/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Picture this
>The year is 2056
>It's been three decades since the third great war
>You go to work at your shitty minimum wage Amazon warehouse job secured with your honors degrees in Computer Science and Software Engineering
>You come home to your by-now hideous 40 something nagging boywife
>He barely even resembles the twink he once was even with his BezosCorp estrogen booster pack dependency
>You put your Nutro-Goyslop in the microwave and wait for the hard, gray block of inexplicable foodstuff to turn soft and mushy for your consumption
>You get a message from your stalinist/trotskyite/leftcom/anarcho party telling you that you missed your flyer distribution quota for this quarter and are being laid off for not defending the organization from its latest rounds of sexual misconduct allegations on the internet
>Wars, resource shortages and mass-scale exploitation on a stage never before seen has caused an influx of cheap labor funneled into conditions of abject ghettoism that invariably dissipated into crime with no infrastructure to support it
>Right wingers radicalized by MuskNet and developmentally disabled Kick streamers see this is as proof for their conspiracy theories and are launching lone wolf pogroms almost once a week, throwing the country deeper into despair, division and chaos
>The Unions have all but sided with the bourgeoisie as strikes continue to be sporadic, isolated and self-defeating
>You're stabbed to death for your shitcoin outside of your crate home as you try to take a hit from your CBD infused ElfBar to calm the nerves

Alright I'm being hyperbolic but you get the point. It's the era of capitalist decadence and only getting worse from now. Endearingly, what's the next step of your master plan, you alienated freak?

Thousands in Chile walk out on general strike
There were huge demonstrations in Santiago, Valparaiso, Concepcion, Antofagasta and Ovalle, while a range of other protest actions took place in Atacama, Coquimbo, Rancagua, Temuco, Punta Arenas, Vina del Mar and many other towns. The strikers’ demands included wage increases, improved housing, stronger collective bargaining rights, better pensions, free education and quality healthcare. They also called for improvements in support for working families and the approval of a tax reform to fund greater social protections.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-chile-walk-out-general-strike

Colombia capital Bogota to ration water as reservoirs dry
Colombia's capital Bogota will start rationing water this week to alleviate droughts wrought by the El Nino weather pattern, which has exacerbated the Andean country's dry season and caused reservoir levels to fall, Mayor Carlos Galan said on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-capital-bogota-ration-water-reservoirs-dry-2024-04-08/

Brazil court says government must compensate victims of stray bullets in police raids
The ruling means that the state is now civilly liable for deaths or injuries resulting from either police or armed forces operations, even in cases where the forensics reports are inconclusive. The country’s top court was ruling in a case stemming from the killing of a man by a stray bullet in 2015 during an army action in Rio de Janeiro’s impoverished Mare neighborhood.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-stray-bullets-court-decision-725cac168ff5d43db93bf9cf311089cf

Communist Party’s Kokuta demands cancellation of Japan-Israel EPA talks
A member of the Japanese Communist Party has called for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to scrap negotiations on an economic partnership agreement (EPA) with Israel, saying such an agreement could be seen as condoning Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Why did nobody tell me about the Marxist episode in Star Trek?
>exploitation
>union
>strike
>anti-scabbing
>Marx quote
I uploaded it here, available for 7 days: https://we.tl/t-y43zW2cM4B

A genocide is being broadcast to mainstream media and people are getting poorer every year in the first world but there is still no class solidarity in sight. The focus is still on culture wars. How are we supposed to deal with this? How can we stay optimistic despite the odds being stacked against the interests of the working class?

capitalism and ai working together is going to lead to a dystopia. What can leftists do to try and fight back against this? The answers are probably obvious but I just wanted to make a new thread.

To socialism
I'm promoting a theory people here don't know of, it was promoted by a heterodox Marxist from the early 20th Century, named Karl Kautsky
Basically, the most viable path to communism is for western liberal democratic institutions to spread throughout the world, for western financial institutions to unite the world under a single transactional system, and then, push as hard as we can for reforms
Once the bourgeoisie realizes that imperialism and capitalism and fossil fuel extraction is literally more expensive than internationalism, socialism, and autonomous energy infrastructure, the capitalists will realize there is no stable foundation to their economic system and politicians will realize upholding capitalism is pointless and that war is unwinnable, at which point we use the democratic mechanisms gained from the example of western democratic governance spread throughout the entire world to simply vote collectively on a global scale to end capitalism and fossil hegemony, global NATO will become a reality and with the world under one banner imperialism will dissolve since empires only make sense with an exterior to itself

Reject tradition, embrace modernity

I've been rereading Lenin's What is to be done, Where to start and Letter to a comrade and it got me thinking. How many existing socialist organizations actually try applying the rational organizational kernel cleaned from autocratic circumstances Lenin posits in the texts? By that I mean: how many organizations actually try establishing a unified organ whose sole purpose is to connect all these disperse organizations and fights?

Setting up a server whose only purpose is to host an email service which informs everyone of existing sturggles and give a clear, broad picture of the movement? It is no secret that most leftist organizations are sects - kruzhoks. Even if it comes to cops busting this set up, you just need a cheap PC to set up another.

Imagine getting a weekly update what is happening in your country when it comes to leftist sturggles from people actually struggling. Imagine the theoretical and tactical texts suited from local conditions that could develop from this broad and encompassing picture of the struggle.

Why hasn't this been done?

Since Nicaragua is in the news, I have glanced over their ruling party and I simply don't comprehend it. It simply does not make any sense.

What are your thoughts on it?

>Listen to sabashit song about the failed siege of Gallipoli where the Turks pushed out the Allied invaders
>song be like: "boohoo there's no victory, no goal, only sadness from westoids who lost their sons"

In comparison songs about the siege of Vienna and the six day war fully glorifies the Poles and zionists and portrait the other side as subhuman filth

Any other shit bands that are blatantly White supremacist and imperialist propagandists?

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?