/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>1819614
oh yeah when is that madoka movie coming out?

>>1819614
>self proclaimed leftists
why you throw shades at them ?

>revolutionists most important in the areas that they govern
>ones that're with the most dynamism and have relatively persistent sorts of popularity, influence, or success happen coincidentally to have that Iranian republican
no shit, its like having a steady supply of weapons and money from their patrons help them take the forefront

>infantile fad of student anarchists
leftist armed resistance group in the mena are not infantile nor anarchists you bitch

>since the end of the gold standard.
you mean the end of the soviet union, that ended their foreign support

>>1819011
Meth unlocks the spirit of hyper autism. Methheads like dissasembling appliances just for fun.

>>1819013
thats normal, i used to do this as a kid when i was bored sometimes

>>1819021
i once did this with a bionicle and couldn't figure out how to put it back together because i didnt have the manual, so i cried for weeks and never took anything apart ever again

>>1816923
tfw no shroomfriend

Surveillance bill stumbles again in US House on privacy concerns
A modest overhaul of a controversial U.S. surveillance program foundered in the House of Representatives on Wednesday after Democratic and Republican critics, including Donald Trump, said it gave the government too much power to spy on its citizens.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hotly-debated-us-domestic-surveillance-bill-moves-toward-house-vote-2024-04-10/

Chevron CEO Pay Jumped to $26.5 Million During Hottest Year on Record
Citing a new securities filing, Reutersreported Wednesday that Chevron CEO Mike Wirth received $26.5 million in total compensation last year. Chevron, the second-largest oil company in the U.S. by revenue, reported $21.3 billion in profits in 2023—a haul it used to lavish shareholders with buybacks and dividends.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/chevron-ceo-pay-2023

FCC to cut monthly broadband benefits because of funding shortfall
Some low-income families in the U.S. could see more expensive broadband bills starting next month when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) makes cuts to its monthly broadband benefits, the agency announced Tuesday.
https://thehill.com/business/personal-finance/4584065-fcc-to-cut-monthly-broadband-benefits-due-to-funding-shortfall/
https://archive.is/uvD2r

Independent Cornel West taps professor Melina Abdullah as presidential running mate
West is seeking ballot access in states across the country for his long-shot campaign, which has registered in the low single digits in public polling but could have a big impact on a close 2024 election between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. West has been a critic of Biden's presidency from the left, and he criticized both major-party candidates in the interview Wednesday.
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Palestine Supporters in Philadelphia Block Day & Zimmermann Weapons Company Entrances
Philadelphia, PA — Around a dozen protesters marched from City Hall in Center City up to 1500 Spring Garden Avenue, the headquarters of privately held Day & Zimmermann corporation on Thursday, March 28. The company says it has more than 43,000 employees and is a “leading provider of munitions,” which includes 120mm tank rounds for Merkava tanks employed by Israel’s occupation forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as 155mm artillery rounds. The late March protest was called by Extinction Rebellion Philadelphia and supported by Montgomery County-based Montco for Palestine. Protesters briefly held positions blocking the parking lot and main building entrances — in both cases they were threatened with arrest by Philadelphia Police Department Civil Affairs officers wearing plain clothes & body cameras, although no actual arrests or detentions took place. (The city government says that Civil Affairs is supposed to lead protest responses [PDF].) While one of the officers joked to an organizer that it was a small demonstration, the event highlighted that even early on a wet day people are committed to sending a message about the lethal products made by Day & Zimmermann.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/palestine-supporters-in-philadelphia-block-day-zimmermann-weapons-company-entrances/

8M: I Became a Guerrilla in My City
Oriana Torres: I am one of the many urban women who are in Colombian cities today and who have been trained and formed as guerrillas. I started in high school, a beautiful experience, joining a collective of the ELN, there I was trained in that time of student struggle. It was in the collective’s plans to reach areas of social vulnerability, to learn about the realities that we were taught to feel in the depths of our being, what it awakens not to have a home to house their children, not to have money for health and not to be able to get food from day to day. That’s how I committed myself to that pain, the anguish of the poor I felt myself, which laid the foundations for me to train as an Elena guerrilla. I began to be part of a clandestine political-organizational work commission in my city, we were a tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

thanks news anon, very troubled times here

pic related is an excellent book cataloguing exactly this question as relevant to the 19th and early 20th century, should be required reading for anyone

>>1818995
Me personally.

Ireland is a great example with the potatoe famine, especially due to the direct involvement of wealthy Brits selling shit soil for poor Gales to farm and inevitably grow rotten-over potatoes from

Soviet's 1921 and 1946 famines, as well as WW2's Hunger plan were caused by capitalist warmongering. Nazis' plans were for Greater Ukraine to cut off food supplies to the USSR and send them only to German territory. Starving and driving the population into Siberia was a key objective.

The Nazis also caused famines in Holland and Greece.

>>1818995
yemen during the war with saudis
india during ww2

>>1817234
Can you give me an example of a dotp?

>>1816990
>>1816979
Take your meds, you schizo pseud. Literally arguing against shit nobody's said.

>>1816935
>Why is it important for the state - as a class dictatorship of the proletariat to "wither away" anyway?
>The State won't wither away. It will be obsoleted.
>>1816965
>When class and the division of labor itself have been abolished , there remains neither dictatorship nor state.
? You're answering yourself while being autistic about terms.

>this won't be achieved unless replicators are invented tomorrow and we find a source of energy that is plentiful, cheap to exploit and universally accessible. Or we find several different Earths where 8 billion people can separately live as "free" hunter gatherers.
Oh you're retarded. Nevermind.

>>1816990
they hated him because he told them the truth
Vivek Chibber makes much the same argument btw. we're allowed to notice religious influence in Eastern Marxism, but not in Western Marxism

>>1816979
it's actually both. the meaning of many words is context dependent

>>1817234
Woah its communisms fault that the capitalist hegemon collapses and so gives way to smaller capitalist states filling in the void

>ated with extensive use of cumperts and algorithms.
sure but why would AI be needed

This is getting ridiculous. There needs to be an AI general that cycles, just like /isg/, /burgerpol/, /ukraine/, /palestine/, /SEA/, /brazil/ etc.

there are too many loose "is AI a gamechanger????" threads floating around.

>>1819031
OP, how much do you know about AI, or economic planning, or cybernetic socialism?

LUV ME SUM CUMPERTS

From Ang Bayan: NPA Celebrates 55th Anniversary Of It’s Founding
United in spirit and with clenched fists, cadres and members of the Communist Party of the Philippines, fighters and commanders of the New People’s Army (NPA), allied organizations of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the revolutionary masses celebrated the 55th anniversary of the NPA on March 29. On the occasion of the anniversary, the Central Committee urged forces to look back at the achievements and shortcomings of the people’s army during the past year, draw lessons, and forge plans to make bigger strides in waging revolutionary armed struggle in the coming year. The Central Committee was pleased to report that the call for a rectification movement issued by the Party last December 2023 had been wholeheartedly welcomed by all regional Party committees and commands of the NPA. “They have responded positively and are presently carrying out summing-up conferences and study meetings to identify the errors and shortcomings in order to rectify these, and steadily and comprehensively carry forward all revolutionary tasks,” according to the Central Committee.
https://www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/from-ang-bayan-npa-celebrates-55th-anniversary-of-its-founding/

The UAW Is Supporting Mexican Autoworker Organizing
The United Auto Workers (UAW) announced February 23 that it will provide material support to Mexican autoworkers organizing in the independent union movement. As a member of the UAW executive board, I’m proud that our union understands how the futures of autoworkers in the United States and Mexico are tied together. Our Mexico solidarity project is about empowering our membership to win strong contracts and protecting our jobs in the United States — and it’s also about ensuring justice for workers across the border. The auto industry is not nationally bound, and neither should the labor movement be. For every record contract there will come the threat of moving production to Mexico, where a partnership between the companies and the corrupt company unions keep wages low — a whipsaw that oppresses workers on both sides of the border. The irony of free trade is that even with expanded production, Mexico still imports most of the vehicles sold Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thanks News Anon

Thanks based news anon

>>1817918
TYBNA
btw, recently discovered listening to vijay prashad that he participated in the creation of an "independent international news syndication service for the people of the Global South"
https://globetrotter.media/
could be a good idea to add it to your media list

>>1818798
goon foundation when

>>1818785
Unironically read Ian Stephenson. Best study on reincarnation outside of cultures that have it as a spook.

>>1818798
>satanic
very materialist

>>1818824
>Stephenson
Stevenson?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Cases_Suggestive_of_Reincarnation

>>1818850
Misremembered his name. That's the guy.

>>1817418
This is a dumb zigger narrative, as the liberation movements of 40 years ago where heavily communist, whereas the "liberation" movements in the wake of Russia are often just retarded, or are outright boot- and windowlickers like those in Donbas.
What started basically out from local communist and workers movements is nowadays just United Russia cucks, worst communist election turnout in the history of Donezk, labor unions outlawed in 2016, communists barred from their elected seats in the same year…

Russia stated that they want to decommunize and denazify Ukraine. There is not one without the other and both are Russian internal objectives aswell.

>>1817754
this is very dangerous in the long run because it turns communism into a mere set of symbols, which is what christianity has become, for example. someone wears a cross around their neck while behaving the opposite of what jesus advocated. In the future people will wear hammers and sickles but behave in a bourgeois and reactionary manner.

>>1817187
i've seen this guy in a lot of lvov pics. he has a fam too

>>1818832
I watched that whole insufferable interview and do not recall him saying "we've become bourgeoisie". but maybe I am just forgetting because it was boring. or maybe the translation was dogshit. I do not disagree with your point btw, just saying.

>>1817079
>Why must we be contempt with Putin to oppose Neo-Nazis in Ukraine?
because wtf are you gonna do about it?

>>1818660
If you are old enough to remember they were Japan bashing in the 90s too. So what? What does the fact that they hate China have to do with religious fundamentalism? How does it invalidate anything I've said. China is a country. Radical Islam is a political force inflicting defeats on the world's largest global empire. That's the important fact to underline here.

>>1817849
Don't get me wrong, I agree with those sorts of things, but then there's always some more extreme thing that justifies itself with some fringe anthropological theory, like humans being adapted to only eat raw meat like >>1817964 mentioned, and the ever more ridiculous grifts churned out by health influencers online like picrel.

My point is that under capitalism, people become obsessed with discovering what compulsions or 'ways' come naturally to humans in the hope of replacing the alien compulsions forced upon them.

>>1818789
>discovering what compulsions or 'ways' come naturally to humans in the hope of replacing the alien compulsions forced upon them
how is this a bad thing?

>>1818801
Well I don't think it does a whole lot to solve the real problem. Eating better or sleeping more can treat some of the symptoms of having a job, but nothing is going to make you feel less alienated from your labor. Nothing is actually going to make having a corporate job less bad, and I think a lot of people who occupy themselves with treating the symptoms still won't even entertain the idea that the entire world-system they inhabit might be evil and wrong.

>>1818687
>Radical Islam is a political force inflicting defeats on the world's largest global empire
you fucking what ? no. In fact radical islam is very useful to the empire as proven by their very long history of collaboration.
The defeats you could associate with "radical islam" are a lot more about national liberation and anti imperialist struggle.
On the other hand, china is inflicting very real defeats to the empire through their economic policies of real global development and alternatives to the west order.