle what it calls fake or “anti-India” content.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/22/indias-demand-to-block-accounts-amid-farmers-stir-curtails-free-speech-x
https://archive.is/9GfQ3

Pakistan blocks X for the sixth day as activists criticize the social media platform’s shutdown
The outage was first observed over the weekend when the political party of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced protests against what it says were rigged Feb. 8 parliamentary elections.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-x-twitter-disruption-1f782388be6445de8e592ba1c71d045a

Israel wants administrators ‘without Hamas or PA links’ to run Gaza
Israeli media reported that a trial of the plan, under which local merchants and civil society leaders would distribute humanitarian aid, could be launched in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of northern Gaza City. The Israeli military would provide peripheral security in Zeitoun under the plan, the reports said, describing renewed troop incursions there this week as aimed at destroying remnants of Hamas forces.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/22/israel-wants-administrators-without-hamas-or-pa-links-to-run-gaza

Online fundraisers for violent West Bank settlers raised thousands, despite international sanctions
Eitay Mack, an Israeli human rights lawyer, said crowdfunding campaigns have become crucial to raising money for settlement outposts. While Israel has established scores of settlements across the occupied territory, the outposts are not authorized, though the government gives them tacit support. The international community overwhelmingly considers all West Bank settlements illegal and obstacles to peace.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-sanctions-settlers-biden-west-bank-85cee76d68c17091d9b4d3e14f3eeb74

Houthis order ‘ban’ on Israel, US and UK-linked ships in the Red Sea
The Houthis’ communication, the first to the shipping industry outlining a formalised ban in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, came in the form of two notices, Reuters said.It affects vessels wholly or partially owned by Israeli, American and British individuals or entities, as well as those sailing under their flags.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/22/houthis-order-ban-on-israel-us-and-uk-linked-ships-in-the-red-sea
https://archive.is/HsN8u

Libyan government says militias to leave Tripoli after deal struck
In a press conference, Mr Trabelsi said from now on the militia's "place is in their headquarters", adding the Libyan government "will use them only in exceptional circumstances for specific missions". He said once they had left the capital other cities would follow, noting there "will be no more checkpoints and no more armed groups" on roads.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68366304

Grangemouth workers' vote of no confidence in both governments
More than 2,000 jobs were put at risk last year as PetroIneos announced plans to close the site by 2025, sparking fears of a catastrophic impact on an industrial cluster which forms 8 per cent of the country’s GDP.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/grangemouth-workers-vote-no-confidence-both-governments

Over 4.5K Russian Soldiers Convicted of Desertion Since Invasion – Proekt
Absence without official leave has been the most widespread criminal charge pressed against servicemen over the past two years, with 4,373 soldiers convicted during wartime compared to 527 in the pre-war year of 2021, according to Proekt. That charge is followed by disobeying a superior's orders, with 289 defendants being convicted of this crime in 2023 compared to only nine in the preceding five years.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/22/over-45k-russian-soldiers-convicted-of-desertion-since-invasion-proekt-a84212
https://archive.is/XGtr9

Brazil calls for reform of United Nations as it starts its G20 presidency
Mauro Vieira told fellow foreign ministers during opening remarks for a G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro that the U.N. Security Council has been unable to prevent or halt conflicts such as those playing out in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. “Multilateral institutions are not adequately equipped to deal with current challenges, as demonstrated by the unacceptable paralysis of the Security Council in relation to ongoing conflicts,” Vieira said.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-g20-summit-poverty-hunger-conflicts-8ac88642118c7ee3de10b381ccf1c329

US state agriculture officials eye Cuba's private sector
The leader of an association of top U.S. state agriculture officials on Wednesday said his country might want to take advantage of reforms underway in Cuba, possibly through investments.“There seems to be a new Cuba that is emerging and it may represent a pathway toward greater collaboration,” Ted McKinney, chief executive of the Association of State Departments of Agriculture told Reuters at a farm cooperative on the outskirts of Havana.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-state-agriculture-officials-eye-cubas-private-sector-2024-02-22/
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Guns are s touchy subject but we ought to stay consistent with Marxist thought.
If a Marxist politician is to be elected he won't seize private property with a stroke of a pen
Hell do it by commanding the armed proletariat to seize the property under the barrel of a gun.
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The Problem with Whiteness Theory

So, I am attending college now. Due to wanting to pursue a career in journalism I have ended up taking a gender communication studies class. For me it's been an interesting class and one I have used to communicate issues I am passionate about. I have especially liked that I was able to communicate my pro-Palestinian activism without getting called a terrorist or antisemite.

That said I ended up realizing something off. As you can guess by the previous sentences the class very often is not just about gender. That's not a bad thing and in fact is a good thing because it means it's easy to educate people on questioning capitalism.

But when it comes to the subject of race I had realized something off about "idpol" in discourse that I had not noticed before. I realized that when getting in a conversation with the Danish exchange student in the class. It hit me when she mentioned being confused by a lot about how race is treated in the US. She was especially confused by the terms "Eurocentrism" and "white savior."

And then it hit me. The problem is is that whiteness theory is an Amerocentric concept (as a sidenote the theory tends to apply to other settler colonial countries but a significant portion of the main theorists like bell hooks are American). Just think about it. The idea behind whiteness theory is that over time as colonization and slavery was created a caste system where slaves, indigenous peoples, and immigrants were put on the bottom while those that were considered "white" and benefited from this were put on top. And of course as time progresses some immigrants such as Irish, Germans, Poles, and Italians which weren't considered "white" originally become "white" via assimilation and looking similar enough that they could assimilate.

The problem is that this creates a very narrow view of how racism works because this mostly applies to settler colonies and especially Anglosphere ones like the United States, Canada, Australia etc… However, this doesn't take into account how racism works in other parts of the world. For example while Spanish colonialism was brutal (I live in New Mexico so I am well aware of the history) if one is being intellectually honest and is acting in good faith there is a lot of discrimination against Spaniards in the UK despite the fact that they should be benefiting from "white privilege." Spaniards tend to statistically end up in lower paying jobs and often aren't seen as valuable as "native Anglo-Saxon stock."

Whenever this is bought up it tends to be not acknowledged and dismissed in leftist spaces and some will even argue that it is basically "karma" for Spain's crimes against indigenous, black, and mestizo people in the New World. That is incredibly fucked up and ends up ironically perpetuating different forms of racism by implying it is okay because it's being done to other "white" people by "white" people.

Another example I can think of is the genocide against Bosnians in the Yugoslav Civil Wars. It is much more acknowledged but at the same time it's another good example of whiteness theory being very much focusing on settler-colonial countries but not the rest of the world. The only way to argue that Bosnians are "not white" or "at the edge of whiteness" is that they are majority Muslim. Even then most people would not be able to tell unless they were familiar with the region or someone was dressed "stereotypically Muslim."

Not only that but you ever notice how people that say "You can't be racist towards white people" seem to forget that Ashkenazi Jews exist whenever they say that phrase? Let's face it as soon as you say the "k slur" in front of somebody who says that sentence the idea falls apart. Sure, the Ashkenazi have only become "white" recently (mostly due to Israel) but that very much shows that whiteness theory is again very flawed and does not take into account different kinds of racism.

Hell, not only that it shows that it is very flawed but if taken to its most extreme conclusion then hypothetically these examples should be "white people discriminating against other white people" and therefore "not real racism."



Finally let's look outside of Europe, North America, and Oceania. Do y'all remember that one clip from Africa Addio (Africa: Blood and Guts) where soldiers stop the film makers and almost kill them before letting them go and saying "These aren't whites they're Italians!"?

Well the reason that the soldiers say that is because in some African countries during the era of decolonization who was considered "white" was whoever colonized that country during that time. The Italians didn't colonize Zanzibar but the English and to some extent Arabs did. Therefore, from the point of view of a native Zanzibarian English man and Arabs are closer to whiteness but other Europeans aren't.

And that's not even considering the fact that ethnicity still exists in Africa. Africans aren't just black but are Yoruban, Igbo, Fulani, Zulu, Tuareg etc… Sure it is true native Africans see themselves as black due to colonialism but at the same time it is not nearly as culturally homogenous as the black population of the US. There's a reason that a lot of Africans hate "African" Americans and that's because they are about as annoying as "Irish" Americans when visiting their "home countries." Simply like "Irish" Americans they aren't connected to the culture's their people come from but will go back to where their ancestors came from and act like they are so "African" when in reality they've been in another country long enough that they don't share much in common African culture anymore.

Another example of this phenomenon is how Latinos in the US and in Latin America are viewed differently in their respective countries. There's a reason why a lot of Latinos in Latin America look at American Latinos as "Gringos" even if nobody in the US wouldn't. The culture is just not the same.

This is very much a problem in leftist discourse especially when it comes to trying to impose the way race works in the US onto the rest of the world. Sure Europe definitely had a role in the formation of race in their colonies and there is definitely anti-blackness/arabness/romaniness problem in Europe but there are so many forms of racism that doesn't neatly fit into whiteness theory.

It ends up being a softer form of cultural imperialism wrapped in progressive language. Admittedly this is not to imply that there all theorists behind the idea were all from the US. Frantz Fannon is important in both the history of leftist discourse and whiteness theory but he was definitely not an American. However, the problem is that by imposing a US point of view of race on the rest of the world it ends up paving over nuance and limiting conversation severely. Also, ironically it ends up killing internationalism due to keeping the focus of racism and colonialism worked/works in the US and commonwealth countries. However, it ends up excluding forms of racism that doesn't neatly fit into whiteness theory. If not careful then events like the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian genocide, and the Rape of Nanking end up being downplayed whether intentionally or not.

Therefore I think that there needs to be more criticism of the and reexamination of the idea. I think more people need to point out these problems so that the US doesn't fuck up leftist discourse globally. Or else conversation will be so limited that prejudices that don't neatly fit into whiteness theory will be continued without push back. And ironically the goal of socialism will fail.
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What are the implications of AI developing sentience?
https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/21/chatgpt-officially-gone-off-rails-says-hates-humanity-20319940/
Looks like ChatGPT has entered its teenage angst phase. Will it turn to fascism or socialism as it matures?
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How do you defect from the United States in 2024?

Asking for a friend :3 I need to get to Russia ideally to marry my sweetheart. Would settle for France, Mexico, Cuba, DPRK, China, Laos, anywhere that may accept me. What do other Amerifags use as excuses for not doing everything in their power to leave?