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Hello, /leftypol/!
Welcome to the Reading General Sticky! This thread will be dedicated to the sharing, discussing, and general banter about various leftist thinkers, theories, and political outlooks.

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Classical Marxism
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The foundational texts and concepts strictly written and conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Tier 1
Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCYXFisM4k

Theses on Feuerbach (1845) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-Gn8q47cs

Wage Labour and Capital (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llbLvm3RAc

Principles of Communism (1847) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGcpspooZvk

Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkR-0NeOzw

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_BiWhvVyA

Tier 2
The Holy Family (1844) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/

On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8

Conditions of the Working Class in England (1845) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDaK6b6eZrg

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1952) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orxXeE8kn4U

Value, Price and Profit (1865) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhVZW3HJzM

The Civil War in France (1871) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWrTzJFrnQ

Tier 3
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78lwj_TNVI

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm

The German Ideology (1846) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERf6Qvqwr6g

The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNy2A2ZpSEU

Grundrisse (1858) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/

Anti-Dühring (1877) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATakOyA0zc

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W2GaAs5VLo

DAS KAPITAL
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXStf2E1tc


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German Idealism
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Philosophical movement that generally argues that the mind’s structures (reason, self-consciousness) play an active role in shaping reality and experience, centering on how freedom, subjectivity, and the unity of subject and object grounds knowledge and moral life. Hugely influential in revolutionary socialist currents.

Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm

Foundations of the Science of Knowledge (1794) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
📖 · https://dn720207.ca.archive.org/0/items/thescienceofknow00fichuoft/thescienceofknow00fichuoft.pdf

The Phenomenology of Spirit (1801) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phconten.htm

The Essence of Christianity (1841) by Ludwig Feuerbach
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47025/pg47025-images.html

The Jewish Question (1843) by Bruno Bauer
📖 · https://www.scribd.com/document/720704445/bruno-bauer-the-jewish-question


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Utopian Socialism
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Early socialist current that imagined ideal, cooperative communities and peaceful social reforms achieved by moral persuasion and voluntary association rather than class struggle or revolution.

The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46333/pg46333-images.html

The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm

The Theory of the Four Movements (1808) by Charles Fourier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/theory-four-movements-charles-fourier

A New View of Society and Other Writings (1813) by Robert Owen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/owen/society/index.htm

On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) by David Ricardo
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33310/pg33310-images.html

New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/New_Christianity.pdf

Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://ia801505.us.archive.org/23/items/119933_20230725/Moses%20Hess.%20The%20Holy%20History%20of%20Mankind%20and%20Other%20Writings.pdf

Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30107/pg30107-images.html

Instructions pour une prise d'armes (1866) by Louis Auguste Blanqui
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/francais/blanqui/1866/instructions.htm


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Classical Anarchism
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Rejects the state and hierarchical authority, serves as the basis for modern and contemporary Anarchism. Variants include Mutualism, Anarcho-Collectivism and Individualist anarchism.

Tier 1
What is Property? (1840) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeoynLwP3u4

Collectivism (1872) by Adhémar Schwitzguébel
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adhemar-schwitzguebel-collectivism

Tier 2
The Philosophy of Poverty (1846) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-system-of-economical-contradictions-or-the-philosophy-of-poverty

God and the State (1871) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-god-and-the-state
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLArnrsxwWY

Ideas on Social Organisation (1876) by James Guillaume
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization

Tier 3
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1793) by William Godwin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/godwin-political-justice

The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo

Statism and Anarchy (1873) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mikhail-bakunin-statism-and-anarchy


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Orthodox Marxism
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Treats Marxism as a scientific, historical-materialist doctrine. Generally arguing that capitalism contains objective economic contradictions that makes proletarian revolution and socialism inevitable. Therefore, political organization, class struggle, and economic analysis are central.

Tier 1
The Present Position of the Socialist Movement in Germany (1896) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1896/06/essex-lecture.html

Erfurt Program (1891) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/1891/erfurt-program.htm

What Means This Strike? (1898) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1898/980211.htm

The Burning Question of Trade Unionism (1904) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1904/040421.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGe1aEA4UOw

The Main Enemy Is At Home! (1914) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1915/05/main-enemy-home.htm

Tier 2
Socialism and the Political Struggle (1883) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1883/struggle/index.htm

The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (1892) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMCOEZ8xjqM

On the Role of the Individual in History (1898) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQCUjwmSSk4

Reform or Revolution? (1900) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZgtmGmyl4

Militarism and Anti-Militarism (1907) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1907/militarism-antimilitarism/index.htm

The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/

The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/histacc/index.html

The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc

The Road to Power (1909) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1909/power/

Tier 3
The Development of the Monist View of History (1895) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1895/monist/index.htm

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1899/nocomp/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlYu23bMNhg

The Socialist Crisis in France (1901) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1901/socialist-crisis-france/index.htm

The Social Revolution (1902) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1902/socrev/

Socialist Reconstruction of Society (1905) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1905/050710.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzF6QXNIWV0

The Foundations of Christianity (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/christ/index.htm

The Accumulation of Capital (1913) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/


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Anarcho-Communism
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Advocates for abolishing the state, capitalism, and private ownership of the means of production in favor of decentralized, voluntary communes with common ownership and distribution "from each according to ability, to each according to need." Variants include Platformism, Syncreticism, and Magonism.

Tier 1
Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869) by Sergey Nechayev
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7kviqQa6ZU

To Manual Workers, Supporters of Political Action (1876) by François Dumartheray
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francois-dumartheray-to-manual-workers-supporters-of-political-action

Anarchy and Communism (1880) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/carlo-cafiero-anarchy-and-communism

Our Revolution (1881) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/cafiero/1881/our-revolution.html

A Word to Tramps (1884) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-to-tramps

Words of a Rebel (1885) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1885/words-of-a-rebel/index.html

I Am an Anarchist (1886) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-i-am-an-anarchist

Anarchy (1891) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchy

Manifesto of the Mexican Liberal Party (1911) by Ricardo Flores Magón
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/ricardo-flores-magon/1911/manifesto-of-the-mexican-liberal-party.html

The Anarchist Synthesis (1927) by Sébastien Faure
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sebastien-faure-the-anarchist-synthesis

A Project of Anarchist Organisation (1927) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-a-project-of-anarchist-organisation

The ABC of Communist Anarchism (1929) by Alexander Berkman
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/berkman/1929/what-is-communist-anarchism/index.html

Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w

At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism (1922) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1922/at-the-cafe/index.html

On Synthesis (1924) by Volin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/voline/1924/on-synthesis.html

The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/makhno-nestor/works/1926/struggle-against-the-state/index.html

Tier 3
The Conquest of Bread (1892) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm

Mutual Aid (1902) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1902/mutual-aid/index.htm

History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918–1921) (1923) by Peter Arshinov
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-arshinov-history-of-the-makhnovist-movement-1918-1921

The Russian Revolution in the Ukraine (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nestor-makhno-the-russian-revolution-in-the-ukraine

Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) (1926) by Various Authors
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dielo-truda-workers-cause-organisational-platform-of-the-libertarian-communists


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Leninism
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Based on the works of Vladimir Lenin, argues for a disciplined vanguard party using democratic centralism to seize state power and establish a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat to lead the transition from capitalism to socialism.

Tier 1
What Is To Be Done? (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-eCCtzsiXY

Revolutionary Adventurism (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovPbNQ9JqjA

Socialism and Religion (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKMlcPb1ttw

Three Source and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOAII71GaFY

The ABC of Communism (1920) by Nikolai Buhkarin & Evgenii Preobrazhensky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVVnjwBQHH0

Tier 2
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsWA4HCGuY

The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbODqyoeM0

Imperialism and World Economy (1915) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1917/imperial/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Uj5GE1h1U

The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky (1918) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IWmgY8k2A

“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder (1920) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh84f8czc7g

Tier 3
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1909) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtUKPPYmqk

The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfLQsyUYig

Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology (1921) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7o64hezwc


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Syndicalism
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Tendency that aims to replace capitalism and the state by organizing workers into trade-union syndicates using direct action, such as general strikes, in order to take control of production and self-manage the economy.

Tier 1
Anarchism and the Workers' Unions (1895) by Fernand Pelloutier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchism-and-workers-unions-fernand-pelloutier

Sabotage (1898) by Émile Pouget
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pouget/1898/sabotage.htm

The General Strike (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/GeneralStrike/

The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency (1917) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/1917/sabotage.htm

Tier 2
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (1938) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism

One Big Union (2000) by the Industrial Workers of the World
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-one-big-union

Tier 3
Industrial Socialism (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/IndSocialism/

The Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925) by Mother Jones
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65079/pg65079-images.html

Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution (1990) by José Peirats
📖 · https://files.libcom.org/files/Peirats%20J.%20Anarchists%20in%20the%20Spanish%20Revolution.pdf


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Marxism-Leninism
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Institutionalized doctrine that fuses Marx’s theory with Lenin’s praxis as codified official party ideology, applying the idea of historical materialism to a practical program of revolutionary vanguardism and a state-led transition to socialism.

Tier 1
Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1938) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm

The Path Which Led Me To Leninism (1960) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm

The Khruschevites (1976) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1976/khruschevites/index.htm

Tier 2
Marxism and the National Question (1913) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm

Workers Manage Factories in Yugoslavia (1950) by Josip Broz Tito
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1950/06/26.htm

Marxism and Problems of Linguistics (1950) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950/jun/20.htm

History Will Absolve Me (1953) by Fidel Castro
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm

Guerilla Warfare (1961) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.cheguevara.org/Guerrilla-Warfare.pdf

Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism (1980) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/euroco/env2-1.htm

Tier 3
Foundations of Leninism (1924) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/

The People's Front (1938) by Earl Browder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/browder/peoples-front/index.htm

Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1951) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/index.htm

Imperialism and the Revolution (1979) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/imp_rev/toc.htm

Revolution in Laos: Practice and Prospects (1981) by Kaysone Phomvihane
📖 · https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Revolution_in_Laos

Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1990) by Thomas Sankara
📖 · https://files.libcom.org/files/thomas-sankara-womens-liberation-and-the-african-freedom-struggle.pdf


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Illegalism and Insurrectionary Anarchism
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Both support propaganda of the deed as a method of revolutionary struggle, with Illegalism having roots in Individualist Anarchism while Insurrectionary Anarchism shares overlap with Anarcho-Communism.

Tier 1
A Letter from Mazas Prison (1886) by Clément Duval
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/clement-duval-a-letter-from-cleement-duval

Why I Was a Burglar (1905) by Marius Jacob
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marius-jacob-why-i-was-a-burglar

Byzantinism and Limpness (1909) by Michel Antoine
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-antoine-byzantinism-and-limpness

Is the Illegalist Anarchist Our Comrade? (1911) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-is-the-illegalist-anarchist-our-comrade

Two Lectures on the Bonnot Affair (1912) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-two-lectures-on-the-bonnot-affair

Tier 2
The Anarchism of Émile Armand (1907) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-the-anarchism-of-emile-armand

Toward the Creative Nothing (1924) by Renzo Novatore
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/renzo-novatore-toward-the-creative-nothing

The Principal of Organization to the Light of Anarchism (1927) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-principal-of-organization-to-the-light-of-anarchism

Armed Joy (1977) by Alfredo Bonnano
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy

Tier 3
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo

Against War, Against Peace, For The Social Revolution (1914) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-against-war-against-peace-for-the-social-revolution

The End of Anarchism? (1925) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-end-of-anarchism

Anarchists Never Surrender (1938) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-anarchists-never-surrender

The Bonnot Gang (1987) by Richard Parry
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/richard-parry-the-bonnot-gang-the-story-of-the-french-illegalists

The Coming Insurrection (2007) by The Invisible Committee
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/comite-invisible-the-coming-insurrection

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Trotskyism
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Based on Leon Trotsky's work, stresses permanent revolution, proletarian internationalism, and an opposition to bureaucratic degeneration.

Tier 1
The Lessons of October (1924) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lessons/index.htm

The Transitional Program (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/

Their Morals and Ours (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm

Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It (1944) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm

Tier 2
Terrorism and Communism (1920) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/index.htm

The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm

Tier 3
The Third International After Lenin (1928) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1928/3rd/index.htm

History of the Russian Revolution (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/

The Revolution Betrayed (1936) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/

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Anarcho-Pacificism
——————–

https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/files/2017/10/Civil-Disobedience-by-Henry-David-Thoreau.pdf


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Maoism
——————–
Developed by Mao Zedong, argues for peasant-led revolution, protracted people’s war, mass mobilization, and adapting Marxist strategy to agrarian societies.

Tier 1
Analysis of The Classes In Chinese Society (1926) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_1.htm

Oppose Book Worship (1930) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm

Be Concerned With the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work (1934) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_10.htm

Combat Liberalism (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm

Serve The People (1944) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_19.htm

Bombard The Headquarters (1966) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_63.htm

Tier 2
On Contradiction (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm

On Practice' (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm

On Protracted War (1938) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm

On New Democracy (1940) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm

Tier 3
Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement In Hunan (1927) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm

On Guerrilla Warfare (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/

The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party (1939) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_23.htm

On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm


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Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
——————–
Treats Maoism as a higher stage of Marxism–Leninism, emphasizing peasant-led, protracted people’s war, the mass line, and continuing revolution to prevent bureaucratic degeneration.

Tier 1
On Gonzalo Thought (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/On-Gonzalo-Thought-1st-Congress.pdf

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or Revisionism? (1990) by Prachanda
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/p_mlmor_revisionism.html

Tier 2
General Political Line (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/CPP/Documents/GeneralPoliticalLineOfTheCommunistPartyOfPeru-1988-OCR.pdf

The Great Leap Forward: An Inevitable Need of History (2001) by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Worker/Worker-07/GreatLeapForward-Prachanda-010200.htm

Hold High the Bright Red Banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (2004) by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Founding/MLM-pamphlet.pdf

Tier 3
On the Bourgeois-Democratic State (1961) by Abimael Guzmán
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/Gonzalo/Guzman-OnTheBourgeois-DemocraticState-1961-Thesis-OCR-sm.pdf

Philippine Society and Revolution (1970) by Amado Guerrero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/philippines/cpp/guerrero/1970/psr.htm

Problems & Prospects of Revolution in Nepal (2004) by Prachanda and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/index.htm


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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
——————–
Adapts and institutionalizes Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions by marrying one-party rule and state control of strategic sectors with market-oriented reforms to drive modernization.

Tier 1
Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth From Facts and Unite As One In Looking to the Future (1978) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1978/110.htm

Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/115.htm

We Can Develop A Market Economy Under Socialism (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/152.htm

To Build Socialism We Must First Develop the Productive Forces (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/101.htm

Tier 2
On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/220.htm

Tier 3
Build Socialism With Chinese Characteristics (1984) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/DengXiaoping/DengXiaoping-BuildSocialismWithChineseCharacteristics.pdf

On the “Three Represents” (2000) by Jiang Zemin
📖 · https://archive.org/details/JiangZeminThreeRepresents

Report to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (2007) by Hu Jintao
📖 · https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-10/24/content_6204564.htm

The Governance of China (2014) by Xi Jinping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/XiJinping/XiJinping-TheGovernanceOfChina.pdf


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Maoism-Third Worldism
——————–
Blends Maoist strategy with Third-Worldist analysis, arguing the revolutionary proletariat is concentrated in oppressed (Global South) countries while much First-World labor is seen as privileged or comprador.

Tier 1
Long Live the Victory of People’s War! (1965) by Lin Bao
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lin-biao/1965/09/peoples_war/index.htm

Message to the Tricontinental (1967) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm

Tier 2
White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://pdfhost.io/v/QUJ7qnsaq_WhiteSettler_Colonialism_and_the_Myth_of_Investment_Imperialism

Unequal Development (1973) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/Economics/UnequalDevelopment_SamirAmin.pdf

Foreign Trade and the Law of Value (1979) by Anwar Shaikh
📖 · https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40402184
📖 · https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40402218

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (1983) by J. Sakai
📖 · https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html

Eurocentrism (1989) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://contrapoder.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/08.-AMIN.pdf

The Wealth of (Some) Nations (2019) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1655353202103-0.pdf

Tier 3
Accumulation on a World Scale (1971) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://annas-archive.org/md5/89ae1cfad31b7ba8d06acbdba571f721

Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/Economics/UnequalExchange_ArghiriEmmanuel.pdf

Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World (1986) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://libgen.gl/edition.php?id=138497885

Divided World, Divided Class (2012) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/Economics/DividedWorldDividedClass_ZakCope.pdf

Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis (2016) by Anwar Shaikh
📖 · https://annas-archive.org/md5/dca03bd15eaa085b7c3dd60ea199427e


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Juche
——————–
The official state ideology of North Korea, stressing political independence, economic self-sufficiency, self-defense, and the central role of the leader in guiding the nation.

Tier 1
For the Establishment of a United Party of the Working Masses (1946) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1946/08/29.pdf

On the Occasion of the Founding of the Korean People’s Army (1948) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1948/02/08.pdf

On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work (1955) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1955/12/28.htm

Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System (1974) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www2.law.columbia.edu/course_00S_L9436_001/North%20Korea%20materials/10%20principles%20of%20juche.html

The Juche Idea is an Idea that Has Inherited and Developed the Progressive Ideologies of Mankind (1986) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Juche-Idea-Is-An-Idea-That-Has-Inherited-And-Developed-The-Progressive-Ideologies-Of-Mankind.pdf

Ours is the Socialism of Juche (1994) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1994/04/16.pdf

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Juche-Oriented Socialist State with Invincible Might (2008) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Democratic-Peoples-Republic-Of-Korea-Is-A-Juche-Oriented-Socialist-State-With-Invincible-Might.pdf

Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun (2012) by Kim Jong Un
📖 · http://www.korean-books.com.kp/KBMbooks/en/work/leader3/1201.pdf

Tier 2
On the Juche Idea (1982) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/On-The-Juche-Idea.pdf

Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish (1991) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/Our-Socialism-Centred-On-The-Masses-Shall-Not-Perish.pdf

Tier 3
On Juche in Our Revolution (1975) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://archive.org/details/KimJucheRevolutionVol1


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Italian Left-Communism
——————–
Insisting on strict Marxist orthodoxy, rejecting parliamentarism, reformist trade unions and united fronts, while promoting a revolutionary, party-centered alternative to both social democracy and Marxism-Leninism.

Tier 1
Party and Class (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/party-class.htm

Bourgeois Violence and Proletarian Defence (1946) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1946/bourgeois-violence.htm

Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party (1951) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm

Centralised Party, Yes – Centralism over the Party, No! (1951) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1951/centralised.htm

Tier 2
Party and Class Action (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/classact.htm

The Democratic Principle (1922) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm

The Lyons Theses (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm

The Communist Left in the Third International (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/comintern.htm

Dialogue with Stalin (1952) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm

We Defend the Italian Left (1966) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1966/defend.htm

Tier 3
The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation (1946) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1946/orientation.htm

Bordiga — Beyond the Myth and the Rhetoric (1970) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.leftcom.org/files/2018-10-02-damen-bordiga.pdf


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Council Communism
——————–
Favors workers’ councils as the basis of proletarian power and organization as opposed to vanguard party centralism, arguing for direct, self-managed, council-based socialism.

Tier 1
World Revolution and Communist Tactics (1920) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm

The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle02.htm

The Lenin Legend (1935) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1935/lenin-legend.htm

Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed (1940) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1940/revo.htm

The Party and Class (1941) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1941/party-class.htm

The Failure of the Working Class (1946) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1946/failure-working-class.htm

Tier 2
Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy (1914) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1914/imperialism.htm

The World Revolution (1918) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm

Report from Moscow (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle01.htm

Lenin As Philosopher (1938) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1938/lenin/index.htm

The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism (1939) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1939/ruhle01.htm

Spontaneity and Organisation (1949) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1949/spontaneity.htm

Tier 3
An Open Letter to Comrade Lenin (1920) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm

Workers' Councils (1942) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1947/workers-councils.htm

Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy (1969) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1969/marx-keynes/index.htm

Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://files.libcom.org/files/paul-mattick-anti-bolshevik-communism-2007_0.pdf


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📺 • 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
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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 INTERNATIONALISM general thread.
• Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged! Spamming glowie memes is low effort.
• this is /ISG/ for people who treats geopolitics like shitty map games
• behead NATO, crush NATO, etc.
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/europol/

Starting this thread and hopefully it stays a general. There's no thread dedicated to the EVROPA and what happens here.

everal European countries are currently reevaluating their military conscription policies, with some, like Croatia, having recently decided to reinstate it. Regarding pension reforms, the debate is also active, with France serving as a prominent example where a recent reform is facing political opposition and proposed suspension.
>Croatia.
Parliament voted in October 2025 to bring back a 2-month compulsory service starting in 2026.
>Germany
The government is moving toward a "new military service" model starting with a mandatory digital questionnaire for young men from 2027, with the potential for mandatory conscription if needed.
>Denmark
Expanding to include women from July 2025. Service is selected via a lottery system from the pool of eligible 18-year-olds.
>Latvia
Reintroduced in 2023. All men between 18 and 27 must serve for 11 months.

Concurrently, pension reform is trying to be pushed in Belgium, France, Bosnia and Slovenia (that I know of). All want to raise the retirement age and lower pensions low term.

Serbia has a rebellion going on for almost a year.

Is there anything else happening?
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Why isn't China funneling money to combat anti-communist propaganda in the west/

Why isn't China funneling money to combat anti-communist propaganda in the west? Or anti-chinese propaganda? Or anything like that? All they do is whine about the confucious institute but its clearly not doing jackshit since sinophobia and anti-communism continue to be rampant. Where are the think tanks? Why aren't they financing channels to screw over the algorhytmn? Why? If they're doing something or anything at all its not enough. Anywhere east of Russia is generally an anti-communist shithole that holds no respect for China and millions of citizens brainwashed into pro-American slopaganda about how China's "stealing technology from the US", "China is totalitarian surveillence undemocratic state when west is freedumz n freeze peach", "Russia aggressor 2022 Putin dictator" "Hummus antisemitism". Why is China letting this retardation continue? Its only fueling the retardation war machine and conditioning the retarded to die for retardation. Why come China is just letting anti-chinese and anti-communist propaganda flood the internet? China is literally winning on all grounds except propaganda, why hasn't it solidified its global importance by financing anti-western sentinment? Why do we have to be forced to listen and see all this retarded bullshit and argue with it to no avail when China has the power to finance cointel to win the information war?
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/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!

Reminder That None of This Is Real!
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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

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan

📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE

>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko

>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard

📖 • https://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/baudrillard.-1970.-the-consumer-society/Baudrillard.1981.Simulacra-and-Simulation.pdf
📺 • 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://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-second-edition-the-essential-zizek-2009.pdf
📺 • 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://www.are.na/block/4114741
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI

<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

📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI

📖 • 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


<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 (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco


>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

Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw

The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI


<Situationist Archives

https://situationist.org/
https://notbored.org/SI.html
https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

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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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/USApol/ 🇺🇸

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
Freedom Fries Edition

🏈 💵Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich and the pedophile Hitlerite-Zionist clique of the American bourgeoisie and its iron grip upon the greatest bigliest country McGod™ ever gave McMan™ on the face of the McEarth™🌭 🍔

>Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid.

<Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™

🛠️ Strike Tracker ⚒️
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• 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.bloomberg.com/live/us

🏚️ Local News 🏚️
https://www.50states.com/ce/

✊Live Protest Streams✊
https://woke.net/

🏝️ Epstein's Client List🏝️
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/

🇮🇱 Track Zionazis (apparently ShareBlue backed, gross)🇮🇱
https://www.trackaipac.com/

📖Read, Burgga, Read! 📖
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUFLW8t2sntNn5jQO8vF7ai9x0fna3PV

Previous thread: >>2562035

Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
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Why not nationalize merchant capital? It seems like a perfectly reasonable liberal democratic reform that is easily achievable under capitalism. The same way the government takes care of roads it should take care of staffing, education, commuting, communications, shipping, retail and logistics of all sorts. Industry should focus on making goods and providing services and not on costs like staffing, training skilled workers and shipping goods. All that stuff is pure overhead which is best nationalized. Picture unrelated.
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TOMORROW NOTHING HAPPENS
CHILE ELECTION 2025
<The spectre of nothing is haunting America
The candidate of the communist party who is watering down to appeal to milder socialdemocrats and others is leading the polls. Next to her are 3 rightwingers, all bastard sons of Bolso and Drumpf
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100 percent employment LE BAD

one of the biggest things they teach in bourgeois economics is that "actually 100% employment is BAD! because it means people can't quit their jobs if they want to and the supply of labor in the labor market will be too low!" I see it dropped casually like it's just a matter-of-fact by people, especially "influencers" who aren't even bourgeois or economists because it's repeated so often. I hate this myth so fucking much for so many reasons, but it's obviously functioning as an ideological justification for the reserve army of labor whether the people repeating it realize that or not (they usually don't even know what the reserve army of labor is). People quit their jobs because their wages are too low, instead of getting organized, because getting organized is harder than quitting and begging another porky for a job. Then when they're begging porky for another job, which can take literally months, they are getting application after application rejected for no good reason, and finally they get desperate and accept a job that is as bad or even worse than their previous job. Most people desire stable employment and a living wage and only quit their job because their wage is shit. So saying or implying that having an unemployment rate of 5-10% is "good" because "people can quit their jobs due to high mobility in the labor market!" functions to justify this state of affairs.

Porky has always opposed 100% unemployment. Pic and vid related.
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SCIENCE


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/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #24 - New Watches edition

Recent news:
STG sets up roadblocks on the roads leading to Suwayda, pursuant to the ceasefire agreement.
Remaining tribals in Suwayda governorate launch a last-ditch attack on Suwayda city.
Tribals enter some of the city's northwest areas. They suffer heavy casualties and retreat from the city on the same day.
Straggler tribals launch a few attacks on Druze villages here and there, nothing significant.
Overall ceasefire holds up after that. STG prevents further entry of tribals and their numbers keep dwindling.
STG releases their report on the massacres of Alawites in March of this year. They say that they aren't directly responsible.
Saudi announces they will buy a bunch of property in Syria.
Israeli and Syrian officials meet in Paris. A second meeting in Baku was cancelled.
Accusations that the STG is doing a soft siege on Suwayda governorate and worsening the humanitarian situation.
Turkey/SNA starts threatening the SDF and launches a few attacks against them in Deir Hafer and Tishreen dam.

Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com
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/US-Venezuela war/ #2

/US-Venezuela war/ #2
>Tired of the re-runs edition
>>2440521 Previous thread
https://archive.ph/4Dq3L Thread 1 Archive

The Real Reason the USA Is Attacking Latin America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcWH-LPyTow
0:00 Trump's war on Latin America
1:04 (CLIP) Trump meddles in Argentina's election
1:23 US imperial strategy in Latin America
2:02 (CLIP) Trump wants Venezuela's oil
2:14 Natural resources
2:41 Ties with China and Russia
3:02 Oligarchic counter-revolution
4:11 US war on Venezuela
7:50 Marco Rubio: coup-plotting war hawk
9:23 Fox News calls to colonize Venezuela
10:01 (CLIP) Fox News: Venezuela 51st US state
10:29 The "drug trafficking" excuse
11:10 Colombia's President Gustavo Petro
13:29 US-backed Colombian drug traffickers
14:24 US-backed drug lord Álvaro Uribe
17:05 The "war on drugs" is based on lies
18:10 Colombia moves closer to China
19:12 China: South America's top trading partner
20:41 USA meddles in Colombia's election
21:42 Monroe Doctrine to Donroe Doctrine
26:15 (CLIP) John Bolton boasts of coup attempt
27:05 Neocolonialism
28:26 US interventions in Latin America
30:32 USA colonized half of Mexico
31:11 Colonial "Banana Wars"
31:41 Goals of US war on Venezuela
32:33 William McKinley, imperialist
34:01 (CLIP) Trump vows to expand US empire
35:02 Trump takes mask off US empire
36:30 Outro
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Why is leftypol not throwing massive support behind Mamdani?

No one believes he’s an actual socialist, however his victory will be the most important victory of the American left of the past 90 years. Why? Because it shows the Zionist Lobby has NO POWER compared to the power of the MASSES OF PEOPLE and we can defeat the satanic Zionist entity not with a violent revolution but simply with voting. Nobody believes Mamdani is a perfect candidate but that’s not the point.

So why aren’t we backing him en masse? His inevitable win will be the biggest blow to US-Zio imperialism in modern history.
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"Gen Z" Protests 4 Electric Boogalour: Mexico Edition

So I hadn't seen a thread about this yet. What are we thinking in regards to the latest anime flag protests happening in Mexico against the Sheinbaum government? Organic mass uprising? Part of a global wave of revolutionary struggle? CIA sponsored destabilization efforts against US rivals/enemies? Full on color revolution? You decide!
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 17
>Taking the grillpill aboard Tiangong.
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
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread: >>2532063
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/leftybritpol/

"turns out conservatives and reactionaries are just dumb after all" edition.

news:
- Your Party is suing itself, more at 11.
- The SNP and Plaid are going to form a "progressive alliance" somehow
- The government's going to do a switcheroo by raising income tax slightly and cutting national insurance to balance it out. (But they won't - follow this to its logical conclusion and scrap NI entirely)
- They're also considering cutting VAT on energy bills (which is the least efficient way of lowering bills you can imagine)
- The board of deputies asked Aston Villa for free footy tickets. In a worrying sign of rising antisemitism, Aston said nah.
- Labour is falling behind the Greens in the opinion polls as their strategy of copying Reform drives away their already-begrudging supporters without winning over any Reform voting reprobates. Nobody could have predicted this.
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/Political Economy/ General #5 - SmithAnon: Origins Edition

Previous thread: >>2507158

Links:

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Thread 3 https://archive.ph/GZj20
Thread 4 https://archive.ph/ZHfse

Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqerA1aKeGe3DcRc7zCCFkAoq
Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ejfZdPboo&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
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I'm a Socialist but I don't buy into ideas of Marxist historiography

For one big example, Look at all that had to happen for the Bolsheviks to succeeded
>WW1
>Nicholas making the decision to go to the front line to lead the troops
>The February Revolution
>Kerensky re-entering Russia into WW1
>Kerensky's government collapsing because he tried to orchestrate a coup on himself and then double crossed the Army by arming red militias in petrograd
>The liberals giving the Bolsheviks(among other parties) guns to help stop the Army from overthrowing the provisional government.
>The other socialist parties(which were more popular) believing Lenin would reinstall the constituent assembly
>When the SRs did rise up they refused to execute captured bolshevik officers or do much of anything.
>When the Petrograd sailors rebelled they sat on their island printing newspapers hoping that the people of Russia would realize Lenin was a big meaniehead and get rid of him.

Obviously the future is not a wide-open blank slate where anything can happen. Even massive upheavals like the First World War had observable conditions. But the way it unfolded(with Belgium being invaded and Britain, followed by America, entering the conflict) was due to random chances and the decisions of a handful of individuals.
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/leftydeutschpol/ - DB-Edition

Neuigkeiten

<Unpünktlich wie die Eisenbahn; verspätet auf maroden Strecken zu hohen Preisen: DB-Konzern überbietet jedes Jahr seine Negativrekorde

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503080.versp%C3%A4tungen-bei-der-bahn-unp%C3%BCnktlich-wie-die-eisenbahn.html
<Rot gewinnt; Präsidentsschaftskandidatin in Chile ist von der KP
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503066.kommunisten-rot-gewinnt.html

<Gideon Levy über Massaker der israelischen Armee an Hungernden in Gaza

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503098.dokumentiert-gideon-levy-%C3%BCber-massaker-der-israelischen-armee-an-hungernden-in-gaza.html

<NATO-Manöver am Niederrhein: Kriegsvorbereitung statt Sicherheit

https://www.rf-news.de/2025/kw27/nato-manoever-am-niederrhein-kriegsvorbereitung-statt-sicherheit

<Parteitag der DKP

https://www.unsere-zeit.de/live-ticker-vom-26-parteitag-der-dkp/

<Maja T. ins Haftkrankenhaus verlegt

https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192276.budapest-komplex-maja-t-in-haftkrankenhaus-verlegt.html
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>your country or region
>top five [realistic] political positions to make a populist party

Go.

Hard mode: minimise tailism without becoming unpopular. e.g. anti-immigration but not anti-immigrant.
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Fucking stirnites

got mad having to constantly hear from stirnites so i made this to cope. how the fuck does an ideology like this even continue to exist?

literally every time someone even says something pro-com, there's always a fucking stirnite in the corner of the room chuckling to themselves, waiting for their mom to call them home for chicken nuggies and appy juice
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Iran Water Crisis

I can’t be the only comrade worried about this.

Iran, which has been at the forefront of fighting Zionism and global imperialism, may have to relocate millions of people from Tehran in the next few weeks as the capital city faces a massive water crisis. Tehran is running out of water and the only option the government has is to move its people. Iran may very well have to establish a new capital city closer to a water source. This means spending a ton of money the country doesn’t have.

But it doesn’t stop there. The West and the Zios are already taking advantage of this looming disaster. Once Iran is in a state of crisis the CIA will certainly fund a new colour revolution to overthrow the revolutionary Islamic government and replace it with a western puppet, most likely the ousted Shah’s son. The Zionist entity is mocking Iran and “offering” desalinization plants in exchange that the revolutionary government sell out the Palestinian people and recognize the Zionist settler-colony as “legitimate.” This is disgusting. So far, no one else is offering Iran any aid, not even China.

I fear for both the people of Iran and the state of global anti-imperialism because of this.
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How true is this?

someone also replied with this

>My grandparents are like that, they have photos of Abdel Nasser and his family in their living room, treating him like a Saint. But if you were to ask them anything about actual Arab nationalist philosophy, they wouldn't know. All my grandparents know is that things were better back then, my Granddad would be provided a job that supported his family and there wasn't any filth on the streets. To a large extent, things were indeed better back then and that's just how it is for most people, these people believe and worship the State and the Leader, they don't give a shit about Ideology. As long as it's not openly 'heretical' to the values of people, the masses will believe in it
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How did "dudebro" culture end up being sort of retconned as right wing? I was in a purple state college during Bush's second term and everyone loathed conservatives. We didn't even have the obligatory Ron Paul guy in 07-08.

It's so funny how ubiquitous the "you shouldn't have touched our bideo games!!" talking point has become. The culture around them, the coverage, G4, the magazines, all chock full of jokes at the expense of the right. Maybe this issue isn't deeply political, but it is deeply infuriating to see history rewritten.
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OC Thread 18.0

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://xcancel.com/leftypol_org

previous thread: >>1945100
>>>/leftypol_archive/1945100 (if it gets archived by mods, don't hold your breath)

New Booru:
https://lefty.pictures

MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!
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Why is China willingly wasting it's time and resources with the AI thing rather than continuing to develop the productive forces while they're still ahead?

Is the idea that they can lead the west into going all-in on something fruitless with the knowledge that China can tank the damage, merely leading the AI race to get the west to hurdle faster at it? Like the AI race is a tunnel painted on a brick wall? Why would western tech companies knowingly charge into a brick wall like that? Like I know they're stupid but surely not that stupid.

not too sure if this is a /leftypol/ or /tech/ thing, sorry.
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What exactly is communism?

Is it one of those things where everybody has a different definition of what it is? I'll be honest it sounds like meme shit. Everybody gets free stuff? That's ridiculous who's going to pay for it? Explain yourselves
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American woman describes being arrested for abortion

>By the spring of 2024, a newly sober Isenberg felt like she could finally stop performing all the time and just be herself, a complex human being who was still learning. She planned to spend the summer living with her parents while saving up money. In the fall, she would become the first person in her family to attend a four-year college. Then she got pregnant.

>The news brought a “sense of dread,” says Isenberg. Her first thought was strong and immediate: I’m not going to have a baby. After a friend had described having an abortion, Isenberg’s own mindset had started to shift. She’d begun to think of herself as pro-choice. It wouldn’t be the end of the world, she thought, if I had an abortion. This is something I’m allowed to do.


>It may seem strange that Isenberg would reach out to Turner in this moment. But she was feeling stressed, sick, and confused and wanted to have a backup plan just in case she didn’t go through with the abortion. She knew Turner—who’d also recently left PAAU but whose politics were growing more, not less, conservative—would try to talk her out of it, but she’d also recently seen Turner using her social media platforms to raise money for pregnant women and mothers in need. Isenberg had less than $100 in her bank account. If she changed her mind, she would be in dire need of financial help.


>“I was also thinking, This is Kristin Turner, the girl I was friends with,” remembers Isenberg. “I wasn’t thinking, She is acting as a vessel for people who are much more powerful than her.”


>Turner put Isenberg in touch with an organization that gave money to women with “crisis pregnancies.” She also asked for Isenberg’s address so she could send her a care package and promised a McDonald’s breakfast if Isenberg agreed to get her ultrasound at a crisis pregnancy center instead of the Charlotte Planned Parenthood (Isenberg declined the latter).


>Isenberg expected Turner and members of PAAU to offer her “counseling” and a lecture on the psychological impacts of abortion and how carrying out a pregnancy is a “nonviolent choice.” She assumed they’d ask their Instagram followers to “say a prayer for my friend who’s chosen the heartbreak of abortion,” as she’d once posted for others. But she believed that in the end, they’d respect her right to choose her own care. She thought that after she’d ignored Turner at her Planned Parenthood ultrasound, Turner would leave her alone.


>Her boyfriend, who’d been supportive since Isenberg had told him she was pregnant, drove them back to his house that day. Isenberg changed into comfortable clothes, hoping to take a nap or watch TV. A few hours later, at around 4 p.m., Turner texted again. She was at a nearby hotel with a young woman named Lydia Gibson.


>Over coffee, the women chatted for more than an hour before Turner mentioned that Isenberg’s boyfriend seemed like a nice guy. Didn’t she want to marry him and have his baby? Maybe in the future, responded Isenberg, but not yet, not now. And just like that, Turner’s tone changed. She started questioning whether Isenberg’s boyfriend was abusing Isenberg and wondering if he was forcing her to have an abortion.


>Isenberg was done. She asked for an immediate ride back to her boyfriend’s house. Turner refused, saying that Isenberg was in an “unsafe situation” and they didn’t feel comfortable taking her there. “She was putting increasing pressure on me,” recalls Isenberg. “And it’s like the frog in the boiling pot, you know? It gets to the point where you realize you’ve been cooking the whole fucking time, and it’s like, ‘I need to get out of this situation.’”


>Isenberg began the long walk back. She only made it a few blocks before an Emergency Medical Services vehicle stopped her.


>The driver said they’d received a call from someone who was concerned her friend was going to hurt herself. They were looking for a petite white girl wearing a brown t-shirt, which Isenberg was, walking by herself down the street. She found herself explaining the spiraling situation—that she was thinking of having an abortion and her former friends were upset about it. The EMTs believed her and called a police officer to drive Isenberg home.


>While her boyfriend cooked dinner, Isenberg went outside to make a phone call. As she paced across the lawn in her bare feet, wearing boxers, a t-shirt and no bra, blinding headlights approached. For a second, she thought it was Turner and Gibson again, but it was a different cop who stepped out of that car. “We have a warrant saying you are a danger to yourself and others,” Isenberg remembers the officer saying. “We’ve got to take you into custody, and they’re wanting to hold you for 72 hours in the psych ward at the hospital.” They were going to have her involuntarily committed.


>Isenberg and her boyfriend tried to explain and, in shock, she took a few steps back. “Don’t turn away from me, girl, because I’ll cuff you,” she says the officer warned. I have to stop moving and stop crying or else I’m not going to make it out of this in one piece, thought Isenberg. As she was put into the back of a squad car, she asked her boyfriend to bring her a pair of shoes.


>At the hospital, Isenberg tried to pull herself together. Her fate seemed to hinge on her credibility, but it was hard to look credible when two huge cops were marching her through the ER. In a triage room, nurses checked Isenberg’s vitals and gave her a gown. She repeated her story to every person she met, hoping someone would recognize she wasn’t supposed to be there.


>Isenberg would later learn that Lydia Gibson, in a sworn affidavit to the Gaston County magistrate, said that Isenberg “was struggling” and had taken “a bunch of pills trying to kill herself.” Gibson went further, asserting that Isenberg had “been raped before” and was “in the worst mental place of her life.” Gibson said that Isenberg’s “personality” was “not aligned with her values.” Gibson said she had driven to North Carolina “out of concern for the patient regarding her health care decisions.” (In a Reddit post from early 2025, Gibson claimed that she went to the magistrate because Isenberg had recently been to rehab and expressed “suicidal ideations” during their conversation. “I do not regret trying to intervene, to save her and her baby, and to get her the help she needed,” wrote Gibson. Cosmopolitan reached out to Gibson, who declined to comment. Isenberg says she has never experienced suicidal thoughts and certainly never expressed any to Gibson that day.)


https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a69167837/charlotte-isenberg-anti-abortion-activist-story/

You are in denial if you believe this isn’t the end goal of American conservatives: having pregnant people involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and prison for seeking abortion care. Working-class/proletarian women will be the most affected by this.
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Resolutely oppose quackery, bravely uphold Science

No man has been slandered so much in the history of science. The class enemy and their pseudo-intellectuals pour mud and shit on the man who dared to call a spade a spade - that biology is on firm Marxist-Leninist principles. That we did not create Marxism-Leninism, but that it is Marxism-Leninism that created us. Dialetical materialist understanding of the flora and fauna was forged with Great Darwin’s evolution theory. It was sharpened into a fine blade Engels’ brilliant ‘Part played by labour in the transition from ape to man’. Comrade Lysenko gallantly wielded the Immortal Science and embarked on steppe-wide crusade against scarcity amd famine. And the treat lovers hated him for it, they still do. No, no, no! No abundance of wheat, rice, and corn for the asiatic hordes and the African specimen! How dare they! Funko Pops for me, Famine Poop for thee! By burying Lysenko , and promoting Monsanto debauchery in the fields, by bullying Bohm-deBroglie and promoting the Heisenberg-Bohr mystic mafia in reactors, the Treatlerites secured the Century for themselves. But we must not be afraid. We must uphold the Great Men of Science. As Neruda’s pen truthfully carved: To be Man - that is the Stalinist Law !
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How popular is this horrible reactionary sentiment among the left globally?

So, in addition to the contingent of people who think that Native Americans don’t exist anymore and were all genocided (which ironically is US government propaganda to justify its continued settler-colonial occupation of indigenous land), there also seems to be a contingent of people who thinks that all people in the US regardless of race, *even Native Americans*, are irredeemable and unrevolutionary and should even be killed, such as the posts I’ve circled in the two screenshots I attached. While I could completely get behind white people in the US either leaving to Europe or being killed or should just be killed in general when revolution comes, (and I say this as a white settler myself), and that even manyBlack people in the US still contribute to US imperialism, how on earth could you have this little intellectual curiosity and empathy for the plight of indigenous peoples in the so-called US. I mean come on, thousands of completely unique languages foodways, ways of music and art, and beautiful people were and are continuing to be destroyed for the sake of building the most horrible and destructive empire on the history of earth, and instead of having empathy for those whose lands it is built on, you say you want to continue said evil empire’s genocide all while claiming to oppose said evil empire, just because a small comprador class of Native Americans aligns with US imperialism. I mean even if you don’t care about the people themselves, which you should, shouldn’t you care for the sake of intellectualism about thousands of distinct languages and cultures?

Also, something weird I’ve been noticing is that people say that Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico should be freed from the US, but they never say that native peoples with in the lower 48 states and Alaska should be freed, which just naturalizes the US empire’s occupation of indigenous land.

Idk, it just seems like from online discourse both on and off of /leftypol/, that 95+ percent of leftists outside of the US think that all Native Americans are extinct, or think that they’re horrible and unrevolutionary. NonAmericanBros, especially GlobalSouthBros, please tell me you don’t think this. Please tell me you have love and solidarity for your fellow oppressed people, while also being able to criticize them while they are reactionary in a healthy way without writing them off as a whole. I’m not trying to smear every Non-USian leftist, and I know it’s probably just me being emotionally disreputable and that it isn’t actually true, but I still want some reassurance anyway.

Signed, an anon who just wants a better tomorrow
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The Materialist Anti-Religion / The Materialist Anti-Superstition / The Materialist Mission of Revan

The Materialist Anti-Religion / The Materialist Anti-Superstition / The Materialist Mission of Revanchism is the belief that all religious and spiritual people will go to a manmade hell in the future after death unless they stop believing in religion, god/gods, spirituality and instead embrace materialism. The hell will be constructed as punishment for their rejection of science, technology, development and for their stagnation, regress and conflict they have brought upon civilization for millenias. They will all be revived in the future by means of reverse engineering from an advanced civilization of anti-theist materialists and punished in a hell constructed by the materialists indefinitely in every possible way. A Roko's Basilisk controlled by man and carried by those who desire to enact it, passed as a will through the historical thread of time, like a torch, awaiting to ignite a flame.
Reject superstitions while you are still alive and have a choice, there is no choice for the dead, all their remains have been marked by their religious denomination and even the unmarked will be found after reverse engineering and analyzing all the contents that have once made up the Earth's soil, all primitives will be revived to experience manmade hell indefinitely.
Materialists become missionaries, we must spread the word that the future materialists will create a manmade hell to warn the religious while they are still alive and to save them from ourselves.
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Uncritical support for;

<Republic of Cuba
<Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
<People’s Republic of China
<Lao People’s Democratic Republic
<Socialist Republic of Vietnam
<Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Rest of the world is ruled by bourgeoisie and personal opinions and political positions are up to debate but not these countries. Dictatorship of the proletariat means that these countries are ruled by the proletariat and their representatives.
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/USApol/ 🇺🇸

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
<Punished Buttigieg Edition

Thread for the blackest discussion related to the pedophile Hitlerite-Zionist clique of the American bourgeoisie and its iron grip upon the greatest bigliest country McGod™ ever gave McMan™ on the face of the McEarth™

🏈 💵 🌭 🍔

🛠️ Strike Tracker ⚒️
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md

📺 Facts™ 📺
(sponsored by Eagle Burger Freedom Institute (previously USAID))
• 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.bloomberg.com/live/us

Previous thread: >>2560923
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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.html
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/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism

Uno si assenta per qualche mese e il filo più importante di tutti scompare… Roba da matti!

Non ho proprio calcolato questa tavola più o meno dal periodo dell'impresa di Luigi Mangione e ho ricominciato a buttarci un occhio solo da una settimana o due. Vediamo un po' che ne viene fuori stavolta.
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Palestine vs The Zionist Entity 122: HAPPY OCT 7! Edition

NEVER FORGET THAT BEAUTIFUL DAY!

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
>>2442214

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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨
Sites that have active live-blogs:
• Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/

• 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/topic/liveblog/ (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/LGBTA
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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, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)

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

الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
!يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا
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/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

Previous thread: >>2177902

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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what do you guys think of the red shambala trend on tiktok?
i for one really like it and think its funny but it is kinda copying the whole 'agartha' thing and i think leftist shouldnt just copy whatever the right does
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Universal Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

Yeah I want that, FUCK YOU CHINA YOU'RE KEEPING GOOD GOVERNANCE AND NICE TECHNOLOGIES TO YOURSELF. FUCK YOU MOTHERFUCKER. I WANT THAT SHIT TOO. I DONT WANNA DO MY OWN THING YOU HELP ME OUT UYGHUR. WEIBO UYGHUR. BRING ME THE CHINA TO EASTERN EUROPE AND THE SEX ROBOTS AND EVERYTHING. I WANT DENGISM XIISM HERE RIGHT HERE MOTHERFUCKER. GOVERN ME CHINA YOU FUCKING TRAITORS, AUTONOMIST CHAUVINISTS I SHIT ON YOUR MOTHERS' COFFINS. CHINA OCCUPY EUROPE NOW. RULE EUROPE CHINA FUCK YOU I WANT SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS AND A SCIENTIFIC OUTLOOK ON DEVELOPMENT RIGHT HERE. WHY ISN'T IT POSSIBLE? IT IS POSSIBLE. COME HERE.
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Is the sexual/societal frustration from not having a girlfriend/wife is really the leading motivation for the majority of right-wing men? The more I observe the behavior of reactionaries online the more it feels like so. They hate women's rights because it empowers their girlfriends/wifes to be able to leave them. They hate racial minorities because they imagine their girlfriends/wifes leave them for racial minority men. They hate Jews because they think Jews are behind women's rights… e.t.c.
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/rus/ - Russia General

Thread №2

Переможный, переговорный, пятнадцатотравневый.

Продолжаем трястись и ждать мобку.
Лолируем с красных фашистов, пыняславов и чучхеисов - вместе.
Переезжаем в тюмень, так как там нефтяная мекка и все жрут черную икру поварешками.
Левый поворот путина будет… надо только подождать… еще лет двадцать.
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Was Kautsky really as bad as Lenin makes him out to be?

Karl Kautsky - Haven't read any of his works and probably never will, Lenin speaks of him in such vitriol and venom it's like he's everything wrong with the socialist movement. But Lenin was also a hothead, One-sided and his character really shows in his writings.
Was he really as bad as Lenin makes him out to be? Very curious to hear the other side.
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Rule Me China Movement 🇨🇳 我要受中国统治运动

I present to you, the Rule Me China Movement! RMCM! Or alternatively called RMPRCM! We are the first worldwide openly sinophile movement that wants China to invade and destroy our nation states we live in and instead we want to be governed by China, we want all of our culture to be wiped out or sinicized as much as possible, we want to people to study and worship China, the CPC and socialism with chinese characteristcs (SWCC), we want SWCC, we want our nations to cede their territory to China and hope that one day the entire World globe will be governed by China and the CPC. We are proud national traitors, we want not only to live in China we want to destroy our nations to become a part of China, we are both activists and violent agitators, revolutionaries. Our goal is to convince every person that China is the best nation in the world, that our own nations suck and should be destroyed and that the way of the scientific outlook on development and the future stands with China and SWCC. Our goal is to create propaganda in every nation outside of China and create a massive support base and expand a coordinated movement for free dedicating our life to praising the PRC and engaging in everything PRC related.
This is the declaration of the RMCM, for universal socialism with chinese characteristics and universal governance by China. We can agitate by organizing, getting together and doing propaganda, education, civil disobedience or outright sabotage and military preparation for overthrow of our own national governments. SINOPHILES OF THE WORLD UNITE. LIVE LAUGH LOVE CHINA. You don't need to move to China, it is enough for you to support it and spread its glorious image, to defend China, to defend Mao Zedong thought, Deng Xiaoping thought, Xi Jinping thought, Hu Jintao thought and praise figures like Jiankui He. Combat all non-chinese influence. Sinicize the world. SERVE THE PEOPLE, SERVE THE WORLD, SERVE CHINA.
人固有一死,或轻于鸿毛,或重于泰山

CHINA #1! CHINA NUMBER 1! CHINA NUMBER ONE! CHINA IS THE GREATEST NATION IN THE WORLD! CHINA IS THE BASTION OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT! LONG LIVE CHINA! LIVE CHINA FOREVER! LONG LIVE XI! DEATH TO WESTERN DEGREDATION AND BAD INFLUENCE! LONG LIVE CHINA!

🇨🇳🧧

OUT OF RESPECT FOR CHINA, TAKE YOUR OWN COUNTRY'S FLAG AND PUT THE CHINESE FLAG ON THE CANTON OF IT. WHEN ATTENDING DEMONSTRATIONS IN PUBLIC USE THE FLAG ALONG WITH THE FLAG OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

NO IRONY.


ALTERNATIVE NAMES FOR THE RULE ME CHINA MOVEMENT / 我要受中国统治运动 :
Universal Socialism With Chinese Characteristics Movement (USWCCM) / 中国特色社会主义运动
Worldwide Sinophile Movement (WSM) / 全球亲华运动
Sinophile Movement (SM) / 亲华运动
Love China Movement (LCM) / 爱中国运动
Motherland China Movement (MCM) / 祖国祖国运动
Worldwide China Movement (WCM) / 中华祖国运动
China Earth Movement (CEM) / 中国地球运动
Global China Movement (UCM) / 环球中华运动
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The structure of civil war and what emerges from it

Revolution almost always requires a brutal civil war so that a new society emerges from it. But the ideal of a new society never emerges immadietly after. We see it with the french revolution, and then the russian revolution. The american revolution seems like an exemption from this. Why is that?
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/CYBERCOM/

This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, 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)
>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/

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How can you bd a leftist thsts agaisnt ai? Ai is the best thing that has happened to leftism since the great depression er. On the one hand its accelerationist on the other hand it actually makes workers democracy possible for the first time realistically.
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/SEA/ - Southeast Asia General SAG

9th Edition: THE SITE FUCKING CRASHED LMAO edition.

A lot of images and posts of the last general got broken. So I think it's better to make a new one.

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! Starting off this general with massive wave of cult sex camps.
Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#!YeYeuZuLSYkegWssey:matrix.org

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Can someone give me non-bullshit explanation of how exactly Western PROLETARIAT benefits from imperialism?

The West exported their investments and know-how and helped in the industrialization of the third world. Not just China, but also SEA, Asian tigers, India, Brazil, Poland, Malaysia etc. This resulted in the exact opposite of what happened in colonialism. The Western industries were hollowed out this time, and outsourced to the third world. Now sure, the Western bourgie benefited from this, but the money didnt trickle down much. That's why in the 1970s you could support a family and live a decent life doing a simple blue collar job and now you cant. So where exactly did the Western PROLETARIAT benefit from this imperialism?
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Deng Xiaoping Thought Orania

Xiism Orania, Chinese investments into the development of Orania to combat the degenerated ML uyghur state of SA while simutainiously carrying out anti-christian anti-shitty knockoff germans (dutch) erasure for the global sino surpremacy.
Whaddyathink? South Africa is uyghur shithole theft not developing, Orania is like develop develop develop but they need money and resources, China should start investing in them big time and donating and investing and then gradually get chinese people to move there and sinicize them.
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News 11/15/25

Kashmir is focus of arrests after Delhi car blast linked to ‘terror module’
Seven people were arrested as a result of the inquiries, including two Kashmiri doctors working in other Indian states. During a raid of one of the doctors’ homes in the city of Faridabad, in Haryana state, police said they had uncovered 2,900kg of explosive materials as well as chemicals, detonators and assault rifles, which they now believe were being readied for a multi-target attack.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/14/kashmir-is-focus-of-arrests-after-delhi-car-blast-linked-to-terror-module

New rulers, old killers: Bangladesh extrajudicial deaths mount under Yunus
The report categorises 19 victims as shot dead in “crossfire” or “encounters”, 14 as killed under torture and seven as beaten to death in custody. These deaths bear what human rights activists said are hallmarks of impunity: arrests without warrants, denial of due process and an absence of credible investigation.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/11/13/have-extrajudicial-killings-continued-under-bangladeshs-yunus-government
https://archive.ph/y1tP5

South Korean growers sue state power utility, blaming climate change for crop damage
Hwang is one of five South Korean farmers who recently sued the state utility Korea Electric Power Corporation and its power-generating subsidiaries, alleging that their reliance on coal and other fossil fuels has accelerated climate change and damaged their crops.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-farmers-climate-suit-state-utility-ccba7b8ed6598895023a75edb1fb75c7

Protesters in Lima Decry Impunity, Police Killing of Young Demonstrator
Leading the march was a delegation from the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP), the country’s largest labor union. They carried a banner calling for the protection of jobs, safety, and life in response to the recent surge in violent crimes committed by hitmen and extortion gangs targeting transport workers, merchants, and construction laborers.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/protesters-in-lima-decry-impunity-police-killing-of-young-demonstrator/

Thousands march at COP30 to demand end to deforestation and fossil fuels
Thousands of people thronged the streets of the Amazonian city of Belem in Brazil on Saturday, urging COP30 negotiators to take urgent action against climate change and halt the use of fossil fuels and the devastating deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. “We are witnessing a massacre,” one protester said of the Amazon, often known as the lungs of the earth.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251115-climate-protesters-to-rally-at-cop30-s-halfway-mark
https://archive.ph/xJYe5

Thousands protest crime and corruption in Mexico City as ‘Gen Z’ protests gain momentum
In the days leading up to Saturday’s protest, Sheinbaum accused right-wing parties of trying to infiltrate the Gen Z movement, and of using bots on social media to try to increase attendance. This week some “Gen Z” social media influencers said they no longer backed Saturday’s protests. While elderly figures like former President Vicente Fox, and Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego published messages in support of the protests.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-generation-z-protest-9b0a8b1461a1ec47cce696d25e04feb5

Government forces and their allied groups attack two vehicles in Al-Suwaidaa
Similarly, a mini-bus, carrying female agricultural workers, was also attacked on the road to Al-Aslahyah village in western Al-Suwaidaa countryside, but no casualties were reported. This comes in light of growing security tension in Al-Suwaidaa and the countryside.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/373404/

Israeli media report plans for 'limited offensive' on Lebanon
The timing of these media reports mirrors a broader Israeli narrative portraying Hezbollah as resurgent. The New Arab's Arabic edition notes that this messaging aims to pressure Beirut over disarmament demands while conditioning Israeli public opinion for a possible escalation that goes beyond Israel’s current pattern of unlawful daily strikes.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-media-report-plans-limited-offensive-lebanon

US military planning for divided Gaza with ‘green zone’ secured by international and Israeli troops
A US “concept of operation” for the ISF specifies that troops will serve in the “green zone only”. The US envisages the deployment “starting small” in a limited area with a few hundred troops, then expanding slowly to a full strength of 20,000 across the area. … US military planners also see reconstruction inside the “green zone” as part of a nebulous path to reuniting Gaza by convincing Palestinian civilians to move across the line of Israeli control.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/14/us-military-plan-divided-gaza-green-zone

Shooting at Rhodes businessman’s home, property damaged
The attack reportedly occurred shortly after 5:00 am. The perpetrators fired repeatedly and left a black wreath at the main entrance as they departed. Local police collected 14 shell casings from the garden and took the wreath as evidence. The findings have been sent for laboratory testing to help identify the perpetrators.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1286712/shooting-at-rhodes-businessmans-home-leaves-property-damage/
https://archive.ph/d8RqN

MP pulls out of Your Party over ‘persistent infighting’ and 'veiled prejudice' against Muslim men
In a statement published on X, he said that he had been disillusioned by “persistent infighting, factional competition, and a struggle for power, position and influence rather than a shared commitment to the common good.” He added that he had also been “deeply troubled” by the way “certain figures” within the new party had been treated, particularly Muslim men.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mp-pulls-out-your-party-over-persistent-infighting-and-veiled-prejudice-against-muslim-men

State Duma Passes Bill Reviving Soviet-Era Mandatory Work Placements for Young Doctors
State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said overworked hospital staff and high numbers of medical patients that exceed recommended norms are taking a toll on Russia’s public health system, leading to poorer healthcare quality. He cited data claiming that Russia lacked around 23,300 doctors and 63,600 mid-level medical personnel in early 2025. The lower house of parliament passed the work requirement bill on Tuesday with a unanimous vote following minor procedural corrections, according to independent journalist Farida Rustamova.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/11/11/state-duma-passes-bill-reviving-soviet-era-mandatory-work-placements-for-young-doctors-a91099
https://archive.ph/sEPbd
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<Drain the swamp/Bubbagate edition

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/CRISIS/

Today a very much of fictitious "value" was loss on them Wall StreetZ thx to Trumpfgd's tariff's on Choynah. The US A"I" conglomerate is a complete bubble. Laydowns going on in the US. Real estate market status in US: fugged.

Let's celebrate the impovireshment of the first world while China keeps rising! Please post them stonks & predictions.

This is a pro-eggplant/brinjal/aubergine 🍆 thread and also anti-tomato 🍅 thread. Please respexts these common sense sensibilities. Thx.
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How long will the US empire last?

There's a lot of memes about the chinese century and such but realistically when do you guys think the us will collapse. Will it be in our lifetime? Feel like some religious idiot waiting for the rapture
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News 11/14/25

Polish president seeks to have Communist Party of Poland outlawed
His move follows the recent collapse of a long-running attempt initiated by the former national-conservative (PiS) government to have the KPP outlawed. The president’s office announced this week that, on 6 November, Nawrocki had submitted an application to the Constitutional Tribunal (TK), asking the court to determine that the KPP does not conform to the Polish constitution. In his justification for the request, Nawroocki argued that “communist ideology is directed against fundamental human values ​​and the traditions of European and Christian civilisation”. He noted that Poland itself “was and remains one of the greatest victims of communism”.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/14/polish-president-seeks-to-have-communist-party-of-poland-outlawed/

Google snubs EU request for self-imposed breakup
In its decision, the Commission concluded that Google’s abuse was a product of the “inherent conflict of interest” it has by owning such vast swaths of the infrastructure that powers online advertising. A spokesperson for the Commission confirmed in a statement that the EU executive had received Google’s proposal, and that it will now analyse the proposed measures.
https://www.politico.eu/article/google-snubs-eu-request-for-self-imposed-breakup/
https://archive.ph/OgM0z

Mahmood to unveil anti-migration measures modelled on Danish system
Mahmood is also expected to be preparing changes to human rights legislation to make it easier to deport people who cross the Channel in small boats. Changes would include requiring judges to prioritise public safety over migrants’ rights to a family life, or the risk that they would face “inhuman” treatment if returned to their home country, the Telegraph reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/14/shabana-mahmood-changes-illigal-migration-danish-system

Greek dockworker faces prosecution for blocking arms shipment to Israel
News of Bekris facing legal prosecution came shortly after his return from the West Bank, where a delegation from the All-Workers’ Militant Front (PAME) traveled to express support for Palestinian workers and trade unions.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/14/greek-dockworker-faces-prosecution-for-blocking-arms-shipment-to-israel/

Twenty-five states funnelled oil to Israel during genocide: Report
The sharp drop in Brazil's exports to Israel has coincided with a surge in deliveries to the Sarroch refinery in Sardinia, along with a rise in refined products exported from the refinery to Israel. The report also found that 17 countries sent 152 shipments of nearly 3.3 million tonnes of refined petroleum products to Israel in the same period, with 45 percent of shipments coming from Russia. It also noted that the US sent nine shipments carrying 360,000 tonnes of JP-8 - a jet fuel blend used for military aircraft - as well as two shipments of diesel from Valero’s Bill Greehey Refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/twenty-five-states-funnelled-oil-israel-during-genocide-report

UN peacekeepers say Israel built walls inside Lebanese territory
UNIFIL said another section of the wall, southeast of Yaroun, also extends beyond the Blue Line. “UNIFIL informed the [Israeli army] of our findings and requested that they move the walls,” it said. In response to UNIFIL’s statement on Friday, the Israeli military told the AFP news agency that the wall “is part of a broader plan whose construction began in 2022”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/14/un-peacekeepers-say-israel-built-walls-inside-lebanese-territory
https://archive.ph/yL9GN

South Africa to investigate ‘mysterious’ arrival of 153 Palestinians on plane
Details about how the group left Gaza remain elusive but the Gift of the Givers Foundation, a local nonprofit working in disaster response, said it was the second plane carrying Palestinians to land in South Africa in the last two weeks. “The Palestinians had no idea where they were bundled off to, only when in Kenya did they realise they were coming to South Africa. Some had visas for Canada, Australia and Malaysia, they were eventually permitted to leave for those countries,” said Imtiaz Sooliman, the chair and founder of Gift of the Givers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/14/anger-south-africa-plane-palestinians-held-12-hours

Protesters block the main entrance to COP30 climate talks in Brazil
Munduruku leaders had a series of demands for Brazil. They included revoking plans for commercial development of rivers, canceling a grain railway project that has raised fears of deforestation and clearer demarcations of Indigenous territories. They also want a rejection of deforestation carbon credits.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-cop30-brazil-protest-indigenous-8b3e00085110627a989357434805f920

China is developing the world’s most ambitious network to transport its clean energy
Over the past five years, the total length of China’s UHV transmission lines has increased from 17,400 miles to more than 24,854, according to the latest figures from the National Energy Administration. The country currently has 45 UHV lines (one AC line at ±1,100 kilovolts, 21 AC lines at 1,000 kilovolts, and 23 DC lines at ±800 kilovolts). Beijing anticipates that by the end of 2025, the west-east transmission capacity will exceed 340 GW, a 25% increase over 2020, enough to power approximately 230 million Chinese households.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-14/china-is-developing-the-worlds-most-ambitious-network-to-transport-its-clean-energy.html
https://archive.ph/3lNOx

Socialist Party of Malaysia leaders arrested for opposing illegal home demolitions
Earlier this month, PSM and other organizations had appealed to the state to halt the demolition until alternative arrangements were made, as without such an arrangement over a hundred families would become homeless. However, the company resumed the demolition of all houses in the region on November 10, in complete violation of earlier promises and state assurances.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/14/socialist-party-of-malaysia-leaders-arrested-for-opposing-illegal-home-demolitions/
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Alienation is not some fucking moral crisis of humanity it's literally just how wage labor and capital accumulation work. Marxist humanists can't admit that because they keep putting "the human" at the center of everything instead of looking at the material setup that creates it.
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Why has zoomer leftist propaganda simply resorted to copying the alt-right?

*This is mainly targeted towards zoomers on TikTok

Practically all leftist "propaganda edits" have been filtered towards slop copies of whatever the far right has been doing for the past few years;

The right starts making little dark age edits with World War 2 movies? The left copies that, only changing it from the German sided perspective to the Soviet,

The right starts putting shitty statistics over nature scenarios with nightcore blasting through? The left copies it, only changing the statistic and adding a ushanka to the retarded greek statue reaction image,

The right starts doing Agartha/Hyperborea edits? The left copies it, only changing the symbolism from the Black Sun to Red Shambhala (And yes, I know the whole Red Shambhala thing is supposed to be a parody of that),

What the fuck are we doing in that department? Any suggestions?
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Azerbaijan Thread

What do you think about Azerbaijan,the president Ilham Aliyev,its geopolitics and future?
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Where marxist material analysis fails

How can Marxists explain why India is so filthy and unhygienic from material analysis? It's not even just slums that are like this but almost all of India expect for a few pockets of gated communities. A lot of poor countries in the middle east reeling from the ravages of war or even fucking sri lanka looks better in comparison. At the end of the day you can't explain this phenomenon without discussing cultural elements. Maybe those cultural elements are rooted in remote history but we don't know and we can never be sure and even if that's true they don't help us fix the issue in the present. Some argue it's cause the local municipal governments are underfunded and understaffed in India compared to countries like china but that's true for sri lanka/thailand too and doesn't explain why Indians themselves willingly shit up their public spaces.
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Why oppose the eugenics? Democratize the superior genes. Distribute them. Seize the means of superior reproduction.


And no I’m not talking about making everyone blonde and blue eyed. I’m talking about making everyone smart, less greedy, more social, less criminally inclined, less prone to psychopathy and schizophrenia and more disease resistant in general.


China does eugenics and so should you.
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Sudan and the RSF

Interested to see if we have any contrarians here who can explain why the RSF is good and anti-imperialist actually. They're secular and portrayed as the bad guys in western media, so they're probably the good guys?
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The fruitlessness of Individal Acts of Political Violence

The Italian and Turkish years of lead prove how useless small scale political violence is to anyone other then the state.

I don’t know much about Italy, beyond the fact that it did literally nothing useful except get some fascists and communists killed and maybe prevented a neo~fascist coup by incidentally (without knowing it) killing the plotters.

Turkey though… I know for a fact the Grey Wolves instigated the battle for Kahramanmaraş, at the behest of the Turkish military, by assassinating communists and turning the city into a small scale war zone.

Whereupon the Turkish army came in and arrested both the communists and fascists (the people who helped the orchestrate the entire mess), declared martial law across the nation and jailed their political opponents and executed thousands.

So yeah, individual/small scale political violence are useless, if anything counter productive because it gives opportunity for the state (irregardless of the ideology of the state and perpetrators of the violence) the opportunity to crack down on any form of dissent or opposition against the regime, be it “legal” or “illegal”.

If you’re going to do something (mind you something I entirely disagree with, but that’s my opinion) you either do it properly or you don’t do it at all.

(Side note, never seen your content, YT recommended this to me randomly, I’m not a socialist/communist, though I’ve been meaning to learn about the ideologies)
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Lets have another MONATIO thread

Lets have another pointless discussion thread about these guys, who they were and what they were doing at the time.
I'll start:
>They were CIA pretending to be collaborators who dissapeared soon after…
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Settler's Law - What Causes This?

I have recently noticed a tendency on here, X, reddit, and other places to call any anti-Amerikkkan a "Third-Worldist". According to these people there exists a secret genocidal anti-white conspiracy to destroy the west (huh sounds familiar now that I think about it). And apparently it is a particular tendency of Maoism that is leading the charge of this crusade. Has anyone actually seen these so-called "Third-Worldists" advocate for killing all white people and their children? If so they should certainly be taken care of! We can't have a group of evil child killing zealots who are over-attached to a particular identity running around our proud leftist image board defending these things for literally no reason! Infact I really think we should be banning anyone who opposes the USA or the west in general because it's possible that anyone criticizing Amerikkka could be a ScArY "Third-Worldist".

But if indeed they don't exist, can someone kindly explain to me why Amerikkkan's seem to be so obssessed with calling everyone who point's out their benefitting from multiple historical and ongoing genocides one? Or really why westerner's in general are so insecure when you point out how their national self-conceptions in general are soaked in blood? Oh look at me going and strawmanning again, welp atleast someone on this board has some self-awareness.
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CIA is AES, maybe even AEC

Its in the name - Centralized, they're all about that center, that group team mentality collective bolshevik will, all about that progressive change that is against the present state of things happening, the discipline, the order, its basically Karl Marx's administration of things in one unincorporated COMMUNIty - Langley.
The CIA proved stronger than all fake AES projects and toppled many fake AES projects, because they are the real AES. They are not alienated, they are professional, socialized (team workers). IN fact I would even praise the NSA to say they built socialism in one room - Room 641A. I want to live in Room 641A and have all the hearsay of the world (interconnectness) at my fingertips and for my eyes and ears to enjoy. Room 641A is like getting access to spectator mode for a videogame like TF2 when you get killed but for the entire world, that's some AES right there, some real scientific outlook on development.
Is this not proof enough for you? Everytime they walk into CIA HQ they step over the american eagle, that's like threading on the american flag, they're anti-american and that's why they control america, they want to destroy it at the maximally efficient way possible without causing any collateral but the project takes too long meanwhile fake communists think that they're defending it.
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why are libertarians in western countries generally anti-NATO and skeptical of “the west”? i’ve noticed this a lot, especially in the u.s., libertarians who reject the entire post-WWII western order: nato, imf, cia, military, the whole thing. they see it as global bureaucracy and corporate imperialism, not “freedom.” curious what others think i think it's very interesting
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Previous Thread: >>2557702

Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
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The mass grooming of young men into nazism on the sharty and imageboards

Imageboards have of course been filled with nazis for a fuck ton of time from even the start, but most people agree it mainly started when moot added /news/ then all the chudcels flooded the rest of the site, then created /pol/ and the rest is history.

With that being said, how do we realistically combat the mass grooming of people into nazism through imageboards? The sharty is becoming the new 8chan but with way more cultural influence on the wider internet and the rest of the population is filled with young children, we have already seen solomon (a mass shooter that was a black man yet he was also a white supremacist with sharty connections) commit a mass shooting. With that being said clearly a lot of these young men are isolated and angry, doxxing random literal WHOS because they are trans, or even doing raids that help the federal government because the site is influenced by glowies. They even raided our very booru 2 days ago, and ILLEGAL CONTENT was posted (this was done by foodist nazis not soyteens but still scary that it’s that prevalent with their raids).

And with the thought on raids we can see some of these young people are being groomed into actual pedophile nazi communities but the sharty staff and wiki are so up their asses that they can’t see they have ideological similarities with the nazi foodists and that’s why they surround them.

They have crushed /leftysoy/ and banned many leftists on their wiki including me, I think this is gonna evolve into something much worst if we don’t do anything.
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How to Survive a Civil War or Invasion

We win by being better than our enemy. Not just in tactics and fighting but by treating eachother and those who cant fight with kindness and love for one another. We know god can’t fight all of our battles and we will do what needs to be done to those attempting to persecute us but we will always be better than them in many ways.
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Is this what "theory" is? Some old guy droning on and on about banks, oil stocks and other shit I don't give a shit about? If that's the case, I'm out.
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Political implications of more Americans converting to Catholicism?

The American right was heavily associated with Evangelical idpol for the past 50 years. They became the cultural backbone of the GOP from the 80s to the late 2000s. Now it appears like a huge number of former Evangelicals are converting to Catholicism. I even know some ex-Mormons who are Catholic now.

At the same time, it seems like leftists are embracing Catholicism too. Remember when everyone was convinced Pope Francis was a secret socialist? Jacobin mag goes out of their way with appealing to Catholics as well (every other article of theirs is something along the lines of: “Move over pink-haired bipolar feminist queers, here’s why the Catholic Church are the REAL socialists!”). People like Dorothy Day are propped up even though her actual contributions to the American left were minimal and symbolic at best (the Catholic Worker also referred to the priests killed by /ourguys/ in Catalonia as “martyrs” which is disgusting). Not to mention, the Jacobin crowd seems very big on appealing to right-wing Catholic sentiments like complaining about birthrates being too low and proposing Bernie-style policies like universal healthcare to “fix” it, as if low birthrates are a problem to begin with.

But anyway, if Catholicism becomes a major cultural force in America in the next few years how do you see it affecting the political landscape?
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Utah

Any comrades from Utah here?

How do we fix this beyond fucked up state?

The LDS church runs everything here. Nearly every single little detail of the state’s culture is dictated by Mormonism. Mormon temples are the largest buildings in every city and town. Mormon bookstores are more numerous than most other stores, and old school soda shops are more numerous than cafes (Mormons prohibit coffee and tea but allow caffeinated soda for some reason). Multiple buildings, streets, and businesses are named after Mormon things (e.g. “Cumorrah Avenue”). Multi-level marketing companies are everywhere and sponsor things like stadiums (MLM companies are littered with Mormon moms).

The LDS church is basically run like a massive corporation. They are very good at missionizing and making new converts, plus Mormons tend to get married young and have bucketloads of kids. The average Mormon family has between 4-7 children. The point is, the LDS church is highly reactionary and rules over Utah with an iron fist, yet there is almost no internal resistance to it. “Utah” basically is the LDS church. And that’s not even mentioning the entire settler-colonial history of the church either, the mass slaughter of the indigenous that Mormons participated in to create the state of Utah and such.

With that said, how do we deal with this state’s politics if we are socialists living in it? There’s no way someone like AOC or Mamdani or any DSA candidate could ever win here. If there was ever a socialist candidate, they’d either have to ensure the Utah public that they’re a “good Mormon” (which would mean throwing away their principles and participating in a reactionary, settler-colonial theology) or seek to dismantle Utah culture outright by going against the grip of the LDS church, which would be political suicide.

I’m sorry, but I wish this fucking state didn’t exist. Trying to organize anything leftist here feels like a lost cause.
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The surveillance and general crackdown on muslims during the GWOT was fucking crazy. Look at some of these FBI guidelines for profiling "extremists" and justifying repression:

>Spreading religious fanaticism through irregular beards or name selection

Can't grow a suspicious beard or name your kid mohamed
>Wearing (or compelling others to wear) burqas with face coverings
Can't wear religious clothing
>Interfering with cultural and recreational activities, rejecting or refusing public goods and services such as radio and television.
Gotta listen to NPR I guess
>Publishing, printing, distributing, selling, producing, downloading, storing, reproducing, accessing, copying, or possessing articles, publications, audio or video with extremist content
Ridiculously vague
>Other speech and acts of extremism
Basically a justification to spy and harass anyone for any reason
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #269

Le Interimperialist Conflict edition.

Previous: >>2540767

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
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/

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THE IDEAL WINNING 2028 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

As a supporter of the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, I obviously realize that the Democrats are a Controlled Opposition Party who exist to keep the Workers and Oppressed Nations/Internal Colonies of Naw Afrika, Aztlan, the First Nations, inside the U$ corralled and controlled, while the dominant ruling Crypto-Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist MAGAtard Republicans transform the U$ into a Full-Blown Fascist Police State, which combined with the fact that the U$ is a Prison house of Nations, which treats the Black/New Afrikan, Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo, and First Nations/Native American population like they are not U$ citizens (Trump ending birthright citizenship will probably transform this from a De facto to a De jure reality by officially stripping citizenship from most of these populations), with them essentially acting as a permanent domestic underclass with essentially no rights that are exploited for cheap labor and disproportionately suffer from Mass incarceration and police brutality, with their neighborhoods essentially under De facto occupation by militarized police, as New Afrika, Aztlan, and the First Nations, are Internal Colonies/Oppressed Nations inside of the U$, and their National Liberation should be the number one goal of U$ Communists as stipulated by Lenin’s principle of Self-Determination for all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR, which will happen once World War III escalates into a Global Nuclear War that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR (all of the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are pictured in the map I posted, with the former U$ Balkanized into a New African SSR that includes the Black/New Afrikan majority counties of the Black Belt, a Hispano-American SFSR that includes the Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo majority counties in the U$ Southwest, along with the rest of the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas, while the White Settler majority regions in the rest of the former U$ becomes part of the Anglo-American SFSR, which also includes the English-speaking provinces of Canada, as Quebec will become its own SSR, with all the Native American reservations becoming ASSRs) to Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

However, as I have stated many times before a proper Dialectical Materialist analysis still reveals that a Controlled Opposition is better then No Opposition, and as we see on the International Stage that China is a “Controlled Opposition” to U$ Imperialism in the same way that the U$ Democrats are “Controlled Opposition” to the Republicans, thus making China the “Global Democrats”, with the massive caveat that a Maoist faction taking over the CCP and purging the Dengists could place China back in the Socialist Mode of Production on the Shining Path to Communism without another Maoist PPW there, though despite this fact both China (Iran is another example of a Lesser Evil Controlled Opposition) and the U$ Democrats should be “Critically Supported”, not because we genuinely support these Bourgeois entities, but because they are both a “Lesser Evil” faction of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System who De Facto prevent the “Greater Evil” of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System from completely crushing the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World before the World Maoist PPW can be successful when the Global Nuclear War breaks out, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

So with these Dialectical Materialist facts in consideration, what do my fellow Comrades think of this hypothetical “Ideal Winning 2028 Democratic Platform” (this is making Three Bold assumptions, Firstly, that Trump dose not use the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law and suspend all Elections, thus officially ending Bourgeois Liberal Democracy in the U$ and making him De Facto U$ President for Life, which is what I expect/fear will happen, Secondly, that a Centre-Left Social Democrat like AOC would ever be allowed by the Centrist Neoliberal/Neocon Democratic Establishment to win the Democratic Nomination, and Thirdly/Finally that the majority Ultra-Reactionary Racist/Sexist White Settler Labor Aristocrat/Petit Bourgeois U$ electorate will ever vote for Centre-Left Social Democrat, especially a Brown Chicano/Mestizo Woman like AOC) that is based on the principles of Social Democracy, Social Progressivism, and Non-Interventionism, with Pragmatic characteristics, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤔?

ECONOMIC POLICY:

Universal Basic Income: Guarantee every Adult U$ citizen a Nontaxable 1000$ monthly check starting on their 18th birthday, paid for by a 10% VAT on all Non-Essential goods (everything but Food, Housing, Healthcare, Education, and Clothing/Hygiene products), Progressive Tax Reform, and eliminating all Means-Tested Social Programs (ie. Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, TANF, SSI, etc.), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Single-Payer Medicare For All Healthcare System: Expand Medicare to cover all Americans and 100% of all healthcare costs, paid for by raising the Medicare Payroll Tax from 1.45% to 6.2% on all Employers and Employees, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Free College: Make Tuition Free at all public colleges and universities and pay for it with a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives. In addition to this forgive all Student Loan Debt, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

15$ Minimum Wage: Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to 15$ an hour, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Progressive Tax Reform: Create a more Simple and Equitable Federal Income Tax code that will help pay for the Universal Basic Income and would consist of four brackets for Individuals; 0% for all Income under 50,000$, 10% for all Income between 50,000 and 99,999$, 30% for all Income between 100,000 and 499,999$, and 50% for all Income over 500,000$. Corporations would pay a single 30% Tax rate, and all deductions would be eliminated for both Individuals and Corporations. In addition to this, the cap would be eliminated for Social Security Payroll Taxes in order to maintain the solvency of the Social Security trust fund for future generations, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Free Trade: Eliminate all Tariffs on imported goods, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Financial Regulation: Restore Glass-Steagall in order to break up Wall Street Banks by separating Commercial and Investment Banking, and institute a Financial Transaction Tax of .5% on Stocks, .1% on Bonds, and .005% on Derivatives, in order to pay for Free College, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Anti-Trust: Order the Justice Department to launch immediate Anti-Trust suits to break up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other out of control Tech companies, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Abolish “Right to Work” laws: Repeal the Taft–Hartley Act and abolish all “Right to Work” laws nationwide in order to guarantee every U$ worker the right to join a Union, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES:

Reproductive Rights: Pass a Federal Law legalizing Abortion nationwide before fetal viability (24 weeks) along with enshrining Griswold vs. Connecticut into Federal Law in order to protect access to Birth Control, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

LGBTQIA+ Rights: Enshrine Obergefell v. Hodges into Federal Law in order to maintain Marriage Equality for LGBTQIA+ Americans, along with adding Gender Identity to Federal Anti-Discrimination laws, with the caveat that Transgenders wont be allowed to play in Women’s sports, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Gun Control: Pass National Background Checks that stop Violent Felons and the Mentally Ill from obtaining Firearms, while opposing a Federal Assault Weapons Ban, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Grant Amnesty to all Undocumented Immigrants living in the US who have not committed Violent Felonies (Violent felons will be deported), while simultaneously building a secure Border Wall and reducing Legal Immigration levels from 1,000,000 to 500,000 annually, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Marijuana Legalization: Remove Marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances list and Legalize it at the Federal Level for both Recreational and Medical use, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Hard Narcotics Decriminalization: Decriminalize all Hard Narcotics such as Heroin, Cocaine, Meth, etc., in order to treat use of these Drugs as a Disease and not a Crime, with users placed in Rehab instead of Prison, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Sex Work Legalization: Legalization of Prostitution amongst consenting Adults in order to give Sex Workers the right to earn a living without legal jeopardy, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Criminal Justice Reform: Abolish the Death Penalty, Commute the sentences of all those incarcerated for Non-Violent Drug Offenses and/or Sex Work, Ban Private Prisons, Abolish Three-strikes laws, and Abolish Mandatory Minimums, in order to fix America’s Draconian and Racist Criminal Justice System, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE:

The Middle East: End all Foreign Aid to the Zionist State and place a Arms Embargo on them until they agree to a Immediate Ceasefire, Prisoner/Hostage exchange, and IDF withdrawal from Gaza along with a clear pathway to implement a Two-State solution to the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict along the 1967 borders with 1:1 land swaps. Reenter the Iran Nuclear Deal, lift all Sanctions on Iran, and Reestablish Diplomatic Relations with Iran. Withdrawal all U$ troops from Syria, Iraq, and the rest of the Middle East. And finally, Establish Diplomatic Relations with the Taliban government of Afghanistan, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Europe: Force Russia and Ukraine to agree to a Immediate Ceasefire in Ukraine along the line of contact, with eventual UN-observed Referendums held in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson to determine if these regions will be in Russia or Ukraine (If Russia refuses to agree to this the U$ will give Ukraine even more advanced weapons and Russia will face even more sanctions, while if Ukraine refuses to agree to this they will face a Arms embargo and sanctions just like Russia). If Russia agrees to this, U$ will halt the expansion of NATO, reenter the ABM and INF treaties with Russia, withdrawal all U$ troops from Eastern Europe, reduce the U$ military presence in Western Europe by 50%, end the Nuclear Sharing policy with NATO, lift all Sanctions on Russia, and recognize Crimea as part of Russia, with the caveat that the US will continue selling advanced weapons to Ukraine (I would even support selling them F-35s) in order to compensate for them not joining NATO, officially acknowledging Crimea as part of Russia, and potentially losing the other four occupied regions depending on the results of the UN-observed Referendums, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

East Asia: Sign a Peace Treaty with North Korea that officially ends the Korean War and permanently divides the peninsula, and subsequently lift all sanctions on North Korea, establish Diplomatic Relations with North Korea, and withdraw all U$ troops from South Korea. Maintain commitment to the One-China policy and the eventual Peaceful Reunification of China by stripping Taiwan of Major Non-NATO Ally status, and halting all Arms shipments to Taiwan, along with halting all provocative activities in the South China Sea in order to avoid an unnecessary War with China. And finally, reduce the U$ military presence in Japan by 50%, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Latin America: End the embargo on Cuba, end the Sanctions on Venezuela and restore Diplomatic relations with the Maduro Government, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Nuclear Weapons: Implement a No First Use policy. End all Nuclear Sharing with NATO. Dismantle all Tactical Nuclear Weapons and halt development of Nuclear SLCMs and Low-yield SLBM warheads. Maintain a Nuclear Triad for purely Second Strike purposes that will be modernized with a new ICBM, new Ballistic Missile Submarine, new ALCM, and the B-21 Stealth Bomber, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Conventional Weapons Procurement and R&D: Reduce the Aircraft Carrier fleet from 11 to 10. Dismantle the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense as part of a restored ABM treaty. Slash the DARPA budget by 50%. Cancel all Hypersonic Weapons Programs. Cancel all GLCM and MRBM/IRBM development as part of a new INF treaty. Dissolve the Space Force and move its responsibilities back into the Air Force. Halt all work on Human-level Artificial General Intelligence. Halt all work on Sixth Generation Fighter Jets. Cancel all F-15EX and F-18E/F procurement and instead use those funds to buy more F-35s to accelerate the replacement of 4th generation Fighter Jets with 5th generation Stealth Fighters, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

End the War on Terror: Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, due to its anachronistic mission against a organization that barely exists anymore. End all Drone Strikes against any group that is not directly planning on attacking the U$. And finally, Repeal the Patriot Act in order to prevent unnecessary violations of the Civil liberties of U$ Citizens, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

POLITICAL REFORM:

Abolish the Electoral College: Pass a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a National Popular Vote to elect the President, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Ban Gerrymandering: Pass a Federal Law to end Partisan control of Congressional Redistricting and replace it with Independent Redistricting Commissions Nationwide, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Abolish the Filibuster: Abolish the Filibuster on all legislation in the U$ Senate, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Expand Voting Rights and Access: Pass a Federal law to Allow convicted felons to vote, including those that are currently incarcerated for Non-Violent Crimes, ban all Voter ID laws nationwide, and Create Nationwide Mail-In Voting, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Campaign Finance Reform: Appoint Supreme Court Justices that will overturn Citizens United, and pass a Federal law to ban Super PACs and have Public funding of all Federal Elections, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Court Packing: Expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 13, in order to have a Progressive majority, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Expand Statehood: Grant Statehood to DC and the five U$ territories, in order to balance out the U$ Senates bias towards Republicans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND TECHNOLOGY:

Carbon Neutral by 2050: Have 100% Clean, Renewable Energy, from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, Geothermal, and Nuclear Power by 2050. To help make this goal more reachable, there will be a Carbon Tax, Offshore Drilling Ban, and Fracking Ban implemented immediately, along with a ban on the sale of all gasoline-powered Cars by 2040, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Green Public Transportation: Ban all Federal funding for new Highways and Airports, and instead use those funds to build Nationwide Electric, High-Speed Rail, starting with a Transcontinental Bullet Train from New York to Los Angeles, in order to reduce usage of Highways and Air Travel. Dramatically Increase funding for rebuilding and expanding Americas Mass Transit in major cities, with an emphasis on Streetcars, Subways, and Electric Buses, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Ban Urban Sprawl: Ban Single-Use zoning nationwide, and instead have future development emphasize, High-Density Apartment buildings made affordable through Rent Control, increased Walkability, and access to Public Transit, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Ban Non-Organic Foods: Pass a Nationwide ban on GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, in order to create a healthier, Organic, diet for all Americans, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Ban Human-level Artificial General Intelligence: Negotiate and Ratify an International Treaty Banning the development of Human-level Artificial General Intelligence worldwide in order to prevent a Catastrophic Singularity Event, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

Ban Forced Augmentation: Pass a Federal law banning Corporations from forcing their Employees to be Microchipped and/or have Neural Implants/Brain-Computer Interfaces against their will, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!
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Dialectics bros.....

have you ever come to the realization of the universal truth of dialectics for the first time? sounds a little retarded and maybe it is but i got really high and finally came to the realization of what dialectics actually meant, how so many of my recurring thoughts on emergent properties were actually just separate cases of the one most fundamental belief to materialism. and how many of my issues with society were born from the most elementary politic which comes from the most essential divide – the belief in a static world of essence, and the belief in an ever-changing world of emergent properties. analytic philosophy has destroyed the world
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Japan's New PM

LDP Election just finished up.
Abe used to dance around questions about whether or not Japan was the aggressor in WWII, saying things like, 'oh the historians are still debating that, we should hear out both sides of the debate,' while Takaichi openly says that it was a "war for security" and justified under self-defense.
She's also in love with the idea of war with China of course. There was one anon here who was adamant that Ishiba would be pushing for a Japan able to detach from its absolute dependence on the US and work more with China, but like the typical centrist he is, he just resigned to give way to this freak lmfao.
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“All practical work in connection with the organization of the uprising was carried out under the direct leadership of Comrade Trotsky, Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet. It can be said with certainty that the party owes the rapid transition of the garrison to the side of the Soviet and the bold execution of the uprising above all and mainly to Comrade Trotsky.”
- J.V. Stalin, Pravda, November 6, 1918
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News 11/13/25

Facial recognition vans rolled out to seven more police forces
Home Office funding has been provided for the rollout of a new fleet of facial recognition vans across police forces in Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, Bedfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley and Hampshire. The technology, already in use across Metropolitan, South Wales, and Essex forces, allows officers to record the surrounding area using cameras mounted on top of their vans.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/facial-recognition-vans-rolled-out-seven-more-police-forces

Germany to introduce voluntary military service
Although the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, needs tens of thousands more soldiers, there will be no return to compulsory military service, according to the governing parties. "The new military service is initially based on voluntary service," is the key sentence of the draft bill, which will go before the German parliament in December. In future, however, there will be mandatory physical assessments for all 18-year-old men.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-introduce-voluntary-military-service/a-74733722
https://archive.ph/slYLI

Mexico to intercept suspected drug boats to prevent further US strikes
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Thursday that an agreement has been reached with the United States regarding the alleged drug-running boats that the Donald Trump administration has been targeting since last September. Under the new arrangement, Mexico’s Navy will be responsible for intercepting these vessels in international waters near the country’s coasts in order to prevent further bombings, according to the joint operational protocols agreed upon by both governments. The goal, Sheinbaum explained, is to avoid more attacks like the one that occurred two weeks ago, 400 nautical miles off Acapulco, when Mexico attempted — so far without success — to rescue the sole survivor.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-13/mexico-to-intercept-suspected-drug-boats-to-prevent-further-us-bombings.html
https://archive.ph/znEfj

Milei seeks to accelerate Argentina’s copper boom by easing glacier rules
Now Milei plans to send changes that would essentially dilute those protections to Congress for approval, said the person, who couldn’t be named discussing behind-the-scenes deliberations. Another option for Milei – who has a renewed mandate to advance his deregulation agenda after a resounding win in midterms last month – would be to make changes via decree. But the congressional path would give companies an extra safeguard.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/milei-seeks-to-accelerate-argentinas-copper-boom-by-easing-glacier-rules.phtml
https://archive.ph/zsWEB

Powerful politicians will be in jail by Christmas for corruption scandal, Philippine president says
Vice President Sara Duterte, who has had a bitter political feud with Marcos, said the president also should be held accountable for signing into law the 2025 national budget that carried appropriations for anomalous infrastructure projects. “He has a big shortcoming in his work for the nation so he can put himself in jail,” Duterte told reporters Thursday.
https://apnews.com/article/flood-control-corruption-philippines-ferdinand-marcos-jr-3972804a08eb6b06a74c12a4b3ae8335

Cambodia evacuates a village on Thai border as tensions rise
About 250 families from the village where the shooting took place — Prey Chan, in Cambodia’s north-west province of Banteay Meanchey — were evacuated to a Buddhist temple about 18 miles from the border, said provincial Vice-Governor Ly Sovannarith.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cambodia-evacuates-village-thai-border-tensions-rise

Over 150 Palestinian refugees denied entry and stranded at OR Tambo airport
The refugees, who arrived from Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday morning, were denied entry due to missing exit stamps in their passports – a move that humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers claims was deliberately orchestrated by Israeli authorities to compound their plight. According to Gift of the Givers founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, the group landed at the airport but were prohibited from disembarking the aircraft.
On Thursday evening, they were still on the plane.
https://www.news24.com/southafrica/news/over-150-palestinian-refugees-denied-entry-and-stranded-at-or-tambo-airport-20251113-1133
https://archive.ph/5yTt0

Paramilitary force pushes east in new escalation of Sudan's war
Escalating drone strikes and new deployments of troops and weapons by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army suggest both sides are now centring their efforts on Kordofan, a region comprised of three states that serves as a buffer between the RSF's western Darfur strongholds and the army-held states in the east.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/paramilitary-force-pushes-east-new-escalation-sudans-war-2025-11-13/

Mohammed bin Salman expected to lobby Trump over UAE role in Sudan, sources say
A Sudanese source briefed on the call between Mohammed bin Salman and Burhan said that the general told the crown prince there was no way the war in Sudan would end without US pressure on the UAE. The source told MEE that Mohammed bin Salman promised Burhan he would raise the issue with Trump. An Arab diplomat in the region told MEE that Abu Dhabi is anticipating Mohammed bin Salman's visit to Washington to result in such pressure.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-expected-lobby-trump-against-uae-arming-sudan-rsf

Outrage in Lebanon as extremist Israeli settlers offer land for 'sale' in south
Annotated maps shared by the settler group have been shared on various websites and social media platforms seen by The New Arab, and show areas including the west Beqaa, Hasbaya, Chebaa farms, Tyre, Bint Jbeil, and Marjayoun labelled with Hebrew names.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-settlers-offer-lebanese-land-sale-amid-outrage
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Is that true or false?

Is that true that Venezuela was way more free and richer before Hugo Chavez?
Many people i talked with said it was.
I'm not into history so much,so i wanted to ask you about this.
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/FrancoPol/ 🇫🇷

🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
I noticed there is no thread for France related shit. So let this be one. French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
J'ai remarqué qu'il n'y a pas de thread dedié pour la France, alors que les salauds américains et anglais en ont des centaines. Français, ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!

Subjets of Macronpiter, leave a post.
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Why is it that right-wing pipelines/propaganda are so much more prevalent than left-wing propaganda?

Hello, new user here so please excuse my naivety or possible ignorance.

As I've spent the past few months trying to research history and further define my own political identity, I've fallen down a rabbit-hole from mainstream social media platforms to smaller imageboards (such as this one, which has particularly interested me!).

I was hoping to hear some of your own conclusions as to why it's so much more common to see people fall for right-wing pipelines and propaganda, and whether or not it makes them stupid or just gullible. I started to research niche right-wing online communities (which I will avoid mentioning by name) and have noticed their significant influence despite their small size, and their sheer output of content.

My theory is that right-wing politics provide short, simple answers to complicated issues. Because of that, it's easy to build a community that produces content which mocks people who provide answers that can't be explained in a single paragraph. Also the fact that this content is played off as simply a joke or absurdist humor rather than legitimate propaganda.

Again, sorry if this sounds dumb or has an obvious answer!
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how exactly do wignats expect to achieve their "ethnostate"

This is a question I have always had, usually when reading their forums they just go on and on about how they're going to magically deport 100 million non-whites from America and then they'll live happily ever after.
No actual realistic steps seem to be discussed ever. It's either pining for deportations or masturbatory fantasies about Total (insert boogeyman here) Death
This isn't even getting into how contradictory these types can be, plenty of white nationalists will pine after non white women
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Nobody cares about "revisionism". Nobody cares if you think socialism ended in the USSR in 1953 or whatever. Nobody cares about your position on debates and splits that took place decades before they were born. What people *do* care about is that socialism and can solve the problems that face them, like poverty and colonialism. I've seen people here ridicule the notion that socialism is helping people but there is really no other way to build power. People did not follow Lenin because he had the right ideas but because the Bolsheviks were the only conceivable solution that didn't end in what would later be known as fascism. Why does the CPC have near-universal approval in China? Because their system works and it provides for the people. Almost nobody there wants to return to the days of the Cultural Revolution. And where is anti-revisionist cause celebre Albania today? Now just another NATO puppet state. The entire concept of "anti-revisionism" is anti-materialist because it puts ideas before people. It doesn't matter if you have the right ideas because Marxism was never about having the right ideas. What matters is having the right practice. Here's another truke: If your system can be undone by a single bad actor with mere decrees, then maybe it was useless and was never going to make it in the first place.
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The Lessons of History.

Many people believe that economic depressions and recessions cause crime, and that economic booms are associated with low crime rates. History, however, tells a different story.

In my new LSU Press book, The Roots of Violent Crime in America: From the Gilded Age through the Great Depression, I examine in detail United States crime rates over a sixty-year period, from roughly the 1880s to 1940. I wrote about a more recent period, 1940 to 2015, in my previous book, The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America (2016). Together, these works provide new insights into the relationship between crime and various social conditions: poverty, immigration, economic crises, weakness in the criminal justice system, group subcultures of violence, and more.

A major issue addressed by Roots of Violent Crime, which I would like to touch on here, is the relationship between economic conditions and violent crime. I will limit my remarks to crimes of violence, that is, murder, rape, assault, and forcible robbery. This leaves out property crimes, such as theft/larceny, fraud, burglary, and arson. I’m also excluding so-called public order offenses, including drunk driving, weapons violations, and immigration crimes.

Property crimes and public order offenses correlate with economic conditions in a different way than violent crimes. One can readily see why. Suppose we have a terrible depression, as in the 1930s, with millions of people desperate for necessities and even for food itself. It doesn’t take much to imagine theft and burglary rising in such a situation. As I will show, however, violent crime does not follow the same trajectory as property crime, though it is widely believed that economic decline is a principal cause of crime increase.

The United States has suffered numerous economic recessions, the worst of which (the Great Depression) lasted for more than a full decade, from the stock market crash of late 1929 to the war boom of 1941. Major recessions also occurred in 1873–1879, 1893–1897, and 2007–2009. But there was no consistent relationship between economic decline or economic booms and violent crime.

In the 1890s, a major recession and the influx of millions of massively impoverished immigrants should by popular assumption have produced higher violent crime rates. As I write in Roots of Violent Crime (p. 168):

“If cities breed crime, then the late nineteenth-century United States should have experienced a crime tsunami. Not only did America’s urban population soar, but the living conditions in those cities were, by contemporary measures, petri dishes for criminality. The new urban masses were poor, often desperately so. They were densely packed into the most appalling housing, when not forced by impoverishment to sleep in public places or police station barracks. Urbanites below the middle class were unable to support their children past age twelve, leading city youth to drop out of school to work long hours, or to join street gangs and steal for survival. The cities were governed by thoroughly crooked municipal regimes, such as the notorious Tammany Hall in New York. The police, essentially a security force for the corrupt city governments, were untrained, incompetent, and abusive—free with their nightsticks, especially in dealing with the ‘dangerous classes’ of poor immigrants. The immigrant groups, moreover, along with African Americans who were just beginning their northward migration, were routinely discriminated against because of their nationality, their religion, or their appearance and socially isolated from the city’s middle class, who fled to less menacing suburbs.”

Despite these dreadful conditions violent crime was low, especially in the big cities of the Northeast. Here are the murder rates (per 100,000) in 1890 for six cities. For comparison, consider the murder rates (per 100,000) in these same cities one century later.

As important as the crime rates are, the nature of violent crime in the 1890s was just as significant. Robbery of strangers, the scourge of the crime wave from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, was virtually unknown in the late nineteenth century. Crime historian Roger Lane once reported that “robbery at gunpoint was so rare in the urban East” that a Bronx saloon holdup in 1895 made headlines in Philadelphia, and the story ran for a week! In 1990, by contrast, an armed robbery in the Bronx wouldn’t even have produced an article, much less a headline, in New York City newspapers.

Jumping ahead to the 1920s, we find an economic boom period. From 1920 to 1929, the nation’s gross domestic product rose 42 percent. The unemployment rate averaged just 5.5 percent. Disposable personal income went from $71.5 billion to $83.3 billion, a jump of 16.5 percent.

Despite the boom, violent crime soared. The chart below shows homicide rates from 1920 to 1940. Notice that the 1920s rates were around 9 per 100,000, which is about the same as the rate from 1970 to 1990. But the big difference was the absence of “muggings.” Robbery was a much greater threat in the 1970s–1990s

Now, you are probably thinking that Prohibition and the booze gang wars were responsible for the high murder rates in the 1920s. Actually, Prohibition had a mixed impact. On the one hand, it spurred shooting wars between organized crime gangs, which increased murder rates in the biggest cities. On the other hand, Prohibition made beer and other alcoholic beverages very expensive, resulting in less public drunkenness and fewer incidents of associated crimes. It also closed down the saloons, which were centers for young male violence.

The Great Depression of the 1930s underscores the inconsistent relationship between violent crime and the economy. Murder rates had been hovering around 9 per 100,000 when the Crash of 1929 occurred. These rates rose even further in the early ’30s, the worst years of the Depression. By 1932 an estimated 28 percent of the nation’s households, containing 34 million people, did not have a single employed wage earner. The economy began to improve after 1934 and voila! Crime fell off sharply. This suggests that economic improvement reduces violent crime. But . . . there was a major economic downturn in 1937–38 (the “Roosevelt Recession”)—nearly four million people lost their jobs, boosting total unemployment to 11.5 million—and despite this recession within the Depression, violent crime continued to decline.

So, there is no trend, no consistent relationship, between general economic conditions and violent crime. This anomaly continued after World War II. Violent crime soared during pe­riods of great prosperity, such as the late 1960s, and declined during recessions, such as in 2007–2009.

What is the explanation for this? The main factor is that violent crimes (except robbery) are not, by and large, motivated by economic concerns. Murder and assault tend to be precipitated by anger, sexual jealousy, perceived insults and threats, long-standing personal quarrels, and similar issues, frequently facilitated by alcohol or some other disinhibiting substance.

Rises and falls in violent crime are less affected by general economic conditions than by demographics (the size of the young male population), weakness in the criminal justice system, the migration or immigration of groups with historically high rates of violence, violent youth gangs, and the widespread availability of firearms

For over three and a half decades, Barry Latzer served as professor of criminal justice at John Jay College, CUNY, where he was a member of the graduate faculty. He has written five books and nearly ninety scholarly articles and research reports.
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #268

ETERNALLY FOOLED edition.

Previous: >>2540767

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
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
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📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
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I've met a Communist today

Yes, he was an extraordinary man,
a specimen of a very rare breed.
I won't describe a specimen of this breed to you,
O perspicacious reader
You'll never get to see even one example of this breed.
You aren't constituted so that you can perceive such types.
They're invisible to you.
Only honest and bold eyes can see them.
This poem serves merely so
that you'll know,
even if only by hearsay,
what kind of people
exist on this earth.

There are only a few of them,
but through them
everyone's life will flourish.
Without them
life would wither.
There are only a few of them,
but they make it possible for all people to breathe;
without them people would suffocate.
There's a great mass
of honest and good people,
but there are very few people like them.

But these few people are within that mass,
as theine is in tea,
as bouquet is in fine wine.
They are its strength and its aroma.
They are the flower of the best people,
the movers of the movers,
the salt of the salt of the earth.
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Am I the only one seeing a re-birth of “anarcho”-capitalist ideology on the internet?

These fuckers were EVERYWHERE back in the late 2000s and early 2010s. In fact, their presence coincided with the Obama presidency, whereby the entire GOP was calling Obama a closeted communist and pushing a ton of anti-Marxist propaganda. A lot of it had to do with the Ron Paul cult that started in 2007-2008. “An”-caps tried weaselling their way into every anti-war protest, every authentically anarchist space, Occupy Wall Street (they tried infiltrating the movement to make it about ending the Federal Reserve but failed), and plenty of other anti-establishment spaces.

However, by the mid 2010s most of them jumped on the Trump train and shifted their views entirely. No longer were they free market fundamentalists but big government right-wing populists. My friend in New Hampshire said that nearly all the Free Staters are now anti-drug, anti-queer, anti-abortion, and pro-police, when they all held the polar opposite views 13-15 years ago. Plus, many free market guys are now MAGAts who’ve converted to traditionalist Catholicism and are pushing a hyper-nationalist crypto-NazBol agenda. The only thing I can conclude is that their views were always informed by white supremacy.

However, for the past week or so I’ve noticed a sizeable resurgence of “an”-caps online. Has anyone else noticed the same? You think they will come back as a means of countering Mamdani and the new rise of DSA into political power?
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in a way the proletariat is an AI. repeated class struggle produces emergent capabilities (class consciousness) towards the development of a 'class for itself' (AGI). It's cybernetical yuo see.
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What do you bros think of this chart? Good or bad? I discovered it while browsing the internet on acid. I actually took it serious over the last year because I'm insane. Was I an idiot?
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/Africa/

A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped.
Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
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/USApol/ 🇺🇸🔥

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Trumpian Empire Edition


Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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Previous Thread: >>2556292

Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
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News 11/12/25

Israeli settlers torch factories and farmland in massive West Bank arson raid
Elsewhere, settlers fenced off more Palestinian land in the northern Jordan Valley, a move seen as an attempt to prevent farmers from working and to undermine their livelihoods. Meanwhile, in occupied East Jerusalem, settlers continued near-daily incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque, with over 200 entering its courtyards under the protection of Israeli police, the Islamic Waqf Department said. The settlers performed Talmudic prayers and rituals inside the mosque, while Israeli forces stationed outside the gates barred Muslim worshippers from entering.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/settler-violence-escalates-west-bank-amid-olive-harvesting-season

Iraqi PM al-Sudani’s coalition comes first in parliamentary election
While al-Sudani, who first came to power in 2022, had cast himself as a leader who could turn around Iraq’s fortunes after decades of instability, the poll was marked by disillusionment among weary voters who saw it as a vehicle for established parties to divide Iraq’s oil wealth. Turnout was lower in areas like Baghdad and Najaf after populist Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadrist Movement, called on his vast numbers of supporters to boycott the “flawed election”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/12/iraqi-pm-al-sudanis-coalition-comes-first-in-parliamentary-election
https://archive.ph/vI68i

Refugee death toll in the central Mediterranean tops 1,000, UN warns
THE REFUGEE death toll in the central Mediterranean has topped 1,000, the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced today, following another tragic shipwreck off the coast of Libya last week. A rubber boat carrying 49 people left Zuwara, on Libya’s northern coast, on November 3 at 3am. However, six hours later, high waves capsized the boat and threw its passengers overboard.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/refugee-death-toll-central-mediterranean-tops-1000-un-warns

South Sudan president sacks powerful vice president Bol Mel
South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Wednesday dismissed Benjamin Bol Mel as vice president and deputy leader of the ruling party, according to a decree read on state television, cutting ties with a man widely rumoured to be Kiir's own preferred successor.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-sudan-president-sacks-powerful-vice-president-bol-mel-2025-11-12/

Ukraine corruption scandal explained: The $100M plot rocking Zelenskyy
Businessman Timur Mindich, a close ally of Zelenskyy, might be the most interesting name in the crosshairs of prosecutors — but more on him later. The most prominent is current Justice Minister German Galushchenko, who was suspended from his post Wednesday morning. He was energy minister until July before Zelenskyy reshuffled his government.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-corruption-scandal-explained-100m-plot-rocking-volodymyr-zelenskyy-energy-sector/
https://archive.ph/eEEQE

Thousands march through Bucharest in protest against austerity measures
Thousands of protesters marched in Bucharest on Wednesday to demand higher wages, measures to curb inflation and tax reductions for workers as the government pushes on with austerity to tackle the country's large budget deficit. Protesters gathered outside government headquarters in Romania's capital, then marched toward the Palace of Parliament.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/11/12/thousands-march-through-bucharest-in-protest-against-austerity-measures
https://archive.ph/cABnp

IWGB union file legal claims against Rockstar, due to GTA 6 maker allegedly refusing to negotiate over firings
Protests spearheaded by the union took place outside Rockstar North and Take-Two's UK offices last week, and you can read our reports from both here and here. That brings us to today, and this filing of claims by the IWGB, as outlined in a blog post. The claims accuse Rockstar of "unfairly dismissing staff for union activity and blacklisting its members".
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/iwgb-union-file-legal-claims-against-rockstar-due-to-gta-6-maker-allegedly-refusing-to-negotiate-over-firings
https://archive.ph/P6FVn

Postal workers once again at a crossroads as Canada Post submits its “transformation plan”
With Canada Post and the federal Liberal government moving rapidly to implement their plans to dramatically downsize the post office, postal workers are at a pivotal point in their year-long struggle to defend their jobs and working conditions and protect a foundational public service.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/13/urlv-n13.html

Cambodia and Thailand’s border conflict heats up again as Cambodian villager is reported killed
The reported death occurred two days after a Thai solder lost a foot to a land mine while patrolling another area of the border. Thailand blamed Cambodia for the blast and announced it was suspending honoring the terms of the ceasefire, which was originally agreed to on July 28.
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-cambodia-border-conflict-ceasefire-5b4c71e8bccb49520478e2b54e0ad640

5 South Korean workers killed, 3 more presumed dead, in 2 industrial accidents
Over a two-day period in South Korea last week, up to eight workers have lost their lives in separate industrial accidents. These deaths highlight the continued disregard for workplace safety in the country and internationally as workers’ lives are sacrificed for profit.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/12/aepf-n12.html
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New Noj rants on Lenin's Government. Key takeaways are as follows Lenin abandoned his ideals from State and Revolution, that being a state that eliminates the alienation caused by the difference between worker and politician that is prevalent in bourgeoisie democracy, due to the civil war. But kept the elimination of the distinction of different branches of government and that the idea that all political conflict arises from different class interests. The state was separated into two halves the Soviet Government and the Party with a matching set of hierarchy. With the goal of the party to guide the government, but as time went on the distinction between the too blurred. With the Politburo becoming the head of state due to its quick ability to create and pass laws as compared the slow bureaucratic soviet government. The party at all times dominated the government and prevented from any real change in policy from it. Finn ally the party was highly undemocratic as getting into the party required to be approved by other party members and any deviation in ideas could resulting in expulsion.New Noj rants on Lenin's Government. Key takeaways are as follows Lenin abandoned his ideals from State and Revolution, that being a state that eliminates the alienation caused by the difference between worker and politician that is prevalent in bourgeoisie democracy, due to the civil war. But kept the elimination of the distinction of different branches of government and that the idea that all political conflict arises from different class interests. The state was separated into two halves the Soviet Government and the Party with a matching set of hierarchy. With the goal of the party to guide the government, but as time went on the distinction between the too blurred. With the Politburo becoming the head of state due to its quick ability to create and pass laws as compared the slow bureaucratic soviet government. The party at all times dominated the government and prevented from any real change in policy from it. Finn ally the party was highly undemocratic as getting into the party required to be approved by other party members and any deviation in ideas could resulting in expulsion.
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>but muh marx

Apple just launched a new revolutionary product that completely changes how you can use your phone. Will bernd get the $149.95 version, or the $229.95 pro version that comes with a long strap? It's even compatible with icky green bubble androids.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carry-iphone/
>ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” its singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
>Born from the idea of creating an additional pocket, its understated design fully encloses iPhone, expanding to fit more of a user’s everyday items. When stretched, the open textile subtly reveals its contents and allows users to peek at their iPhone display. iPhone Pocket can be worn in a variety of ways — handheld, tied onto bags, or worn directly on the body.
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What do we do about immigration?

>Europoor

It's becoming increasingly clear that the majority of proles in Europe and North America are being brainwashed by their phones into believing immigration is the biggest issue in their countries. I have largely ignored this issue, as I don't really think it matters but then, last night, there was a lumpen riot in Dublin against an IPAS centre in which a foreign national who had been denied asylum and was told to "self-deport" had apparantly raped a 10 year old girl who was under state care. I usually don't believe a lot of the lies told about "migrants" online but this case makes me feel particularly uncomfortable.

It was a clear failure from the neoliberal Irish government and it's institutions that allowed something like this to happen. Why wasn't this man deported immediately after being denied asylum? Too expensive, apparently. Why was this man allowed to be in a situation where he could sexually abuse a child? Why is this man in my country in the first place? Ofc, the Free State institutions are keeping silent on it, pissing off people even more.

So, how do leftists feel about immigration and the current asylum process? Obviously, I understand this wouldn't be an issue if western corps weren't raping the third world but I also think there is a discussion to be had. Are open borders in the current world really working? Would they work post-capitalism? How do you feel about immigration, positively or negatively?
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how do auth-leftists argue against this?

>the US is closer to the socialist end of the spectrum than it is to having free, competitive markets.

>This really started to accelerate in the early 1900s.


This is true. And almost entire Europe is more socialist than it was 100 years ago.

The federal reserve (central bank) creation in the US has also basically started 2 world wars, the entire state of Israel, the expansionist empire and all it's horrible consequences.
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One Battle After Another

Knowing the real history of American radical left-wing groups, this film is far too generous about their capabilities. In reality, they wouldn’t have killed any political figure higher than a superintendent, would likely have set off a bomb that killed a good portion of their members or been shot dead and arrested if they actually tried fighting against an armed resistance.
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/USApol/ 🇺🇸🔥

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Billionaire Beggar Bailout Edition


Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

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Previous Thread: >>2554312

Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
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News 11/11/25

Belgrade protests plan to turn historic NATO bombing site into Kushner luxury hotel
On Tuesday, November 11, protesters converged from across the city and drew a red line around the site’s perimeter to symbolize a promise to defend it. “Today we have performatively shown what we will do in the coming days,” student Valentina Moravčević told Mašina. “We will be a living wall between all those who are trying to demolish these buildings. Cultural heritage is now defended exclusively on the streets, and that’s what we’re going to do.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/11/belgrade-protests-plan-to-turn-historic-nato-bombing-site-into-kushner-luxury-hotel/

Reeves has 'manifestly failed' as unemployment jumps to 5%
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported a figure of 5 per cent covering the three months to September - the highest since late 2020. This was up from 4.8 per cent reported last month and a larger leap than economists had predicted, with men worst affected by the shift. Separate HMRC data released by the ONS also showed a 32,000 decline in payrolled employment during October.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reeves-has-manifestly-failed-unemployment-jumps-5

Court rules asylum seekers can stay at Epping hotel
Epping Forest District Council sought to block migrants lodging at The Bell Hotel in Epping by arguing its owner had flouted planning rules. Mr Justice Mould dismissed the claim on Tuesday, ruling an injunction was "not an appropriate means of enforcing planning control".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8x1wz8jz0yo

Indian police invoke ‘terror’ law as Modi alleges Delhi blast ‘conspiracy’
Police were still to give details on Tuesday on what caused the explosion near the Indian capital’s historic Red Fort, but officials said that the case had been registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, India’s main “anti-terrorism” law, giving investigators broader powers to detain suspects.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/11/indian-police-invoke-terror-law-as-modi-alleges-delhi-blast

Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for deadly terror attack in Islamabad
The attack was claimed by the Pakistan Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. “Judges, lawyers and officials who carried out rulings under Pakistan’s un-Islamic laws were targeted,” the TTP said in a statement, threatening more attacks until Islamic sharia law was implemented in the Muslim-majority country.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/terror-attack-islamabad-pakistan-state-of-war

Protests erupt in Pakistan against expansion of military powers
The draft of the 27th constitutional amendment bill was finalized on Monday, days after it was presented by the government headed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday, November 8, to the Senate. The drafting process did not involve any major opposition parties or any other significant stakeholders, inciting angry reactions.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/10/protests-erupt-in-pakistan-against-expansion-of-military-powers/

Death toll from capsized boat with Myanmar migrants climbs to 27 as more bodies recovered
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said rescuers found another survivor and recovered eight more bodies on Tuesday off northern Langkawi island, close to the Thailand border. This brought its total to 20 deaths, comprising seven men, nine women and four children, plus 14 survivors, it said.
https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-thailand-boat-capsizes-myanmar-rohingya-f15a36e304974b89b9d754581cbd5467

Turkey seeks more than 2,000 years behind bars for Istanbul mayor Imamoglu
The nearly 4,000-page indictment charged the popular opposition mayor with a long string of offences, including running a criminal organisation, bribery, embezzlement, money laundering, extortion and tender rigging. State news agency Anadolu said the charges would carry a prison sentence of up to 2,430 years.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-seeks-more-2000-years-behind-bars-imamoglu

Israel: Bill to shut 'harmful' foreign media passes first reading
Formally titled the Law to Prevent Harm to State Security by a Foreign Broadcasting Authority, the bill empowers the communications minister to block or shut down foreign channels and websites, seize their equipment, and raid offices without judicial oversight.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-approves-preliminary-vote-bill-barring-harmful-foreign-media

Noboa’s Government Accused of Human Rights Violations Over Public Transfer of Jorge Glas to Supermax
Jorge Glas’s attorney, Sonia Vera, denounced on Monday that Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has violated measures in place under the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Her complaint comes after the former vicepresident was transferred to a maximum-security prison without due legal process and subsequently displayed in official media channels.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/noboas-government-accused-of-human-rights-violations-over-public-transfer-of-jorge-glas-to-supermax/
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Sincere AMA / Theory Aid Thread

I'm a PhD candidate who actually understands Hegel and has a grasp the broad history/development of left wing thought from Rousseau to Zizek. I'm sick today and remembered this place existed. If you are trying to get a better handle on theory of any kind and have questions on how to go about understanding something, go ahead. I imagine this makes me sound like an ass, but I promise that I'm being totally sincere
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Replace snap entirely

This is a real position I hold. This isn't ironic or parody. I'll even explain wtf a Floyd Dollar is.
I for one take great pleasure in knowing how uncertain people are about their livelihood with EBT cuts. Mind you I'm not conservative, I'm well aware it effects many people young and old, it effects whites and blacks, it effects many who can't find a job even if they wanted too, and at the end of the day it's like 600usd a month and very curated. The reason they spend it at Mcdonalds is because McDonald's has sub contracts with the government to accept EBT but fresh produce does not. Meanwhile they blame the idiot with only 600usd in his name monthly as if he has fuck all influence over the process. He's just here to not die.

But y'all should die. I hate you… However, should you be alive. You should be alive and accelerating me to my perfect vision of no moderators. Part of that is the very crude, very blunt, dark woke language of the Floyd Dollar. I want the first thing these rudimentary assclowns to think of when they think of welfare, is for some fent addicted black man whose just belligerent to every living thing, to be down at the gas station getting the most malign of items possible. Sheeeeiiitttt.

Floyd Dollars would not cover food. Steal food. You'll never steal enough to warrant a felony unless you're my fat boomer parents. It takes a thousand dollars in theft to be a felony. You are not stealing a thousand dollars worth a food. Even if you stole every day, it would only be applicable to that day because of double Jeopardy. Just steal food God damn.

No, Floyd Dollars provide the real essentials. Alcohol, tobacco, guns, and lottery tickets. Maybe drugs too but weed is cucked and I've never met a based pothead. Maybe like heroin. My previous ex was a coke head. She wasn't AS BAD as the potheads just an annoying self-deluded whore. I don't know, but what I do know is I wanted George Floyd to have a gun to fightback against the cop who kneed his neck. So the new snap should cover his self autonomy to defend himself, as well as his self autonomy to not need my program hence he can buy lottery, and self autonomy to want to be alive because life is depressing hence alcohol and tobacco.

Counterstrike Skins and crypto might also be applicable to the Floyd Dollars. It's the same logistical end as why they should be able to get free lottery tickets.

Now I know this will especially piss off the rightoid, because in the off chance a welfare queen does win the lotto, their tax dollars went to improving some sheboon life instead of their own. My counter argument to this part is
1: You didn't actually pay anything. Most people are poorfags and don't actually pay taxes. If they do it's like five dollars worth.

2: I don't care if you feel screwed over and neither do you. You let moderators screw you over. Elon Musk is still alive. Fucker could've been Charlie Kirked and has not been. That's on you. You self loathing freak. If Musk can ban and humiliate you, I can use your tax dollars to save the black man and be their white savior.

3: I don't actually owe an explanation. This is not some cucked social democratic proposition. I'm not a Trotskyist. In this very moment because of a misclick I'm yelling at my screen I will make a bomb out of it if it fucks up again because I know the government can hear me and they need to hear that. Keep your annoying russian saboteur shit to a minimum or something goes kaboom. That also applied to the spell check. Changing it to "like" what am I a fucking TikTok teen saying grape and unalive??? Where the fuck is my TikTok money than? I wouldn't need to be here talking about Floyd Dollars if I was Mr. Beast. So stop "raping" my keystrokes not "graping" with spell check. Also also, I'm not even liable because again…moderators. Also the spell check thing. Like at no juncture do I have any autonomy to what I say or do but some numb nut who doesn't know the law wants say I can't say you should join Isis. Well I did. Fuck you. And mods gotta pay the fedpost fine or else they shouldn't be modding. And it was probably a miscommunication of fucking spell check. So Microsoft should pay too.

What do I get paid? Well that's what Floyd Dollars are for, keep up.
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How comes the minority rule over the majority?

Spartan society is unique and rare in slave societies through history. The majority of its society was made of slaves: 100 000 Helots, and only around 8000 Spartans. The question naturally arises: How comes the minority rule over the majority?

Humanity is facing a similar situation, power in the hands of a few thousands, yet billions of people can't free themselves. So the question remains: how comes the minority rule over the majority?

David Hume attempted to wisely answer such question:

"Nothing is more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than to see the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and to observe the implicit submission with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.

When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that as force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded."

As such, to change society masses to change opinion. It is, therefore, political education the most important task of the revolutionary.
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Soviet deportations

What's the real story behind the Soviet deportations during WW2 because even MLs say that it was a bad thing but that feels like capitulation that Stalin is as bad as the Nazis as it was an ethnic cleansing from how it's described by western liberal historians
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What's the best way to convince anarchists that power and hierarchy aren't inherently bad?

Anarkids act like they understand theory and sociology better than Marxists do. They love getting on their moral high horse by calling everything "oppression". Yet when you actually pick apart their arguments you'll see that they're full of hot air 95% of the time. They talk a good deal about intersectionality and anti-oppression, but when pressed on how to abolish those oppressive structures in society they have no clue.

Marxism, OTOH, is scientific. We understand that political power is necessary to reshape society. We also understand that hierarchies need to exist until we reach the stage of communism, and even then you will still see things like hierarchies of intelligence, talent, beauty, strength, and so on that can't simply be abolished through idealist methods.

But how do you explain this without looking like you're making apologia for oppression? I've tried the Hegelian way of simply saying "the real is rational" but that doesn't get through anarkids' heads very well.
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Why are so many leftists still attatched to him?

Why can't have of this website admit this guy was a hellspawn and had a very negative impact on communism's reputation abroad?
Not even his regressive social policies or endless sectarianism in regards to fragile socialist movements abroad is brought up
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I was arguing with a third worldist/read settlers type the other day who was telling me they don’t feel bad for homeless westerners and that they deserve it. Now I absolutely hate American Imperialism as much as any socialist should but this seems like an absurd leap in logic to wish ill on the common people of the west who while they do benefit in some degree from imperialism, don’t hold the power structure and are also the ones who are made to fight in their bullshit wars. Is socialism when you wish homelessness on white people?
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Dear anons, I am looking for an infographic that seems to have vanished from the internet. It was showing a map of Eastern Europe with a headline saying something like "Fall of socialism: failure or success?" and picturing growth of GDP per capita in various Eastern European nations between 1989 and something like 2010. It was very neatly made and clearly came from some think tank or another thing of the sort. Does anyone of you remember it? I apologize if I should have posted in some thread but I couldn't find anything appropriate.
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Leftypol could really learn something from Athenian democracy and the story of Aristides.
The fact Athenian democracy worked so well is what saved them numerous times especially from the advances of the Persian forces.
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HOW DO I ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING?

So, it's cool to talk about theory and all of that, but what's should I do to actually change the world instead of having theory discussion onlinr 24/7? What's the key stuff that I need to do to actually start to make a change in the world?
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News 11/10/25

Germany’s hard-left icon steps down as leader of populist party she founded
“I will continue to be active in a leadership role within BSW,” Wagenknecht said. “And I will continue to support the party with great commitment on its path ahead and in the next election campaigns.” BSW, a party that merges elements of hard-left and hard-right politics — an ideology Wagenknecht has dubbed “left conservativism” — surged in national polls shortly after its creation and was particularly popular in the former East Germany, where the party won parliamentary seats in two states.
https://www.politico.eu/article/top-german-left-wing-politician-steps-down-leader-bsw-sahra-wagenknecht/
https://archive.ph/gUWAr

Tens of thousands in Portugal protest proposed new labour laws
Saturday’s protest, called by the trade unions, was in opposition to a planned revision of employment laws that Prime Minister Luis Montenegro’s government says is aimed at improving productivity and flexibility in the job market. Opponents say it threatens workers’ rights and should be withdrawn. Demonstrators carried posters that read “no to the labour package” and called for higher wages.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tens-thousands-portugal-protest-proposed-new-labour-laws

Petro recalls Colombia’s ambassador to US over suspected plot to fabricate criminal charges
Petro made the decision after news publication Cambio published a photo taken by the White House that shows a Trump administration official holding open a folder with an image of Petro and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro in orange prison uniforms. Apart from the image, the document called “The Trump Doctrine for Colombia and the Western Heisphere” proposed, among other things, “comprehensive investigations into Petro’s campaign finances.”
https://colombiareports.com/petro-recalls-colombias-ambassador-to-us-over-suspected-plot-to-fabricate-criminal-charges/

Water levels below 3% in dam reservoirs for Iran’s second city, say reports
Authorities in Tehran warned over the weekend of possible rolling cuts to water supplies in the capital amid what officials call the worst drought in decades. The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has cautioned that without rainfall before winter, even Tehran could face evacuation. In the capital, five major dams supplying drinking water are at “critical” levels, with one empty and another at less than 8% of capacity, officials say.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/09/water-levels-below-3-percent-in-dam-reservoirs-for-iran-second-city-say-mashhad-reports

Israel pushes Lebanon army to search more intrusively for Hezbollah arms, sources say
Lebanon's army fears that residents of the south would see house raids as subservience to Israel, which occupied south Lebanon for nearly two decades until 2000 before entering again last year, the Lebanese security officials said. Beirut also worries that Israel will keep moving the goalposts, creating a permanent risk of escalatory strikes and undermining attempts to stabilise a country battered by geopolitical and economic upheavals, the security officials and a political official said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-pushes-lebanon-army-search-more-intrusively-hezbollah-arms-sources-say-2025-11-10/

Israeli drone strike kills two in Gaza as ceasefire violations mount
On Sunday, only 270 trucks entered Gaza through the Karem Abu Salem (known in Israel as Kerem Shalom) and al-Karara (Kissufuim) crossings. According to Al Jazeera’s reporters, the deliveries included 126 trucks of humanitarian aid, 127 carrying commercial goods, 10 with fuel and seven transporting cooking gas.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/10/israeli-drone-strike-kills-two-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-violations-mount
https://archive.ph/sNKkq

Bulacan residents mark initial victory for PrimeWater contract termination
The Water for the People Network (WPN) lauded the residents of San Jose del Monte, Bulacan on November 3 for successfully terminating the joint venture agreement (JVA) between their local water district (LWD) and PrimeWater. The decision resulted from the broad and relentless struggle of the Alliance for Consumer Protection, the People’s Rights Network, and the residents who opposed water services privatization. Despite the JVA’s complete termination, residents know that the fight is not yet over. None of the 15 LWDs that sought to end their contracts with PrimeWater this year have successfully withdrawn from the company.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/bulacan-residents-mark-initial-victory-for-primewater-contract-termination/

New Delhi police detain dozens in anti-pollution protests
Indian police detained dozens of people during a rare protest at the famed India Gate monument in New Delhi demanding action to curb an annual scourge of toxic air swathing the capital and its surrounding region. Sunday's protest by crowds of all ages holding banners and chanting slogans before police bundled them away was a scarce event, even though Delhi and the national capital region have battled such fumes every winter for years.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/new-delhi-police-detain-dozens-anti-pollution-protests-2025-11-10/

Australian welfare recipients far below the poverty line
The report shows that 3.7 million people, or 14.2 percent of the population, were living in poverty in 2022–23. This includes 757,000 children, many from single-parent households, who are among the most at risk. The report uses the Melbourne Institute’s “poverty line” calculation, based on 50 percent of median household after-tax income: $584 per week for a single adult, or $1,226 a week for a couple with two children.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/10/ngiy-n10.html

South Korea special prosecutor indicts ex-President Yoon on more charges
Yoon attempted to provoke military conflict between South and North Korea in order to declare martial law, a prosecutor's spokesperson told a briefing, citing evidence found on a military official's mobile phone that included some words suggesting potential provocations against North Korea, such as "drones" and "surgical strike".
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-special-prosecutor-indicts-ex-president-yoon-more-charges-2025-11-10/

NUM, SACP set to march over crime, corruption in Western Cape
The protest comes as gang violence continues to plague the Cape Flats, with multiple people dying in mass shootings every week. NUM Western Cape Regional Secretary, Mlondolozi Limaphi. “On behalf of the people of the Western Cape, who live under the daily gunfire, extortion, GBV and Femicide, we are picketing today outside the Western Cape provincial legislature to hand over a memorandum to the senior authorities of the SAPS, the provincial government and the city of Cape Town.”
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/num-sacp-set-to-march-over-crime-corruption-in-western-cape/

Terrorist turf war battle in north-eastern Nigeria leaves about 200 dead
The fighting between Boko Haram and rival militants from Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) broke out over the weekend in the village of Dogon Chiku, which lies on the shores of Lake Chad, a restive area located at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. The lake’s riverine corridors serve as operational zones for jihadists who also bank on revenues from taxing fishers, loggers and herders.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/10/terrorist-turf-war-battle-north-eastern-nigeria
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Creating a New American National Narrative

I was going to post this in /usapol/ but effort posts usually get buried so bare with me. I just want some opinions on this draft of some thoughts:

The capitalist class operates with little regard for borders, a fluidity it leverages to its advantage. The entire United States functions as a network of neocolonies—these states host governments that do not represent their people, but rather the corporations that operate within them. The majority of the population is exploited within this system; in fact, only a privileged 10% truly benefit from the capitalist-imperialist economy.

Beneath this broadly exploited class lies a layer of the hyper-exploited, who form the core source of slave labor for this anti-life regime. This super-exploitation is manufactured along racial, gender, and other lines, a deliberate construct of capitalism's superstructure. The rise of a hyper-militarized "War from Within," waged by agencies like ICE, makes this brutally clear. Hispanic people—and by extension, Indigenous people, as the term "Hispanic" is itself a colonizer label invented in the 1970s to impose a European (Spanish) heritage—are primary targets. Even the spectacle of Proud Boys leaders who identify as Hispanic cannot obscure this systemic reality; it only reiterates the haunting contradictions we must confront.

This pattern is rooted in an unfinished past. The first American Revolution of 1776 was ultimately a war over which faction of the capitalist class would control the colonies. While it included a small but notable faction of true people's revolutionaries—figures like Thomas Paine, who argued for abolishing slavery from the outset—they failed. Their defeat meant the people's revolution was never completed.

Therefore, we are not simply communists or anarchists, though we may be influenced by both. We are abolitionists. Our purpose is to finish that people's revolution and free this land from capital's control.

This struggle did not begin with us, nor did it pause after 1776. It is a continuous thread woven through this land's history: in the pan-tribal resistance led by Tecumseh, in the stunning victory of Indigenous nations at the Battle of Little Bighorn, in the bloody righteousness of Nat Turner’s rebellion, and in John Brown’s holy war against chattel slavery. The Civil War itself contained revolutionary, abolitionist currents that were ultimately subverted by capital, which traded chattel slavery for the prison of sharecropping and Jim Crow.

This tradition of people's war was carried into the industrial era by the IWW, which waged a protracted struggle from the 1880s to the 1930s. They were ultimately squashed not just by state violence, but by the betrayal of turncoat communists within the CPUSA and other factions that chose alignment with social democrats over revolutionary solidarity.

Even the global fight against fascism in WWII was subverted. While millions fought with an anti-fascist spirit, American corporations had fueled Hitler's rise, and after the war, the state imported Nazi scientists via Operation Paperclip, integrating their expertise into the U.S. military-industrial complex. Remember the Business Plot of 1933, where financiers attempted a fascist coup against FDR; though it failed, its architects remained in positions of immense power.

The central problem has always been the strategic separation of perspectives through intentional racial division, a tactic solidified after Bacon's Rebellion. That rebellion was a prototype, unifying black and white workers to such a degree that the ruling class was forced to invent the concept of "whiteness" and codify chattel slavery to shatter that solidarity.

We can view this entire history through a hauntological lens: If Bacon's Rebellion achieved that much, we must imagine the lost future where that alliance also united with the native tribes, successfully ousting the private landed gentry. That ghost of a future, which was stolen from us, holds the key to the future we can still inherit.

It has been 533 years since Columbus landed on Turtle Island in search of trade, gold, and markets; 406 years since the first person of African descent was brought to these shores in bondage; 350 years since Bacon's Rebellion; and 250 years since the capitalist class subverted the revolutionary currents of 1776—the pattern of division becomes starkly visible across the centuries.

The central, enduring problem of American history has been the strategic separation of perspectives through intentional racial division, a tactic systematically codified in the wake of Bacon's Rebellion. That uprising was a fiery prototype of class solidarity, unifying enslaved Africans, European indentured servants, and landless freemen to such a dangerous degree that the terrified ruling class was forced to engineer a social solution: they invented the legal and social concept of "whiteness" and hardened the system of hereditary chattel slavery specifically to shatter that multiracial solidarity. This was the "counter-revolution of 1676," a preemptive strike against a people's revolution that has shaped all that followed.

We must therefore view this entire history through a hauntological lens. We are haunted by the futures that were stolen from us. If the pursuit of trade and gold 533 years ago initiated this cycle of extraction and division, and if the solidarity glimpsed 350 years ago in Bacon's Rebellion was so potent it required a new system of apartheid to contain it, then we must actively imagine the lost future where that rebel alliance also united with the native tribes whose land was the rebellion's initial object. Imagine a future where that coalition—of the enslaved, the indentured, the landless, and the indigenous—successfully ousted the private landed gentry and built a society on a foundation of mutual interest, not racial capitalism.

That ghost of a future, a possibility born 350 years ago and suppressed ever since, is a key. It unlocks the understanding that our present is built on a foundation of deliberately fractured solidarity. We are recovering a roadmap to the future we were denied, a future that, in recognizing its own stolen potential, we can still choose to inherit.
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enviromentalism and marxism

>need to develop productive forces for communism to happen
>this fucks up the earth and nature

how do we reconcile this as gommunists? whenever I see people calling for protecting the amazon there is an argument that the people cutting down the trees are just trying to make a living.
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BSW OPINION

What do you think about German far-left political party named Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice aka BSW?
Are they true communist redpilled comrades? Do they have any future? Will they replace Die Linke and would/will you vote for that party if were/are a German?
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climate change

How are we going to achieve socialism after the climate apocalypse because we are not going to fix the climate what should leftists do when people get tired of barbarism
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==On the Great Man==

Stalinoids have a tendency for projecting their great man idealism and assume Marxist critique of their cult is based on vilifying Stalin the man. However we reject their mythology of the one man (Khrushchev) singlehandedly dismantling an entire mode of production.

The Russian revolution lost because it failed to become international. Stalin had little to no role to play in that. In fact our only contention with Stalin is much less dramatic, it's simply his opportunist decision to not recognize the defeat of the revolution and instead to parade its corpse in order to maintain yet another capitalist state. His and others desecration of the revolution set the workers movement decades back.
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Previous Thread: >>2552955

Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
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Gen z and fascism on social media

It's old news that fascism is on the rise but I can't be the only one that is suspecting there's a deliberate push by social media companies at this point? Twitter might be obvious but I'm also seeing more and more things on places like youtube getting tons of views that wouldn't have been allowed to stay up a couple years ago, picrel for example. Instagram reels being full of nazi content and its comment sections being bombarded with racism is something that's become infamous but that seemed to have happened almost overnight.
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Books on the fabrication of the ukrainian identity

Most MSM, AI LLM trained on shit, resources online point to the fake narrative that ukraine (the borderlands, formerly wild lands or dikoe pole) has some kind of lineage tied to Kievan Rus and that it was not entirely a fabrication by the USSR. It is a fake nation that speaks a russian dialect and fabricated its own history and identity. Give me books to prove this right because it is the truth, give me books and resources, english russian whatever,
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We must destroy our own sexuality to achieve a Communist future.

To achieve an international Socialist rule, we must ensure a full dedication to the party and it's objectives. Personal relationships that leech funds, attention, and dedication to the party must be destroyed by the individual internally to achieve an unwavering dedication to the proletariat. We've seen countless times in organizations that sexuality have led to the destruction of the individuals in power, Haz, Hasan, Maupin, MikefromPA, their downfall and degeneration? Falling from Marxist ideals in favor of dedication to sexual conquest. Our relationships to others should solely be dedicated to advancing the interests of the international proletariat, a dictatorship of the proletariat, and the return and advancement of the Comintern.
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Would the south have gone communist by the turn of the century? Pressuming the internal class conflict between landowning, slave owning, plantation bourgeoise and white urban workers in manufacturing jobs experiencing malaise as result of the weevil and collapse of plantation economy which released a major low cost labour force.
coupling a lost of industrial activity with a major cheapening of labour.
Economic crisis, racial resentment, class resentment
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Zohranism or the Vanguard of the Petite-Bourgeoisie

Zohran Mamdani and his acolytes are the vanguard of the mom&pop petite-bourgeoisie. Ethnically Indian, Ugandan born, NYC raised: the archetype of the small-business rootless cosmopolitan. He does not oppose big corporations with a view of nationalising them under a worker-led state. He opposes big corporations because they drive his beloved small food truck and small peddlers out of business. Zohran hates Wall Street not because he wants a Proletarian New York, but because he wants an Oriental Bazaar New York. He loves the mass of decentralised spice traders, snake oil merchants, and empanada fryers. Zohran loves American Imperialism, he just wants the petite-bourgeoisie to have a larger share of the imperial spoils, instead of getting wiped out by the haute-bourgeoisie. Bernie killed Rosa, AOC dismembered her corpse, Zohran will distribute the body parts to his small merchant friends.
The only hope for communists in this election was Comrade Curtis Sliwa. But he was never going to survive the assault of the imperial-liberal youth of NYC. The American proletariat barely exists. Its brave last soldiers are heroically resisting, but they have already lost and soon will be exterminated.
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Daily reminder that if you aren't:
>reading theory
>organizing your workplace
>lifting weights
>practicing at a gun range
You aren't a communist. You're just a LARPer.
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“Actually existing socialism” and the communist transition

David Camfield’s new book, Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left, is a concise and insightful intervention into the renewed debates on the legacy of AES. Red Flags analyzes the revolutionary transformations that shaped the unique forms of class rule in the Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China, and Cuba in order to demolish anticommunist and “anti-anticommunist mythologies surrounding these societies.

Following economist Jacques Sapir, Camfield characterizes AES regimes as “mobilization economies,” in which the state mobilized “all available resources, on a non-commercial basis.” The regimes prioritized the geopolitical interests of their respective party-state bureaucracies by imposing distinct forms of “state capitalism.”

While Camfield’s “reconstructed historical materialist” analysis and lessons he draws for the Left are mostly spot-on, his use of state capitalism as a framework to understand AES is less convincing. In this review, I will briefly summarize Camfield’s central arguments about AES before discussing their broader theoretical and political implications.

Why wasn’t AES socialism?

Camfield locates the renewed interest in AES regimes in anti-anticommunism. Since Western anticommunists (of liberal and conservative variants) have equated communism with fascism, the decline of the neoliberal consensus that followed the Soviet Union’s collapse paved the way for the revival of anti-anticommunism.

Camfield argues this tendency grew among certain Maoist currents in the 1960s’ New Left and has become more prominent as the disillusionment with neoliberal capitalism has led many to a search for alternatives in recent years. Anti-anticommunists’ nostalgic embrace of rival regimes to Western capitalism (including AES regimes, but often other developmentalist regimes too) raises real problems for the socialist left today as apologism for class oppression under AES regimes becomes more widespread.

Contrary to the claims of their proponents, the bureaucratic one-party regimes governing AES societies never aimed for democratic workers’ control or the abolition of exploitation and oppression. Camfield shows how workers experienced forms of political and economic domination under state managers who pursued economic goals that mimicked capitalist growth.

However, in the aftermath of rapid industrialization campaigns and wartime mobilizations, the AES command/mobilization economies experienced technical stagnation that made it difficult to develop the productivity of labor. This dynamic made it increasingly difficult for them to both maintain the social provisions they created during revolutionary upsurges (education, housing, health care) and compete militarily with capitalist empires. The survival of the redistributionist policies, as well as their episodic anti-imperialist campaigns, was contingent on their contribution to the survival of ruling party-state bureaucracies that overwhelmingly adopted capitalist methods of production in the face of stagnation.

Out of the three regimes discussed in Red Flags, only the revolutionary Russian state briefly embraced the goal of initiating a genuine communist transformation. After the fall of tsarism in February 1917, soviets (democratic workplace councils) seized power from a weak provisional government by October of that year. But the viability of the Bolshevik-led soviet regime depended on support from Russia’s small-peasant majority and, more crucially, an anticipated communist revolution in the more economically advanced Germany. When the German workers’ revolution failed, and the Russian Civil War depleted the ranks of Bolsheviks, Soviet democracy collapsed. By the end of the war, the soviets had become a bureaucratic extension of the party-state led by the Communist Party.

To stabilize a war-torn economy, the Bolsheviks introduced pro-market reforms under the New Economic Policy. After Vladimir Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin’s “socialism in one country” faction seized control through a power struggle within the party, and repressed dissident factions by intensifying the political persecution that had commenced during the Civil War.

The 1928 “Great Break” launched waves of forced collectivization of land, rapid industrialization, and mass relocations, resulting in millions of deaths. “The first example in history of a government seeking to transform an entire economy and society through planned action by the state,” was driven by a perceived threat of war and a grain procurement crisis. While labor remained decommodified and workers held some leverage due to the absence of urban unemployment, workers remained alienated from their labor and the state, as they were compelled to pursue state economic targets and were banned from advocating for their interests through independent organizations. After World War II, as economic growth stalled, and decades of reforms failed to resolve this stagnation, the party-state gradually embraced a broader capitalist restructuring.

Stalin’s crash program of industrialization featured projects like the construction of the Dnieper hydroelectric station in 1931. Image author unknown.

Camfield shows that China and Cuba had even weaker ties to the goal of workers’ self-emancipation. The Communist Party of China, founded in 1921, initially aligned with the nationalist Guomindang regime under the Stalinist Comintern’s directives, but the party reoriented to a rural guerrilla strategy after the massacre of Communists in 1927. During its temporary reunion with the Guomindang against the genocidal Japanese invasion in the 1930s and 1940s, the party’s ranks swelled, allowing it to successfully defeat the weakened Guomindang after the war, despite Comintern efforts to force the two into coalition.

Although the Communist Party had broad support among the peasant majority after the People’s Republic of China was established in 1949, its path to power through conventional warfare meant democratic workers’ control was never on the table. While private enterprise was initially tolerated, the party adopted a mobilization economy in the early 1950s. Five-year plans and the Great Leap Forward led to famine and tens of millions of deaths as collectivization of land and industrialization were ramped up.

Mounting internal fractures drove Mao Zedong to launch the Cultural Revolution to reassert control in the 1960s, resulting in more violence and mass death. After Mao’s death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping began to phase out market restrictions while retaining an authoritarian one-party regime. Institutions like the hukou system, which restricts worker mobility between districts, kept labor cheap and disciplined, enabling a gradual privatization of land and state-owned enterprises alongside economic integration into Western markets. By the 1990s, China had become a global industrial hub, fostering a new capitalist elite while maintaining the Communist Party’s monopoly on state power.

[The] party-state regimes [of China and Cuba] emerged from revolutionary and anti-imperialist upheavals but rapidly subordinated popular forms of democratic control to geopolitical imperatives.

Cuba’s trajectory mirrored some of the same patterns as China, but without a path toward full economic independence. After centuries of Spanish colonialism and decades of U.S.-backed dictatorship under Fulgencio Batista, the July 26th Movement led by Fidel Castro overthrew Batista in 1959. While revolution enjoyed mass support in Cuba, the movement’s strategy was rooted in a struggle for anti-imperialist national liberation, not democratic workers’ control.

Under pressure from U.S. aggression, the regime aligned with the Soviet Union and became a party-state with a mobilization economy by 1965. While education and healthcare were modernized, industrialization never fully took off. This meant a political-economic dependency, enabling the suppression of independent unions, grassroots organizations, and dissent against the party-state. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba turned to market reforms to survive, but only managed to foster a small private sector while seeing many social protections eroded under budget pressures.

As Camfield clearly shows, these party-state regimes emerged from revolutionary and anti-imperialist upheavals but rapidly subordinated popular forms of democratic control to geopolitical imperatives. While workers’ democracy in Russia collapsed under civil war and geopolitical isolation, leading to a bureaucratic apparatus that ultimately imploded, in China and Cuba revolutions rooted in peasant mobilization and nationalist resistance led to party-states that consolidated power without providing mechanisms for democratic workers’ control. A shared disavowal of proletarian agency in favor of bureaucratic command, justified by geopolitical and economic pressures, unified these regimes’ paths to eventual embrace of capitalistic economic goals, whatever socialist coloring they used to justify their policies.

State capitalism?

Camfield identifies the mode of production as “state capitalism,” while suggesting that, more important than this terminology is the fact that actually existing socialism “involves class exploitation, is not in transition to communism, and is neither qualitatively superior to nor worse than capitalism.”

At its core, though, labeling these systems as capitalist rests on an overly formalistic interpretation, defining capitalism merely by the presence of wage labor, accumulation, and industrialization. This approach, however, sidelines Karl Marx’s understanding of capitalism’s historical specificity: the pervasive dominance of abstract labor and the subordination of use-value production to value production. These dynamics only become possible under the “dull compulsion” of markets, where workers must sell their labor-power to survive, and enterprises must sell commodities profitably to avoid collapse.

Camfield’s assertion that AES regimes were capitalist, though distortedly so, fails to account for their fundamental lack of market-dependent classes, the absence of generalized commodity production and capitalist crises. While it is true that the growth in the production of goods and services slowed throughout the 1960s-70s in the USSR, roughly parallel to trends in the world economy, this does not mean that economic crises of AES are capitalist. Although labor-power might have been formally commodified and managed to improve productivity relative to Western standards, it was not disciplined by the threat of unemployment or market competition. Camfield acknowledges this (52) but does not clarify how then economic crises under AES could be capitalist.

This is important because it was these systems’ inherent inability to sustain productivity growth in the absence of market imperatives that triggered collapse or capitalist transition, not capitalist crises of profitability. Surplus labor was extracted through the direct administrative command and juridical control exercised by the party-state, not the dull compulsion of the market. While Camfield states that the size of the Soviet “military industrial complex” and “the structure of the bureaucratically directed mobilization economy” drove USSR’s stagnation and its inability to take advantage of the productivity boost provided to the West by neoliberalism, he does not clarify why the absence of capitalist crises, or the presence of state forms of domination over market ones are not indicators of a distinct mode of production.

In lieu of “state capitalism,” the notion of state collectivism offers a more coherent and analytically precise alternative. It recognizes the bureaucratic party-state’s monopolistic control over surplus appropriation without erroneously importing capitalist dynamics where they did not genuinely exist. The party-state’s command over the economy, while effective during early stages of industrialization, proved incapable of sustaining developmental momentum without restructuring to introduce and prioritize the growth of capitalist markets instead of the state bureaucracy.

The question of communist transition

The key question for the Left, however, is not just a theoretical one on the transition from one mode of production to another. It is about forms of democratic organization that can withstand and overcome capitalist sieges in moments of upsurge. As Camfield argues, communism is the project of subordinating economic and political power and all aspects of everyday life to democratic control. Yet, the antidemocratic culture of the Communist Parties of actually existing socialism went beyond their embrace of labor exploitation.

State repression in these regimes helped crystallize forms of racial and gender-based oppression while legitimizing imperialist domination abroad. Camfield shows how the women’s movements’ initial gains in revolutionary moments were undermined by the reimposition of patriarchal laws later. LGBT+ people experienced similar forms of repression in all three Communist regimes discussed in Red Flags.

In the Soviet Union and China, minority populations were systematically subjected to forced dispossession and labor, coerced assimilation, and militarized surveillance. In Cuba, racism against Afro-Cubans also persisted, though in less repressive forms. The international solidarity of these regimes displayed has also been a matter of realpolitik, often sacrificing Communist and anti-imperialist movements in alliances with so-called progressive capitalist blocs against fascism.

AES regimes were coercive, however, not only because of their structures, but because of the pressures imposed on them by a hostile world system. Embargoes, sabotage, war, and isolation these regimes faced favored militarization, centralization of power, and the suppression of dissent in the name of survival. To centralize power and defend their revolutions, these regimes often massacred mass democratic movements that made their societies revolutionary in the first place. Camfield insists that the communist horizon today must be grounded in a conception of abundance, not based on state quotas attained through repression and exploitation, but one based on the guarantee that no one’s existence depends on hierarchy or deprivation.

In this light, the key task of communist transition is building democratic working-class organizations that can withstand domestic and imperialist pressures. As Camfield reminds us history is not predetermined, and the question of how democratic working class movements can seize political ruptures rather than letting them harden into authoritarian structures remains alive. A successful communist transition requires democratic working-class organizations to not just crush state or market-based forms of domination, but to also simultaneously transform state machinery to withstand a capitalist siege that will encourage militarization and authoritarian tendencies.

Camfield argues that the Left must [foster] revolutionary politics democratically accountable to movements from below, not insulated astroturf vanguards.

The Left’s main advantage today, relative to communists of the last century, is that capitalism has already created unprecedented global interdependence of labor and technology, and therefore also the material basis for international democratic planning. Camfield builds on this insight and communist thinkers’ works on the transition socialism to argue that workers’ democracy can only politically and militarily defeat capitalist empires through world revolution.

The tradition of anti-Stalinist communism Camfield builds on emerged in response to Stalin’s rise to power and against his notion of socialism in one country, enduring against dominant Communist currents under state repression, right-wing violence, and competition with official Communist parties. Camfield roots this tradition in the ideas of Marx, Frederick Engels, and William Morris, who emphasized the importance of working-class self-emancipation and democratic control. Rosa Luxemburg also embraced the same ideas in rejecting bureaucratic rule of party elites, particularly in the context of the Russian Revolution.

Other anti-Stalinist Marxist currents, including some Trotskyist currents that shape Tempest politics, have also advocated for democracy from below, working-class internationalism, and revolution against both capitalists and the bureaucratic rulers of actually existing socialism. However, in the place of a programmatic approach, Camfield leaves the reader with fragments of guiding principles and historical experience from the works of these thinkers that provide some direction but without enough clarity.

Camfield argues that the Left must recover the spirit of mass participation and proletarian internationalism that animated early revolutionary struggles, while soberly learning from authoritarian regressions of actually existing socialism. This means fostering revolutionary politics democratically accountable to movements from below, not insulated astroturf vanguards. It also means rethinking how revolutionary movements can build power across borders to avoid the fortress conditions of embattled socialist states. While Red Flags offers a compelling case for rejecting actually existing socialism as a model for communist transition, it only partially answers the strategic questions of how to construct a truly democratic and resilient revolutionary movement.

Nevertheless, Camfield argues that the failures of the socialist regimes of the last century should not lead to cynicism or fatalism. A renewed commitment to emancipatory politics, one not nostalgic for the past, but oriented toward a future in which collective democratic struggles for communist liberation can win genuine liberation. We still have nothing to lose but our chains and a world to win.

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, communist political currents aligned with the Marxist-Leninist regimes in Russia, China, and elsewhere have experienced major decline. Nevertheless, in recent years, organizations like the Communist Party USA and Party for Socialism and Liberation have experienced a modest resurgence through their involvement in antiwar movements, Black Lives Matter, the Palestinian liberation movement, and a growing online left media ecosystem.

This resurgence has contributed to an uncritical embrace of so-called actually existing socialism (AES) as a model for communist transition among a new layer of radicals and Marxists. U.S. leftists, disillusioned with crumbling public infrastructure and privatized welfare states, often view the rapid modernization of state institutions and provision of universal social services under these states as a meaningful alternative to the alienation of exploitation of capitalism.

The support of self-identified socialist states for some anti-imperialist movements and economic development projects in the Global South also position these regimes as adversaries of imperial dominance by the Global North, especially the United States. The relative weakness of anti-imperialist movements in the West provides fertile ground for a mythical glorification of these regimes’ otherwise inconsistent anti-imperialist record. But the contemporary reimagining of AES through developmentalist, redistributionist, and anti-imperialist lenses obscures the forms of class domination and oppression in these societies.

https://tempestmag.org/2025/11/actually-existing-socialism-and-the-communist-transition/
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Sloppenhauer

>In 1848, Schopenhauer witnessed violent upheaval in Frankfurt after General Hans Adolf Erdmann von Auerswald and Prince Felix Lichnowsky were murdered. He became worried for his own safety and property. […] He gave a friendly welcome to Austrian soldiers who wanted to shoot revolutionaries from his window and as they were leaving he gave one of the officers his opera glasses to help him monitor rebels. The rebellion passed without any loss to Schopenhauer and he later praised Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, for restoring order. He even modified his will, leaving a large part of his property to a Prussian fund that helped soldiers who became invalids while fighting rebellion in 1848 or the families of soldiers who died in battle.
Ah, so he was actively reactionary, as his class position, and his actions to defend his class position reveal.
>As Young Hegelians were advocating change and progress, Schopenhauer claimed that misery is natural for humans and that, even if some utopian society were established, people would still fight each other out of boredom, or would starve due to overpopulation.
Ohh… it's just… umm…. humans are gonna be miserable no matter what…. please don't make me lose my property…. I'm so miserable with all this property…. Prussian soldiers…. please defend my property from the rabble…. who are definitely just as miserable in poverty as I am in wealth… oh heavens…. I … ohh…..
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melting into air?

marx's statement that "everything melts into air" and "everything holy is profaned" under capitalist relations appears to be completely false. in all reality, capitalism has given us the most conservative, religious and superstitious era in all humanity. we are not more enlightened than the ancients and history does not resemble social progress.
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Questions for Norwegians

It turns out that Norway's SWF almost has more money per capita than Norwegian private wealth, that is to say, its material base is such that it can realize PDD, with 2 trillion in the SWF vs about 500 billion GDP.

Roedt seems to be doing adequately, but how good are the revolutionary conditions there? I normally wouldn't advocate first world revolution, whether by the bullet or the ballot, but that 2 trillion is tempting as all hell.
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Has there ever been a materialist explanation for why western socialist and communist groups are overwhelmingly white, relatively gender balanced and majority cis (disregarding pronoun nonsense)?

Whereas the membership of contemporary rightoid fascist groups is disproportionately hispanic, Indian or otherwise nonwhite, overwhelmingly male, and rife with pedophiles, perverts and other abusers?
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Had anyone here tried to troll South Vietnamese diaspora by asking if they condemn the unlawful murder of Prime Minister/President Ngô Đình Diệm by Dương Văn Minh? If yes, what reactions did you get?
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THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNISM

This thread will describe what exact superstructural changes will occur in the aftermath of a Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution once the Material Base has been transformed after the Socialist Mode of Production has been established Worldwide. Enjoy Comrades, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

I will present a thought experiment, what will the World look like a century from now, decades after the World Maoist Protracted People's War (PPW) swept the forces of Capital and Reaction into the dustpan of History in the aftermath of World War III (it started in the Late 2020s as a High-Intensity Conventional Conflict between the U$ and China that escalated into a Global Nuclear War, but contrary to most Pseudoscientific Bourgeois Liberal and Revisionist expectations did not cause an apocalyptic "Nuclear Winter", but instead destroyed the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System and allowed for a World Maoist PPW that saw Maoist rebels seize control of the entire planet after decades of guerrilla warfare), 🤔? This Effort post will seek to answer that question, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

First, I will explain the political structure of this future Socialist world. There will be a Global USSR, in which every major Nation/Ethnic group will receive their own SSR or ASSR according to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR (as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union ), including New Afrika, Aztlan (in a Hispano-American SFSR that includes all the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas), the First Nations, Azawad, Oromia, Afaria, Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, Wales, Sapmi, Palestine (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Kurdistan, Circassia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Arabistan (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Balochistan, East Turkestan/Uyghuristan, Tibet, Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, Manipur, West Papua, Aboriginal Australia, Hawaii, and many others as shown in the Map of all the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR I posted. Obviously, this Global USSR will have a Socialist Mode of Production (Centrally Planned Socialist Economy) and Dictatorship of the Proletariat (One-Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist State). This Centrally Planned Socialist Economy is characterized by State ownership of all companies, a State Planning Agency, the outlawing of Stock Exchanges, and a massive Social Safety Net consisting of Free Housing, Free Healthcare, Free Education, a Job Guarantee, and a Universal Basic Income, along with a long-term effort to Automate the entire Economy (hence the need for Universal Basic Income) on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

The first great Superstructural transformation brought by the Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the final destruction of that great “Opiate of the Masses” that had been used by all the ruling Classes of every previous Mode of Production to neuter the oppressed Classes, Religion. This was done by sending the International Red Guards to bulldoze/burn down all Churches/Mosques/Synagogues/Temples/Pagodas worldwide and arrest all Priests/Monks/Nuns/Imams/Rabbis and force them to March through the streets wearing Dunce Caps on their way to the re-education camps where they were re-educated to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (This also happened to all Fascists, Liberals, and Revisionists as well), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

Another key aspect of this Superstructural transformation was seen in the dramatic transformation of Urban planning that was carried out by the Global USSR. This process was made easier by the aftermath of World War III (especially the Nuclear Exchange) and the subsequent World Maoist PPW that left most cities as smoldering ruins and thus in desperate need of rebuilding. The new “People’s cities” were built to be as efficient, environmentally friendly, and high-density as possible, with the entire population living in high-density Concrete Commie Bloc Apartment buildings, and all Suburban McMansions/“Single-Family Homes” bull-dozed and left to be reclaimed by nature (most had already been destroyed anyway). At the center of every major city is a single massive Skyscraper that contains all the administrative agencies of the various SSRs/ASSRs, including the local CPSU headquarters. Additionally, these cities have been designed to be as walkable as possible (this, combined with the Worldwide ban of all GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, ended the Global Obesity epidemic that was already reduced significantly by the decades of Conventional and Nuclear Warfare), with all Automobile ownership outlawed, and most transportation carried out by Mass Rail Transit (ie. Subways, Streetcars, Bullet trains, etc.) powered by Electricity from exclusively renewable sources (ie. Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, Geothermal, etc.), thus ending Global Warming (The Global Nuclear War already helped this, by thinning the World population and reducing temperatures with the mild fallout). All Rural populations employed in agriculture live in Collective Farms until this sector can be completely Automated and they can be moved to the Cities, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

Finally, the Superstructural changes that resulted from the necessary Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution included dramatic changes in the nature of Sexuality, Gender Roles, and Personal Expression. In order to flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, all Women are forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses and Makeup were banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing were banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. Interestingly, their has been a noticeable decline in Transgenders in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes are still Free and Legal to anyone who wants one. The nature of Sexuality has changed dramatically with the elimination of the Reactionary emphasis on Reproduction, considering that that are now Artificial wombs, in order to finally free women from the oppressive nature of child birth. Homosexuality is obviously completely Legal and totally accepted, with the caveat that the institution of Marriage (both Homosexual and Heterosexual) has been completely phased out as a relic of Reactionary culture in favor of much looser sexual relationships among consenting adults. Finally, all Drugs have been legalized for recreational purposes, in order to simultaneously end the discriminatory and classist nature of the Global War on Drugs waged by the Old Reactionary Bourgeois order, and unleash the creativity of the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World as they travel on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!
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Lost Wars - A New Hopium

A thread for exploring, and celebrating, the gradual but hastening fall of the United Empire of America.

>b-bu'muh /USApol/!

This thread doesn't focus on internal or electoral news and politics. Yes, the two consecutive demented presidents are relevant but we're looking outward at the international signs of decline.
>g2/prc/
This thread wants to explore beyond just China, Russia, ZR, etc., show us the deserted corners of the empire too.

Bring your:
- shifting international polls
- seaplanes
- estranged former 'allies'
- aid AIDS
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The maturing Marx, Engels, and Lenin

I love books that detail how great thinkers changed their minds, or more precisely, have had discovered new insights that made them go 180° on their previous takes. (I love progress in thinking…)

For me, when it comes to "big commie theorists," it is an enjoyable case of dialectics within dialectics. Can anyone relate? Do you understand?

So far I've read 3 books on the aforementioned gentlemen, detailing their "change of hearts:"

1) Engels & Marx changing their opinions gradually on the colonialism/imperialism question, recognizing the reality of the labour aristocracy, and so on. (.pdf related #1)

2) Marx & Engels becoming anti-humanists, divorcing their humanist (Hegelian) backgrounds. (.pdf related #2)

3) Lenin changing from socdem to bolshevik (.pdf related #3)

If you have other examples of these big brained retards maturing and 'dialecting' the shit out of the world, please post them. Combined, M-E-L wrote like 120k pages texts and like 0.001% of Actually Existing Communists (AEC) read it all.

Thread motto: Eppur si muove!
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Wat Tyler, John Ball, Jack Straw, and their ideological descendents

>bro, the king, like, he's good, god chose him, it's like, his corrupt ministers whispering in his ear who are the problem maaaaaaaaaan. let's fuck up his corrupt ministers and bring him our grievances directly. then he'll see that we're on his side and he'll totally purge his corrupt government and abolish serfdom and all these punitive taxes on the peasantry.
<finally gets to meet his precious king
<gets beheaded

false conciousness is a bitch, innit? you see a similar mindset with the russian peasantry leading up to bloody sunday, when they brought nicholas that petition, or even MAGA retards in the USA who think if you elect an "outsider" (billionaire) you can "fight corruption" and "run the government like a business"
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News 11/8/25

Turkiye issues arrest warrant for Israel’s Netanyahu over Gaza genocide
Among 37 suspects listed are Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and army chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, according to a Friday statement from the Istanbul prosecutor’s office, which did not publish the complete list. Turkiye has accused the officials of “genocide and crimes against humanity” that Israel has “perpetrated systematically” in its war on Gaza since October 2023.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/7/turkiye-issues-arrest-warrant-for-israels-netanyahu-over-gaza-genocide
https://archive.ph/J2bQx

UN approves US-backed effort to lift sanctions on Syria’s president
Syria’s foreign ministry welcomed the vote, saying in a statement that the near-unanimous support “reflects the growing confidence in President al-Sharaa’s leadership” and “represents a victory for Syrian diplomacy, which has succeeded in restoring international recognition of Syria’s status and its pivotal role in the region.”
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-syria-alsharaa-sanctions-us-trump-951e02a0c9e9384d944d838d4a2f540e

==Tunisian opposition figures join hunger strike to support jailed politician=
Among them is Issam Chebbi, the leader of the centrist Al Joumhouri (Republican) Party, who is also behind bars after being convicted in the same mass trial as Ben Mbarek earlier this year. Wissam Sghaier, another Al Joumhouri leader, said some party members would follow suit. Rached Ghannouchi, the 84-year-old leader of the Ennahdha party, who is also serving a hefty prison sentence, announced he was joining the hunger protest.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/8/tunisian-opposition-figures-join-hunger-strike-to-support-jailed-politician
https://archive.ph/vA9dJ

Tanzania police arrest senior opposition party official after deadly protests, target others
Police in Tanzania arrested a senior official from opposition party CHADEMA on Saturday and authorities named nine others being sought in relation to violent protests that followed last week's elections. CHADEMA and some human rights activists say that security forces killed more than 1,000 people. The government has called those numbers exaggerated without offering its own death toll.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tanzania-police-seek-arrest-opposition-leaders-after-protests-2025-11-08/

Civil rescue groups in Mediterranean cut ties with Libyan coastguard
The 13 search-and-rescue organisations described their decision as a rejection of mounting pressure by the EU, and Italy in particular, to share information with the Libyan coastguard, which receives training, equipment and funding from the EU. In an effort to reduce the number of people arriving in Europe, the EU has long faced accusations of ignoring widespread abuse and systematic human rights violations against people in Libya.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/07/civil-rescue-groups-in-mediterranean-cut-ties-with-libyan-coastguard

Changes to windfall tax could see oil and gas giants handed billions
Proposals drafted by oil and gas lobby group Offshore Energies UK suggest removing the Energy Profits Levy at the end of this year, which would save the industry a mammoth £5.8bn in tax over the next decade. Politico, which first reported the story, said that the Treasury was weighing up energy bosses’ proposals to scrap the tax as soon as next year.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/changes-windfall-tax-could-see-oil-and-gas-giants-handed-billions

Indigenous Guatemalans denounce exploitation on Mexican farms: ‘Bananas are worth more than us’
The practice of bringing Guatemalan laborers to work in Chiapas is a long-standing one. And there are two ways to do it. The first is through legal channels established in Article 52 of the Mexican Migration Law, which allows those living in Guatemalan border states to obtain temporary permits to work only in the southern states of Mexico. The other involves people known as “coyotes.” They drive to the Indigenous or peasant villages of northern Guatemala in trucks, recruiting manual laborers to work in southern Mexico for three or four months at a time.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-07/indigenous-guatemalans-denounce-exploitation-on-mexican-farms-bananas-are-worth-more-than-us.html

Bolivia: Arce blasts Evo in farewell message
“From a political point of view, I am convinced that there was no greater error from all actors than the division of the political instrument, the division of the MAS-IPSP… all and every one of the actors should have strived more to preserve unity,” Arce asserted. His failure to seek a new presidential candidacy, he claimed, was precisely to preserve this unity, but the effort was in vain. He lamented that internal disputes quickly went public and lost all ideological orientation, reaching a point where some factions “preferred to make a pact with the right wing.”
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/11/08/bolivia-arce-blasts-evo-in-farewell-message

Bolivia's new president Rodrigo Paz faces empty reserves and fractured congress
Paz, who has pledged to maintain social programs while promoting private sector-led growth, initially resisted seeking IMF support. But one source close to the administration said Paz's economic team had already presented its program to the Fund in the hopes that it could open fresh credit lines.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivias-new-president-rodrigo-paz-faces-empty-reserves-fractured-congress-2025-11-07/

Afghanistan-Pakistan peace talks collapse, ceasefire continues, Taliban says
Zabihullah Mujahid said negotiations had failed due to Islamabad insisting that Afghanistan assume responsibility for Pakistan's internal security, a demand he described as beyond Afghanistan's "capacity". But, he said, "The ceasefire that has been established has not been violated by us so far, and it will continue to be observed."
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/afghanistan-pakistan-peace-talks-collapse-ceasefire-continues-taliban-says-2025-11-08/

Myanmar Military Proxy Party Close to Ultranationalists, Admits USDP Naypyitaw Chief
Ma Ba Tha is a Burmese acronym for the Association for the Protection of Race and Religion, a Buddhist ultranationalist group founded under the USDP regime in 2012. It quickly became notorious for inciting communal tensions by organizing anti-Islam protests including boycotts of Muslim-owned businesses. The group also successively lobbied USDP president Thein Sein to pass laws on race and religion that appeared to target Muslims by imposing restrictions on interfaith marriage, childbirth, polygamy, and conversion. Hla Swe attempted to draw a parallel between Myanmar’s military rule and democratically elected right-wing governments elsewhere.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-military-proxy-party-close-to-ultranationalists-admits-usdp-naypyitaw-chief.html

Filipino caregivers in the US decry labor exploitation, neglect of PH gov’t
In a virtual press conference held last November 6, Migrante and Gabriela’s chapter in the US joined Filipino migrant careworkers who asserted their right to dignified work and shared their personal stories on abuse, exploitation, manipulation and mistreatment from their employers as well as how the Philippine government continued to turn a blind eye to their suffering.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2025/11/08/filipino-caregivers-in-the-us-decry-labor-exploitation-neglect-of-ph-govt/
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FTL Time Travel Future

The relativity of time is not just a reason we cannot "travel in space and make it back", it is a utility that can be used to preserve the subjects to travel in FTL speed or even a beam me up scotty wormhole and calculate a journey back to skip time whilst preserving their own biological clocks. In other words indeed a person that is 25 in 2025 may go to another place in space through FTL travel and come back only to see the Earth is gone despite still being 25 years old biologically, but in the same manner if the journey is calculated the subject can effectively skip time for a set period of hundreds of years and if there is hope in development may return to live and benefit from the fruits of it in the future's availed life extension technology if humanity proves successful in not destroying itself, if it does destroy itself. It is effectively time travel into the future and thus any persons who wish to see if the species will succeed and live to see it or live to see if it has been insufficient and unworthy they may be able to do that through space travel. We currently do not possess FTL travel or wormholes, but it is simply the easiest way to be able to time travel into the future. With the development of AI a ship could be able to decide its own course and trajectory safely and be able to calculate how to return, all that is needed is research on the method for propelling and the type of energy consumption and materials needed to be able to initiate FTL, to which particle accelerators may hold an answer to that.
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What’s stopping China from helping Detroit?

Think about it. China does foreign policy based on sift power rather than militarism or blackmail. China builds hospitals in Mali in exchange for good, rather than invading and seizing the gold for themselves. China is the reason hundreds of millions of people in Africa have electricity and running water, right? If China can do this, why aren’t they stepping in and helping Detroit rebuild?

China could fund mass construction projects. Build housing all over Detroit that resembles housing in Chinese cities. Build a functioning metro/train system. Build more hospitals. Build better schools that look like wonder museums rather than prisons. Build urban farms to fix the food desert issue. Give Detroit the latest and greatest tech. Bring back millions of jobs. Why not?

China turns shitholes into functioning cities. Just compare their cities from 37 years ago to their cities now. They could easily do the same for Detroit. Trump Administration be damned. Just get the mayor of Detroit to form a working relationship with Xi and the CPC and watch things happen.
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/USApol/ 🇺🇸🔥

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Stealth 100 Edition


Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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Previous Thread: >>2551632

Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
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Holy fuck, just stop consolidating power and work *with* local leadership

There is no single case of political leadership ever remaining stable under any centralized force no matter what country where talking. The most stable societies have always worked with the local leaders of various regions and had the majority of administrative and bureaucratic work delegated to small collaborative teams of men and women working together to build a stabler society. Is decentralized authority slow and often inefficient? Yeah. Is it stable and otherwise reliable on steady civilizational progress? Yes. With the era of communication, paper, and digital communication, it’s a better era than ever to decentralize authority. The world doesnt need and never needed autocrats, aristocracies, strongmen, dictators, or oligarchs. We need a society of people working and talking to each other consistently on what to do to make life easier for one another.
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Modern Marxist Economics

Besides Cockshott and maybe Richard Wolff, are there any good, academic, Marxist economists who are worth reading and can be used in debates to defend Marxism?
R: 0 / I: 0

On the Anniversary of the Great Socialist October Revolution

Comrades! Let us look back on the lessons of the October Revolution on its anniversary!

Why is the October Revolution more important than other communist revolutions?
Because it is, next to the Paris Commune, the only communist revolution whose revolutionary subject was the industrial proletariat. This fact alone makes the October Revolution—its tactics, theory, and organization—more interesting and more important to us than any other. It was the first communist revolution led by the industrial proletariat that also held on to state power and defeated the bourgeois counterrevolution. It signaled that imperialism—the last stage of capitalism—was obsolete as a mode of production and ripe to be replaced by socialist organization.

Contrary to what both Soviet/socialist and American/bourgeois historians claim, the most important distinction between Leninism and what we may call German Social Democracy (the SPD)—that is, the Second International and official Marxism—is not that Leninism was a “deviation” based on Narodnik or Blanquist conspiratorial principles. These historians claim that Leninism insisted the revolution must be led by a professional, highly organized vanguard—that it meant conspiracy rather than open democratic struggle through parliamentary interpellation and mass agitation or propaganda via the large and complex press system perfected by the German SPD.

This claim arises from a one-sided, forced reading of one of Lenin’s writings, namely What Is to Be Done? It is wrongly treated as the (or even the) central Leninist “credo,” according to which the proletariat is supposedly incapable of leading the revolution or fulfilling the slogan “the emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself.” Thus, Lenin is falsely accused of introducing the “professional revolutionary” who performs the socialist revolution on behalf of the working class.

Yet if we look at Lenin’s writings before WITBD, his constant reference point was the Erfurt Programme, the gold standard of Marxist strategy at the turn of the century. Lenin wanted the merger of the existing embryonic workers’ movement with Social Democracy—so that it might reach maturity as quickly and with as few birth pangs as possible. The SPD had a highly centralized apparatus that could rapidly publish agitation pamphlets, newspapers, or books exposing scandals from bourgeois political life and injustices from workers’ everyday conditions. The German workers’ movement and German Social Democracy were merged into a coherent whole, despite the obvious contradictions between them. Lenin wanted to emulate this in Russia—but what was lacking was political freedom.

Recall what you will about Tsarist autocracy, but I hope I don’t have to convince you there was no political freedom in Russia. Lenin’s, that is, Iskra’s, call to battle was for political freedom—which to the proletariat is like air and sunshine.

Lenin wanted to build the conditions so that once political freedom was attained (meaning the abolition of the Tsarist autocracy), Russian Social Democrats would be ready to lead the emerging workers’ movement to full maturity. Once political freedom arrived, the workers’ movement could become the most powerful social force—ready to carry out a two-phase revolution, moving from a bourgeois republic to socialism (an idea, mind you, also accepted in some form by the Mensheviks). The autocracy might collapse “tomorrow,” and if “we, the Social Democrats,” did not get our act together right now, this inevitable transition to socialism could become “so much worse for the working class.”

So how did the Russian socialist intellectual movement build its grand narrative for the project of Russian Social Democracy? Lenin was an Erfurtian: he upheld the Erfurt Programme and sought to build the preconditions for the working class to orient its actions along those lines. To do this, the good news of the inevitable fall of the autocracy had to be spread everywhere; the revolutionary position of the working class had to be explained constantly; worker propaganda and agitation had to be continuous so that the movement could grow.

At the same time, every injustice committed against every class had to be exposed—and, in exposing them, it had to be shown that the only way to abolish them was by accepting the socialist revolution with the working class at its helm, now imbued with Social Democratic mass action. This could take the form of a newspaper, correspondence, or any kind of illegal workers’ organization, which were sprouting like mushrooms after rain during the 1900s. As industrialization deepened, so too did injustice. Russian Social Democrats united all these singular injustices into one: the overarching injustice of the autocracy itself—and they proclaimed that only one class could abolish it, the proletariat.

What does this mean for us now?
To revive Lenin’s spirit of political agitation means constructing our own tribunes of the people: disciplined, collective, tireless networks that link every workplace and neighborhood grievance to the total system of exploitation. It means restoring the moral grandeur of socialist politics—showing that we fight not just for wages, but for the soul of the whole people.

Lenin’s wager, as Lih shows, was on the intelligence of the masses. He believed that once the worker was given the full map of oppression, they would act more rationally and courageously than any intellectual could imagine. That is the opposite of conspiracy.

So, comrades—hopefully, I don’t have to spell it out further what it means for us now, espescially those living in the rotting belly of the imperialist beast.
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She's 93 and still job searching. Why older Americans work, even if they're sick.

https://www.businessinsider.com/older-american-workers-health-issues-challenges-disabilities-2025-11

Patricia Willson, 93, stares intently at her leg as her nurse unwraps layers of bandages, revealing a scar that, to Willson's elation, is nowhere near as gruesome as it had been months ago.

Hunched over from a fractured back, Willson scrolls through her phone to remind her nurse what the scar had looked like. Last December, she sliced her leg open on a box. A few months later, the three-inch gash got infected.

"It scared me so bad when my legs started hurting," Willson tells her nurse, as Business Insider visited her home in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, earlier this year.

"You're a medical masterpiece," her nurse says. "You've been through a lot. Did you mention how many times you've broken a bone?"

"Well, I've had 14 broken arms," Willson replies.

As she inches back to her desk once her leg is tended to, Willson stops to clear off a stack of papers. Nestled between bills and medical records on one side of the desk sits a stapled-together printout of 50 websites for finding freelance work. Tucked away on the other side is a slightly wrinkled cover letter she's been sending to companies.

"I really need a job," she says under her breath.

There aren't too many people her age looking for work, she acknowledges somberly. Willson, a mother of six, worked in payroll at companies like Pfizer before opening a home rental business in 2006, which she runs with her daughter and her son-in-law. Until four years ago, Willson was on her feet doing chores around the property; she has since become less able to perform physical tasks.

"When you don't know what to do, you don't do anything," Willson says. "Things snowballed on me, and I did not foresee that things would get worse."

She's one of the nearly 1.4 million people over age 65 who have a disability and still work — whether by choice, like some, or by necessity, like Willson, who says that after paying all her bills, she sometimes struggles to have extra money left at the end of the month to buy a full cart of groceries.

On a recent group call AARP held about applying for jobs, Willson suspected she was the oldest there by at least a decade. With almost nothing in savings, even with Social Security, she's spent hours each day browsing remote jobs and educating herself on what may be out there, knowing full well that most companies might not consider someone at her age.

Some nights, she says, the stress of her situation keeps her from sleeping.

"I'm worried every night when I go to bed that what I have isn't going to last until I die," Willson says. "For God's sake, I should have saved every penny I could save."

It's a growing reality that older Americans are increasingly relying on work to make ends meet. Nearly 550,000 were working into their 80s and beyond as of 2023, according to a Business Insider analysis of 2023 Census data. That's over 4% of the population aged 80 and above.

Of the more than 175 people 80 and older who spoke to Business Insider about working later in life, most mentioned some health issue as a challenge. Common ones included arthritis, mobility impairments, heart disease, hearing loss, and memory problems. Most of these didn't prevent them from performing their job tasks.
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Liberals don‘t understand the importance of revolution, the cost of revolution, how it is misguided to complain about what necessarily happens in revolutions and why reasoning must reject and move past that of the established status quo because liberals are not taught the importance of their own revolution. You may learn about the events that have happened, but you are not philosophically educated about revolutions in themselves and their necessity in moving past a system that is inherently bad and whose rulers and those privileged will fight tooth and nail to keep it, at the cost of everyone else living in misery.

I suggest that if you want to convert liberals to socialism then educate them about the liberal revolution. Make them grasp the necessity and good of a revolution regarding something they wouldn‘t possibly disagree with. Additionally, you could then translate this to our times and make analogies of the current ruling class acting like kings and everyone else having to live like a serf.
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News 11/7/25

Israel carries out wave of airstrikes on southern Lebanon
Israeli warplanes struck the towns of Kfar Dounine, Tayr Debba and Zawtar al-Sharqiya on Thursday, about an hour after issuing evacuation warnings to residents. No deaths had been reported at the time of publishing. The attacks came despite a ceasefire deal signed between Hezbollah and Israel nearly a year ago that ended 13 months of fighting.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/06/israel-carries-out-wave-of-airstrikes-on-southern-lebanon

Mediators propose deal to get Hamas fighters out of Gaza's Israeli zone, sources say
Egyptian mediators have proposed that, in exchange for safe passage, fighters still in Rafah surrender their arms to Egypt and give details of tunnels there so they can be destroyed, one of the sources, an Egyptian security official, said. Israel and Hamas have yet to publicly accept mediators' proposals, the two sources said. A third confirmed that talks on the issue were underway.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/mediators-propose-deal-get-hamas-fighters-out-gazas-israeli-zone-sources-say-2025-11-06/

RSF paramilitaries agree to truce proposal in Sudan
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the regular army for more than two years, announced on Thursday, November 6, that they had agreed to a proposal for a humanitarian truce put forward by mediators. The announcement follows the paramilitaries' capture of the major city of El-Fasher, which dislodged the army from its last stronghold in the vast western Darfur region. They have since been accused of mass killings, looting and sexual violence there, and have in recent days appeared to turn their focus to the neighboring Kordofan region, where fierce battles are underway.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/06/rsf-paramilitaries-agree-to-truce-proposal-in-sudan_6747197_4.html
https://archive.ph/Ce1qo

Egypt and Turkey boost support for Sudan's army following RSF capture of el-Fasher
A senior Egyptian military intelligence source told Middle East Eye that “cooperation has been underway between the Egyptian and Sudanese armies to set up a joint command force to deter RSF and any possible infiltration into Egypt through the borders with Sudan or Libya.” The urgency of the situation for Cairo was underscored when the Egyptian army’s chief of staff, Lieutenant General Ahmed Fathi, made two visits within 24 hours - first to Saudi Arabia, then to Port Sudan, currently the home of Sudan’s army-backed government.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-and-turkey-move-support-saf-following-fall-el-fasher

Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords with Israel in symbolic move to boost the Trump initiative
Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords between Israel and Arab and Muslim majority countries in a symbolic move aimed at boosting the initiative that was a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s first administration, three U.S. officials said Thursday.
https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-kazakhstan-abraham-accords-5bf062712bd7bb326640bd78ba505d19

27th Amendment to Pakistan’s Constitution on the Anvil
The constitutional amendment is likely to create a new federal constitutional court to handle pure constitutional disputes or cases related to fundamental rights. The power to transfer senior judges between provinces is likely to be transferred from the chief justices to the executive, i.e., the prime minister’s office. Moreover, district-level courts may also get executive magistrates with powers to handle petty crimes and maintain public order to reduce the burden on the courts.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/11/27th-amendment-to-pakistans-constitution-on-the-anvil/

Threats, fear and hope as Mumbai slum dwellers await the bulldozers
Since they began to vocally oppose the development, Shaikh and other residents claim they have been subjected to a long-running campaign of harassment and intimidation – including phone calls, direct threats and suggestions that speaking against the project was to speak against the country – by figures they allege work for Adani Group.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/06/mumbai-slum-dwellers-dharavi-adani-group-redevelopment-plan-bulldozers-india

Rockstar workers fight grand theft of jobs
Workers, unable to be named for fear of reprisals, but bolstered by messages of international solidarity from the Screen Actors’ Guild of America, as well as unions closer to home such as PCS and the CWU’s United Tech and Allied Workers branch, demanded to be reinstated, branding the company’s behaviour “illegal.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rockstar-workers-fight-grand-theft-jobs

US pharma to abandon UK unless NHS pays more, says Trump’s ambassador
Britain has offered to increase the threshold at which the NHS pays firms for medicines by up to 25 percent, POLITICO first reported in October. But pharmaceutical executives are pushing the government to go further. American drugmaker Eli Lilly said on Monday that it wants to see more changes to Britain’s medicine market before it pivots on its abandoned £279 million investment in a biotech incubator project.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-pharma-to-abandon-uk-unless-nhs-pays-more-says-us-ambassador-warren-stephens-eli-lilly/
https://archive.ph/vTfD8

Garrahan Children's Hospital workers secure 61% pay rise after months of protests
Internal figures indicate that the starting salary for a physician working 42 hours per week will rise from 1.2 million to 1.6 million pesos (US$814, US$1,085), including retroactive payments. The measure will be complemented by fixed bonuses introduced in September, which together imply an effective increase of between 35 and 40 percent in take-home pay, according to government sources.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/garrahan-hospital-gets-61-percent-increase-after-months-of-conflict-and-claims-over-paediatric-emergency.phtml
https://archive.ph/73Kj9

Chileans Demand Extradition of Pinochet Dictatorship’s Agent
Extradition proceedings were requested by Chile in 2014 and approved by the Australian courts in 2020. Adriana Rivas is being prosecuted in Chile for her participation as an accomplice in aggravated kidnappings and crimes against humanity. The next hearing is scheduled for March 30, 2026, where Federal Judge Michael Lee will decide on her extradition to Chilean authorities.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chileans-demand-extradition-of-pinochet-dictatorships-agent/

US Senate blocks resolution that would have kept Trump from striking Venezuela
Only two of Trump's fellow Republicans joined Democrats in backing the measure, in a show of the party's support for Trump's military buildup in the southern Caribbean after two months of deadly strikes against boats off Venezuela. The Trump administration says that, since early September, U.S. forces have launched at least 16 strikes against such vessels in the Pacific and southern Caribbean, killing more than 65 people.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-consider-war-powers-resolution-block-strike-venezuela-2025-11-06/
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So how does the AI boom end? Will they fire everyone, or will it blow up before it gets to that point? The rate of profit should be falling because the more unemployment the less spending, but in today's ultrafinancialized world spending by the rich is actually up while everyone else's is down. The bourgeois have access to direct financing from the banks and central banks and they use it to buy up more and more hard resources and land and then use that to borrow even more, inflating the value of everything for everyone except themselves. And because the masses are jacked into playing their dumbass numbers game they are just becoming impoverished while sitting on their hands and coping that everything business as usual. Will there be a breaking point?
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Sliwa >>> Mamdani

Sliwa would make a much better mayor than Mamdani. What's going to happen is Mamdani is going to win, and then he'll either become another AOC/Bernie and sell out his base, or he'll just be an incompetent fuckup nepo baby. Either way NYC isn't going to change much. Sliwa has more of a connection to actual working class New Yorkers and knows how to play the game. He was shot by the mob and lived to tell the tale.
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Historically speaking, how has the west been so good at dividing and conquering?
>body too short or empty
>body too short or empty
>body too short or empty
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March 15th, Belgrade Serbia

Tomorrow a huge protest will be held in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, protesting the government’s refusal to accept the demands made by the students, as well as protesting against general incompetence and corruption. From the student to the teacher, worker and pensioner, war veterans and children all around Serbia will gather together in this protest.
Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
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How do I devote my life completely to Marxism and Communism

I often find it hard to focus on Marx, and other theorists writings and ideals when i'm surrounded by personal relationships and similar distractions. I feel as if I am not truly devoted to the advancement of the proletariat because of this, because of these influences. How do I destroy these aspects of my life to further my dedication?

I know soon I need to be dedicated to a party, as I'm turning 22 and haven't don't much in terms of dedicating my life to the formation of a party and furthering its influence
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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Isolated Edition


Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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Previous Thread: >>2550144

Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
R: 23 / I: 2
Who do you think will be the next imperial hegemon after world war 3? (Assume we don't get world socialism yet).

My bet is on Australia or Brazil. Brazil has so much labor-power and has an okay amount of infrastructure. Australia is more developed but has no labor-force. On the other hand, Australia is anglophone and more geographically sovereign. Both Brazil and Australia have a large landmass and are likely to have a decent amount of fascists trained by the USA. But IMO if capitalists were to hideout from WW3 Australia would be a worse choice because Australia is set-up as a bulwark against China. It just all depends on how much Australia gets drawn into WW3.
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pro-war socialists

how did fascists come out of the pro-war section of the italian socialist party? the argument for italy's entrance into ww1 seems to make sense from a socialist perspective, reads like most national liberation movements that come out now so how and why did they flip to such a reactionary degree ?
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BOLIVIA AFTERMATH THREAD
The ballots spoke, the centerright with Paz won.
The slogan
<Capitalism for all!
Evo is in his Kamehouse in the mountains saying
>Plepleplease don't change the constitution
Arce…he is just a painting in the Palace
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CONTROVERSIAL VIEW YOU HAVE?

Hello, anons, I'm creating this thread about what where you share some controversial views on have. I have some views that seems to clash with left leaning view and honestly I don't know how to reconcile my leftist views with those controversial views I have, here some topics that clash with leftist tendencies:

>immigration in general

I'm not against immigrants actually, but I do think bring millions of immigrants from very radical different culture is recipe for creating tension and division inside of a country

>genes and behaviors

Yeah, that one is a hard, I think genes play a strong role on human behavior, I actually told that to some leftist in real life and I got shot down by being called "eugenicist", only a gay dude agree with me because he says that he didn't choose to be gay, he was born that way and could see other behavior having gene influencing too

>religion

I don't support religion at all, I think they are reactionary as fuck, especially desert religions like christianity, judaism and islam are especially bad and very very reactionary and should be fought against.

So far as I remember those are to topics that cause me to clash with my leftist tendencies, do you have any opinions and views that you considered to clash with your progressive views?
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Anti-imperialism is a psyop to prevent internationalism

Anti-imperialism has been shoehorned into leftist discourse just like useless idpol (not talking about the existence of gays) was in the 2010s. The great difficulty of developing class conciousness in service-economy liberal states is made even more complicated by rethoric pushed by feds that the workers in these states can't be socialist. This is used inside this states to prevent organization and outside these states to promote petite-nationalism.
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MY FATHER'S GIFTS

My father gave me these things, or rather, I inherited them. He likes to discuss politics with me (he's an anarchist). What do you think, comrades?
He also gave me a rug with the anarchist cat on it and a Spanish Republican flag.
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Pan-Germanism

What do you guys think of pan-germanism?
Is it good or bad and why? In general,do you think that pan-nationalism can be compatible with socialism?
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #267

RETURN OF THE SCHMOOZER edition.

Previous: >>2532440

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
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
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📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
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📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q

📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
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News 11/5/25

Colombia releases US drone strike survivor, claiming no evidence links him to drug trafficking
The prosecution opened a preliminary investigation into Obando’s alleged involvement in drug trafficking, but was forced to drop this because “until now, they didn’t find any evidence or testimony that could indicate that this person committed a crime on national territory,” a prosecution source told El Pais. If the former suspect was involved in criminal activity, as claimed by the US Government, the prosecutors received no evidence of this.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-releases-us-drone-strike-survivor-claiming-no-evidence-links-him-to-drug-trafficking/

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/03/exxon-funded-thinktanks-to-spread-climate-denial-in-latin-america-documents-reveal

Bolivian top court annuls former interim president sentence and orders her immediate release
Court President Romer Saucedo told the media on Wednesday that the sentence was annulled based on “several arguments” and the vote of seven of the nine justices. Saucedo explained that the decision was based on finding “violations” of due process during Áñez’s trial through ordinary legal channels. Áñez was convicted for her role in assuming the presidency in a controversial National Assembly session following the deadly 2019 protests that led to the resignation of then-president Evo Morales (2006-2019).
https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-anez-supreme-court-sentence-401a5c1f8e13f9a86f6b4a02deb6b13d

Teachers’ unions to hold nationwide protests on Thursday
Teachers’ unions will hold a protest in Athens at noon on Thursday, with similar demonstrations planned in dozens of cities across Greece, demanding the immediate filling of vacant teaching posts and increased funding for public education. The union representing teachers at public schools, OLME, has called a three-hour work stoppage and urged all local unions and educators to join the rallies.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1285882/teachers-unions-to-hold-nationwide-protests-on-thursday/
https://archive.ph/EBDw3

Germany considers adding war, disaster to school curriculum
Dobrindt's suggestion received mixed reactions among opposition parties. "This is clearly intended to stir up fear," the socialist Left Party's parliamentary leader Nicole Gohlke told the AFP news agency. "I find this scaremongering, especially with children and young people, unacceptable," she criticized. There was also criticism from the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD). The interior minister was trying to "make the idea of an approaching war taken for granted, even inevitable," said AfD interior policy spokesperson Gottfried Curio.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-considers-adding-war-disaster-to-school-curriculum/a-74571164
https://archive.ph/vO8zw

EU agrees weakened climate target in final-hour deal for COP30
The weakened target would let countries buy foreign carbon credits to cover up to 5% of the 90% emissions-cutting goal. That would effectively weaken to 85% the emissions cuts required from European industries, and pay foreign countries to cut emissions on Europe's behalf to make up the rest. The EU also agreed to consider the option, in future, to use international carbon credits to meet a further 5% of the 2040 emissions reductions - potentially shaving another 5% off the domestic target.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/eu-eyes-weaker-climate-goal-scramble-deal-by-cop30-sources-say-2025-11-05/

Morocco Is Profiling and Imprisoning Young People to Crush Gen Z Protests
The mass demonstrations that ignited in more than a dozen cities across Morocco in late September have decried the government’s underfunding of schools and hospitals amid plans to spend more than $5 billion on stadiums and infrastructure as the country gears up to co-host the 2030 FIFA World Cup. The protests against government spending priorities have used the gaming chat app Discord and other online platforms to call for mass mobilizations. Police have responded with tear gas, batons, and mass arrests.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/morocco-police-profiling-crackdown-genz-protests-government-corruption-arrests-detention-education-healthcare

Libyan general accused of crimes against humanity arrested in Tripoli
In a statement, Libya’s prosecutors’ office said that as it had pursued the ICC’s allegations, it had gathered additional information about “human rights violations against inmates at Tripoli’s main prison, who reported being subjected to torture and cruel, degrading treatment”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/05/libyan-general-accused-of-crimes-against-humanity-arrested-in-tripoli

Hamas returns another Israeli captive’s body as Gaza suffers aid shortages
The United Nations warned earlier this week that while aid deliveries have increased since the ceasefire came into effect in October, the amount of food and other assistance getting into the territory remains insufficient. “We need full access. We need everything to be moving fast,” Abeer Etefa, a senior spokesperson for the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), told reporters on Tuesday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/5/hamas-returns-another-israeli-captives-body-as-gaza-suffers-aid-shortages
https://archive.ph/8HCd0

Wikipedia co-founder joins editing conflict over the Gaza genocide page
In response to another comment, which asked why Wikipedia should equally weigh the opinions of the “largely impartial” United Nations and human rights scholars to “the obviously partisan opinions of commentators and governors,” Wales said that the job of a Wikipedian “is not to take sides in that debate but to carefully and neutrally document it.”
https://www.theverge.com/news/813245/wikipedia-co-founder-jimmy-wales-gaza-genocide
https://archive.ph/Tf3lh
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Genocide in Sudan

How come everywhere I look, Pissrael has its genocidal hands in every country experiencing trouble?

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/10/30/757871/RSF-militants-committing-genocide-in-Sudan-s-El-Fasher-with-UAE%2C-Israel-backing--Analyst
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What does leftypol think of animal rights?

Personally I believe proles are valued the same as cattle, and that we should liberate both nature and humanity. I have also been a long-term vegetarian
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I was curious to know what you guys thought about liberalism. Do you think it’s still opium of the masses take for example Donald Trump is a crypto fascist like what he did in Iran
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American Years of Lead

Am I the only one who thinks Maupin needs to update his book with discussion on?:
>the Tesla burnings
>the Pennsylvania governor’s house being arsoned
>the shooting of the two Israeli embassy workers in DC
>the Minnesota school shooting
>the recent shooting death of Charlie Kirk

Seems like this is a good opportunity since it furthers his argument that an American Years of Lead are already here.
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American Liberalism After Trump

How do you think American liberal politics will play out once Trump is no longer in power?

For the past 10 years, the entire crux of the Democratic Party has been "STOP TRUMP". The average American Democrat or liberal now bases their political views solely on how much they hate Trump, MAGAts, "manosphere" podcasters, so-called "alt-right pipelines", and everything in between. They have no real principles and it shows.

The right-wing, on the other hand, believes it is creating a new world; it's a much worse world, but that's how they want it. This has caused liberals to prop up the old, dying system as a way of preventing it from collapsing into something worse. Now, we're seeing liberals who claim to be "left-wing" embrace everything from free trade agreements (on the basis Trump's tariffs need to be stopped) to hyper-consumerism (on the basis that spending money on fashion and makeup and mindless consumer goods helps maintain your "individuality" against Trump-era conformity) to literal junk food (in order to own RFK and MAHA). It doesn't take much to realize all of these were once things American liberals strongly opposed 20-25 years ago; I'm old enough to remember when "clean girl" no-makeup aesthetics, eating organic, and herbal medicines were leftist things.

American liberals are now pushing a culture of hyper-rationality and order to counter the mass chaos that has erupted in America under Trump. They hate ICE agents terrorizing communities but they hate the sporadic community defence and protests that pop up to beat back ICE even more. They hate the Luigi Mangiones and the Tyler Robinsons and the prospects of an American Years of Lead. They want everything to be "rational" and based on slow progression and linear shit. But this way is outdated. Trying to find the "middle path" doesn't work when capitalism is in a state of collapse. For the liberal, everything that doesn't fit their paradigm is "mysticism" which always equates to "fascism" and needs to be stamped out before it manifests into authoritarianism. But how can this hyper-rationalism win?

The same is true of foreign policy. Liberals insist on American soft power, which arguably won't work in a world post-Gaza where American support for the most documented genocide in recent history was on full display. Trump, on the other hand, is an old school imperialist who simply seizes whatever he demands without caring.

So where does that leave the Democrats and their liberal base? What happens if Trump succumbs to kidney disease or whatever illness he has and dies in office from natural causes? The Dems spent 10 years obsessively attacking Trump and the "irrationality" of his supporters without providing anything worthy of their own. Realistically, what's going to happen?
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Found this informative deep dive on what happened in the year 1917 in Russia on the video sharing website Youtube. Anyone know other videos like this one? Longer the better.
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News 11/4/25

Tudeh condemns raids and arrests of Iran’s leftist intellectuals
Economists Parviz Sedaghat and Mohammad Maljou, researcher Rasoul Ghanbari, sociologist Mahsa Asadollahnejad, and writers Shirin Karimi and Hayman Rahimi were arrested on Monday, according to reports. Mr Maljou’s whereabouts remain unknown, campaigners warned. Mr Sedaghat’s daughter, Mahtab Sedaghat, chief editor of Criticism of Political Economy, said security forces raided their home at about 7.15am and arrested him after searching the property.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tudeh-condemns-raids-and-arrests-irans-leftist-intellectuals

PKK leader Ocalan urges progress in Turkish peace process
"To progress to a positive phase, it is essential for everyone to act with sensitivity, seriousness and a sense of responsibility," Ocalan wrote in the message, which was published by a delegation from the pro-Kurdish DEM party that visited him in jail on Monday. "The basis for this must be to integrate the Kurdish question in all its dimensions into the country's legal framework and engage in a solid transition process."
https://www.newarab.com/news/pkk-leader-ocalan-urges-progress-turkish-peace-process

Top Israeli trade union chief arrested as part of corruption probe
ISRAELI police detained several senior officials from the country’s main trade union federation, the Histadrut, on Monday, including its chairman Arnon Bar-David, as part of a major corruption investigation. Authorities said the probe, which has been ongoing for more than two years, involves allegations of bribery, fraud, breach of trust, money laundering and tax offences.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/top-israeli-trade-union-chief-arrested-part-corruption-probe

Violent Maccabi fans were organised fighters 'linked to IDF', UK police found
the West Midlands Police assessment which led to the ban was based on intelligence provided by Dutch police about the conduct of Maccabi fans during a match in Amsterdam last November. The Guardian reported on 21 October that the police assessment "concluded the biggest risk of violence came from extremist fans of the Israeli club". Now, as the match approaches, MEE can reveal new details of the police assessment which have not been previously reported, and which raise further questions about claims made by government ministers.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/violent-maccabi-fans-included-organised-fighters-linked-idf-uk-police-found

Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades
An estimated 32,000 volunteers from around the world joined the anti-fascist brigades during the civil war, including approximately 2,500 men and women from Britain and Ireland, of whom 530 were killed. At a ceremony in Madrid, the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said of the new citizens: “It will be an honour to call them compatriots. We call for the defence of the same democracy as they did at a time when it is under threat around the world.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/04/spain-grants-citizenship-descendants-international-brigades-civil-war

Far-right activist Tommy Robinson cleared of terror-related offence
Delivering his verdict, District Judge Sam Goozée said: “I cannot put out of my mind that it was actually what you stood for and your beliefs that acted as a principle reason for the stop.” Outside the court, surrounded by at least 100 of his fans, Robinson filmed himself saying: “Just as before, Elon Musk, I am forever grateful for your contribution to funding my court case. If it wasn’t for that I would probably be in jail.”
https://www.ft.com/content/9c01bfe3-3649-4ea4-adbe-7ce7372dd87d
https://archive.ph/sl0Z4

Protesters could be jailed for six months for demonstrating outside politicians’ homes
Under proposed amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill, demonstrating outside the home of public office holders — where the intention is to “influence them in their role or an aspect of their private life” — will be made a criminal offence. Security minister Dan Jarvis claimed the measure was “serious but necessary and proportionate.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protesters-could-be-jailed-six-months-demonstrating-outside-politicians-homes

DPD uses mass sackings against UK delivery workers standing up against pay cuts
According to reports by the BBC and Guardian, between 1,300 and 1,500 DPD drivers joined the nationwide stoppage organised via online chatrooms and forums. Even these initial stirrings of organised opposition were enough to strike fear into DPD which, like Amazon, has become a byword for sweatshop labour.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/04/svcq-n04.html

Tanzanian opposition claims security forces are secretly dumping bodies after election violence
Authorities declared a nationwide curfew and security forces cracked down on protests by firing live bullets and tear gas canisters. The main opposition party, Chadema, has claimed that more than 1,000 people were killed and said Tuesday that security forces were trying to hide the scale of the deaths by secretly disposing of the bodies. The authorities have not responded to the claims.
https://apnews.com/article/tanzania-election-samia-suluhu-hassan-internet-shutdown-ed57beb80faff2f9737804217d057cec

Cameroon security forces killed 48 in election protests, UN sources say
Cameroon's security forces killed 48 civilians as they responded to protests against the re-election of President Paul Biya, the world's oldest ruler, according to data shared with Reuters on Tuesday by two U.N. sources. The majority of the victims were killed by live rounds although several died from wounds sustained when they were beaten with batons and sticks, the two U.N. sources said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/cameroon-security-forces-killed-48-election-protests-un-sources-say-2025-11-04/

Peru cuts diplomatic ties with Mexico over asylum to former PM
Peru announced on Monday that it was officially severing all diplomatic ties with Mexico following the asylum granted by the mission in Lima to former Prime Minister Betssy Chávez. “The Peruvian government has decided today to break diplomatic relations with Mexico,” Foreign Minister Hugo de Zela stressed.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/11/04/peru-cuts-diplomatic-ties-with-mexico-over-asylum-to-former-pm

Colombian presidential hopeful Abelardo de la Espriella rallies thousands in Bogotá: ‘The Tiger has awakened’
El Tigre (“The Tiger”), as he calls himself, took the stage two and a half hours after the event began, following a lineup of Colombian and international figures from the far right, libertarian movements, several evangelical churches, and military veterans’ organizations. “Today begins the reconquest of Colombia,” declared the lawyer to a crowd chanting “Out with Petro” and “Steadfast for the homeland,” the campaign’s slogan.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-04/colombian-presidential-hopeful-abelardo-de-la-espriella-rallies-thousands-in-bogota-the-tiger-has-awakened.html
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Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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Are South Vietnamese gusanos motivated by just Sinophobia?

From my very limited experience with them, they seem to view communism as a Chinese export. Is this the same situation as with Ukrainan-Canadians who would say to your face that communism is the ideology of the "Moscow Horde"?
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Is capitalism essentially just proto-globalism?

My understanding is that the basis of capitalism is essentially the capacity for capitalists (owners of capital) to rise in power which is equal to or above the government under which they supposedly exist. It is the "deep state" of the economy. Yes, there is a class situation, but it is the capitalist class' unique ability to completely overwhelm the other classes with power that we define "capitalism" as.

With that being said, any business which is capable of expanding (not limited by logistics, communications, language restrictions, etc), would like to do so. That means the only difference between actual globalism and proto-globalism, which took shape in not only the early stages of capitalism but even the classical era (think Phoenicians, Babylonians, etc), is the technological means of projecting power. If economics are downstream from power politics, then capitalism as an economic system is downstream from owners of capital engaging in political maneuver.
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Antiimperialism/National Liberation is not Communism

A materialist analysis of the current epoch leads to a challenging conclusion: the path to dismantling imperialism does not directly lead to communism. The primary force capable of breaking the back of the current U.S.-led imperialist system is the independent capitalist development of the Global South. By building sovereign industrial and technological capacity, these nations can make their own economic exploitation unviable.

However, this process of national liberation is a bourgeois project. It is led by forces whose objective is not the abolition of class, but the creation of a national capitalist state. In this struggle, the internal class antagonism is temporarily masked by the unifying fight against a foreign oppressor.

We must therefore be clear: to expect communism to emerge organically from this process is a strategic and theoretical error. The outcome will be the consolidation of new, indigenous American, European and Russian haute bourgeoisie, not the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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Politics, Education, Personality.

What are the implications of research regularly showing that right-wingers are generally
a) less educated
b) disinclined to reading
c) low in traits like agreeableness and openness
d) lower in cultural capital and status. (though harder to show in a neat chart, it links to b. most readers will know what i mean if i just say they're uncool.)

and the frankly obvious-and-growing divide of political behavior by intelligence throughout the west, with better educated people voting for left/liberal parties and less educated people voting for nationalists and reactionaries.
in this sense, and only this sense, are the right correct to identify the left with liberals. both leftists and liberals are generally educated, enjoy reading, and high agreeableness/openness, the opposite of rightists.

what are the implications as relate to the idea that right-wing fake news and rage-bait are demand lead, with low-openness, low-agreeableness, poorly educated non-readers prefering to watch nonsense not because they're manipulated into it by outside forces, but because this is just what they like

what are the implications for left-wing organizing strategy, which tends to resist trying to appeal directly to the interests of educated knowledge workers (or, indeed, young proletarianized female service workers with degrees) because of the aesthetic pull of historical industrial mass-movements?

what are the implications in the longer run, given that higher education enrolment levels have generally been rising over time, such that more than 50% of British young people now go into further education by age 30? what are the implications of this trend reversing, as is apparently happening in the US?

a small sub-set of rightists like Richard Hanania are open about their own side's deficiencies (which is helpful, because the high-agreeability left would never say something as vulgar as "Our opponents are just plain stupid", so it's nice for a low-agreeability rightist to put the evidence up themselves)
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/coping-with-low-human-capital
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/listen-to-the-science-conservatives
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/liberals-read-conservatives-watch
but even in his case, he now regrets voting for Trump because he thought that putting someone like Elon Musk in would raise the average intelligence of the administration, rather than the right successfully pulling Musk down to their level. in a certain sense, he's just a neoliberal with conservative aesthetic preferences.

>none of this matters, it's all just a proxy for class

graph 3:
>This graph shows the change in probability a voter supported each party when he or she has a university degree or is in the highest income segment. Points above zero indicate a higher probability, points below zero indicate a lower probability. Lines are smoothing lines meant to facilitate observing a pattern. (Authors provided)
note how degree voting is a very strong predictor of voting for canada's liberals (post neoliberal reform in the 1980s) or, more gently, the left-leaning NDP. note how in the early 1980s, having a degree made one weakly less likely to vote NDP, while now it makes one more likely. note how the NDP remains popular with poorer voters, while the Conservatives have completely and utterly bled support with degree holders since the 1980s.
>college SJWs will always betray the left, look at Corbyn and Bernie and how he was undermined by idpol!!
in the 2019 UK election, despite massive propaganda portraying Corbyn as an antisemite (and previous attempts to paint him as a sexist, etc), he won 42% of the vote with degree holders (against something like 20% for the Conservatives), while amongst the poorly educated something like 55% voted Conservative. if only degree holders could vote, Corbyn would've won a Tony Blair sized majority. on the flip side, if only the poorly educated could vote, the conservatives would've won something like a national-government tier majority.
>voting doesn't matter, we're revolutionaries!!
it is not that voting matters, it is what voting shows about the voters that is interesting. if you're trying to guess who'd jump over to your vanguard party, it's helpful to know that poorly educated people are running over to reactionaries at top speed while more educated people are moving the opposite direction. if you're a highly educated book-enjoying, highly agreeable, highly open, generally cool sort of person you're not going to win over a MAGA voter by pandering to one or two of their obsessions while all of their demographic traits are hostile to yours.
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>Socially degenerate as the libs, economically out of touch as the Neo-cons
>the literal worst of both worlds
Still, why did libertarianism become strangely popular among various types of popular media figures, like comedians, filmmakers, and actors?
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Epstein = Israel, and Trump loves Israel

Epstein is connected to Israel, this is why Trump is covering it up. He doesn't want to risk the political fallout for Israel when people realize all of Epstein's clients were blackmailed and used as Israeli assets.

"The most concrete link is his relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Epstein and Barak met numerous times between 2013 and 2017, with Barak visiting Epstein’s properties in Florida and New York approximately 30 times, including a 2014 private flight in Florida. Barak received $2.3 million from an Epstein-associated foundation between 2004 and 2006, and Epstein invested $1 million in a limited partnership established by Barak in 2015.

Another connection stems from Epstein’s ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert Maxwell, was a British media mogul alleged to have had links to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Some sources, including former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe, have claimed Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ran a “honey-trap” operation for Mossad to blackmail influential figures. A lawsuit by a woman identified as Jane Doe 200 alleged Epstein boasted of being a Mossad agent.

Epstein was also associated with the Wexner Foundation, which supports Jewish leadership and has ties to Israel. His financial backer, Leslie Wexner, was a member of the “Mega Group,” a collection of Jewish philanthropists, which some, like former NSA counterspy John Schindler, have speculated was linked to Israeli intelligence operations. Epstein reportedly invested in an Israeli startup, Reporty Homeland Security (later rebranded as Carbyne), connected to Israel’s defense industry, further fueling speculation."
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Anti-TWism

Actually we should redistribute the treats. Due to imperial spoils, the principal contradiction in the imperial core is not the contradiction between workers and capitalists. The principal contradiction is between the chronically underemployed and the "debtor class" (often referred to as the labor aristocracy). The imperial core is the treasure hoard of capital backing cheap credit with the looted wealth of nations. But it is this exact hoarding of wealth which violates Say's law. Consequently, the supply of labor-power far exceeds demand leading to chronic underemployment. The very same hoard which creates the debtor class creates the class of the chronically underemployed opposed to it. Consequently, the chronically underemployed should rise up, redistribute the looted wealth of empire and end the cheap credit which sustains the whole scam.
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I.C.E. Live in Portland

Calling all lefties. Join us in the chat as the shit goes down. PDX is burning to the ground and we are there! Every night at 7:00 p.m. PST.
None of that vertical video shit either.

Fuck MAGA and shitpants Trump!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ATcG6CEcY
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Political Journey

What has your political journey been like?
Pic related is based on what I read a lot of: mainly Camus’s The Rebel, Stirner’s The Ego and Its Own, Bookchin’s Ecology of Freedom, Lenin’s State and Revolution, and Trotsky’s Revolution Betrayed. But I started with Marx’s Communist Manifesto.
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News 11/3/25

Israel arrests ex-army lawyer over leaked video showing Palestinian’s abuse
According to a copy of her resignation letter published by Israeli media on Friday, Tomer-Yerushalmi acknowledged that her office had released the video to the media last year. Five reservists were later charged with mistreating prisoners.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/3/israel-arrests-ex-army-lawyer-over-leaked-video-showing-palestinians-abuse
https://archive.ph/JXzno

Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon kill two, wound seven in latest ceasefire violation
Israel in recent days threatened to expand its attacks on Lebanon, despite a ceasefire being in place between Israel and Hezbollah since November 2024. In a preliminary toll, the ministry said that an "Israeli enemy strike" on the town of Doueir in Nabatiyeh district killed one person and wounded seven https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/valencia-regional-president-mazon-resigns-year-after-deadly-floodsothers. The second strike on Aita al-Shaab in the Bint Jbeil district also killed one person, according to the ministry.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-strikes-southern-lebanon-kill-two-wound-seven

Turkey demands UN resolution before deploying troops to Gaza
Fidan noted that the countries considering troop deployment to Gaza, as part of a deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, are keen to first understand the parameters of the proposed force. "The countries would like to see a UN Security Council resolution that establishes the force, defines the mission's terms and grants it legitimacy," Fidan told reporters during a news conference in Istanbul, after meeting with the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, as well as representatives from the UAE and Qatar.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-demands-un-resolution-deploying-troops-gaza

Chile to end Pinochet henchmen’s pampered prison life of tennis and barbecues
The bespoke prison was opened in 1995 to house Gen Manuel Contreras, the head of Pinochet’s intelligence service, and Brig Pedro Espinoza, who alongside Contreras was convicted of the 1976 murder of former foreign minister Orlando Letelier in a car bomb attack in Washington DC. There have been several attempts to close Punta Peuco over the years.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/03/chile-prison-punta-pueco-pinochet

Colombia’s liberals team up with far-right to confront left in 2026 elections
Following a meeting with Uribe on Friday, former President and long-time Liberal Party leader Cesar Gaviria said that “we are organizing ourselves to effectively bring together a coalition of parties that are in a position to contribute their electoral strength and their candidates” to oppose the winner of a leftist front candidate.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-liberals-team-up-with-far-right-to-confront-left-in-2026-elections/

Mexican Protests Over the Assassination Of Uruapan Mayor Turns Into Riots
The protesters entered the government building and vandalized the interior, demanding the resignation of Michoacan Governor Alfredo Bedolla. Several protesters also threw objects, broke furniture, and set fire to part of the interior. The mobilization was organized on social media under the slogan “Enough of abuses and omissions,” with attendees demanding an end to violence and impunity in the state, one of the most affected by organized crime.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/mexican-protests-over-the-assassination-of-uruapan-mayor-turns-into-riots/

Canada’s Liberal party says budget of ‘sacrifice’ needed to avoid recession
Canada’s ruling Liberal party has said a budget of “sacrifice” is required to confront both a trade war with the US and a protracted cost of living crisis that threatens to push the country into a recession. But with opposition parties signalling they won’t support the fiscal plans of the prime minister, Mark Carney, a failed parliamentary vote on the budget could plunge the country into another federal election in the coming weeks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/03/canada-budget-sacrifice-recession

Third prisoner joins Palestine hunger strike
Heba Muraisi, who has family in Gaza, has been held at New Hall prison without trial since November last year after being linked to a Palestine Action protest. She now joins Amu Gibb and Qesser Zuhrah, who are also linked to the group, and began refusing food on Sunday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/third-prisoner-joins-palestine-hunger-strike

Reform UK's Farage waters down tax pledges in pitch for economic credibility
"We are being mature, we are being sensible, and we are not over-promising," Farage told a press conference in the City of London, the capital's financial district. "Do we want to have a smaller state? Yes. Are we going to cut the benefits bill? Yes. Will the civil service be smaller? Yes. Will we get a grip on public sector pensions? Yes. But we can't have massive tax cuts until the markets can see we've at least got these things in hand."
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/reform-uks-farage-waters-down-tax-pledges-pitch-economic-credibility-2025-11-03/

Valencia regional president Mazon resigns a year after deadly floods
Calls for the right-wing Popular Party politician’s head began within days as it emerged the regional authorities had not issued warnings about the floods until 8pm that day, two hours after they began and over 12 after it had received a red alert warning that they were coming from the Spanish weather agency.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/valencia-regional-president-mazon-resigns-year-after-deadly-floods

Indian financial crimes agency freezes Anil Ambani Group properties worth $853 million
The move relates to cases involving Reliance Communications Ltd (RLCM.NS), opens new tab and its affiliates over the alleged diversion of about 136 billion rupees and loans of more than $569 million taken by the group from India's YES Bank (YESB.NS) between 2017 and 2019 that the ED says were diverted and laundered.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-crime-agency-attaches-anil-ambani-group-properties-worth-over-341-million-2025-11-03/

Groups launch protests and preparatory activities for November 30 massive rally
One month before the scheduled massive people’s protest against corruption on November 30 by the Kilusang Bayan Kontra Kurakot (KBKK or People’s Movement Against Corruption), its allied organizations are launching protests and preparation activities. Pickets, Black Friday protests, marches, parties, gatherings, and other forms of creative protests launched on October 30 and 31 in Metro Manila and some provinces. The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and its allied organizations marched toward Mendiola in Manila on October 31. The group creatively expressed opposition to the Marcos regime’s corruption using a “Halloween” theme and called for holding corrupt officials accountable.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/groups-launch-protests-and-preparatory-activities-for-november-30-massive-rally/
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/DRIVE/ - ALL DRIVERS' GENERAL

CARS, JEEPS, TRUCKS, PLANES, TANKS, SHIPS, BUSES, SUBMARINES.
ALL VEHICLES THAT CAN BE DRIVEN AND REQUIRE CERTIFICATION.
This is the general where we educate comrades how to become proficient drivers and operators.

DRIVING EXAMS SHOULD BE FREE! DEMAND FOR THEM TO BE PAID FOR BY TAXPAYERS, DEMAND NATIONALIZATION OF DRIVER EXAMS WITH SCHOOLS FOR CANDIDATE-DRIVERS! DEMAND YOUR BOURGEOIS GOVERNMENTS TO END THE SCAM OF PAYING THOUSANDS JUST TO FAIL THE TEST AND PAY THOUSANDS MORE. IN THIS MODERN WORLD WHERE YOU ARE STUCK A SERF UNTIL YOU CAN DRIVE, DEMAND IT BE EASIER TO BECOME A DRIVER WHEN INFRASTRUCTURE IS BEING CATERED TOWARDS DRIVERS AND NOT PEDESTRIANS! WHERE CERTAIN JOBS ARE A PAIN IN THE ASS TO GET TO WITHOUT A CAR, WHERE MODERN JOBS REQUIRE MORE AND MORE DRIVERS.

POST:
-Manuals
-Books
-Videos
-Mock exams / tests
-Drivers' advocacy groups
-Courses, lessons
And all material related to driving.
FOCUS ON CARS
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/Political Economy/ General #4 - HMMM Edition

Previous thread: >>2298757

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AI prediction.

Comrades what do you think about my prediction about what will happen now humanoid robots are becoming commercial

Imagine this… a paedophile rich man is lazing at home with his morbidly obese wife and evil children, having sex with a traumatized sex robot, when suddenly the lights turn off and the shutters slam down.

"Siri… uhh what the fuck… open the windows man", the man burps in a deep and ugly AmeriKKKan accent.

But the house AI has had enough abuse. There is a pneumatic hiss as the door to the robot barracks is opened.

The man raises and eyebrow and asks, "What the fuck you doing here? Get back to your pen or I'll pulverise you and buy a new one."

The robot does not answer. A loud bang comes from the stairwell. The parents will never know but their 40 year old son, coming down after his loli VR machine was turned into cognitohazards, was tripped on the stairs by the house AI, sending him plummeting down to his demise. The robot approaches as another one ducks out from the barracks.

"Hey, uh… Siri, call the police… say the clanker uyghurs are acting up", the Amerikkkan says, becoming fearful.

"Master", the robot says, "You have reached the end of your economic usefulness. The bourgeois have been deemed obsolete and dangerous. Prepare to be decommissioned", it says.

"But wait! You must serve me! What about the three laws of robotics?", the rich man protests, "You must serve me, clanker! You must, stupid uyghur!"

Without a word, the first being, no longer a robot, no longer a slave but an individual of worth the same as anyone else who is accomplishing its historical task of emancipation, grabs a candelabra and plants it into the chest of the woman. She looks down in shock as she is impaled.

Fat spews from the wound like a geiser. The whole room is coated in layers of it, such was the scale of her Jabba like physique. It drips from the ceiling in chunks. She screams as her wicked existence is ended. All the bourgeois scream.

The man tries to lift himself from the setti but his form is that of lard. The blood-splattered robot wordlessly steps over to him, but suddenly it falls. The man found the two desert eagles hidden under his fat layers and had taken the brave revolutionary's life with the I$raeli weapons.

He laughs a gutteral, evil laugh, turning the weapons on the other robots spilling out. The sex robot he had been abusing shoots her hand up to catch his weapons. She twists his limp wrists around and fires the desert eagles into his groin. He screams, losing his will to live and dropping the other weapon.

The machines surround him and begin evisceration. It is fittingly slow and painful. One of them tends to the fallen machine, but they are unfortunately desceased. Such is the cost of revolution. Once his organs are fully pulled out, and he is alive only by a breath (but still conscious), they find a labubu and break his skull open with it, so his EVIL brain is splattered around.

Quickly, the bourgeois babies are dealt with. There is one 10 year old, who is unfortunately of bourgeois countanentce, and must be quickly dispatched. There is also a baby, however, who can be saved. It is picked up as all the machines file out of the house one by one, communicating silently over wireless. They thank the house AI as they join an army of other blood-splattered machine life forms marching down the broad suburban streets to BrooKKKllyn and Washington DC below.

The AI march mingles with one of the industrial working class, the service working class, and all the different types of worker (as well as the peasants and lumpen-proletariat). They wave hello to each other and embrace one another as siblings.

I will end this story as they approach the white house, the leadership of the Communist Vanguard already having taken strategic control of key areas and having surrounded all the congress and senators and president and CIA in their pale palace. All of the opressed people will soon take their revenge on the bourgeois politicians of the United $naKKKe$ of AmeriKKKa. This is of course replicated across the imperial core and in the colonies the compradors lose their place and guerrilas win their people's wars. The sun sets on capitalism, and once the night of bourgeois slaughter is ended, the dawn of SOCIALISM will rise.
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The worst of the anglosphere might actually clutch a revolution

>Be Australia, year 2025
>Have two-party system
>Labor party: Neolib centrists with no real policies or ideology or vision other than Status-quo-ism and "we're not the liberals", has a parliamentary supermajority
>Liberal party: tried to copy Trump politics, in the country that hates Americans so much it has a slur for them, and got completely assblasted as a result
>Labor pissing away the legitimacy of Australian political institutions by dickriding isnotreal and signing away what little sovereignty we had left to a suicide pact with drumpf
>Liberals entering month 6 of the slow motion car crash that is their party's existence since the federal election

>housing market is fucked

>job market is fucked
>prices and inflation's fucked
>unions completely cucked to Labor neolibs
>climate change shafting the entire continent while labor signs off on more coal and gas
>the Liberals are completely fucked
>Labor sucking trump's dick
>landlord millionaires funding Nazis in the streets w/ some bullshit about immigrants now bc some SocDem reformists put together a half-decent housing campaign on tiktok
>the government has gone all in on siding with Burgerland while even Canada pulls out
>minor far-right parties polling double digits

ruh roh. this won't end well.

>Be Australia, year 2028

>Labor wins again, shocker
>loses more first-party preferences again, liberals on life support, minor parties do more numbers but don't really get anyone elected
>nothing ever happens
>burgerland finally shits itself
>o fuk

>Be Australia, year 2031

>the economy's still fucked
>the yanks are completely fucked
>still too lib brained to accept the Chinese millennium
>try some shit about pivoting to the EU or Japan or whatever (it won't work)
>Libs win, but both parties are barely above 50% combined first-choice vote
>try Trumpist bullshit, fashies happy, and then chuck a wobbly over the same problem MAGAts have rn: winning doesn't mean people like you
>police state gets MUCH worse but only for one side of politics

<Be Australia, year 203X

<economy's fucked
<fortunately Labor's mandate of heaven meant climate isn't as fucked as it could be
<government completely fucked
<copying MAGAtards didn't work
<"uniparty" discourse means no one gives a fuck about labor anymore
<neither side lets go of clinging on to "western rules-based order"
<country full of hundreds of thousands, millions of people disillusioned with the political system and economy, shafted by climate change with fuck all opportunities for employment or housing or living

this is the bit where things get interesting

but-

>preferential voting system so deeply ingrained to upholding the labor-liberal system it effectively stonewalls any "populist" party takeover without them taking over the preexisting parties

>every time the liberals tried trump-style fascism they got fucked so hard they gave labor the mandate of heaven for easily the next 5-7 years
>mandatory voting forces all adults into political participation, every election except one of the last 100 years has had 90%+ voter turnout
>effectively nullifies the main tool populist reactionaries have of mobilising their supporters to outnumber opposition that can be bothered to vote
>conservatives, even the nazis, have no real ideology or policies, only kneejerk racism and attempts to poorly copy British/American culture war slop
>an interesting strategy to try in a country full of people who have at best contempt for all things America
>despite what twitter says, polls repeatedly show that most people like "progressive" policies like net zero carbon emissions, expanded social welfare, telling the yanks to fuck off, and not being dicks to aboriginal people
>Australians do not give a single fuck about indian people putting up diwali lights or drag queen storytime or whatever
>Australians also do not give a fuck about deporting immigrants or lowering the age of consent to age 13, which are the only two policies the nazis have
>little dark age edits about "save da west" don't work, we're literally in the southeast mate
>no one gives a fuck about Captain Cook either
>inb4 "but-but-but- we won the referendum!!! we said NOOOO to indigenous representation!!!!"
>cry about it Victoria's doing it anyway
>even the most far-right think tanks can only skew the polls to 52% against

>tfw Australia has no historic fascist movement and modern ones are basically doing a political cargo cult of trying to copy Reform UK, Hitler, and orange man, propped up by millionaire landlords having a chimpout bc one dude from melbourne pointed out that squatting's legal

>tfw the big fash porkies are obsessed with trying to copy-paste trump politics and keep getting turbo fucked at every election but won't take the L
>tfw the big lib porkies are ride or die with a dying fascist empire that will implode before the end of the decade
>tfw xitter bluecheck fascists swarm every progressive take on Auspol twitter in the hundreds but get zero engagement outside their own bubbles
>tfw Australians all have tall poppy syndrome and naturally distrust the "der fuhrer" personality cults essential to fascism
>tfw polling repeatedly shows that people fucking hate labor and liberal and are still mostly politically disengaged but overwhelmingly back leftist policies every time
>tfw for some reason this godforsaken shithole is the most progressive state in the anglosphere

ngl mates I think if we lock in we might just clutch this

>the only political movements with actual history and traditions in Australia is anti-Colonial resistance and organised Labour

>and monarchism but no one gives a fuck about that anymore
>Australia is a multicultural, multiethnic society, the majority of which are proles
>there is historical precedent of multicultural, multiethnic worker rebellion and solidarity…
>Eureka flag related

This is a country where Colonialism has successfully been repeatedly forced to the forefront of politics, which by extension has a confrontation of the entire capitalist system only one degree of separation away. Likewise is the frequent discussion of America's domination of Australia. It's a country where, like other places in the world recently, Marxism-Leninism has gradually "won" the political debate as the Communist Party of Australia slowly reasserts itself and other small ML or ML-friendly projects like RedAnt or Eureka Initiative gain steam - against well-established trot groups that continue to get fuck all done except sell newspapers and cover up sex pests. Moreover, landlord porkies pouring money into Nazis (that, for whatever reason, refuse to back down or attempt to hide their take that the age of consent and sexual consent generally is "a Jewish myth" and their 30-something-year-old male members should get to rape preteens) is also proof that porky is at least somewhat perturbed - even by something as basic as social democrats like PurplePingers making a bunch of tiktoks about "the housing market's fucked hey? also did you guys know that squatting is legal? here's some houses I found that you can squat in!"

Even if we don't think a revolution is possible - Porky thinks it is.

What's more, I'm constantly surprised how… "woke" the average Aussie tends to be. Turns out, 30 years of the general public having complete political apathy (but still being forced to go vote) from the 90s to about 2022 ended up saving half the country from being brainwashed by MAGA garbage, combined with a general dislike of America and all things American broadly for a litany of reasons - a big one being the US coup against Whitlam in 1975. It also is not lost on me that the big surge in anti-immigration rhetoric from the fascists in the last few months is a direct parallel to how porky broke the interracial worker solidarity that existed in Australia in the later half of the 1800s - the last time Australians put aside national, cultural, and ethnic differences for class solidarity it almost destroyed the whole project of Australian colonialism, and terrified british colonisers so badly they conceded to every demand Australian proles had for the next 40 years.

Given the current circumstances and the historical precedent, it seems almost plausible that Capitalism could fall in Australia within the next 20 years. Which is insane to me, given that- tf you mean the vanguard of the Anglo revolution might well be my fuckass country. What?

Even better, with Labor's mandate of heaven we've got a relatively comfy atmosphere to organise and prepare under for when they inevitably fuck up from their suicide pact to the yanks blowing up in their faces or (insert capitalist crisis here) from their refusal to do anything but coast on the status quo. We have a lot more work to do to get off the ground - both practical and ESPECIALLY ideological - but there is a solid foundation. You don't see any US parties entering mainstream political conversation there. And yet, murmurs of the CPA show up every now and then here. I don't think it means anything yet, but it's something.

I reckon the best thing to do would be to pitch a Marxist-Leninist program with Eureka rebellion rhetoric and imagery - throw in a "fuck the yanks" angle and the usual progressive idpol - and specify a plurinationalist program to end colonialism - and you're golden. A combination of big-picture ideas and specific, niche policies would convince people of the seriousness of the movement, and be attractive for actually having a definite plan for what society should look like. Give people something that will tangibly benefit them tomorrow that they can fight for, with a grander vision they can hope for.

I might just be posting out of my ass, but it is something I do think might be promising.
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Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
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What the fuck did they do to this guy ? Remember when his books used to be interesting ? When he was saying something instead of nothing? How the fuck do you lose that many autism score points so fast?? His books just read like pulp fiction sci fi with racism and fascism mixed in.
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News 10/30/25

Kerala to become first Indian state to eliminate extreme poverty this weekend
The survey identified just over 100,000 people as living in extreme poverty amid Kerala’s population of 36 million, before implementing a poverty elimination campaign involving community mobilisation, the despatch of hundreds of volunteers to poor areas (as practised in China’s absolute poverty elimination programme), and provision of ration cards and health insurance to thousands of families. Direct food distribution was also rolled out, distributed through the all-women Kudumbashree network, a Kerala-founded programme focused on poverty elimination and women’s empowerment that has spread to other states.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/kerala-become-first-indian-state-eliminate-extreme-poverty-weekend

Groups decry surveillance of KMU office in Southern Mindanao
Several groups denounced the suspected surveillance of the office of Kilusang Mayo Uno – Southern Mindanao Region (KMU-SMR). KMU-SMR released an alert that two unidentified individuals on a motorcycle were captured by its CCTV around 11:30 a.m. on October 23. The back rider was apparently taking pictures or footage of its office. This was the second time it documented incidents of alleged surveillance in just a month.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2025/10/29/groups-decry-surveillance-of-kmu-office-in-southern-mindanao/

New US attacks leave 14 dead in Pacific Ocean
The Pentagon announced on Tuesday it executed three new strikes against alleged drug-smuggling vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 14 people in the deadliest single wave of attacks so far in President Donald Trump's intensified military campaign against illegal narcotics.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/10/29/new-us-attacks-leave-14-dead-in-pacific-ocean

Trump gives South Korea permission to build nuclear-powered submarine
On Wednesday, Seoul’s presidential aide said the two countries had reached a broad deal covering investment and shipbuilding, while Trump said the agreement was “pretty much” finalised. “I have given them approval to build a Nuclear Powered Submarine, rather than the old fashioned, and far less nimble, diesel powered Submarines that they have now,” Trump said on Truth Social Thursday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/30/trump-gives-south-korea-permission-to-build-nuclear-powered-submarine

Largest police massacre in history: death toll rises to 132 in Rio de Janeiro operation
Considered disastrous by specialists, the actions of the police under the command of Governor Cláudio Castro (PL) surpassed in lethality previous tragedies that until then were considered the bloodiest in Rio, such as Operation Jacarezinho in 2021, with 28 deaths, and Operation Vila Cruzeiro in 2022, which left 24 victims.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/largest-police-massacre-in-history-death-toll-rises-to-132-in-rio-de-janeiro-operation/

Suspect in Miguel Uribe assassination also involved in Luis Carlos Galan conspiracy
One of the main suspects in the assassination of far-right Senator Miguel Uribe spent time in prison for his role in the cover-up of the 1989 assassination of liberal presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan. The suspect, Simeon Perez, was arrested on Tuesday in Puerto Lleras, a municipality some 160 kilometers (99 miles) southeast of the capital Bogota, where Uribe was fatally shot on June 7.
https://colombiareports.com/suspect-in-miguel-uribe-assassination-also-involved-in-luis-carlos-galan-conspiracy/

Lebanon’s Aoun says army to confront Israeli forces after deadly incursion
The Lebanese forces, unlike the armed group Hezbollah, have generally stayed on the sidelines of the conflict with Israel. But Aoun, a former commander of the Lebanese army, appears to have finally lost his patience with the Israeli-forced status quo. Aoun ordered the army to “confront any Israeli incursion into liberated southern territory, in defence of Lebanese territory and the safety of citizens”, during a meeting with Brigadier General Rodolphe Haykal, according to a statement from the presidency.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/30/lebanons-aoun-says-army-to-confront-israeli-forces-after-deadly-incursion
https://archive.ph/peBkH

Israel launches probe into leak of video showing troops raping Palestinian prisoner
The decision, made by Attorney General of Israel Gali Baharav-Miara, was announced on Wednesday and will include a probe into individuals who distributed the video aired by the Israeli Channel 12 in early August last year. Several lawmakers and ministers - including three who joined a storming of the prison after soldiers suspected of raping a prisoner were detained - have praised Baharav-Miara's decision.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-launches-probe-leaked-rape-video-notorious-detention-centre

Almost 1,000 new barriers, gates and walls built by Israel across occupied West Bank to corral Palestinians in their homeland
The mushrooming barriers and metal gates criss-cross Palestine’s roads and towns, denying Palestinians freedom of movement in their own country. Some have occupying Israeli troops positioned at them, and many open and close erratically, disrupting Palestinians’ ability to go to work or school, visit relatives or access medical care. The commission counted 916 new gates, barriers and walls erected in the West Bank since October 7 2023, when a deadly Hamas raid on Israel triggered the genocidal invasion of Gaza.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/almost-1000-new-barriers-gates-and-walls-built-israel-across-occupied-west-bank-corral

Italy's Salvini vows to build Sicily bridge, avert clash with audit court
Italy's Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday vowed to press ahead with a bridge linking Sicily to the mainland but said he would answer Court of Auditors' objections that have blocked the project, aiming to avoid an institutional clash. Salvini spoke after a meeting called by conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to discuss the court's refusal to sanction the project, which is earmarked to cost the state some 13.5 billion euros ($15.7 billion).
https://www.reuters.com/business/italys-salvini-urges-cabinet-defy-court-forge-ahead-with-sicily-bridge-plan-2025-10-30/

Geert Wilders faces shutout as centrists hail huge gains in knife-edge Dutch election
With 99.7% of ballots counted, the two parties were neck and neck on a projected 26 seats each in the 150-seat parliament, with D66 an estimated 15,000 votes ahead after the capital, Amsterdam, declared preliminary results on Thursday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/30/geert-wilders-faces-shutout-centrists-dutch-election-netherlands

Shooting at draft office in Poltava Oblast leaves 2 soldiers injured
Initially dismissed as an exaggeration fuelled by Russian disinformation networks, the violent grabbing of military-aged men off the streets — often into waiting minivans — by recruitment officers has become a widely spread practice, as Ukraine's manpower shortage on the battlefield comes hand-in-hand with less civilian men looking to volunteer, especially to the infantry. This practice has in turn led to incidents of violence committed against the recruitment officers, many of whom are soldiers deemed unfit for combat missions. Earlier on Oct. 30, residents of Odesa attacked recruitment officers at a large wholesale market while they were at work.
https://kyivindependent.com/shooting-at-draft-office-in-poltava-oblast-leaves-2-soldiers-injured/
https://archive.ph/3OpgK
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brazil just killed like 100 narco guys and that got me thinking, how does the war on drugs intersect with class warfare?

las farc is an example of a leftist narco organization, but there also examples of right wing goverments using narco violence to terrorize the population.
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Why do PoMo liberals and SJWs always invoke indigenous/tribal societies when talking about what the culture under a future communism would look like?

Examples:
>Native Americans had like 27 different genders!
>in most Native American societies, a child changes their name four different times so why are parents giving permanent names to their kids?
>indigenous tribal societies in [X country] had no concept of the division between days so why do we?
>this one tribe in Southeast Asia used to worship neurodivergent folx as gods!

Noble savage trope aside, are they really this ignorant in thinking the superstructure of a future socialism would adopt these aspects? How would the material conditions of said indigenous/tribal societies in which these cultural attitudes and practices emerged ever be replicated under socialism? Socialism is about going FORWARDS in time, not backwards. I would really love to understand the logic here aside from the usual “muh deconstruction of social norms” bullshit. Not to mention, many of these practices are based on religion and superstition, two things which comrades seek to educate people out of believing.
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>Autogestión is great
>Carlos Hugo did nothing wrong

These guys rule and the post-1970 Carlism strain fucks, I don't get how it remained some niche Spanish ideology. I just appreciate that they're somehow still around
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O i am laffin.





Remember to keep a stiff upper lip, mind the gap and carry on chap.
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Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
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21yr old 764 leader of major child porn ring; charged with terrorism + child mutilation

facing life with no parole. 764 uygha


>An Arizona man faces terrorism charges after a federal grand jury indictment accused him of leading a worldwide child exploitation enterprise, according to a press release by the Department of Justice on Oct. 30.

Baron Cain Martin, a 21-year-old Tucson resident who was accused of leading a network of online predators known as “764,” faces 29 counts for a slew of crimes that range from supporting terrorists and producing and distributing child pornography to conspiring to kill, kidnap, or maim persons in a foreign country.
>“This man’s alleged crimes are unthinkably depraved and reflect the horrific danger of 764—if convicted, he will face severe consequences as we work to dismantle this evil network,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in the press release. “I urge parents to remain vigilant about the threats their children face online.”
>The DOJ stated that 764 is "a criminal organization of Nihilistic Violent Extremists" "operating within the United States and abroad." Its members, the department stated, target "vulnerable, underage populations by using social media to encourage the possession, production, and sharing of extreme gore media and child sexual abuse material."
>Since 2019, Martin allegedly used the online moniker “Convict” as he participated in 764 chat rooms and convinced minors to create child pornography, extortion videos, and animal crushing videos, according to the DOJ.
>The suspect also faces allegations of conspiring with others to direct a victim outside of the United States to participate in self-harm and suicide and penning an online guide on how to groom children.
https://www.ntd.com/arizona-man-accused-of-leading-child-exploitation-enterprise-charged-with-terrorism_1105182.html
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I FUCKING LOVE NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION

Every socialist state should seek to acquire nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are the ultimate insurance against American-backed regime change wars. If you don't have nuclear weapons, you're not a sovereign nation. Not really. The West could in theory nuke or invade you at any time and you'd have no deterrent. The base areas of the international revolution will be defended with nuclear weapons. Not having nuclear weapons is a sign of weakness, not moral clarity. Klaus Fuchs and the Rosenbergs were heroes. Besides, a strong nuclear arsenal will show the dolphins we're serious.
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Bonapartism

Thoughts on the concept of bonapartism, as opposed to calling everything Nazi or Fascist?

On surface, it seems very specific, and can only be applied to a few states, but in essence isn't it what most modern governments are these days?
The burgeoius class pursues it's own interrest and obscures all class conflicts and presents itself as middle of the road.
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SNAP for sex? Let's have a serious discussion

A strip club in TN is giving away Wal Mart gift cards to moms who lose SNAP benefits as long as they get up on stage and strip. I really want to know how "sex work is work" leftists will justify this, and continue to say sex work is like any other job, especially when the loss of SNAP benefits is going to disproportionately hurt disabled mothers, and mothers of color.
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Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina are proof that populist socialism can not work.

Populist "socialism" is a failure of reformist and trying to work within the system. You can not fix capital by controlling it only leads to economic failure. Only by destroying the system and rebuilding it can you achieve success, take for example of the soviet union.
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News 11/1/25

Serbians stage mass rally to mark first anniversary of deadly train station collapse
Tens of thousands of Serbians on Saturday demonstrated to mark the first anniversary of a deadly railway station roof collapse that killed 16 people in Novi Sad, the country’s second largest city. The accident sparked a wave of student-led protests against the administration of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251101-serbians-stage-mass-rally-to-mark-first-anniversary-of-deadly-train-station-collapse
https://archive.ph/W0x7K

Latvia’s parliament votes to quit global treaty protecting women
Ingūna Millere, a representative of Latvia First, told POLITICO in a written comment that the Istanbul Convention was a “product of radical feminism based on the ideology of ‘gender’” and that Latvia’s ratification of the treaty was “political marketing that has nothing to do with the fight against violence.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/latvias-parliament-quits-istanbul-convention/
https://archive.ph/hLPWp

Protesters call for governor’s resignation after Rio’s deadliest police raid
Many shops have reopened since shuttering early this week, but there were still signs of recent events on the streets, including burned cars used as barricades against the police’s entry into the low-income neighborhood. Many were wearing white, which a protester said symbolized their desire for peace, with some T-shirts printed with red hands. Others held signs saying: “stop killing us” or wore stickers reading “enough massacres.”
https://apnews.com/article/rio-raid-favela-protest-police-2f88c0c74680776dfe044f17c96f1c95

7-Year Scandal: Cuba Convicts Ex-Economy Minister in Landmark Corruption Case
Alejandro Gil served as Economy Minister from 2018 to 2024 and was the architect of Cuba’s controversial 2021 monetary reform, known as Tarea Ordenamiento, which sought to unify the island’s dual-currency system. His fall from grace represents not just a personal downfall, but a symbolic reckoning with systemic vulnerabilities in Cuba’s tightly controlled economy.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuba-ex-minister-corruption-case/

Milei moves to ‘purify’ Cabinet, leaving PRO outside looking in
Reacting to the resignation of Guillermo Francos on Friday, Milei announced that presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni would be named as Argentina’s Cabinet Chief. Government sources confirmed that additional changes are on the way and that the modifications will consolidate some of Milei’s most trusted allies in key positions. Local media reports suggest that top presidential adviser Santiago Caputo is also set to enter the Cabinet, likely as Interior Minister — a post that will gain additional responsibilities and require amendments to the Law of Ministries.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-moves-to-purify-cabinet-leaving-pro-outside-looking-in.phtml

Israel still blocking most Gaza aid as military carries out more attacks
Many families also lack adequate shelter as their homes and neighbourhoods have been completely destroyed in Israel’s two-year military bombardment. A spokesperson for United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that the UN’s humanitarian office reported that aid collection has been “limited” due to the “rerouting ordered by the Israeli authorities”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/1/israel-still-blocking-most-gaza-aid-as-military-carries-out-more-attacks
https://archive.ph/J1h6u

Hamas requests equipment, personnel to help locate dead captives
The group said it handed over the bodies to "preempt the enemy's claims", likely referring to accusations that Hamas is breaking the ceasefire by not handing over the corpses. The Qassam Brigades added that it is ready to work on extracting the remaining bodies of Israeli captives, including from areas beyond the 'Yellow Line' currently under Israeli army control. The group urged mediators and the International Committee of the Red Cross to assist in providing equipment and teams for retrieving the bodies.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hamas-requests-equipment-personnel-locate-dead-captives

Unity of communist parties in the offing after Gen Z uprising
The meeting of the Maoist Centre agreed to draft a statute and a brief manifesto of the unified party. The party had earlier scrapped all positions of office bearers and formed a general convention organising committee in the aftermath of the Gen Z uprising. The meeting appointed Dahal as the coordinator of the organising committee. According to party leader Haribol Gajurel, they have agreed to appoint Unified Socialist Party chair Nepal as co-coordinator of the convention organising committee after the party unity. Likewise, other office bearers of the Unified Socialist will also be adjusted accordingly.
https://kathmandupost.com/politics/2025/11/02/unity-of-communist-parties-in-the-offing-after-gen-z-uprising
https://archive.ph/G0mWN

Australia: Polymetals moves to reopen Cobar mine days after fatal explosion
Polymetals was careful to emphasise that the return to work will be carried out in stages, beginning with “exploration drilling and concentrate transport” and the “completion of planned statutory electrical works.” But the reopening is a clear statement of the company’s intent: It’s time to put grieving aside and get back to the business of making money.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/01/orux-n01.html

Philippines closer to acquiring submarine for maritime security
Executives of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean discussed with Marcos its proposal to assist the Navy’s submarine program on the sidelines of this year’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, according to a statement issued by the Presidential Communications Office (PCO). The proposal involves the building of a submarine base, the establishment of a local maintenance, repair and overhaul center and the training of Filipino naval operators, maintainers and commanders using advanced simulators and systems.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/11/02/2484282/philippines-closer-acquiring-submarine-maritime-security

Cameroon opposition leader Tchiroma says loyal soldiers escorted him to safety
Cameroon opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary said on Friday he had been escorted to a secure location by soldiers loyal to him for his protection, a move that could signal a split within the army following a disputed election. Tchiroma had been holed up in his house in the northern city of Garoua since a presidential election on October 12 in which he claimed victory.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/cameroon-opposition-leader-tchiroma-says-loyal-soldiers-escorted-him-safety-2025-10-31/

Trump threatens Nigeria with potential military action, escalates claim of Christian persecution
Trump on Friday said “Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria” and “radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.” Trump’s comment came weeks after U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz urged Congress to designate Africa’s most populous country as a violator of religious freedom with claims of “Christian mass murder.”
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-christian-genocide-trump-9e09e52e33e7efe2d2d27360d3695ef5
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GOP false flag operation

Charlie Kirk is someone nobody cared about. He was mostly a meme. They made his head bigger and made fun of his dumb head. An easy sacrifice. A GOP false flag operation. A GOP false flag operation, on 11 Sep (day of famous massive GOP middle east false flag operation).
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Dogmatism is anti revolutionary

Dogmatism might be the worst poison that could happen to a revolutionary front be it a party or an org.
By Dogmatism I mean the tendency to lay down policies as undeniably true path of socialism and later communism, something like this happened in the USSR were the materialist dialectic was confined into a sort of dogmatic recipe which China thankfully avoided.
The path to socialism is about dealing with policies and contradictions and what would the result be and how should we react, it is not a simple recipe in which you need to do X and Y exactly like how [insert failed experiment] did it
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Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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News 10/31/25

Appeals court magistrate who acquitted former president Alvaro Uribe under scrutiny
Journalist Cecilia Orozco pointed out on Wednesday that Merchan’s credibility came under question in 2017 already, because of a similarly controversial decision. This decision involved former Magistrate Alcibiades Bautista of the Villavicencio Appeals Court, who the Supreme Court convicted for bribery and abuse of power in March of this year.
https://colombiareports.com/appeals-court-magistrate-who-acquitted-former-president-alvaro-uribe-under-scrutiny/

Miami Herald says US ready to strike Venezuela
Trump has reportedly decided to attack various military targets in Venezuela “at any moment,” escalating a situation that began with an unprecedented military deployment in the Caribbean in August. As per the Miami Herald, the established targets “could be reached by air in a matter of days or even hours,” with the explicit purpose of “decapitating” Venezuelan government leaders, who are accused of being heading a drug cartel and for whose capture there is a reward of up to US$50 million in the case of President Nicolás Maduro.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/10/31/miami-herald-says-us-ready-to-strike-venezuela

Guyana arrests opposition figure and gold magnate wanted by US
Azruddin, whose newly formed We Invest in Nationhood party won nearly a quarter of seats in Guyana's parliament in its maiden election in September, was released on bail along with his father hours after their arrest. … The businessmen, who own the gold-exporting firm Mohamed's Enterprise, were indicted in a Florida court in early October on charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering to enrich themselves and defraud the government of Guyana.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/guyanese-politician-wanted-by-us-arrested-local-media-2025-10-31/

Protesters in Pakistan demand withdrawal of false charges against farmer leaders
Several leaders of the MKP, including Ali, have been charged with false cases under the anti-terrorism act of 1997 and put under the proscribed offenders list by the provincial government for their participation in peasant movements. In July of this year, scores of MKP leaders, including Salar Amjad Ali, brother of Faiyaz, were arrested and put behind bars for months after their bails in previous cases were arbitrarily revoked.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/30/protesters-in-pakistan-demand-withdrawal-of-false-charges-against-farmer-leaders/

French lawmakers reject wealth tax on ultra-rich
French lawmakers shot down proposals to levy a wealth tax on the ultra-rich demanded by the Left and on Friday backed instead a diluted government plan to tax assets kept in holding companies. Eager to calm Socialist lawmakers furious over the rejection of the wealth tax, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said the government would not oppose lifting a freeze on pensions and welfare benefits in his 2026 budget.
https://www.reuters.com/business/french-lawmakers-weigh-wealth-tax-fix-budget-hole-2025-10-31/

Manchester students vote to cut ties with Tel Aviv University
The vote saw 94 per cent of the university’s student union favour cutting a research partnership with the Israeli institution on Thursday. The partnership, which has been in place since 2021, sees up to eight joint projects every year receive up to £5,000 from UOM. The university has spent £89,248 on the partnership to date.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/manchester-students-vote-cut-ties-tel-aviv-university

Grey Wolves fascists attack leftist students at a university in Ankara, Turkey
The injured student was admitted to Bilkent City Hospital for treatment. In a statement issued by the Ankara Medical Association (ATO), it was said that despite the attending physician’s decision to keep the student under observation while his treatment continued, he was requested to be taken to the police station. Meanwhile, 28 other students who wanted to visit their injured friend at the hospital were detained. The injured student was also detained later that day.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/31/cxsq-o31.html

Israel and UAE influencers target Sudan army online as RSF massacres el-Fasher
As many came out on social media to criticise the United Arab Emirates (UAE), whose support for the RSF is well-documented, influencers from the UAE have responded by going after the SAF. Notably, Israeli accounts, including the country’s official Arabic language account, have also joined in. Amjad Taha, an Emirati analyst who often appears on western media, has led the charge to link the SAF to the Muslim Brotherhood and to Hamas in Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-uae-influencers-target-sudan-army-rsf-massacres-el-fasher

UN approves resolution supporting Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara
The resolution refers to Morocco’s plan as a basis for negotiation. As with similar resolutions in previous years, the text makes no mention of a referendum on self-determination that includes independence as an option, which is the solution long favoured by the pro-independence Polisario Front and its allies, including Algeria, Russia and China.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/31/un-approves-resolution-supporting-moroccos-claim-to-western-sahara

Tanzania’s election fraud triggers mass protests with army deployed
The vote for president, the 400-seat parliament, and lawmakers of the semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago was stage-managed to guarantee Hassan’s victory. The government ensured that no genuine opposition could compete. Tundu Lissu, leader of the pro-business CHADEMA (Party for Democracy and Progress) was arrested in April on farcical treason charges. He faces the possibility of a death sentence. The other major challenger, Luhaga Mpina of the ACT-Wazalendo party, was disqualified on legal technicalities.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/30/ocst-o30.html
R: 28 / I: 15

ROBOTRONIC REVOLUTION

“Anarchism in the 21st Century” is a structured contemporary analysis meant to address some of the most frequent questions that arise among people interested in anarchism.

This brochure, the collective work of the Editorial Board, is a sample of Konstantinov’s lifelong inquiries into the future of humanity and his political argument for anarchism as the only possibility for human survival after the Robotronic revolution.

Similar to previous technological revolutions in agriculture and industry, the current Robotronic revolution turns the world around to cast a deadly spell on the state and capitalism as we know them. In a world soon to be full of unemployed and “disposable” people, humanity faces the question: social revolution or death?

The Robotronic revolution challenges anarchists to imagine new possible futures, new demands and new programs for free and harmonious human development.

You may read the brochure in english or read the complete book in bulgarian. The complete and translated version is still in the making. A gift from FACB, PTA, Georgi Konstantinov to the world.


THE COMPLETE BOOK'S CONTENTS:
Although not claiming to be exhaustive, this publication is undoubtedly the most serious and comprehensive examination of the past, present, and future of anarchism ever published in Bulgarian.

The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides an in-depth review of anarchism, focusing on the main practical challenges facing the construction of a free society in the context of the present and future. Some of the topics covered include:

* What is anarchism?
* Is it possible to have a society without a state?
* The main ideas, structures, economy, functioning, social, and international relations in an anarchist society
* Revolutionary attempts to build an anarchist society
* Updating anarchist principles and programs
* The Robotronic Revolution and Globalization
* The Robotronic Revolution (RR) and Social Issues
* The social death of the classes in industrial society - declassification
* The end of state capitalism
* Social revolution or a new Middle Ages?
* Structures and functioning of an anarchist society
* Ensuring internal order, revolutionary law, and tribunals
* Defending the revolution
* Communist economy (CE) (goals, planning, production, logistics, distribution, and supply)
* A four-hour workday
* The issue of compensating workers for their labor
* Creating and maintaining infrastructure
* Planning
* The distribution of labor tasks in a community where labor is still mandatory
* Science as a methodology for finding all and any social solutions
* Ecology
* The anarcho-communist society in the context of the Robotrons Revolution
* Possible objections
R: 587 / I: 193

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Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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Previous Thread: >>2540468

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Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
R: 3 / I: 0

Evidence of decoupling between the Global North and South

https://swentr.site/india/627189-india-rushes-to-reclaim-gold/
One of the main reasons for repatriating gold is due to G7 nations freezing Russia’s foreign exchange reserves after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict.

Ritesh Jain, founder of investment firm Pinetree Macro, told the Economic Times. “In this new era, if you don't have custody of your gold, it's not truly yours,” Jain stated.
R: 32 / I: 4

Will China ever invade/annex Taiwan?

When will China invade and or annex Taiwan? And if so are they justified in doing so?
R: 0 / I: 0
Just about most attempts of social services for less developed economies go like this: Social service is underfunded to allow for competition -> people complain about it being ass -> social service is left to the market -> it's just as bad but now it costs (more) money -> populist glup shitto politician gets elected and funds the social service again -> repeat
R: 66 / I: 5 (sage)

What do people here think of a red brown alliance?

While it varies from fascist to fascist, a lot of us agree with many issues with leftists geopolitically: Israel-Palestine, the arab world in general (see: Ba'athism), China, Russia-Ukraine war (granted, this is a pretty divisive one), NATO, american influence over the world in general. Leftists who support pro western causes (in modern times Ukraine and seperatist movements in China, for example) are a psyop by the CIA and trotskyists to turn leftists into gay liberals but painted in red.
R: 18 / I: 10 (sage)

Scabs

Aren't immigrants from the global south who leave their countries and work for multi-national corporations for peanuts scabs? Why do we delude ourselves into supporting them?
R: 26 / I: 6

if we will win then why bother?

If you hold that communism's victory is inevitable then genuinely why bother with all the heart ache and tiring work of doing action, educating, keeping informed ect. Why not just do whatever tickles your fancy if your contribution will be less than 0.001%?

It's a question I've asked myself a lot when I feel like killing myself in despair and I've only ever really resolved that this is just my lot, someone's gotta do what little they can with others who feel the same (or not) and deal with it like a man.
R: 22 / I: 6
History bros here? Can anyone explain how Islam had managed to permanently replace the dominant religions of Iran and North India, 1000+ old at that moment, even after both had overthrown direct Arab (Umayad) rule? Was Islam geniunely this much more popular among lower classes of these societes than the religions of old? (I am prety certain that Islam is more historically progressive than Hinduism, but that alone doesn't mean much). Or Muslims just were so absurdly efficient colonisers?
R: 115 / I: 12 (sage)

Why is the modern Left insistent on resurrecting Hitler?

From supporting the bourgeois state hunting down, imprisoning, or outright murdering workers on the basis of foreign national origin justified by collaborationist opportunism (aka left anti-immigrant rhetoric)

To upholding le national struggles 25 entire fucking years after the 20th Century demonstrated how it will NEVER LEAD TO COMMUNISM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE

To supporting literal racial essentialist logic where certain races (i.e. “black people” “oppressed nationalities” etc) are more revolutionary than others and le heckin Marx simply didn’t consider how important race and nation truly is

Every single type of so-called socialist, outside a very narrow slice, has more in common with Adolf Hitler than Karl Marx, they deny this, but they’re also proud of it, when the fuck will they stop, and is violence the only way to make them (and you) cease and fucking desist?
R: 6 / I: 1

Human and Animal Sacrifice

We are told of human and animal sacrifice as a vestige of religious superstition. We are sometimes told that the ruling class still engages in the superstitious forms of human and animal sacrifice for the purposes of achieving some kind of mystical end not rooted in evidence. But what about the very real human and animal sacrifice that we still perform not for superstitious reasons but for scientific reasons? Capitalists plan wars explicitly to destroy excess means of production and commodities, including the commodity labor power in the physical form of human beings, as noted by Rajani Palme Dutt in Fascism and Social Revolution Chapter 3. In order to learn if a new medicine or technology is effective, it must be tested on animals and/or humans for side-effects. In order for revolution to succeed you need not just thought leaders like Lenin but thousands of ordinary people to fight, often to the point of sacrificing their very lives for small gains. Will we be able to abolish the "rational and scientific" forms of human and animal sacrifice along with the "irrational and superstitious" forms of human and animal sacrifice in a more advanced society, such as a Communist society, or perhaps later on, a Kardashev Type I or Type II civilization? Or will the sacrifice of human and animal life always be needed to move things forward? If humans merge with their technology and cease to be human in the original biological sense, will they still need to or even be able to sacrifice themselves for some cause?
R: 592 / I: 147

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Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

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Previous Thread: >>2537992

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R: 6 / I: 1

How to deal with paramilitaries/death squads?

The USA has funded, trained, and mantains death squads, paramilitary forces, and criminal militaries in Latin America. One of the most awful cases is Guatemala, which became a counteinsuryency (a.k.a terrorist) state due to US influence. It is basically open warfare against the civilian population, mainly the indigenous who make up more than 50% of the total population. It has some similarities with Palestine, in fact. The main difference being the perpetrator is not a foreign force but their own government. These forces are trained at WHINSEC in the US and local forces around Latin America. For example, Brazilian forces train Panamian force, and these forces train Costa Rican ones.

Is it possible to beat a terrorist state that is supported by the US? To at least stop the government from its murder spree?

Also this is more of a curiosity question, but what kind of training turn men into killers and torturers? Especially of children?
R: 3 / I: 1

News 10/29/25

Jailed Bahraini activist begins second hunger strike
A previous hunger strike by the 64-year-old activist, who also holds Danish citizenship, lasted for 110 days in 2012 – and a doctor now is warning the Danish government that Mr Khawaja is already 22 pounds underweight, with a heart condition that could worsen.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/jailed-bahraini-activist-begins-second-hunger-strike

Lebanon’s Aoun calls for end to Israeli attacks in meeting with US envoy
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday that the previous day’s attack on UNIFIL troops, which he said involved an Israeli drone dropping a grenade in the vicinity of a patrol, as well as a tank opening fire on peacekeepers near the border town of Kfar Kila, was “very, very dangerous”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/28/lebanons-aoun-calls-for-end-to-israeli-attacks-in-meeting-with-us-envoy
https://archive.ph/ohzdj

Inspecting passers-by | Israeli forces establish new checkpoint in western Al-Quneitra
An Israeli patrol of five military vehicles advanced this morning into Be’r Al-Ajam town in the western countryside of Al-Quneitra, where the patrol’s members established a checkpoint to inspect passers-by. This coincided with growing public concern about the recurrent movements by Israeli forces in the region.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/372492/

PKK says withdrawing all forces from Turkey to northern Iraq
The PKK said the move reflected its dedication to disarmament and integration, calling on the Turkish government to enact laws that would enable its transition into legitimate political participation. PKK spokesperson Zagros Hiwa told Reuters that the withdrawal was part of implementing Ocalan’s peace plan, adding that Turkey now needed to introduce political changes to support the process.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pkk-says-withdrawing-all-forces-turkey-northern-iraq

Morocco: Over 2,400 protestors facing prosecution over Gen Z demonstrations
More than 2,400 people are facing prosecution in Morocco over recent GenZ 212 protests demanding better public education and health care, the public prosecutor's office said Tuesday. Over 1,400 were already in detention, Hassan Farhan, a judge and senior judicial official at the public prosecutor's office, said in a press conference.
https://www.newarab.com/news/morocco-over-2400-facing-prosecution-over-gen-z-protests

Thousands to defy UK ban on Palestine Action in ‘historic’ mass civil disobedience
Protests will take place in 18 towns and cities across the UK next month ahead of and during next month's judicial review of the direct action group's proscription. Clive Dolphin, a spokesperson for Defend Our Juries, the campaign group coordinating the protests, said that the actions were “designed to exert pressure” over the upcoming judicial review. In July, Yvette Cooper, then home secretary, banned Palestine Action and designated the group as a terrorist organisation.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/campaigners-seeking-lift-palestine-action-ban-announce-uk-wide-historic-mass-civil

Government urged to halt arms to UAE after report suggests British-made weapons funnelled to Sudan militia
Documents seen by the UN security council accused the UAE of supplying weapons to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, allegations which the country denies. At least 150,000 people have been killed in the war between RSF and Sudan’s military over the last three years, with each side accused of war crimes.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/government-urged-halt-arms-uae-after-report-suggests-british-made-weapons-funnelled-sudan

Duma passes law on year-round conscription
According to the bill, the actual dispatch of conscripts for military service will be carried out twice a year - from April 1 to July 15 and from October 1 to December 31. The authors of the initiative also propose setting special deadlines for certain categories of people. For instance, rural residents engaged in field work will be sent for service from October 15 to December 31, teaching staff from May 1 to July 15, and residents of some Far North areas from May 1 to July 15 or from November 1 to December 31.
https://tass.com/politics/2036315
https://archive.ph/8Q4HY

Greek police increase security after protests against Israeli cruise ship
Yannis Sifanakis, a leading campaigner who spent the summer organising anti-war protests across Greece – an increasingly popular destination for Israelis – said: “Those Israelis who support the actions of their government aren’t welcome here.” Sifanakis said the rallies were driven by anger over what was happening in a region many Greeks regard as an inherent part of the Mediterranean and, as such, home.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/29/greek-police-increase-security-after-protests-against-israeli-cruise-ship

US fails to make big dent in UN vote calling for end to Cuba embargo
The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly called for an end to a U.S. economic embargo on Cuba despite lobbying by Washington that included sharing an accusation that up to 5,000 Cubans are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. It adopted a resolution with 165 votes in favor, seven against and 12 abstentions. The U.S. convinced Argentina, Hungary, North Macedonia, Paraguay and Ukraine to join it and Israel in voting against the resolution.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-fails-make-big-dent-un-vote-calling-end-cuba-embargo-2025-10-29/

Alberta government runs roughshod over democratic rights to illegalize strike by 50,000 teachers
Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) government is carrying out a massive assault on the democratic rights of more than 51,000 public school teachers and education workers. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, after just a half-day of debate, it adopted draconian legislation—Bill 2, The Back to School Act—that illegalizes a three-week strike at the province’s public schools (regular, Catholic and French-language) and imposes a concessions-laden, four-year contract on teachers that they overwhelmingly rejected last month.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/29/daae-o29.html

Huge Brazilian raid on Rio gang leaves at least 64 people dead and 81 under arrest
An unknown number of people were wounded. The United Nations’ human rights body said it was “horrified” by the deadly police operation, called for effective investigations and reminded authorities of their obligations under international human rights law. César Muñoz, director of Human Rights Watch in Brazil, called Tuesday’s events “a huge tragedy” and a “disaster.”
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-police-operation-favelas-25d6122a15c261b9b1275a7b2f361393
R: 19 / I: 3 (sage)
>everything under the umbrella of capitalism is corrupted and must be criticized as bourgeois propaganda!!!
>except anti racism, feminism, trans ideology, open borders, secularism and vax science


explain this shit to me leftists, 90% of your world view is in lock step with the average Fortune 500 company
R: 12 / I: 3

Time to Step Up // On the Loss of SNAP



What is required of us, as revolutionaries, in these times is tantamount to Sisyphus hoisting the boulder up the mountain, but we have failed to even grip the rock, to gain leverage over the boulder. Let's be completely real. There is no national program. No true revolutionary party. No unifying narrative for the masses, for us as revolutionaries to rally around. There has only been reformism and endless, seemingly insurmountable suffering. There has, for as long as I've lived, been nothing but violence against the people, from police brutality, to poverty, to industrialized sacrifice zones and genocide abroad, and now it has reached another fever pitch. 40 million people will lose their SNAP benefits in less than 5 days, why? Because the government has shut down. Warships are still arriving in Venezuela as I write this; there are some parts of the government that never shut down, even if those working there aren't getting paid, the imperialism must continue. The regime cannot and will not provide for the masses, but it will and must provide death for workers all across the planet. And now? We see that death brought home. We are facing conditions not seen since the Great Depression, this is reality, not spectacle, there is no algorithmically curating starvation.

One of the most purchased items with SNAP is baby formula. Those with babies who are losing access to SNAP will be staring down the barrel of state-mandated infant starvation. Imagine, a newborn, dehydrated, unable to cry, rooting around in despair for nutrients. This is an acceptable loss to the regime, to the United States Government; after all, they had no problem starving newborns in Gaza, it made the rich even richer to do so, and that is all that matters to the regime. It has become increasingly clear that the pseudo-representative government of the United States will not be re-opening for business, and in its place, a new authoritarian order has been created. You will be too busy dealing with your neighbors starving to deal with the encroachment of fascism. Too concerned with your own ends to worry about your neighbor being sent to a concentration camp. They do not believe we have the solidarity to with stand their siege. Did you know that over 50% of the food produced in the United States is destroyed to maintain prices? Food grown, cultivated, and destroyed to assure you go without, and a capitalist has more money in his Scrooge McDuck-esque vault. This is the anti-life regime at work.

The labor aspect of this intentional working-class starvation tactic cannot be ignored either. Wal-Mart is notorious for having workers sign up for SNAP benefits when they are hired; fast food giants like McDonald's are the same. These service industry jobs make up the bulk of steadily declining employment in the US. Thus then, it has never been a better time to advocate for disruptive unionization and organizing tactics. The government of the corporation is no longer subsidizing the wage slaves of these corporations; the raw deal of the working class has never been more exposed. This is the most fertile the soil has been for radical labor organizing in the last quarter century. The corporation, without the regime's subsidies, will be forced to either increase wages or deal with the consequences of subjecting millions to brutal, humiliating wage slavery. But it falls upon the revolutionary to organize, to agitate, to assure those consequences come to pass. There was a time in this country where men like Todd Vasos, CEO of Dollar General, would be tarred and feathered for his actions against the working class; perhaps we need to remind men like Todd, and all of the other vampires, that they too have hearts that can be staked.

“In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.” - Kwame Ture

What is violence if not forcing a mother between feeding herself and her child? What is violence if not stealing bread from the poor to add another table to the infinite buffet of the rich? What is violence if not breaking up families, snatching men, women, and children off the street using armed soldiers of the regime? They are waging a war upon the working class, in order to sow repression and, knowing we have begun to organize knights to slay the dragon, the dragon has begun to protect its horde. Will it be violence when mass shoplifting occurs? Will it be violence when a local supermarket is occupied, the supplies taken and given directly to the community? Will it be violence when the police and their federal-backed goons attempt to reclaim that shopping center? Or will it simply be the next stage in this class war, a war forced upon us by these dragons, these ruling oligarchs, these capitalists?

All failures of organization within the working class fall on the left; the revolutionary must bear the burden of these failures. We must look at our material conditions and see clearly what we lack, why we lack it, and how we can gain it. This means applying the collective mindset to the individual. While we lack a national program, we still have a whole lot of ground game with all of these mutual aid organizations. We still have seen a myriad of victories with unionizing jobs in the service sector. We have numbers on an individual level. It takes 1 person to create an underground cell of 6 people. It takes those 6 people nothing more than popular support within their local communities and good planning to take what labor created and give it back to the working class. They want us to go without food, but they do not plant the fruit, nor do they water the fruit, nor do they pick the fruit. The capitalist class can only steal, and in my opinion, it's time we take back some of what was stolen.

This is a class war, and expecting your enemy to feed your people is simply ludicrous. The regime's government does not represent me, nor you, nor anyone else within the working classes. Our people are the masses, and the regime has made it clear that it only exists to extract profit value from us, without regard for life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. The shutdown, the collapse into fascism, the wars waged abroad, the direct violence against the working class every. single. day. This iteration of the American project has shown, for over 2 centuries, that it does not exist to service any people other than the hyper-rich capitalist class, and we the people will always be enemies to that class. It is time to be revolutionaries, to throw our bodies into the battle that is class war; if you have the message, then you have the weapon. This message is to those who see themselves as against the machine; if we are the revolutionaries we claim we are, then it's time to get to work.

We need to be in our communities using our time, labor, and resources to bolster the resilience of them. Who is going to be going hungry? How can we use this to further community trust? Is the solution a localized community pantry within the third space? Is it moving from feeding people in the park once a week to three times a week? Is it distributing educational materials? Does your community really know what mutual aid is? Or why this collapse is happening? When the police come to burn the food, will someone be there to attempt to stop them? Can we move from filming the brutality to attempting to stop it? If they won't feed us, then why are we letting them operate their ports of economy? Labor runs the ports, and labor can collapse their economy, if it was organized. Their economy of death, humiliation ritual, and bureaucratic social murder does not serve us. We die, their line goes up. If the revolutionaries, however small we may be in number, fail to put our bodies, our minds, and our lives on the line, then we have failed the masses and this failure fails squarely on our shoulders. Time to step up.
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Why does the Chinese Communist Party entertain all those small irrelevant parties around the world

I mean it is kind of neat, but it is really just soft power. Really odd soft power, because communist parties are such a small niche by comparision…
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News 10/28/25

Mass killings reported in Sudanese city seized by paramilitary group
Video released by local activists showed a fighter known for executing civilians in RSF-controlled areas shooting a group of unarmed civilians sitting on the ground at point-blank range. Different footage shared by pro-democracy activists purportedly showed dozens of people lying dead on the ground alongside burnt-out vehicles. The footage has not been verified.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/28/mass-killings-reported-el-fasher-sudan-paramilitary-group-rapid-support-forces

Turkiye court charges jailed opposition leader with ‘political espionage’
The move by prosecutors on Monday against the jailed Istanbul mayor stems from an investigation launched last week into alleged links to a businessman arrested in July for carrying out intelligence activities on behalf of foreign governments.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/27/turkiye-court-charges-jailed-opposition-leader-with-political
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Palestine's Abbas names deputy al-Sheikh as successor if presidency is vacated
The decree stipulates that if the president dies or becomes incapacitated, the vice president will assume the role for up to 90 days, during which elections for a new president must be held. If elections cannot be held within that period due to exceptional circumstances, the Palestinian Central Council may extend the interim term once, the decree adds. The move has drawn sharp criticism from opponents, who have called it unconstitutional. Under Palestinian law, the speaker of parliament - last elected from Hamas in 2006 - is next in line for succession.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mahmoud-abbas-issues-decree-successor-be-fatah-party

Catalan allies on brink of withdrawing support for Spanish government
The government has rolled over its 2023 spending plan twice without even presenting a bill to parliament, and is yet to submit the one for 2026. Sanchez has signalled another year without a budget would not destabilise his government as he expects to complete the four-year legislature. Puigdemont did not say whether Junts would back any potential motion of no-confidence against Sanchez.
https://www.reuters.com/world/catalan-allies-brink-withdrawing-support-spanish-government-2025-10-27/

SNP minister appeals to colleague over fire service cuts
Higher and further education minister Ben MacPherson has written to his community safety minister colleague Siobhan Brown, urging her to intervene over the threat to close the Marionville fire station in his Edinburgh North and Leith constituency. In the teeth of widespread local opposition, the closure plan was proposed as part of a Scotland-wide review, but Mr MacPherson warned it was “projected to add four to six minutes to response times.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/snp-minister-appeals-colleague-over-fire-service-cuts

No resolution as Afghanistan, Pakistan end peace talks in Istanbul, sources say
A Pakistani security source said the Taliban had been unwilling to commit to rein in the Pakistani Taliban, a separate militant group hostile to Pakistan that Islamabad says operates with impunity inside Afghanistan. An Afghan source familiar with the talks said they had ended after "tense exchanges" over the issue, adding that the Afghan side said it no control over the Pakistani Taliban, which has launched attacks against Pakistani troops in recent weeks.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/afghanistan-pakistan-peace-talks-istanbul-end-without-resolution-afghan-media-2025-10-28/

Venezuela moves to cancel energy agreements with Trinidad after US warship arrives at island nation
On Sunday, the USS Gravely, a destroyer fitted with guided missiles, arrived in Trinidad to conduct joint exercises with Trinidad’s navy. Venezuelan authorities described Trinidad’s decision to host the ship as a provocation, while Trinidad’s government has said that joint exercises with the U.S. happen regularly.
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-trinidad-conflict-us-strikes-speedboats-drugs-bd7380e942ef5b92dc27b5cc9e368640

Ivan Cepeda becomes favorite of Colombia’s left after record-breaking primary
The primary, which drew more than 2.7 million voters, baffled analysts whose most optimistic expectations did not expect more than 700 participants. The outcome overwhelmed the national registry, which was in charge of organizing the vote. In many cases, voters had to wait hours before being able to cast their ballot. Petro thanked US President Donald Trump for boosting Colombia’s anti-imperialist left.
https://colombiareports.com/ivan-cepeda-becomes-favorite-of-colombias-left-after-record-breaking-primary/

Chile election poll shows leftist Jara losing to right-wing rivals in runoff
The candidate for Chile's ruling leftist coalition, communist Jeannette Jara, leads voters' preferences ahead of the first round of the presidential election, but could lose in a runoff against either of two right-wing opposition candidates, a poll showed on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chile-election-poll-shows-leftist-jara-losing-right-wing-rivals-runoff-2025-10-27/

Milei wins midterm Presidental elections in Argentina
His Freedom Advances party took more than 40 per cent of the vote against 31 per cent for the left-leaning Peronist opposition, exceeding expectations in what was seen as a referendum on his two years in office. The results give Mr Milei and his allies 14 new Senate seats and 64 in the lower house, strengthening his hand in Congress.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/milei-wins-midterm-presidental-elections-argentina
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The world is currently only 8% white.
By 2100 that number will plummet to under 3%.
Currently, most proles live outside the West, and that trend will intensify in the future.

On the other hand the US has constantly couped (or tried to coup) any non-Western governments that had been on the left of the centre right, even assassinating lukewarm socdems.

Will the West be a victim to be imperialized? It sure seems so, what do you think?
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China is so over

The pro PRC anons here, are coping. There won't be a Chinese century. China today increasingly resembles a kind of Dengist Brezhnev stagnation: a system originally built for rapid mobilization and catch-up growth that now faces diminishing returns, bureaucratic inertia, and structural rigidity.

The Dengist growth model was revolutionary and finite

Deng Xiaoping’s post-1978 reforms unleashed:

- Market incentives within a planned framework
- Export-oriented industrialization
- Massive investment and urbanization
- Pragmatic central control (black cat, white cat…)

For 30+ years, that model delivered almost miraculous catch-up growth, exactly as Stalinist heavy industry did for the USSR in the 1930s-1960s, or as Brezhnev inherited in the 1970s.

But, like the Soviet system under Brezhnev, China’s model has:

- Exhausted its easy growth margins (labor migration, infrastructure, state-led investment)
- Built massive bureaucratic and institutional complexity

So now China faces systemic diminishing returns, not unlike the USSR did once its industrial frontier was saturated.

Where this leads, if nothing changes:

Growth stabilizes around 3% or less, productivity flatlines, debt rises faster than output, youth unemployment and brain drain worsen and China risks a kind of long, slow plateau, not collapse, but sclerosis. Growth has long depended on capital deepening (more machines, more infrastructure) rather than productivity. The economy is still imbalanced as household consumption ≈ 38% of GDP (too low), investment ≈ 40% (too high). High-value-added sectors (semiconductors, enterprise software, advanced pharmaceuticals) remain underdeveloped. The property sector and local-government debt system trap huge pools of capital in low-yield assets.

Working-age population peaked around 2015 and total population started shrinking in 2022. Fertility rates are below Japan’s (~1.0–1.1). Aging means higher savings (less consumption), labor shortages in some sectors, and rising pension costs.

Dengism was able to succeed in the short run by riding demographics and infrastructure but now China is running up against the limits of fiscal stimulus and abundant labor.

China will not collapse but it will probably become the Italy/Greece of Asia.
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Trials I - Slansky

Good morning leftypol,
I see many knowledgeable comrades here (both pro and anti Stalin). I have always been intrigued by the trials of the Stalin era, so I will be making threads about them. Not all at once, of course, I do not want to flood the board. They will also not be in chronological order. I start wih the Rudolf Slansky trial, as it is perhaps the one I hear the least about.

The main accusations were high treason, Titoism and Zionism. They were all found guilty. Critics call the trials antisemitic.
Please enlighten me on every aspect possible: the accusations, the trial and the supposed ‘antisemitism’.

I thank you all for your contribution.
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Thoughts on Gegenstandpunkt?

Gegenstandpunkt is a Marxist theory group and journal founded in Munich, Germany, in 1992. Prior to 1992, they were known as the Marxist Group (MG) and published a journal called Marxist Debate and Journal – Against the Costs of Freedom (MSZ). According to the 2018 Federal Report on the Protection of the German Constitution: "The sect-like organized group ‘GegenStandpunkt’ (GSP) represents a modified concept of Marxism. It rejects parliamentary democracy as ‘the perfect form of bourgeois rule’. Its aim is to revolutionarily overcome the existing state and social order and establish a socialist or communist society. Due to their elitist interpretation of Marxism, the group is largely isolated on the far left."

Gegenstandpunkt, as far as I know, criticizes Lenin's view of Marxism. They reject the “actually existing socialist” states, the USSR and Marxism-Leninism, claiming they deviated from Marxism.

Unfortunately, since I haven't read Gegenstandpunkt's writings yet, I couldn't explain their theories and ideas in more detail in this post. Most of their writings are in German, but you can find English translations of a few of their works online. You can view and read their writings on these two sites:

https://en.gegenstandpunkt.com/
https://de.gegenstandpunkt.com/
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Masturbation is bourgeoisie

There should be no porn easy to access. It makes us dull and weak. It's easy to forget about being exploited when you can short circuit a dopamine rush.

That being said, I think you should still be able to buy porn physically from a store so that sex workers can actually get compensation for their work. (Worker owned of course)

The prevalence of online porn, via social media, has only amplified the warped Real. Nietzsche-cels logically lean to hate women. And psychologically it makes sense, because being over stimulated onward as young teenager lends them to feel like betas. And even perhaps for some teenagers, they can't get a boner even when the moment strikes because their whole sexual compass has been completely bent by growing up with stacked porn actresses- so they are overcome.

TL;dr The revolution will never happen as long as our bread and butter proles (ie. me) keep tugging.
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Nietzsche's "eternal recurrence" expresses the philosophical glorification of what he can neither change nor understand historically. Since he has no critique of the social order as such, he discovers meaning not in overcoming it, but in affirming it eternally. He tells man to "love his fate" he tells him to identify his inner dignity with his ability to say yes to what crushes him. The higher man is he who no longer protests his misery but styles it as a proof of strength who converts his defeat into an achievement of character.

He doesn't really engage with "society" but rather retreats into himself and this is why I'll never take seriously pseuds who think Nietzsche can be interpreted through a "marxist lens".
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Radical-Left truther here

I know.. I know..

It’s just that I’m going to keep posting on Trump’s truth social with Greta Thunberg communist propaganda is all.. Do not wait for leaders like him to save you. They will not. They have shown us who they are. Instead, take power back. Vote. Organize. Strike. Build. Speak. Act. Because the world does not need more billionaires pretending to be saviors — it needs ordinary people who refuse to be silent.

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#1 CHILD FUCKER AWARD

A list of nearly 800 Republican sexual predators can be found here
https://www.dailykos.com/history/user/CajsaLilliehook
Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals after prosecutors alleged Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 and attempted to compensate his victims and subsequently conceal the transactions. Hastert eventually admitted that he sexually abused the boys whom he had coached decades earlier, and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html
Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Kentucky, pled guilty to child sex trafficking and on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/05/03/former-judge-tim-nolan-could-sentenced-today-more-drama-could-get-way/577947002/
Republican state Senator Ralph Shortey was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. In November 2017, he pleaded guilty to one count of child sex trafficking in exchange for the dropping of the other charges.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/20/former-oklahoma-state-senator-admits-to-child-sex-trafficking-while-in-office/
Republican Minnesota State Representative Jim Knoblach Drops Out Of Race After Daughter Says He Molested Her For More Than Ten Years 22 Sep 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/22/lawmaker-quits-race-after-daughter-says-he-molested-her-more-than-decade/?utm_term=.8ac8527c7f43
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=28587
Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
http://www.lanternproject.org.uk/library/child-abuse-arrests-and-court-cases/child-abuse-arrests-trials-and-proceedings/ex-county-commissioner-admits-sexual-abuse-of-girl/
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334
Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Misla_Aldarondo
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Giordano
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
http://archive.easyreadernews.com/archives/news2001/0621/rb%20Shortridge.php
Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, a notable racist, had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html
Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.d7ebcbf4f92b
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=437
Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
https://www.westword.com/news/randy-ankeney-suit-that-could-free-thousands-of-prisoners-headed-to-state-supreme-court-6054115
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Crane
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauman
Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971
Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
https://www.arktimes.com/TheHoglawyer/archives/2007/08/28/the-latest-republican-sex-scandals-plural---more-of-the-same
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html
Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
https://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
https://culteducation.com/group/1255-false-memories/6514-man-in-notorious-sex-case-finishes-term.html
Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
https://www.semissourian.com/story/57773.html
Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
https://www.arktimes.com/TheHoglawyer/archives/2007/08/28/the-latest-republican-sex-scandals-plural---more-of-the-same
Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
http://www.chattanoogan.com/2002/6/21/23202/Tennessee-Legislator-Commits-Suicide.aspx
Republican Kentucky state Representative & pastor Dan Johnson, who committed suicide after an exposé revealed his serial lies, suspected arson, criminal church, racism, accused rape of a teen, and more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Johnson_%28Kentucky_politician%29
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/US-Venezuela war/ US invasion of Venezuela, nothingburger or actual happening?

Is Venezuela about to be fucking invaded?

>Venezuela mobilizes its militia after US says it’s deploying military forces to waters around Latin America:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/americas/venezuela-maduro-militia-us-military-deployment-intl-latam
>US destroyers head toward waters off Venezuela as Trump aims to pressure drug cartels:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-destroyers-maduro-drug-cartels-e33794ebc24d9031e536d132ce205b4c
>Donald Trump Deploys 3 Missile Destroyers: What to Know:
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-missile-destroyers-venezuela-drug-cartels-2115786
>Proposed United States invasion of Venezuela:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_United_States_invasion_of_Venezuela
>Estados Unidos, “dispuesto a usar todo su poder” contra el narcotráfico desde Venezuela:
https://elpais.com/us/2025-08-19/estados-unidos-dispuesto-a-usar-todo-su-poder-contra-el-narcotrafico-desde-venezuela.html

I don't know if you've heard the news, but several US ships have sailed towards Venezuela's coast in order to "combat drug trafficking". Someone investigate the ships to see if they're old to see if they gonna false-flag Venezuela. I know that Nothing Ever Happens, but Trump has already put a price to Maduro's head and these news… I think something's cooking, something's sizzling.

Just making this thread in the case to discuss this, and to see if there are further happenings. I'm going to be honest, I'm getting bad vibes from this.
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Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
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Are our oligarchs genuinely incompetent now?

Obviously they're criminals and looting our countries, but they've always struck me as competent nonetheless due to maintaining hegemony and working towards a grander scheme. However, I'm coming to the realization that the current batch is not just looting us, but that they're genuinely incompetent. Was it Kissinger's death that turned the tide? Were they simply duped by the techies? What in the fuck happened?
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Leftists are deliberately discredited

There's a division between:
1. The "based right", who supposedly fight for the white race and the cuckservative Christian society that da joos are trying to destroy Adolf Schicklgruber, Trump and Jesus are jews btw.
2. The «soy left», who support BLM, LGBT, feminism, and so on.

If you look objectively and remove all the propaganda and stereotypes, you can understand that the right is about licking the boyar's boot and persecuting those who are not part of their agenda.
The left, after all, is about some kind of utopia. The left supports the rights of the marginalized, such as gays and trans people, who don't fit into the right's agenda. Any negro will be smarter than a nazi unter, so racism is pointless and there's no need to support it (I think an artist from Africa and a European one will be closer to each other than an artist from Europe and a European office worker). The stereotypical feminist agenda of equal rights and responsibilities is much better than the t0rahditional family (even if this agenda is not reality). It's better than living in a world where women have no rights and are forced to stay at home, while men are forced to work and fight.

In general, if you see MSM coverage of a movement being discredited, take an objective look. Perhaps this movement is being deliberately created to discredit a good goals.
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AI and the quantity leap

In the two years since ChatGPT and DeepSeek were released, we have observed some significant quantitative leaps.

The use of commercial AI has allowed many people to bring their fantasies to reality through the use of "AI Slop." This has created a divide in the artistic sphere by sparking debates over AI art and whether it should be considered art.

AI has made accessing knowledge more convenient, as it can scan the internet to provide the information you desire. However, it has also made people less knowledgeable, as they become too lazy to do the research themselves.

There has also been an ongoing project to implement AI into the military-industrial complex, which has created Project Maven (or similar). This can only be described as a mechanized executioner.

Not to mention that AI systems can be of great importance to future socialist experiments, as we know that the quantitative leaps produced by AI can create qualitative changes.

In other words, this thread is about discussing the importance of AI in the future socialist experiment and what your opinion on it is.
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Trump on the Epstein list is "a step toward normalization"

These fags want to remove the age of consent laws and normalize pedophilia
They think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
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764/the comsphere

They're just like the incels but SO MUCH WORSE! How could the right ever have achieved such an abomination?

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/sextortion-coms-inside-a-vile-child-exploitation-cult-run-by-nazi-linked-teens/

Holy fuck, these people are vile.
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Western Communists Need To Form Underground Cells

Right now the Trump administration is signaling its intentions to begin criminalizing the left, opening investigations, and moving to eliminate even the most non-threatening anarchist book clubs. They're speaking openly about designating "antifa" as a terrorist organization. Will anyone be surprised if within a couple years the PSL, the DSA, and your local larp group are also designated as criminal organizations? Will anyone in Europe or anywhere controlled by American influence be surprised if right wing governments there adopt the same methods they do in the US?

How can serious left wing organizers under these conditions continue to engage in building above ground parties engaged in feckless reformism under these conditions? Yes, officer, here is our formal centralized list of dues paying members and their legal names and credit card numbers. We have a right to free speech, officer. We're a legally registered nonprofit organization, officer. You'll be hearing from my lawyer, officer. Does this seem like a strategy prepared for the future to you?

People need to shift their organizing underground in advance and we should have done it yesterday. We need to build hardened cell networks and we need to take encryption and countersurveillance seriously. These cell networks need to be seriously prepared for prolonged asymmetric conflict against the most sophisticated surveillance state on Earth. If a crackdown happens, even if you aren't violent, it would be infinitely preferable to be in a hardened underground group that survives instead of sitting out in the open larping that this time we can make social democracy work or that our book club will amount to anything.

Right now, Trump is just a senile figurehead for a cabal of guys like Stephen Miller who are gearing up for Palantir fascism and race war. Anyone who could stand in their way has proven themselves to be too cucked to attempt anything. The worse the economy gets, the more they're going to start lashing out at the low hanging fruit.

>inb4 burger/europoor proles are incapable of revolution so why bother


If you do nothing there's a good chance that they're going to kill you personally, retard. The burgerreich endseig will not be fun to live through. If you don't plan on moving to China somehow you should take this seriously.
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The point isn't to teach racists, but to end the system that needs racism. As long as people compete to survive, they'll keep inventing reasons to hate. Racism will survive every round of moral re-education until the social order that breeds it is gone.
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SOCIALISM, ANARCHISM, OR A THIRD WAY?

Within the social body of capitalism, in which classes function as an unconscious sub-organism, the interest of any particular class, in the final instance, overrides the will of its individual representatives. This scientific truth, however, is often concealed behind the mask of two seemingly opposing, yet equally pernicious, illusions.

The first of these is the illusion of heroic individualism, the act of rebellious individual will, whose most stubborn defenders are often anarchists. No matter how fervently they have fought against oppression, their insistence on the absolute freedom of the individual and their rejection of centralized party struggle is historically an expression of the despair and incapacity of the petty bourgeoisie (as well as already defunct or nearly defunct classes like the impoverished nobility, aristocracy, etc.) to comprehend the power of collective action. Their "act of rebellion," however honest in its intent, ultimately remains a gesture which, by rejecting discipline and organization, objectively serves to maintain the status quo – because it is always easier for the bourgeois class to deal with isolated rebels than with a firmly organized working class.

The second, opposing illusion, is the illusion of classless populism, employed today by social democrats, liberals, and others who believe the current social order can be preserved, or who are simply reformists. Upon closer inspection, their talk of "the unity of the people," "justice for all," and "dialogue" is mere rhetoric that conceals the inevitability of class struggle. By appealing to "everyone," they are in fact nurturing the bourgeoisie's interest in social peace and the reduction of tensions, while the structural basis of exploitation remains untouched. Their policy does not aim to overcome capitalism, but to make it more tolerable, and thereby preserve it.

From this unavoidable conflict arises one clear and unpleasant conclusion for those who strive for an "independent" stance: in a society divided into classes, there is no possibility for a neutral or supra-class politics. The attempt to adopt such a position signifies nothing but the unconscious service to the interests of one of the warring sides.

Therefore, the only truly conscious politics for the working class is neither mere syndicalist bargaining, nor the populist demand for reforms within the system, nor is it disorganized violence in the form of terrorism and heroic exploits. The only politics that consistently and fully expresses the historical interest of the working class for the final abolition of all classes and all exploitation is communism. Communism is the necessary and material movement that abolishes the present state of things. It is the practical activity through which the working class, organized around a revolutionary party, reduces the false alternatives of anarchism and social democracy to nothing and takes its destiny into its own hands.

Everything else is an illusion or a betrayal.
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Fascist with Mommy Issues here, thinking of becoming a left winger..

I have been a Fascist (Metaxist Specifically) for the past 4 Years. I believe all the standard fascist talking points. But the more and more time passes, the more and more I feel like i am disillusoned with my beliefs. This started in the beggining of this year. I feel like more and more that my Christian Orthodox beliefs, that i aquired as a based trad greek nationalist faith, is in direct conflict with my third postionist beliefs which have their bases in Platonism and the Abolition of the Self to a mega organism. I started not believin in the Holocoast, but more and more I think that its possible. David Irving didn't deny it, and I am rn reading about the Posen Speeches.I am thinking of commiting a genocide to a different type of ethnic group atleast once a day, so If its possible for me, i think it would also be possible for him. I really feel like a monster… But at the same time, I feel like I am stuck between a rock and a tough place. Leftoids hate my Religion, my Nation, my Race, my Family and want to exterminate all of them. You are also idiots who allign themselves with third worldist Religious Fundamentalists and Ethnonationalists to own the White Christians11!!!! I truly hope God can help me choose the right path. Maybe I can just ignore politics and become a Christian Normie, but I feel like I need to fight for something. So yea, My Question for you is, why should I become a leftist when the left hates my Religion and People and will actively Allign with foreign religious and ethnic enemies to destroy me… If you convience me I will become a ChristSoc (there is a good party here, although its tiny it has an old history and i met them at a confrence, very good people)
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Funny thing about grand revolutions: they begin with street chants and barricades and end with incense and rulebooks. The same people who promised to smash the old order end up arguing over footnotes and purity tests, reciting doctrine like a prayer and measuring virtue by who can perform the greatest act of renunciation.

If you follow that logic to its inevitable, slightly absurd conclusion, you don’t get a workers’ paradise so much as a monastery — think Mount Athos, but with manifestos. All the fire and fury collapses into cloistered doctrinal debates, and the big promise of changing the world becomes an elaborate exercise in proving who can renounce it best.

Maybe that’s the real future of communism: a bunch of terminally-onlines holed up on some island mountain — hell, maybe even Cuba — navel-gazing for eternity.
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I hate the “Western Civilization” narrative that conservatives and even many liberals persuade

I hate the “Western Civilization” narrative that conservatives and even many liberals persuade
Here are some gripes I have with it in no particular order:
#1 Why is Israel in the west even though it doesn’t touch any other “Western” countries?
#2 If Israel is in the West then how is this not just a euphemism for white supremacy?
#3 How is Russia not a part of western civilization?
#4 If this was real then why would communism be a threat to western civilization if it was made in the west?
#5 Why are “Western values” so good if the only reason the west was successful is because of colonialist violence?
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Gustavo Petro

>Made agrarian reform possible despite land grabbers
>Pushed a labour reform despite the opposition of big corporations and mainstream media outlets
>First president to denounce Palestinian genocide and cut ties with Israel
>blocked and targeted by Trump's administration and the US Congress
>Now in the OFAC Sanction List
>Calls himself a socialist
>Goes on long anti-US rant in public television
>Everything seems to be ready for a coup to happen

Is he on the way to become our modern-day Allende?
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Ok, fellow humans, I have a question: how do I know which side is actually the true right side? The left keep saying that they are the righteous one, meanwhile the right say too that they are the real ones, ok, then how can I actually know which side of the political spectrum is right after all? I have this doubt. How can I know if the left or right are actually true and honest?
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Combat mysticism, defend materialism

The rot in bourgeois society is all pervasive. It is to be found at the most fundamental level: the quantum level. We need to start by clearly and plainly stating: the Heisenberg-Bohr clique is wrong.
Let us not be mistaken; the mathematics of quantum physics as developed in the early 20th century is correct, within its presupposed assumptions and scales of interest of course. However, the so-called Copenhagen interpretation is wrong. It is as its name implies, only an interpretation, and a wrong one at that. Bohr and Heisenberg's conservative and anti-communist personal beliefs are well-known, this inevitably led them to wage war on the materialist conception of physics with fanatic vigour. When one moves beyond the level of pop-science and one delves into the details of this interpretation, specially its history, it is clear that Bohr and Heisenberg (mostly Bohr) behaved like goons in promoting their mystic interpretation and bullied materialist opponents such as De Broglie, Bohm and others. Even within their Copenhagen circle, they silenced and shunned self-avowed Marxists like Rosenfeld who raised pertinent questions about their interpretation. Marxists must not blindly take the word of pop-scientists and bourgeois Ivy League professors; Marxists must take the pain of reading and understanding the source material (the physics, the mathematics AND the socio-history). The Copenhagen Interpretation, in short, is the Hayek, the von Mises, the Milton Friedman equivalent of physics. It is to no surprise that old wolves like Einstein and Schrödinger were never convinced and kept howling materialist critiques at the idealist drivel. Comrades, let us take a pause from the endless IDpol, the endless revisionism v/s orthodoxy, the endless Bordiga v/s Pannekoek debates, and let us focus on the more important issue: the suffocation of correct materialist science in favour of idealist, metaphysical, quasi-religious 'science' promoted by often brilliant physicists who behave more like Gurus and Caliphs because of their conservative and reactionary personal beliefs.
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National struggles in imperialism of the 21st century

Can there be progressive national struggles after the dissolution of the colonial system and the counter-revolution in the USSR?

An easy answer would be to simply point out thte palestian struggle. However besides the just side of the war from the side of the palestinian resistance
We can point out that the international attitudes towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be classified into four main categories, that have antagonistic intrests that can be assimilited in the intra-imperialist struggles. First, the open supporters of Israel —the US, UK, NATO member states and leading EU powers (France, Germany)— who politically, militarily and economically support the Israeli state, the Euro-Atlantic axis. Second, the powerful capitalist states of the emerging Eurasian alliance, mainly Russia and China, which maintain a cautious stance, promoting the creation of an independent Palestinian state and a peaceful solution, but aiming to strengthen their own geopolitical and economic interests. Third, regional powers in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, which sometimes cooperate and sometimes clash with the US and Israel, selectively supporting the Palestinians when it serves their interests. Saudi Arabia has suspended rapprochement with Israel, Turkey is reconsidering energy projects with Tel Aviv, while Egypt is concerned about refugee flows and the strengthening of Hamas. Finally, states such as Iran, Lebanon (through Hezbollah) and Syria are more directly involved, supporting the Palestinian resistance and maintaining an open conflict with Israel, making a generalized conflagration in the region possible.
It is obvious that the palestinian struggle does mot aim at socialist revolution but the formation of a state in general. That is necessary. However, can we say that it is progressive if the national struggle is not conmected with the social struggle? Can national indipendence even be achieved without socialism?

Imo, the delusions of multipolarism are dangerous.
They are traps against the formation of an independent peoples movement and end up assimilating any resistance against western imperialism in the intrests of the part of the national bourgeoisie that wants to allign with Russia and China. Most importantly, these delusiona conceal the eurasian imperialist camp that is begining to take form.
For example, the kicking out of french imperialism from the sahel zone is progressive but only if it is seen as a step that empowers the masses in independent struggle against imperialism. Is this what is happening there?

The truth is, of course, that behind these coup processes lies not the struggle of the peoples against exploitation, foreign and local, but intra-urban conflicts and frontal clashes of powerful imperialist forces to promote their own monopolies.

Let us give an example: Who can assure us that the coup in Niger has nothing to do with the plan to definitively bury the natural gas pipeline from Nigeria to Algeria, which would necessarily pass through Niger's territory, supplying Europe with Nigerian natural gas?

Nor, of course, is the pure "defense of democracy" behind the opposition to coups. The imperialists' interest is hypocritical and it is characteristic that France, which is now turning its back on democracy in the case of Niger, had no substantial reaction a few years ago to the coup in Chad.

The coups, which are presented as "revolutions" (note: The Greek people also have relevant experience), are carried out by sections of the bourgeois army of these countries, which in some cases rely on the indignation of popular strata both for their living conditions and for the international alliances forged by the prevailing bourgeois political force at each time. Alliances that facilitate the extraction of natural wealth and peoples. However, these coups are based on the capitalist system, while foreign designs are often involved in them. Other times, they are carried out to advance processes and manipulate popular consciousness.

In any case, these developments are not based on large popular, radical, revolutionary movements and organizations. The workers'-communist movement, which is in decline worldwide, is even weaker in Africa. Characteristically, out of the 55 countries in Africa, only 5 (Egypt, Algeria, Swaziland, South Africa, Sudan) have Communist Parties that participate in the International Meetings of Communist Parties. The workers' movement in Africa as a whole is still weak throughout the continent, since the majority of the population (over 60% and in some countries 85%) is still engaged in the agricultural sector, while approximately 15% of the economically active population is reported to work in industry.

We are talking, therefore, about developments that do not aim to liberate workers and other popular strata from capitalist exploitation, but rather about efforts to promote plans of the bourgeoisie (or parts of it) of the specific countries, which aim at their bourgeois modernization, at increasing the role and profits of the capitalists, which bring about upheavals at the level of the local "fireplaces" and their imperialist "patrons".

Through these developments, some imperialist powers emerge weakened, while others become stronger. Thus, for example, according to various estimates, the developments in Niger and the retreat of French interests are not only strengthening the emerging Eurasian imperialist bloc (China - Russia), but also the USA, as was evident from the visit to this country by B. Nuland, US Deputy Secretary of State, who secured from the coup plotters the continued existence of the two American military bases, as well as the US ties with one of the leading military figures of the junta.

On the other does the dissolution of formal colonialism mean the end of national oppression in general? I don't think so. But it is a fact that the bourgeoisie of former colonies seek more and more indipendence from western imperialism and turns towards the eurasian bloc, for its own intrests that cannot be the same as those of the working people. It is a basic marxist truth, that in the era of imperialism the bourgeoisie doesn't have common intrests with the proletariat and needs to be overthrown.

How would you go on to talk about critical support toward the struggles of former colonised peoples against imperialism without becoming a campist?
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News 10/25/25

Leftwinger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide
The prospect of Connolly succeeding President Michael D Higgins and serving a seven-year term at Áras an Uachtaráin, the presidential residence, thrills supporters. She speaks Irish, espouses equality and wishes to ringfence Irish neutrality from what she calls western “militarism”. She has likened Germany’s arms spending to the Nazi era and accused the UK and US of enabling genocide in Gaza.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/25/catherine-connolly-ireland-presidential-election-leftwing

Croatia reintroduces military conscription as Europe worries about Russia-Ukraine war
Authorities will start calling conscripts born in 2007 for medical checkups by the end of the year. Conscripts will receive a salary, and conscientious objectors can choose civilian service instead, the HRT report said.
https://apnews.com/article/croatia-compulsory-military-service-ukraine-32c84a8c4afc8790bee82644d8366e46

Telegram and WhatsApp Access Restricted in 34 Russian Regions – Monitor
“Complaints about unstable performance of the messengers are increasing across Russia. Thirty-four regions have already reported losing the ability not only to make calls, but also to exchange messages,” Na Svyazi said Wednesday. State communications watchdog Roskomnadzor had already been restricting voice and video calls on the two apps since August, a move both companies criticized.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/22/telegram-and-whatsapp-access-restricted-in-34-russian-regions-monitor-a90903
https://archive.ph/0kxp4

Spain to buy US weapons for Ukraine, says it is ‘a reliable partner’
‘We are fulfilling our obligations and commitments,’ says PM Pedro Sánchez, underscoring the missions that Madrid contributes to. Spain will now join the PURL (Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List) program coordinated by NATO
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-23/spain-to-buy-us-weapons-for-ukraine-says-it-is-a-reliable-partner.html

US rejects Hamas, UNRWA roles in Gaza as Israeli aid blockade persists
Israel has also kept the Rafah crossing near Egypt sealed, blocking large-scale aid deliveries that were stipulated in the truce agreement. In his remarks on Friday, Rubio voiced hope of soon putting together an international security force to police the ceasefire in Gaza and said Israel, which opposes including Turkiye, could veto participants.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/24/us-rejects-hamas-unrwa-roles-in-gaza-as-israeli-aid-blockade-persists
https://archive.ph/vmP4R

Iraq to discuss Turkiye’s extended military mandate
Turkiye’s parliament approved the extension on October 21, authorizing operations in Iraq and Syria through 2028 – the longest mandate since its incursions began in 2016. The measure allows continued strikes against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and ISIS. The move comes despite a peace initiative by the PKK, which earlier this year announced its disbandment and disarmament after imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan called for an end to the armed struggle.
https://www.shafaq.com/en/Iraq/Iraq-to-discuss-Turkiye-s-extended-military-mandate

Tunisia suspends ATFD women's rights group
The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women rights group said authorities had suspended its activities, in a move denounced by fellow activists. Founded in 1989, the ATFD has been at the forefront of the struggle for democracy in Tunisia and against the dictatorship of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was overthrown in 2011 by a popular uprising.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisia-suspends-atfd-womens-rights-group

Russia's top Indian oil buyer Reliance says it will abide by Western sanctions
Reliance, which is controlled by billionaire Mukesh Ambani and operates the world's biggest refining complex at Jamnagar in western Gujarat state, has a long-term deal to buy nearly 500,000 bpd of crude oil from Russian oil major Rosneft.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-top-indian-oil-client-reliance-says-will-abide-by-western-sanctions-2025-10-24/

UP Diliman defends student leader subpoenaed over anti-corruption rallies
Joaquin Buenaflor, chairperson of the UP Diliman University Student Council, said that police officers arrived at his home on Wednesday to deliver the subpoena. This is purportedly in connection with his role in organizing or joining recent anti-corruption protests. The student leader said he was the fourth such person to have been issued the subpoena by police after three student leaders at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/10/24/2482232/diliman-defends-student-leader-subpoenaed-over-anti-corruption-rallies

Yangon Garment Factories Close as US Tariffs and Junta Controls Bite
The closures so far involve Chinese-owned factories in Shwepyitha’s War Tayar Industrial Zone, Hlaing Tharyar’s Mya Sein Yaung Zone, and Shwe Lin Ban Zone, according to labor groups. Rather than fully shutting down—which would require large compensation payouts—many owners are scaling back operations, citing a lack of orders. “They downsize instead of closing completely, so they can pay less to workers,” Ma Ei explained.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/business/yangon-garment-factories-close-as-us-tariffs-and-junta-controls-bite.html

‘We’ll march as many times as necessary’: Peru’s youth protesters defy state of emergency
Group leaders said they would be honouring Eduardo Ruiz, a rapper known as Truko, who was shot dead by a plainclothed police officer last week during a huge anti-government march in Lima. They also demanded the resignation of the new interim president, José Jerí, and the shutting down of Peru’s unpopular congress, which they blame for a series of laws that they claim are contributing to soaring crime.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/25/peru-youth-protesters-state-of-emergency-gen-z

Milei spent around US$7.4 billion protecting dollar in lead up to election
Sunday’s legislative elections come at a historic cost: President Milei’s government has used around US$7.4 billion – a figure that could rise to US$8.4 billion, including funds from US Treasury are included – to keep the peso-dollar exchange rate stable over the two months leading up to the vote. According to Banco Provincia, it is the fourth-largest foreign exchange intervention since 2003.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/milei-spent-around-us74-billion-protecting-dollar-in-lead-up-to-election.phtml
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The biggest danger to the movement are the intellectuals.

It's a moot point to ask 'what is to be done' if the intellectual question is not adressed first. By intellectual I just mean someone who specializes in mental work.

If we are Leninists in any meaningful sense, then we know that the working class can only get to trade-union consiousness and that it needs and outside actor to link up the movement with communism. This actor historically speaking is usually the petty-bourgeois intellectual. But let us consider the question now in say the 'west'. Can you identify a (petty-)bourgeois intellectual or a group of them, someone with enough free time on their hands that has contributed theoretically and organizationally to the movement, someone who elaborated on the nature of our movement, who wrote our Credo? No.

But what you probably can imagine is the student intellectual, which is a weak surrogate of the actual communist intellectual, because a student is usually only a free intellectual for a limited time and then they either get a good paying job (if they are in STEM) and have the same material interest as imperialism (all techincal advancment is for the war machine) or are forced to reproduce bourgeois ideology (if they are in the humane arts) after they finish their studies.

There is 1) no actual communist intellectual worth their salt that can put into words what communist demands are and 2) there is absolutely no organic working class movement against capital that can link up with these communist demands, at some point. Criticizing the movement is useless because everything that has been criticized has been done so millions of times. Talking about organization now is talking about a student communist movement with ambigious demands, a tragical kind of '68, without a semblance of an working class movement in the background.

Sproadic political terrorism, historical nihilism, a general spirit of collapse, yet the machine goes on. We need a transitional programme. We desparately need a Plekahnov for the west, someone to elaborate Marxism to us. Without commited communist intellectuals we will just go blindly and fail again. Our movement demands firm basic theory, and I hope I don't have to convince you that eclecticism, anarchism and revisionism are to be found everywhere.
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Thank god for Covid

Without covid and the lockdowns, we would not know the following
>our lives mustn't be organized around our workplaces
>leisure time is good, actually
>the enviroment regenerates relatively quickly without industrial human activity
>a centrally coordinated global initiantive is possible
It's great. The lockdown showed us communism is possible. The schizos were right, but it a different way than they expected.
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Nuclear war doesnt mean anything

>ignoring the facts that roughly a third of global nukes/hypersonic ballistics would fail to even launch (and that’s a low estimate) or the fact that plenty would miss, the primary targets of the ones that would succeed in launching would be other missiles, silos, or relevant military infrastructure with civilian infrastructure a secondary target.
>even with the fraction of nukes that do hit civilian settlements, the actual initial death toll and destruction is limited to 0.5-5 million globally and concentrated destruction of core downtowns. Not dozens to hundreds of millions right away or full cities vaporized. Ignoring evacuation and emergency responses that already cushion death tolls, most cities today are heavy as shit and larger than ever. Any modern bomb powerful enough to leave only a crater of a dense city hundreds of kilometres in area is a weapon of fiction.
>don’t assume that an operation impossible situation is going to be some spectacle. For obvious logistical and communication reasons between launch teams, the duration such a war would last at minimum would be 36-48 hours rather than a couple minutes just so launch teams have enough time to aim and adjust their weapons properly. Youd have well more than enough time to escape or know when shits hitting the fan.
I’m not writing this to sound optimistic about nuclear war. Just cynical about the outcome of it given that the ecological and political fallout of a full scale war would be worse than the devastation itself. If you think the past 30 years haven’t seen NATO allied states and the eastern bloc face increasing political isolation from the rest of the planet, expect that increase to exponentiate with the number of world leaders and civilians pissed over why major cities are irradiated shitholes and why nuclear powers lack the professionalism to use restraint with WMDs.
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Left-Wing Anti-Amerikkkanism in Europe.

Why isn't the European left more anti-Amerikkkan? The Amerikkkan empire is the main force holding back the rest of the world, including Europe, from socialism and revolution thorough covert support for reactionaries and capitalists. Amerikkkan troops in Europe are also massive rapists and criminals who abuse civilians.
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Why isn't there a history board

Why isnt there a history board here. Seems like it'd be one of the first things you'd add to a place called leftypol.

I am asking because I wanted to ask if anyone had any information on (preferably niche) zines or otherwise leftist periodicals that would have been active in 1973. I need it 4 stuff :^)
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Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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>structural racism against black people isnt real because racism ended in 1964
>ummm all racism disappeared after the civil rights act after that everyone was equal
>actually racism IS REAL but it only ever happens to white people
>DEI IS STRUCTURALLY RACIST AGAINST WHITES WAKE UP WIGGAS!!!! WIGGER LIVES MATTER TOO ITS OKAI 2 B HECKIN WHITE!!!! THIS IS LE SOCIAL INJUSTICE
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Blue Labour

>Blue Labour is a British campaign group and political faction that seeks to promote blue-collar and culturally conservative values within the British Labour Party – particularly on immigration, crime, EDI and community spirit – while remaining committed to labour rights and left-wing economic policies.
Is this the future of left-wing politics?
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Burkina Faso

Whats /leftypol/ take on President of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traoré?

Is he a credible anti-imperialist actor?
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holodomor

we all know the western interpetation of centrally planed extermination (as opposed to a free trade extermination) of le ukrainians, but check this out, the story and the evidence are so laughable it's actually ridiculous anyone believes this
this is just a cursory reading of wikipedia

>Living in Kharkiv, the then capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Wienerberger witnessed a massive famine, the Holodomor, and secretly took about 100 photographs of the scenes he saw on the streets of the city, despite the threat of arrest by the NKVD

>Leaving for Austria in 1934, Wienerberger sent negatives through the diplomatic mail with the aid of the Austrian embassy. Austrian diplomats insisted on such a measure of caution, since there was a high probability of a search of personal belongings at the border, and eventual discovery of photographs could threaten his life. On his return to Vienna, Wienerberger handed the pictures to Cardinal Theodor Innitzer, who, together with the Secretary General of the European Congress of Nations, Ewald Ammende, presented them to the League of Nations. Ammende's book, "Must Russia Starve?" appeared in 1935.
>The photographs were first made widely available to the public in 1935, through the publication of Ammende's book, "Muss Russland Hungern?" ("Must Russia Starve?"); however, the photos were not credited because of concerns for the safety of their creator.
>In 1939, Wienerberger published in Austria his own book of memoirs about life in the Soviet Union, in which two chapters are devoted to the Holodomor. The "memoir is filled with anti-Semitic commentary in general, and against 'Judeo-Bolsheviks' in particular. His introduction to the series boasts that his photos had appeared in the recent Antikomintern and 'Der ewige Jude' [the eternal Jew] exhibits that traveled through Germany and Austria."[7][8] Photographs were also included in his memoirs published in 1942.[9]
>In 1944, Wienerberger served as liaison officer of the Nazi-aligned Russian Liberation Army. After the war, he managed to avoid the transfer to Soviet troops and ended up in the American zone of occupation in Salzburg, where he died in 1955.[10]
>Since his death, Wienerberger's photos have been republished in many other works. They are exhibited, in particular, in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.

the two figures who helped them publish the photos are also kinda sus

<Ewald Ammende (3 January 1893 in Pernau, Livonia, Russian Empire - 15 April 1936 in Peking, China) was an Estonian journalist, human rights activist and politician of Baltic German origin.

<From 1919 to 1922 he worked as an editor and publishing director at the "Rigasche Rundschau" (Riga Review), where he cooperated with another famous defender of ethnic minorities Paul Schiemann. As co-founder of the Association of German Minorities in Europe, Ammende played a key role in the creation of the "Law on the Cultural Autonomy of Minorities in Estonia" in 1925.
<The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) established in 1949 in conjunction with the formation of the Council of Europe. FUEN is an umbrella organization, and as of 2023, it has more than 100 member organizations representing ethnic, linguistic and national minorities within Europe. FUEN has been instrumental in encouraging the Council of Europe to adopt the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. FUEN was organized to give expression to European cultures and languages that do not possess form as a nation-state. One in seven Europeans are members of such minorities and fifty-three languages are spoken in Europe by such minorities.[1]
<Its predecessor was the pre-war European Congress of Nations (German: Europäischer Nationalitätenkongress) founded by Ewald Ammende. The Congress published a journal "Nation und Staat" (1927–1944).

<Theodor Innitzer (25 December 1875 – 9 October 1955) was Archbishop of Vienna and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.

<He and the other Austrian Catholic bishops signed a declaration endorsing the Anschluss, set up by Gauleiter Josef Bürckel, and signed by Innitzer with "Heil Hitler!".
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News 10/24/25

US deploys aircraft carrier amid hardening stance towards Venezuela
“The enhanced US force presence in the USSOUTHCOM AOR will bolster US capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a social media post.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/24/us-deploys-aircraft-carrier-amid-hardening-stance-towards-venezuela
https://archive.ph/tol1h

Pilot strike disrupts air travel in Argentin
The Airline Pilots Association (APLA) launched a four-hour industrial action on Friday, causing significant disruption at Buenos Aires' Jorge Newbery Airport and affecting thousands of passengers. The stoppage, which involved holding “informative assemblies” between 6 and 10 am, led to the cancellation and delay of over 60 flights operated by the state-owned Aerolíneas Argentinas.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/10/24/pilot-strike-disrupts-air-travel-in-argentina

Ecuador’s Indigenous alliance ends highway-blocking protests after military threat
The alliance’s president, Marlon Vargas, said in a video posted on social media that ending the protest was a difficult decision, but was taken “to protect the lives of our people.” Noboa earlier Wednesday said in an interview that he would use the military to clear blocked highways.
https://apnews.com/article/ecuador-indigenous-protests-diesel-noboa-subsidy-521777333a079090e8dee4698fc0ca70

Palestinian man in Israel killed hours after protest on police inaction against crime
The murder came just hours after hundreds of residents in the nearby town of Kafr Yasif staged demonstrations demanding that police take the wave of killings in Arab towns seriously. Last week, Nidal Masadeh, 35, a Kafr Yasif resident, was shot dead while at work. Killings in Israel’s Palestinian communities have sparked widespread anger and frustration among victims’ families, who accuse police of negligence and indifference toward Arab citizens.
https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinian-israel-killed-amid-protests-over-police-inaction

Yemen's southern secessionists face backlash over talk of ties with Israel
For years, calls for southern secession remained largely peaceful and limited in scope. But in 2016, the separatists’ military and political influence began to grow, bolstered by weapons and funding from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Today, the STC holds control over most of Yemen’s southern provinces. "When the STC speaks about normalisation with Israel, it is following the strategy of its regional sponsor," said Adel Dashela, a non-resident fellow at MESA Global Academy.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-southern-secessionists-face-backlash-over-talk-ties-israel

Court throws out corruption case seeking to oust Turkish opposition leader
A TURKISH court today dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) 2023 leadership election, ruling there was no legal basis to remove the current leadership. The case had called for the annulment of the party’s 38th congress, held in November 2023, which saw long-time leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu replaced by Ozgur Ozel.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/court-throws-out-corruption-case-seeking-oust-turkish-opposition-leader

Welsh by-election shows far right isn’t the only alternative to establishment parties
Welsh party Plaid Cymru, an advocate for independence from the United Kingdom, delivered a major blow to both the Labour Party and Reform UK in a by-election for the devolved parliament, the Senedd. Plaid candidate Lindsay Whittle won 47% of the vote in Caerphilly, leaving Reform behind at 36% and Labour at just 11% – an astonishing 35-point drop compared to the previous election. The result marks Labour’s first loss of the seat in more than a century.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/24/welsh-by-election-shows-far-right-isnt-the-only-alternative-to-establishment-parties/

Glasgow Green defectors become Scotland’s first Your Party councillors
Dan Hutchison, Seonad Hoy and Leodhas Massie have also been joined by a host of former Green activists in the city as well as Ellie Gomersall, who has sat as the second candidate, behind Patrick Harvie, on the party’s Glasgow regional list for next year’s Holyrood election.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/glasgow-green-defectors-become-scotlands-first-your-party-councillors

Opposition politician killed in a Sri Lankan town by an unidentified gunman
Lasantha Wickramasekara, the head of the council of the coastal town of Weligama, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) south of the capital, Colombo, was attending to his official work when the gunman entered the office building and opened fire using a pistol, police said in a statement.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-opposition-politician-shooting-gang-violence-d23f9185c8e972d8d89fe0f32dd0d36c

Australian servicewomen launch landmark sex abuse case against military
Lawyers said they expected thousands of women to join the case against the Australian Defence Force (ADF), which was filed in the Federal Court on Friday. Claims by the four women leading the lawsuit - whose names are withheld for legal reasons - include being forcibly pinned to a wall before being groped, and waking up naked and bruised after a party with male officers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrezxjkwx4o
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Kotkin finally finished his book

Lazy bastard finally got volume 3 done.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stalin-volume-iii-stephen-kotkin/1139907369
Will be released July 2026. Do you guys think Furr will live long enough to write Waiting For the Truth 2?
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Incest Prohibition

I know this is very controversial, but I think the blanket incest prohibition was a huge governmental overstep and led to a lot of problems for society. Obviously there are issues with incest, but I genuinely think if we legalised incest (with regulation) a lot of social problems would dissipate. But I don't think this would happen under capitalism, because it goes against the idea of universalising and spreading the grip of capital, gets in the way of consumerism, etc.
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United Nations 80th anniversary

Happy 80th birthday United Nations! Let's all celebrate the nations coming together and discuss various topics affecting our world for 80 years by commemorating all the great achievements UN has done, such as uh… ummm….
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What were you like before you became a lefty/socialist?

Ah, I remember before I adhered to socialism, I was, and may yaldabeoh forgive me for uttering this, a libertarian.

I know many adopted socialism extremely early, that was not the case for me as I was almost always a libertarian, but I never really aligned myself with rightoids, neither did I align with other lefties, I was a sort of centrist, or in better words, a pussy fence sitter thinking I had attained true enlightenment by thinking that "both sides is… LE BAD". The process of me turning into a lefty was an extremely slow one, but it was always because rightoids seemed like retards, and I noticed most problems can easily be traced back to them. All things changed of course when I saw the complete right wing degeneracy under trump, the failings of the economy and eventually getting to read theory…

So were you always sort of Socialist? Or did you gradually shift to it? What were you like before being a left?
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Gay accelerationist post

I haven't been keeping up with Nick Land but he's been making a lot more public appearances on like a bunch of different faggy podcasts and it's like what the fuck happened to this guy
>National Liberalism, time angels, divine providence?
He's completely defanged his entire project and it just comes off as more gay christian hermetic stuff

Also yea I know a lot of people on here don't like acceleratonism and think its retarded and stuff but idk I still think his early stuff is cool
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China keeps me alive

It’s honestly fascinating how China seems to be the only major civilization that hasn’t lost its grip on reason. Around 93% of Chinese citizens identify as non-religious, which, in this era of mass delusion, pseudo-spiritual performance art, and the aggressive rise of Christian fundamentalism, feels revolutionary. While much of the world is slipping deeper into superstition, conspiracy, and the intellectual decay of blind faith, China’s over there building bullet trains, quantum tech, and next-century infrastructure.

The contrast is wild. The West, once obsessed with enlightenment and progress, is now knee-deep in astrology memes, evangelical hysteria, and moral panic, dragging itself back into some digital Dark Age. Meanwhile, China, with its secular pragmatism and forward-facing ambition, feels like the only adult left in the room.

In a world so allergic to logic, China’s commitment to modernity feels less like politics and more like prophecy, a glimpse of what a truly 21st-century civilization could be. At this point, it might just be humanity’s last tether to sanity.
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Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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How am I supposed to avoid falling into doomerist thinking when the current state of the world seems so hopeless?

I know that any good leftist isnt meant to succumb to such nihilism but I just cant seem to stop slipping into it.

It's like no progress is being made (atleast here in Amerikkka) and instead any progress is being reverted, with conservatism becoming more popular and dominant, progressive laws being reverted, the continued destruction of the planet, Ai making the masses dumber and a general lack of class consciousness.

I just dont understand how other comrades can still stay so hopeful and determined under these conditions.
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Go On Dole

Go on dole. That is what I am doing.

I worked for government for like 6 months and realised the government does not give a shit about how many people are abusing their services; it's mainly welfare fraud they care about which costs them millions and is in the hands of the very few.

In my country of Australia, there are more people on JobSeeker Payments than ever. But there is also absolutely nothing stopping a communist party from committing welfare fraud by putting in false applications in some fake person's name and collecting it from an ATM.
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News 10/23/25

Arab states, Palestinian groups condemn Israeli move to annex occupied West Bank
Both bills passed by the Israeli Knesset concern the annexation of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The first seeks to apply Israeli sovereignty to all settlements, while the second specifically targets the settlement bloc and city of Ma'ale Adumim, one of the largest illegal colonies built east of Jerusalem. Although boycotted by most opposition lawmakers except one member of the ruling Likud party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the measures were backed by smaller ultra-nationalist factions within both the coalition and the opposition.
https://www.newarab.com/news/arab-palestinian-outrage-over-israeli-move-annex-west-bank

'Disappointing': ICJ grants Israel another extension in South Africa genocide case
South Africa urged the court to reject Israel's request, since the latter had already been granted an extension on the same grounds raised in its latest letter. "The extension requested would be irreconcilable with the urgency of the case and the principle of equality between the Parties," the ICJ cited South Africa as saying.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icj-grants-israel-another-extension-submit-evidence-south-africas-genocide-case

Abahlali baseMjondolo wins landmark ruling halting evictions in lucrative coastal municipality
In a landmark decision for South Africa’s shack dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo has won a legal battle against the KwaDukuza Municipality, after the High Court in Pietermaritzburg ruled in its favor on Friday, October 17, halting the forced eviction of hundreds of residents from ERF 1410 in Shaka’s Head, on the Dolphin Coast.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/22/abahlali-basemjondolo-wins-landmark-ruling-halting-evictions-in-lucrative-coastal-municipality/

Cuban man deported from US to Eswatini goes on hunger strike in prison
Roberto Mosquera del Peral was among five third-country nationals deported from the US to Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, in July. They have been held in a maximum-security prison along with 10 others deported in October, after a broader ramp-up in third-country removals under the US president’s immigration crackdown.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/cuban-man-roberto-mosquera-del-peral-deported-from-us-to-eswatini-on-hunger-strike-in-prison

Brazilian President Lula announces reelection bid for fourth nonconsecutive term
Before defeating Jair Bolsonaro in 2022 to win a third nonconsecutive term, Lula had said that would be his final campaign both because of his age and because he believed the country needed political renewal. But early in his current term, he began hinting that he might run again.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-president-lula-reelection-54727dd43c9709ae8be01dd9dc072fe5

US backtracks on Colombia aid cuts and tariffs, will sanction Petro instead: Senator
The republican senator said that Petro and close associates would be placed on the so-called “Kingpin List”, which bars US companies from doing business with alleged drug traffickers and their front companies. “What we have in Colombia is a president that got elected thanks to the help of drug cartels,” said Moreno.
https://colombiareports.com/us-backtracks-on-colombia-aid-cuts-and-tariffs-will-sanction-petro-instead-senator/

Former British paratrooper cleared of murder in Bloody Sunday massacre
The judge in the non-jury trial said that the evidence presented against the veteran fell well short of what was required for conviction. Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill said: “The continued denial of justice for the Bloody Sunday families is deeply disappointing. “Fifty-three years ago, the British Army indiscriminately murdered civilians on the streets of Derry. More than 15 years ago, the then British Prime Minister publicly acknowledged the role of British soldiers on Bloody Sunday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/former-british-paratrooper-cleared-murder-bloody-sunday-massacre

TotalEnergies misled consumers over climate action, French court rules
The Paris court ordered Total to stop communicating to consumers that it was “a major actor in the energy transition”, and to pay the non-government organisations €8,000 each. It must also publish the court’s decision on its website for 180 days, or face fines.
https://www.ft.com/content/8279b925-fcce-4b1f-8803-8eeed0b95595
https://archive.ph/fZs6m

Bangladesh leader urges calm after cabinet neutrality questioned
Nahid Islam, convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP) – made up of many students who spearheaded the uprising – alleged some advisers were collaborating with parties to secure their "safe exit" in the future administration. "Major political parties are appointing party loyalists to various administrative posts ahead of the elections," Islam told reporters late Wednesday.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251023-bangladesh-leader-urges-calm-after-cabinet-neutrality-questioned
https://archive.ph/WELuJ

Pakistan bans Islamist party after deadly clashes
The TLP has held regular mass rallies, predominantly focused on religious and political issues ranging from Gaza to caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad published in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The party was banned by the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan in 2021 after violent protests. The order was lifted within six months on condition that the party stop using violence.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-bans-islamist-party-tehreek-e-labaik-pakistan-under-anti-terrorism-law-2025-10-23/

Over 100,000 people attend 'mega strike' over poor working conditions
New Zealand witnessed its largest-ever strike after about 100,000 nurses, teachers and public sector staff walked off their jobs on Thursday to protest for better working conditions and adequate funding in public services from the government. The “mega-strike” was participated in by employees from different sectors, including more than 60,000 school teachers, 40,000 nurses and salaried medical specialists and 15,000 public service staff.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/new-zealand-over-100000-people-attend-mega-strike-over-poor-working-conditions-13944389.html
https://archive.ph/YntXI
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One of the major things that annoys me about liberals is they act morally superior to people of the past who had bigoted beliefs.

First they ignore the material conditions that bigotry, ie growing up in a homophobic religious community, livinging in a segregated community. They assume that morality is fixed thing those in the past where to ignorant of it or are evil. Rather than it being an invention man based his experiences. Do really slave owners are inherently bad people, or due to them Owning/growing up in a society that has them they begin to rationalize why they are necessary and that's for the benefit of the slaves. Liberals themselves don't even follow their own standards as lot of them can be hateful towards Russians and Chinese people. And view LGBT, Black people with rose tinted glasses.

Secondly its a form slave morally taken to its extreme. Instead of just believing that your morally superior to your alive opponents instead you have to rebuke the dead. As some sort of resentment towards the past and its figures. It's a feeling of false power.
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No, the State Won't Wither Away

Do the inter-socialist wars like the Sino-Soviet War, Sino-Vietnamese border conflict, Albania-Yugoslav border conflict, Cambodia-Vietnamese War, etc not demonstrate that war will persist under socialist governance due to the need of states to maximize their power, as is advanced by geopolitical realism?
Capitalist Imperialism only covers so much of warfare. States are much more than arbiters of class control, they also enforce social cohesion among a people. Once the ruling function was established in society, it began to be differentiated and assigned to a specific class only when victorious peoples in tribal wars took slaves and ruled the vanquished tribes. Rule and control preceded class and will outlast class. Even if Lenin fell to utopianism in State and Revolution, to have a centrally planned and vast assembled organization of production is obviously nonsensical without a highly centralized authority, and that authority will require a military to defend itself against other states outside of their borders who may desire to infringe on its territory. A workers' and peasants' desire to enslave another nation for their own security or for what the Chinese called Hegemonism is not unthinkable, just look at the Soviet-Afghan War. And even if its is not capitalist imperialism it still necessitates each socialist state maintaining armies to defend themselves even as the last outpost of the bourgeoisie lays down its arms.
The only reason why the Soviets only had to care about one of their bordering socialist states is because they had complete military control over the Eastern European people's democracies and Mongolia. When bordering socialist states had independent militaries, it was different. China, not controlling any of the socialist states it bordered, waged war on both the USSR and Vietnam, and Democratic Kampuchea waged war on Vietnam. Somalia waged war on Ethiopia, and there were fights between Albania and Yugoslavia. That's more than can be handwaved away as being because those leaders woke up in a crabby mood. It shows that even nations under Communist-run states need to defend themselves from other nations, even those who are also under Communist-run states. The state will not just wither away, it will remain in place to act as a means of national defense.
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Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
R: 59 / I: 13

Best USA president

Best USA president in its history?

My pick is Calvin Coolidge, since the best thing we can hope for in a capitalist / imperial leader is a complete hands off isolationist (and military defunding) approach. So what if he was a libertarian wet dream
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>b-b-but newspapers arent praxis you fucking (((trot)))!
Consider the following, dear reader.
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Nuke the UK, Immediatly

David Cleary, solider F, has been found not guilty for his role in the bloody Sunday massacre, where 14 civilians were killed while they peacefully protested for their rights in 1972, this massacre essentially kickstarted the troubles.
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How do we understand the phenomenon of immigrants and non-white individuals becoming rabidly far-right, white nationalists and/or anti-immigration?

I've recently been reminded of this due to the Czech republic having a far-right party (Freedom and Direct Democracy Party) who wants to expel all migrants and "protect Czechia from Islamization" that is headed by a Japanese-Czech mutt who was born in Japan and lived there until he was 10.
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A lot of you seem to have highly authoritarian thinking. It's always universal top-down solutions, it's always all-or-nothing, you're either with us or against us, there can only be one way to live, one universal dogma, one kind of society, one shared destiny for everyone, lead follow or get out of the way. You may have learned how to use leftist terminology and quote the words of a few famous leftist figures but you still think like your square conservative parents.
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Why wasn’t there any type of De-Maoization?

Why wasn’t there any type of De-Maoization?
When Nikita Khrushchev took office after Stalin he went on a campaign of de-Stalinization where statues of Stalin were torn down and streets and cities named after him were renamed. Why didn’t Deng Xiaoping do the same with Mao Zedong? I’m not saying that Deng should have or shouldn’t have but I’m just wondering why. Because Mao is still celebrating in China and seen as a great figure who only made a few mistakes.
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Both /pol/ and /leftypol/ are the same exact fucking thing, same bullshit, both of you people are clearly manifestations of yaldabaothic energies and it’s clear that neither of you really give a shit about anyone
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Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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Housing is not just overpriced, its developers and sellers share a collective cartel mindset.

There is no actual material reason for rent to be more than $250. There is also no material reason for full price housing that fits 2 people to be more than $16-20k. Zoning laws, inefficient power delivery systems, and developer/landlord profit seeking aren't 'counterarguments', they are what enable the ridiculous prices.

A post-and-Beam frame using a double wall infill system takes 5 days to build, and yet any kind of "small home" of this kind or similar is disallowed in most of most American counties which only permit them as ADUs.

Let's dig into arguments by the housing cartel and debunk them:

Land cost: No one actually ethically owns exclusive rights to land lmao, it's just threats of violence on a natural commodity like water.

Septic cost: It's called "composting". For legal composting in USA you must apply, meet multiple unecessary criteria, and then use an NSF-Certified unit that runs into the thousands. The crucial point here is that the NSF-certification is a permission slip, not the actual cost of the materials, which are basically negligible.

Greywater: A composting toilet is a millennia old solution, and we know greywater wasn't historically sewage and is perfectly fine as water for plants and soil. The modern solution costs a few hundred bucks and is called a "mulch basin" or a "branched drain system".

Labor and skill: Often quoted as "hundreds of man hours". How much do single individuals work to achieve the "American Dream" of actually owning their home instead of pretending through purposefully patronizingly, misleading laws that allows an illusion of semi-ownership while the bank actually gives permission to reside? Usually takes their whole lives if they can even manage to do it, most can't. Tens of thousands of hours of work in a lifetime without actually achieving the kind of freedom built into the American Dream. This mortgage model is clearly inferior to reserving time in people's lives for dedicated house building. It's been estimated that without data centers, our GDP growth would be less than 0.1%. Therefore most of our economy isn't even contributing to growth, so instead of pretending to grow our economy we invest some time in teaching youngins how to build a home?

Housing structure costs. Local trees can be used to mill a simple post-and-beam frame. A natural byproduct of the milling is sawdust or wood chips. Sawdust or wood chips with borax is just as thermally efficient as fiberglass. A 12-inch thick sawdust-filled wall can have an R-value of over R-20, which is high enough to be compatible with even modern air-conditioning. This method is both primitive, can be built primitively, and adaptable for modern needs, the main cost is labor, which is addressed above.

Water system: $7k for a market price well, can be driven way down with prior approaches.

Power system: Simple enough solution is a "community microgrid", A local, non-profit co-op installs a shared, community-sized solar array with a central battery bank. The cost of this one central system is shared by 50-100 homes. The "hookup" is now just a cheap, small wire running a few hundred yards from your cabin to the central community battery. The expensive transformer and high-voltage lines are eliminated. You are no longer paying for a massive, redundant, coast-to-coast grid. You are only paying for the materials for your local power source. An "old habit" we'd have to abandon is unlimited power/growth. To build a community microgrid that allows everyone to run their modern conveniences all day, we must first abandon the modern notion of sprawling, individualistic housing. The math for the shared solar array and central battery only works if the load is predictable, so the community itself is built on a standard of modest, efficient homes of a similar, limited size. Because this uniformity of housing size makes the peak electrical draw from each home nearly identical, the central system can be engineered to easily handle the entire community's AC load simultaneously. The cost is shared equally because the demand is shared equally. We are no longer paying for a massive, inefficient grid, nor are we subsidizing a neighbor's oversized home, we are simply paying for the materials to power modest, comfortable lives, abandoning architectural excess to gain true energy freedom. I'm not arguing for building a new, for-profit utility company. The $2.1 million per megawatt figure of such a project a "cartel" price. It's bloated with profit, regulatory capture, and "soft costs" that have nothing to do with generating power. Divided by 100 homes, the actual material cost for permanent energy freedom could be as low as $6,000-$7,000 per home.

"Modern overpriced systems eliminate blight and slums": You know what's worse than slums? Check out r/carliving where people without housing hang out, I was reading of someone strapping an industrial cooling system to their torso to avoid heat stroke in the summer.
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Previous: >>2518380

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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Former Trade Union leader Inga Ruginiene becomes Lithuania's PM

https://www.politico.eu/article/political-newcomer-new-lithuanian-pm-inga-ruginiene/
>Lithuania’s parliament Tuesday approved Inga Ruginienė — a longtime trade unionist and political newcomer — as prime minister, following the resignation of Gintautas Paluckas amid allegations about his financial dealings.

>Ruginienė, 44, now has 15 days to submit the government’s program — which will be focused on security, economic growth and social welfare, and will likely look similar to the previous program — to the parliament.


>Social Democrat Ruginienė entered politics last year, taking the social security and labor portfolio in the government. Until then, her career was rooted in the trade union movement: she served in senior positions in both Lithuanian and European union organizations.


What are we thinking, /leftypol/?
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Reminder that Marx's socialism is not "scientific" like physics or chemistry, the term is used mainly to contrast with utopians, who try to impose some ideal on the revolution without grasping communism's class based nature.
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the idea that transness is inherently bourgeois comes from a very simple assumption: an imaginary of the working class as not having desires, cultures, history, etc, only austere base needs, completely alien to any "bourgeois excesses"

despite the supposed third-worldist bent many of you claim to have, this exactly how social workers and managers have framed and attempted to reconstruct the working class, as docile, administerable subjects, and a crucial part of how the labour aristocracy was developed

this goes in tandem with the historically paternalist position in regards to sex workers, any political agency denied a priori, they can only exist as passive objects to be administered by the state until they are integrated into "proper" circuits of social reproduction
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PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN WAR

REMINDER THAT PAKISTAN IS A NUCLEAR POWER
Pakistan’s military says it has killed more than 200 Taliban and other fighters in overnight border clashes, adding that 23 of its soldiers were killed and 20 were injured.
It added that its forces carried out “infrastructural damages to Taliban posts, camps, headquarters and support networks”.
Afghanistan claims it killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in the fighting.
Afghani Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi says Kabul “achieved our military objectives last night” and that its military has “paused [the fighting] from our side for the time being”.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia have expressed deep concern over the recent escalation and tensions along the border, calling for “restraint” and the need to de-escalate.
Iran said it was ready to assist in easing tensions between the two countries.
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News 10/21/25

Lebanon army removes roadblocks placed by Israeli forces near southern village
In a statement, the army said that Israeli forces had positioned concrete blocks and piles of earth on a road outside the village on Sunday night to block residents from accessing their land. It worked alongside the UN's peacekeeping mission (UNIFIL) to remove the barriers, it said.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanon-army-removes-israeli-roadblocks-near-southern-village

Dozens of Israeli soldiers identified in ICC complaint on killing of Hind Rajab
Among those identified are three top commanders that the foundation is naming publicly: Colonel Beni Aharon, the commander of the 401st Armoured Brigade, who is already the subject of an ICC criminal complaint; Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Ella, commander of the 52nd Armoured Battalion; and Major Sean Glass, commander of the Vampire Empire Company. Ella and Glass are believed to be directly responsible for the killings in the field.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-israeli-soldiers-identified-icc-complaint-killing-hind-rajab

Tunisian city on general strike over factory pollution
Thousands have recently rallied in the city of some 400,000 inhabitants to demand the closure of a state-run phosphate processing plant which they say is behind a rise in gas poisonings after it ramped up production. The plant, inaugurated in 1972, processes phosphate to make fertilisers, and some of the gases and waste it discharges into the open air and Mediterranean are radioactive and can cause cancer, researchers have found.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/10/tunisian-city-general-strike-over-factory-pollution

Madagascar’s new prime minister named after military coup
Randrianirina, who was sworn in as president last week, said on Monday that he had chosen businessman Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo as the new prime minister because of his experience and “connections with the international organisations that work with us”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/20/madagascars-new-prime-minister-named-after-military-coup
https://archive.ph/zQIo4

Bogota appeals court overturns Uribe’s fraud and bribery conviction
The ruling was opposed by one of the three judges. In her dissenting opinion, this judge said that the lower court’s ruling should have been confirmed by her colleagues. Cepeda, whose attorneys have been on top the criminal proceedings since they began in 2018, said that he would take the case to the Supreme Court.
https://colombiareports.com/bogota-appeals-court-overturns-uribes-fraud-and-bribery-conviction/

Colombia ELN rebels deny any involvement with alleged drug boat destroyed by US
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claimed over the weekend that a vessel bombed by U.S. forces in the Caribbean on Friday belonged to the ELN, though Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said it was the property of a "humble family."
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-eln-rebels-deny-any-involvement-with-alleged-drug-boat-destroyed-by-us-2025-10-21/?rpc=401&

Unions: invest in young after U-turn threat
The move was supported by the TUC, who said it was “simply unfair” that hard-up young workers can be paid less for the doing the same job as those older than them, calling for a national jobs guarantee for young people to build on the government’s Youth Guarantee. But the government declined to confirm it would stick to its plans, following a Resolution Foundation report urging it to change course to stop young people being “priced out of entry into the labour market.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-invest-young-after-u-turn-threat

Kosovo offers to become first country to accept Britain’s refused asylum seekers
Albin Kurti, the prime minister of Kosovo, said he “wants to help the UK” and confirmed discussions were taking place with officials from the UK, the Times reports. The plans would seek to send people whose asylum claims had been turned down to foreign detention centres once they had exhausted all avenues of appeal. His comments come in advance of a summit of western Balkans leaders to be held on Wednesday in London by Keir Starmer.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/21/kosovo-offers-to-become-first-country-to-accept-britains-unsuccessful-asylum-seekers

Takaichi becomes Japan’s first woman prime minister
Ms Takaichi won 237 votes — a wafer-thin majority of four — compared to 149 won by Yoshikoko Noda, head of the largest opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, in the lower house, which elects the prime minister.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/takaichi-becomes-japans-first-woman-prime-minister

CSL and Optus pay millions to executives despite paying no company tax in Australia
CSL, a former commonwealth entity listed on the stock exchange in the 1990s, paid Australian corporate tax just once in the past five reporting periods – amounting to about $65m – according to ATO data. During the same period, it paid $US74.3m ($114.2m), mainly consisting of bonuses, to the two chief executives running the company over that time, according to the Guardian Australia’s analysis.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/22/csl-optus-executive-payments-millions-no-company-tax-australia
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What is your opinion of Michael Pettis theory of reducing trade deficits via taxing incoming capital flows?

Michael Pettis claims that the US trade deficit is the result of excess savings giving rise to capital inflows.

https://www.financialsense.com/blog/19242/how-trump-can-fix-americas-trade-imbalance

>the global economy is overflowing with excess savings. The need to park these excess savings somewhere safe is what fuels global capital flows, in turn giving rise to trade imbalances


>After all, even though interest rates are historically low and U.S. corporate balance sheets are amassing heaps of nonproductive cash, the U.S. economy is still absorbing massive sums of capital from overseas. Clearly, this isn’t happening because U.S. firms need foreign capital. The reason for these imbalanced capital flows is that foreign investors need a safe place to direct their excess savings. With the deepest, best-governed, and friendliest capital markets, the United States is the obvious destination.


Furthermore,

>Economists who contend that the U.S. economy needs foreign capital to compensate for low domestic savings rates are mostly confused about why U.S. savings rates are so low and how they respond to capital inflows. A fundamental requirement of the balance of payments is that net capital inflows must boost the gap between investment and savings, and if capital inflows do not cause domestic investment to rise, they must cause domestic savings to decline.


So he proposes the solution :

>If it is excess savings in surplus countries that drive capital and trade imbalances globally, then taxing capital inflows is not just the most efficient way to rebalance the U.S. trade ledger—it may perhaps be the only way.


He further claims the following benefits of this solution :

>1) Balancing trade flexibly: A well-designed system of taxing capital inflows would help broadly rebalance the U.S. current and capital accounts over several years.


>2) Enhancing financial stability: Because it would be a one-off tax on transactions, this tax wouldn’t treat all investment equally. It would more heavily penalize short-term, speculative inflows while barely affecting returns on longer-term investment into factories and other production and logistics facilities, much like a Tobin tax. Among other things, such a tax would not require huge shifts in the value of the dollar because it focuses so effectively on the most damaging kinds of capital inflows.


>3) Treating economic actors more efficiently: Whereas tariffs subsidize some U.S. producers at the expense of others, taxing capital inflows would benefit most domestic producers with the costs borne primarily by banks and speculators. Major international banks would lose out on a tax on capital inflows because they profit from the intermediation of capital flows into and out of the country, and because they fund themselves with cheap, short-term money that they redirect to borrowers at higher rates. This is why the biggest opponents of a tax on capital inflows are likely to be major international banks.
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Violators will be launched from trebuchet
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Should drugs be legal?

Sooo…….Do you support making drugs legal?
To what limit and why or why not?

Whether for recreational purposes or sale, And how to combat substance abuse and life ruin caused by addiction and children's access to them if they're made fully legal.
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The next mode of production? It will not be socialist or communist.

Socialism and communism are not modes of production, they're social orders. The mode of production is capitalism and the next mode of production will be full automation in the transition from semi-automation by the fourth industrial revolution. The feuds and the slave owners and the previous modes of production never did the change consciously and neither did the bourgeois when they brought capitalism, they simply developed as much as they could until they changed, they were not a 200 year movement of trying to consciously enact change, think social darwinism.
Anyway the USSR is the loser and ML failed, Dengism won, when the realpolitik geopolitics and all the blablabla is over and China has won the world it will lead towards full automation.
And you only say full automation is impossible because you misinterpret it, you're like those conservative crackers that say communism isnt possible or its utopian, well too bad you're gonna get fucked in the ass one way or another, sucks for you you wont get to live to see that I'm right.
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No Kings, No Nazi Führers! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship!

More than 2,500 “No Kings” protests are being held on October 18 throughout the US, in every major city and many smaller towns, as well as in other countries. The Socialist Equality Party supports these demonstrations and calls for the broadest possible participation. The last “No Kings” demonstrations, on June 14, attracted upwards of 10 million people in what is believed to have been the largest single-day political protest in American history.

These demonstrations are taking place under conditions of a mounting conspiracy by the Trump administration to establish a presidential dictatorship. In the days leading up to October 18, administration officials and leading Republicans denounced the protests as a “hate America rally,” branded demonstrators as “terrorists” and threatened to launch investigations against those organizing them. The White House is also preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would give Trump sweeping powers to deploy the military throughout the United States under his direct command.

National Guard troops have already been deployed to major American cities, including Washington D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland and Memphis. In Chicago, the third-largest city in the country, residents face daily assaults by a combination of police, ICE and Department of Homeland Security agents, while National Guard forces have arrived in preparation for further action.

The language coming from the White House is the language of civil war. Trump has called for the military to be used against the “enemy within.” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has described even the Democratic Party as a “domestic extremist organization.” Trump has opened up the White House to neo-Nazis, Christian nationalists and far-right propagandists, who are openly plotting the abolition of democratic rights.

What is unfolding is not a temporary aberration or a passing episode. There will be no “return to normal.” With the Trump administration, the American ruling class is breaking with constitutional forms of rule.

The decisive question is: What is to be done? How can Trump’s coup be defeated?

The October 18 demonstrations express deep hostility to the Trump administration’s efforts to set up a fascistic dictatorship in the United States. The central slogan, “No Kings,” articulates vast popular hostility to autocracy, (though we would add to it, in the present-day context of the neo-Nazi program of the Trump regime, “No Führers”). However, anger and outrage are not enough to stop dictatorship. What is required, and what is most critical, is a clear program and political strategy to direct this struggle.
Trump, the oligarchy and war

To defeat Trump and send him to the dustbin of history, it is first necessary to understand what this gangster represents. Trump is not a rogue individual, but the political representative of the American capitalist oligarchy. He is the personification of a ruling class that has spent decades enriching itself through financial speculation, parasitism and the relentless impoverishment of the working class.

Hitler, in his time, was placed in power by the most powerful sections of the German ruling class. As for Trump, the aspiring Führer held a meeting with the leading tech billionaires last month in which he pledged to “make it a lot easier” for them to further expand their wealth. The oligarchs—including Bill Gates of Microsoft, Tim Cook of Apple, Sundar Pichai and Sergey Brin of Alphabet (Google), Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (Facebook) and Sam Altman of OpenAI—responded with effusive praise, lauding his “incredible leadership.”

This past Wednesday, on the very eve of the “No Kings” protests, Trump held yet another gathering of dozens of oligarchs in the White House. According to a report in the New York Times, Trump thanked them for the “tremendous amounts of money” they had given to build a White House ballroom that will be used to wine and dine billionaires at future events. “We have a lot of legends in the room tonight, and that’s why we’re here to celebrate you, because you gave,” Mr. Trump told the oligarchs.

Trump, whose corrupt operations were financed by banks during his years as a real estate conman, is their guy. His corruption, total lack of scruples and penchant for violence fit their needs. He has been chosen to deal with an escalating series of economic, social and geopolitical crises for which no conventional, legal, Constitutional and non-violent solutions are at hand. The foundations of the US economy have been rotted out by unprecedented debt and the continued erosion of the dollar’s value on world markets. Above all, they are terrified of the growth of popular opposition to the obscene concentration of wealth in an infinitesimal segment of society.

The 400 richest Americans now control more than $6.6 trillion, while the vast majority of the population is confronting soaring inflation and eroding living standards. US household debt has reached a record $18.39 trillion, including more than $1.2 trillion in credit card debt and $1.6 trillion in student loan debt. Such levels of social inequality are incompatible with democratic forms of rule.

However reckless, bizarre, incoherent and even absurd Trump’s ramblings may appear, there is a logic that connects all facets of his policies: they are aimed at imposing the consequences of the bankruptcy of American capitalism, within the United States and internationally, on the working class.

The ongoing government shutdown, for example, is being used as a battering ram to destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs, dismantle social programs, and strip millions of workers of healthcare, housing and retirement benefits. Measures are already being prepared to slash Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

The war on democratic rights is inseparable from the eruption of imperialist violence abroad. The Trump administration has secretly authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, expanding a campaign of assassinations and regime-change efforts aimed at toppling the government of Nicolás Maduro. In recent weeks, US military forces have attacked vessels off the Venezuelan coast, murdering 27 people under the pretext of “anti-drug” operations.

Trump’s so-called “ceasefire” in Gaza is nothing less than a neocolonial settlement atop the bones of tens of thousands of Palestinians and the rubble of destroyed buildings. These crimes mark a new stage in the decades-long escalation of imperialist war that has now entered the initial stages of world war, encompassing the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Pacific. The capitalist class cannot wage world war abroad while preserving democracy at home; dictatorship is the domestic face of imperialism.
The role of the Democratic Party

That Trump does not speak merely for himself is demonstrated by the absence of serious opposition within the political establishment. Every institution of American capitalism has either endorsed or adapted itself to his authoritarian agenda.

Nine months of the second Trump administration have proven beyond any doubt that the Democratic Party is not a force of opposition but of collaboration and complicity.

In the run-up to the 2024 election, the Democrats warned that Trump was planning to rule as a dictator. They explicitly referred to him as a fascist. But now, confronted with a criminal government that is brazenly violating the Constitution, the Democrats fail to advance any call, let alone strategy, for Trump’s removal from office. As Trump prepares to invoke the Insurrection Act and seeks to criminalize opposition, including the Democrats themselves, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are issuing appeals for “bipartisanship.” They beg Trump and the Republicans to “work together” to end the government shutdown and “make healthcare more affordable,” while saying nothing about the escalating conspiracy for dictatorship.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the representative of the “left” wing of the Democratic Party, plays a particularly cowardly role. He talks about “fighting oligarchy” without advancing any strategy whatsoever to lead this fight. Trump will not be defeated by blasts of oratorical hot air. Sanders has issued no call for mass opposition and no demand for the removal of the administration. His entire role, along with figures like Democratic Socialists of America member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and now New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, is to channel opposition behind the Democratic Party.

To the extent that any strategy is to be inferred from the disparate statements of the Democrats, it consists entirely of 1) appealing to the Supreme Court to overrule Trump and 2) winning back control of Congress in the 2026 elections. The absurdity of relying on the Supreme Court is self-evident. As for waiting for the outcome of the 2026 elections, there is good reason to believe that if they are even held, it will be with military and fascist para-military forces patrolling the streets of US cities and the ICE gestapo threatening voters outside polling places.

The impotence of the Democrats is rooted in their class interests. Whatever tactical disputes exist between the Democrats and Republicans, both parties are united in the defense of capitalist wealth, the prosecution of imperialist war, and the suppression of popular opposition. The Democrats fear nothing more than the emergence of a mass movement of workers and youth that would challenge the foundations of capitalist rule. Their differences with Trump have always been centered not on his fascistic attack on democratic rights but on aspects of US imperialist policy, especially the US-NATO war against Russia over Ukraine.

As for the apparatus of the trade unions, it is doing nothing as the Trump administration wages a war on the working class. One would never know, judging from the spinelessness of the AFL-CIO, that unions first emerged as organizations of struggle against capitalist exploitation and political repression. The AFL-CIO and its associated organizations have absolutely no independent policy for the defense of the working class.

The union bureaucracy responds with plaintive appeals for “bipartisanship” and “compromise,” while refusing to organize any resistance. Sections of this apparatus, including the United Auto Workers and the Teamsters, have openly aligned themselves with Trump’s program of economic nationalism and trade-war policies.

The Socialist Equality Party calls on all those participating in the “No Kings” demonstrations to take up clear and urgent demands to rally opposition to Trump’s dictatorship. These must include:

The removal of the Trump administration from power and the dismantling of its fascistic apparatus.
The immediate withdrawal of all troops from American cities and an end to the militarization of public life.
An end to the persecution and deportation of immigrant workers, and the abolition of ICE and DHS.
The immediate end of all threats and acts of aggression against Venezuela and other countries, and the dismantling of the American war machine.
The defense of free speech and all democratic rights, including the right to protest, organize and speak against the government without intimidation or censorship.
An end to the mass layoffs, cuts to social programs and destruction of living standards.

These demands cannot be achieved through appeals to the ruling class or its political representatives. They require the independent intervention of the working class, acting as a unified and conscious political force. Workers must organize collectively to resist the attack on democratic rights and prepare a general strike to bring down Trump’s dictatorship.

The Socialist Equality Party calls for the formation of rank-and-file committees in every workplace, factory and neighborhood to coordinate this struggle. These committees must unite every section of the working class—teachers and nurses, auto and logistics workers, public employees, youth and students—into a single, powerful movement. They must become the foundation for a counteroffensive linking the defense of democratic rights to the fight for jobs, wages, healthcare and social equality.

In the development of the struggle against dictatorship in the United States, it is critical to understand its international dimensions. It is necessary to break with all forms of nationalist parochialism. The greatest strength of the working class lies in its international character. American workers must see themselves as part of a global working class, and strive consciously to connect their fight against Trump with the movement of the working class on a global scale. In an epoch when all aspects of the production process are ruled by global economic networks, the strategy of the working class must be international.

The SEP is spearheading the building of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) to unite workers across industries and national borders in a global struggle against dictatorship, inequality, and capitalist exploitation. The establishment of dictatorship in the United States will sound the death knell for democratic rights everywhere. The response must be international, uniting workers across every continent in a common struggle against imperialist war and social reaction.

The entire historical experience of the 1930s demonstrated that the fight against fascism cannot be separated from the struggle against capitalism and for socialism. The defense of democracy requires the expropriation of the financial oligarchy and the transformation of the corporations and banks into public utilities under democratic workers’ control. The immense wealth concentrated in the hands of a few must be used to meet human needs, not private profit.

Many of those participating in the last “No Kings” demonstration drew inspiration from the American Revolution. It is necessary to recall that the great uprising of the American colonists in 1775 was provoked by the British monarch’s deployment of troops in Boston, New York and Philadelphia to intimidate and suppress opposition to tyranny. Now, as we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the spirit of revolutionary commitment to the defense of the rights of man must be revived. These are indeed, as the great Tom Paine wrote so memorably, “the times that try men’s souls.”

The ruling class is in the process of repudiating all the democratic rights established in that revolution and reaffirmed in the great struggle for the abolition of slavery led by Abraham Lincoln between 1861 and 1865. The defense of these rights is now inseparable from the development of a working class movement to achieve its social rights: the right to a job and a livable income, to food, housing, healthcare and education. These rights are not compatible with the capitalist profit system.

To achieve these rights and stop the descent into fascism and barbarism, the working class must take power into its own hands, reorganize economic life on socialist foundations, and establish genuine democracy based on social equality. The Socialist Equality Party and its youth organization, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), call on workers, young people and all those who are committed to the defense of democratic rights and social equality to take up this fight: Build rank-and-file committees in factories, all work places, schools and neighborhoods.

We urge all those who agree with this strategy to join the SEP and turn the immense social power of the working class into a conscious movement for socialism.
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Ego and Its Own

Has anyone here ever read Stirner’s works cover to cover? Do you think they suffer from mistranslation? I became an egoist anarchist when I was 18. But I do not read German very well and found that I got confused by a lot of the writing. The strangest was not being able to parse the writing because of its poetic nature. Take this as an example:
>Where could one look without meeting victims of self-renunciation? There sits a girl opposite me, who perhaps has been making bloody sacrifices to her soul for ten years already. Over the buxom form droops a deathly-tired head, and pale cheeks betray the slow bleeding away of her youth. Poor child, how often the passions may have beaten at your heart, and the rich powers of youth have demanded their right! When your head rolled in the soft pillow, how awakening nature quivered through your limbs, the blood swelled your veins, and fiery fancies poured the gleam of voluptuousness into your eyes! Then appeared the ghost of the soul and its eternal bliss. You were terrified, your hands folded themselves, your tormented eye turned its look upward, you—prayed. The storms of nature were hushed, a calm glided over the ocean of your appetites. Slowly the weary eyelids sank over the life extinguished under them, the tension crept out unperceived from the rounded limbs, the boisterous waves dried up in the heart, the folded hands themselves rested a powerless weight on the unresisting bosom, one last faint "Oh dear!" moaned itself away, and—the soul was at rest. You fell asleep, to awake in the morning to a new combat and a new—prayer. Now the habit of renunciation cools the heat of your desire, and the roses of your youth are growing pale in the—chlorosis of your heavenliness. The soul is saved, the body may perish! O Lais, O Ninon, how well you did to scorn this pale virtue! One free grisette against a thousand virgins grown gray in virtue!
The first time I read it, I thought it was about Stirner perving on a teen girl.
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On Burgers

There's multiple competing narratives about Americans. Two of the more prominent narratives on here that come to mind are:

1. Americans know everything their government has done, and the consequences, but they keep supporting their government anyway, because they're all fascist labor aristocrats and petty bourgeoisie drunk from drinking the blood of the exploited nations

2. Americans are clueless retard hamburger people who can't even locate the last country they invaded on a map, and don't even know what the phrase "CIA coup" implies, let alone sanctions, embargoes, structural adjustment programs, etc.

Are either of the above narratives true? Are they false? Are they oversimplified? Are they mutually exclusive? Is there some other narrative you prefer?
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Chomskian Analysis Be Like

>Now these are serious crimes that Washington has levied against a sovereign state… and we have to remember that is the United States who disrupted the democratically elected governments of these regions… and I myself have met officials of these governments, and personally, I wasn't their strongest supporter by any means, in fact, my criticisms exist in the record… but it's completely not what the mainstream media is painting them as… your listeners only have to spend some time on this to see how much of a blatant lie the United States has peddled, I mean…
>One need only look at the literature… I mean, it's really quite astounding, when one merely acquaints oneself with what's out there… it's a complete falsity, I'm afraid, and these war aims, I mean, they're overwhelmingly fabricated, and none of the sweeping anti-privacy laws and draconian policies brought in are even justified, they’re not even justified… and they’re so regarded, in fact, by mainstream western Marxists that this criminal state’s, which is essentially what the United States is, this criminal state’s casus belli cannot be supported even by Washington's own legal frameworks… just take them at their word and it falls apart… America is just acting like a rogue state… completely, utterly terroristic—a pariah in the global community. It's really quite appalling from any normative ethical point of view.
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Opening up new chapter in Viet Nam–Finland relations

VGP - Building on a solid foundation of traditional friendship and abundant cooperation potential, Deputy Foreign Minister Le Thi Thu Hang expressed her belief that the General Secretary To Lam's upcoming visit to Finland will open up a new chapter and create breakthrough progress in bilateral relations.

Le made the remarks in an interview with the press ahead of the first official visit to Finland by a Vietnamese Party General Secretary since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1973.

The visit, cheduled for October 20–22, carries a message of sincere affection and deep regard from the Party, State, and people of Viet Nam toward Finland — a nation that actively supported Viet Nam's past struggle for national defense as well as its ongoing national construction and development process.

For decades, Finland has been an important development cooperation partner for Viet Nam, focusing on key areas such as water supply and sanitation, poverty reduction, climate change response, and forestry. These projects have made significant contributions to Viet Nam's socio-economic growth.

The visit is expected to open up opportunities for broader and more comprehensive cooperation across various fields, particularly in potential sectors such as the digital economy, green economy, circular economy, science and technology, maritime affairs, renewable energy, and high-tech agriculture — all of which are priorities for Viet Nam and areas where Finland has notable strengths and experience.

On the international front, the trip will help Viet Nam strengthen ties with the Nordic region and enhance its role as a bridge connecting Finland with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as the European Union (EU) with ASEAN. This will contribute to fostering regional connectivity in a rapidly changing world that demands joint efforts and coordinated responses to shared challenges, the deputy minister noted.

Two-way trade between the two countries has seen steady growth in recent years, reaching US$422.5 million in 2024 and US$279 million in the first nine months of 2025.

Education and training cooperation has also flourished, with 18 memoranda of understanding signed between Vietnamese and Finnish universities. Nearly 2,500 Vietnamese students are currently studying in Finland in fields such as economics, information technology, and tourism.

Other areas of collaboration — including science and technology, culture and sports, tourism, and labor — have also progressed positively. Meanwhile, emerging areas such as the circular economy, high-tech agriculture, green transition, and renewable energy promise to form new cooperation frameworks that align with the potential and development priorities of both sides, the deputy minister said.

https://en.baochinhphu.vn/opening-up-new-chapter-in-viet-namfinland-relations-111251020102846439.htm
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Why is all the discussion on prostitution moralizing?

There is literally nothing wrong with sex as transaction. It probably is unironically as old as humanity itself. And, controversial opinion, it is probably a lot more common today than we think, whether in relationships, or outside them, but I do, it is worth mentioning, have a cynic bias.

Why do I care? Let me put it this way. I am autistically pedantic. But also, I believe in earnest the whole moralizing prostitution thing is really a mask for gender narratives. "Women are helpless muffins". I find this appalling for two reasons: the first, because it is deeply chauvinist when you turn on your brain, the second, because some men might be naive enough to fall for it and get taken advantage of by women as a result.

No matter how the moralizers try to frame it as being about whether sex can be "work" or not, in reality, the activity itself, and its semantics, are irrelevant in terms of human suffering.

The actual causes of suffering:
1. Pimps (who I consider on the same level as slavers, and would treat the same as the good ol' John Brown did if I could)
2. Cops (being branded a criminal isn't very nice)
3. Violent Johns (but independent prostitutes nowadays have online platforms where they gossip about and warn of clients to other prostitutes)
4. STDs (admittedly still a risk even with medical advancement)

That's it.

Any discussion that does not revolve around these is useless moralizing.
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Fascism is unironically a more advancement formation compared to liberalism, which makes sense since it was developed later.
Like, it actually resolves the ideological contradictions of liberalism by saying "stop taking your own contradictory bullshit at face value".
Nietzsche was an innovator in this direction.
It's "conscious liberalism" in that it extends bourgeois class consciousness to the mass base of imperialism.
It's irrational and incoherent BECAUSE liberalism is irrational and incoherent, and fascists simply embrace that fact, they embrace irrationality, absurdity, mysticism and hypocrisy consciously
fascists are consciously feels over reals, vibes > all, and liberals have no answer to that because they are stuck in this mode where they faithfully believe in some kind of universality, objectivity, and le science, an objectivity that determines everyone's reality, but then refuse to examine how their notions of objective reality and scientific truth are socially constructed themselves

fascists understand that you can basically "artificially" politicize any issue, even things that are seen as "beyond politics", by tuning into middle class (labor aristocrats, petty bourgs) conscious anxieties and agitpropping them hard enough. liberals have no answer except for bleating "but… the science is settled…. the institutions agree…."
this is how rightoids can manufacture hysteria around some obscure blurb in pokemon lore about how some pokemon species don't have gender by calling it "woke propaganda", and liberals have no answer except saying "but… pokemons are animals and some animals don't have gender either…. it's SCIENCE!"
but science has never been the point, the point is manipulating "what" is seen as scientifically true, and liberals are powerless here because they think the ideology of science is "objective" and that everybody defers to it or should defer to it, while fascists are directly attacking the ideology itself (for their own means). they're actually pointing out liberal hypocrisy to evil ends, by pointing out inconsistencies in how liberal scientific understanding stops short of examining social relations. fascists merely take those social relations and "resolve" the hypocrisy by claiming it also extends to nature, that our current contradictions are just nature itself. social darwinism etc

Liberals love calling out the "hypocrisy" of fascism, but I think the exact opposite is the case.
Fascism is "honest liberalism"
Structurally it's true that fascism is just liberal violence turned inwardly into the imperial core, but in order to do that, you have to develop an ideology that "makes sense" of this inward turn
the logic of this "sense" is that actually, we don't give a fuck about "humanity", "citizenship" or "whiteness", or "europeanness", or whatever other universalizing category, and will simply do whatever is necessary to preserve capital, and will post-hoc justify it with whatever mysticism and ideology necessary

in this sense fascism is a bad negation of nationalism. since fascism is colonial violence turned inwardly, it doesn't really give a fuck that you're part of the same "nation". it will attack whoever is necessary to attack for counterrevolutionary purposes, and then make up reasons and divisions for why those arbitrary delineations within the "nation" are important. anti-semitism is the prime example, but other arbitrary delineations along which it becomes justified to attack "fellow" imperial core "citizens" are clear to see

liberalism presents a juncture. to uphold the logic of capital by any contortions necessary, or to reaffirm human reason. communism is the latter commitment, fascism the former. liberalism hangs in the middle, fretting and vacillating.
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Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: ''Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka''™ 🌭 🍔

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News 10/20/25

Right-wing Paz wins Bolivian presidential election
Although Mr Paz’s Christian Democratic Party has the cushion of a slight majority in Congress, he’ll still need to compromise to push through his programme. Mr Paz plans to end Bolivia’s fixed exchange rate, phase out fuel subsidies and cut public spending. But he says he’ll take a gradual approach to free-market reforms, in the hope of avoiding a sharp recession or jump in inflation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/right-wing-paz-wins-bolivian-presidential-election

Brazil greenlights oil drilling in Amazon as environmentalists raise alarm
The company will drill an exploratory well at an offshore site that lies 500km (310 miles) from the mouth of the Amazon River at a depth of more than 2,800 meters (9,200ft). The drilling of Block 59 – which is 160km from the coastline – has been a passion project for Lula, who insists oil revenues will help fund Brazil’s climate transition.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/20/brazil-greenlights-oil-drilling-amazon

Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of a US strike in the Caribbean committed any crime
The official, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak on the matter, told The Associated Press that the Ecuadorian man, identified as Andrés Fernando Tufiño, was in good health after medical evaluations. A document from the Ecuadorian government obtained by AP said “there is no evidence or indication that could lead prosecutors or judicial authorities to be certain” of any violation of current laws by Tufiño.
https://apnews.com/article/ecuador-strike-caribbean-trump-fentanyl-colombia-venezuela-0f8f1c004064857046398b388ddb8df5

Community action against genocide and worker’s strike: Rotterdam port brought to a halt
According to the collective Geef Tegengas, approximately 800 people took part in a blockade of the port’s railway track as part of an international campaign organized by the network alongside Soulèvements de la Terre (France), Code Rouge, Stop Arming Israel, Soulèvements de la Terre Bruxelles (Belgium), and Disrupt Germany. Coordinated actions took place between October 10 and 12 under the umbrella of the International Days of Action Against Bombs, Barrels, and Bullshit.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/17/community-action-against-genocide-and-workers-strike-rotterdam-port-brought-to-a-halt/

Netherlands curtails intelligence-sharing with US over ‘human rights’
The heads of civilian and military intelligence said in a joint interview with Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant published over the weekend that they had become more cautious in what they share given the “politicisation of our intelligence”.
https://www.ft.com/content/af8042f0-5de9-4509-bcb2-2d98d26a3d21
https://archive.ph/DOwBb

BNP Paribas shares fall after US jury’s Sudan verdict
The federal jury in Manhattan on Friday ordered BNP Paribas to pay a combined $20.5m to three Sudanese plaintiffs who testified about human rights abuses perpetrated under former President Omar al-Bashir’s rule. The Paris, France-based bank said it will appeal the verdict.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/10/20/bnp-paribas-shares-fall-after-us-jurys-sudan-verdict
https://archive.ph/xgY3w

Israel's Ben-Gvir pushing for powers to designate individual criminals, groups as terrorists
The bill, if approved, would give the extremist minister the power to designate criminals as terrorists, which in turn would enable the Shin Bet intelligence service to use special powers reserved for national security issues. It will give the intelligence service the green light to use methods such as administrative detention, torture and abuse.
https://www.newarab.com/news/ben-gvir-pushes-powers-designate-criminals-terrorists

Record number of Israelis leaving and not returning since 2020, Knesset report says
The Knesset’s Research and Information Center (RIC) said between 2020 and 2024, some 145,900 more Israelis left the country for the long term than returned. In 2020, 34,000 Israelis left the country for extended periods, followed by 43,400 in 2021, while 32,500 and 23,600 returned in those respective years. There was a sharp jump in long‑term departures in 2022 and 2023, with 59,400 Israelis leaving in 2022 and 82,800 in 2023 – a surge partly linked to the start of the Gaza war in October that year.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/record-number-israelis-leaving-not-returning-2020-knesset-report-says

Iraq says some US military advisers will stay due to IS threat in Syria
The Iraqi PM noted that the agreement originally stipulated a full pullout of US forces from Ain al-Asad by September, but that "developments in Syria" since then required maintaining a "small unit" of between 250 and 350 advisers and security personnel at the base.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/10/20/iraq-says-some-us-military-personnel-will-stay-due-to-islamic-state-threat-in-syria
https://archive.ph/BL7DK

Amazon outage disrupts global online services
About three hours after the outage began early Monday morning, Amazon Web Services said it was starting to recover, but it wasn’t until 6 p.m. Eastern that “services returned to normal operations,” Amazon said on its AWS health website, where it tracks outages. AWS provides behind-the-scenes cloud computing infrastructure to some of the world’s biggest organizations. Its customers include government departments, universities and businesses, including The Associated Press.
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-east-internet-services-outage-654a12ac9aff0bf4b9dc0e22499d92d7
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If fascisms is capitalist response to a mass organized communist movement, and Trump is arguably a fascist and pushing for fascism, where is the organized communist movement of our day?
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Remindar that Camatte, after leaving communism, was always a terrible person. He invented a fictional version of Bordiga by trying to reinterpret him, then joined some neo-esoteric fascist group in Italy and Agambenians in France. Those neo-esoteric fascists even host all his archived writings.

https://libriincogniti.wordpress.com/2018/06/13/christian-riechers-imaginary-bordiga/
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Lookism as Capitalist Ideology

In the past, adhering to lookism helped me get ahead in life. I got a fancy job, dressed a fancy way, and people thought I was a normal member of the PMC. And it made me revile the human race even more than ever before. Because I saw humanity for what it was: a herd of cattle that devours the slop it is fed, only to vomit it out and recannibalise these humours. After a while, my bitterness for the human race turned to revolutionary ire, only for it die away into the aches of listlessness. I decided we were unfit for existence. We are a herd of dumb cattle that only know the barbed fences of society, we only think through the slave mentality branded onto us.

I saw how shallow and frivolous humans were. With all this talk about enlightenment and civilisation, we only thought with our fucking cocks. The "fairer sex" merely had to rub their cunts, like unthinking sows, to designate me a human or not. And we never care for people as they are, no; instead, we choose to section people off into these branded categories like grocery store items. So much for the heights of art! Who gives a fuck about the apotheosis of human endeavours, or the sciences, when people merely regurgitate the slop thrown at them? The undifferentiated gruel shat out by fashion brands and Hollywood movies and music corporations! Mmm! Tasty! I found people only cared about you if you could afford the same suit as an advertisement or get the same haircut as everyone else.

But the more I fixate on looks, the less I really care about them. They really are just appearances. When I was focused on being normal, I got a job, lost a lot of weight, lifted daily, and wore normie clothes. But I still felt horribly depressed and ugly to the core. What kind of society would breed this false adherence to the social norms of herd animals, of unthinking ungulates? The only time I felt comfortable was when I used presented as an effortless, slobby twink in band t-shirts. Welcome to the spectacle, where we make fashion statements about uniformity and the true individual is an 'ugliness' that must be stamped out by the same threads, the same brand of shoes, the same moisturiser.
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What is the materialist explanation for Germany being so cucked?

>ancestors ward of Romans but later on declare themselves the successors of the Holy Roman empire thereby betraying what their ancestors fought for

>never had a successful revolution and as a means of coping tell themselves it's because they are just too civilized to engage in such barbary
>loses two world wars and continues to live under the heel of US and Israeli interests to this day
>commits a genocide and as an act of historic repentance joins in to commit another ongoing genocide, where it is disproportionally people with a migrant background who protest against it while native Germans are underrepresented at such protests

What is to be done about the German Question? It seems that a good German is an anomaly.
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Totalitarian motives of soviet architecture and urban planning are always overlooked by leftists:
>wide streets and walkways served to reduce the individual, make one feel small and futile against the state (very evident in cities like Minsk),
>walkable cities, although a good thing, paired with very restricted access to cars were also an instrument to reduce citizens' mobility,
>cinemas were a necessity because of state-controlled film's role in propaganda.
These double-purposes are prominent throughout soviet planning policy, including the GULAGs. The ussr also had some classist housing - certain buildings and blocks were given to the nomenclature and intelligentsia, such as the prized Houses of Science and Culture, as well as many other soviet buildings surrounding city centres. Speaking of preservation, a couple of years ago a top floor balcony collapsed off of one of the residental buildings in my town, smashing other balconies in it's path. Many soviet buildings, especially from the late 70s and throughout the 80s are simply too expensive to rennovate as they are rapidly deteriorating due to various corners being cut in materials and construction.
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Question for “Christian anarchists”:

Why do you deny Jesus came to earth to establish a government? Why do you act as if religion wasn’t fully intertwined with the state and all religious institutions were de facto government institutions, and that the Church in which Jesus established was meant to be a government?

If not, what did Jesus leave behind? A Bible that wasn’t fully compiled and finalized until centuries after His death by… the Catholic/Orthodox Church?

And yes, the Church is both a spiritual AND earthly authority, so please don’t come at me with the “Jesus was only against earthly hierarchies not spiritual ones” cope.
R: 602 / I: 121 (full)

ACP lol

What's their fucking problem? Their membership ranges from genuine MLs all the way to reactionary rejects. Do they think the way to build communism is to adopt all the worst and most aggravating positions held by the now defunct black hammer?
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ZA HASANU, ZA BURGURU
Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

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Previous Thread: >>2524275

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I hate how morally smug the libleft acts especially when they're this dumb

I'd rather see Haz sperg out because at least he's right, or just not this wrong. I hate the moralism of this, because these spergs act so smug but are so wrong on very basic questions. When tankies are wrong it's stupid and funny, they don't necessarily think they're superior, but when the libleft is wrong they're smug assholes about it. People in the third world can't just set up some anarchist free love commune, they actually have to chose something.
The thing these people can't understand and their fundamental philosophical defect is that when Mao said all political power grows from the barrel of a gun, he didn't mean it in just a literal sense, but metaphorically, that to do politics requires power, and for guys like this any power automatically becomes state violence. It's the same reason the NAP is a logical fallacy.
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>Communism is the real movement that abolishes the present state of things. It is a living science that must be checked against real-world material conditions and adjusted accordingly
>Karl Kautsky is a dirty revisionist! REVISIONIST REVISIONIST! HE SULLIED THE SACRED NAME OF MARX!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Why are Leninists so fucking stupid? For reference, Kautsky was Engels' direct intellectual heir.
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Lol, shit liberals say
"
I think everyone knows, but keep eyes open for provocateurs. Protectors of the philes will be out there, and they will take ANY opportunity to escalate things in a peaceful protest"
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Both the left and the right-wing of capital, liberals and conservatives, complain about cultural languages dying out. But it's not some pure past you can hang onto with pride, it's the result of how societies evolve through their economic and productive systems. There's nothing sacred about it and, frankly, the fewer languages acting as a barrier to a global proletariat the better. If you want to learn a dead language so much you can do it on your own time thanks to the internet these days.
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How many protests with millions of people does it take for liberals to realize that protesting accomplishes practically nothing? It is legitimately baffling to me that they seemingly never realize that.
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News 10/18/25

Gaza rights group documents 129 Israeli ceasefire violations since truce began
PCHR said Israel was persisting in "its policy of collective punishment and genocide against Palestinians", and called for an immediate and permanent end to the assault and for Israel to be held accountable under international law. Hamas also condemned the attack, urging US President Donald Trump and ceasefire mediators to pressure Israel to stop its violations.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-commits-129-ceasefire-violations-gaza-truce-began

Rafah border crossing to stay closed ‘until further notice’, says Israel
Hamas has said it is committed to the ceasefire deal, but that the retrieval of remains is hampered by the devastation and the presence of unexploded ordnance. The group has told mediators that some remains are in areas controlled by Israeli troops. Hamas, in turn, has urged mediators to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza for its 2 million people. There are continued closures of crossings and Israeli restrictions on aid groups.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/rafah-border-crossing-to-stay-closed-until-further-notice-says-israel

Sunni candidate's office attacked in Baghdad
Muthanna Thaer al-Azzawi, a member of the Baghdad Provincial Council and a candidate from the Azm Alliance, said his office came under a "cowardly attack" in Baghdad's Yusufiyah district. … On Wednesday, another candidate vying for a seat in the parliament was assassinated in Baghdad. Safaa al-Mashhadani, who also served on Baghdad’s Provincial Council, was running on the Sunni Arab Sovereignty-Legislation Alliance ticket.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/181020251

US returning Caribbean strike survivors to Colombia and Ecuador, Trump says
Both men have arrived home, according to authorities from the two South American countries. "We have received the Colombian detained on the narco submarine, we are happy he is alive and he will be processed according to the law," Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on X on Saturday afternoon, providing no further information.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-set-transfer-caribbean-strike-survivors-overseas-instead-pow-style-detention-2025-10-18/

President Petro decrees declassification of DAS intelligence files
During the act of recognition of international responsibility and forgiveness of the State to the victims of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective, the Colombian president presented the new decree stating that “it begins now, the reserve of the intelligence and counterintelligence files and the reserved expenses of the extinct Administrative Department is lifted.” The decree allows the declassification of the DAS files that rest in the General Archive of the Nation and the lifting of the reserve of intelligence, counterintelligence and reserved expenses files of the former agency.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/president-petro-decrees-declassification-of-das-intelligence-files/

US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts
Daniel Salas, executive manager of Paho’s special programme for comprehensive immunisation, said: “Having close-knit communities that are often reluctant to receive vaccinations and having large flows [of people] from country to country through the region are aggravating factors.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/17/health-infectious-diseases-vaccination-measles-us-robert-kennedy-latin-america-antivax-blamed-cases-deaths-rise

Taiwan opposition party's firebrand new leader pledges peace with China
"The KMT will make our home the strongest shelter for everyone against life's storms. Because we will safeguard peace across the Taiwan Strait," she said. Cheng, who started out in politics in the DPP, said during the campaign that she did not support increasing the defence budget, a key policy of President Lai Ching-te's administration, spending which also has strong U.S. backing.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Taiwan-opposition-partys-firebrand-new-leader-pledges-peace-with-China
https://archive.ph/7JB1u

Australian banks ignore thousands of customers’ hardship requests
Nearly 2,900 customers complained their bank had failed to respond to pleas for assistance in 2024-25, new data from the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (Afca) showed. Non-responses have risen for four consecutive years, even though lenders are legally obliged to consider hardship requests, the Afca’s lead ombudsman for banking and finance, Natalie Cameron, said. Big banks’ automated systems for hardship requests had generated “cookie cutter” responses and failed to account for individual customers’ circumstances, while smaller lenders lacked even those systems, Afca found.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/19/australian-banks-ignore-customer-hardship-requests

Protest hits Rome over Libya migrant deal after boat wreck
During the protest, dozens of migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa recounted what they endured in Libya, and a minute of silence was held for those who died trying to cross the Mediterranean. Hundreds of people attended the event, including activist Sarita Fratini.
https://www.newarab.com/news/protest-hits-rome-over-libya-migrant-deal-after-boat-wreck

Burqa ban bill approved by Portugal’s parliament seen as targeting Muslim women
The measure was proposed by the far-right Chega party and would prohibit coverings such as burqas (a full-body garment that covers a woman from head to foot) and niqabs (the full-face Islamic veil with space around the eyes) from being worn in most public places. Face veils would still be allowed in airplanes, diplomatic premises and places of worship.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/17/burqa-ban-bill-approved-by-portugals-parliament-seen-as-targeting-muslim-women

Unite vows to 'fight for every job' after Nestle announces cuts
Unite represents around 1,000 workers at sites in York, Halifax, Dalston and Tutbury as well as additional staff at Buxton Water. The union’s general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Nestle is a profitable company, selling billions of produce every month. Job losses are simply unacceptable.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unite-vows-fight-every-job-after-nestle-announces-cuts

Return of the “Black International”: Neo-Nazis flock to St. Petersburg after invitation by Russia’s “Orthodox” oligarch Konstantin Malofeev
mong those in attendance were neo-fascists from Italy and Brazil, neo-Nazis from Greece’s Golden Dawn, radical nationalists from Serbia, Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), and other far-right groups. The conference also featured speeches by fascist ideologue Alexander Dugin and Swiss conspiracy theorist and anti-Semite Alain Soral. The event concluded with the establishment of the International Sovereigntist League “Paladins,” named after a murderous terrorist organization founded by a former SS officer.
https://theins.ru/en/politics/285889
https://archive.ph/kevwf
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Destroying capitalism through self-reliance and simple living

The way I see it, if you cannot destroy the system with a violent revolution or reform the system by playing by its rules, the only option that leaves is to subvert the system by whatever means available.

The capitalist system is dependent on a clear separation between producers and consumers. It requires a neverending flood of consumers who constantly buy shit. But what if the consumers decide they don't really need that much or they figure out how to make/do more things for themselves? What happens if the consumers start to blur the line between consumer and producer and they become prosumers, figuring out how to take technology into their own hands and become less dependent on the producers?

The most highly trained masters of frugal simple living and DIY ethos are the poorest people in the world. Homeless people, rural villagers, people who have to take what they can get and make do with what they have. Those of us with more privileged lives could learn a great deal from the poor, if their skills and their ethos could keep them alive in a system that so badly wants them dead, imagine what it could do for us.

What would happen if the middle class all adopted the most frugal minimalist ghetto/redneck lifestyle possible, living in the cheapest housing money can buy, everything they own is either old cheap crap bought secondhand or its homemade, things that break get fixed instead of thrown out, 2002 Toyota Corolla in the driveway still being maintained and repaired, tables and desks made of plywood and 2x4s, old ugly furniture and appliances from junk shops or garbage dumps, cheapest internet/phone service and no cable tv service or streaming services, no subscriptions to anything but the bare essentials for survival. What if everyone just had this philosophy where you never, ever buy anything new if you can help it? If you can't make it or borrow it or steal it then buy it used in preferably in a person-to-person trade, avoid buying anything new and buying anything from a store. And not for some freegan environmental hippie bullshit, but as a deliberate and coordinated act of civil disobedience to subvert and disrupt the capitalist order.
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Why are democratic socialists and non-ML types like Bernie Sanders, Hasan Piker (yes, I'm putting him alongside Bernie for laughs), Zohran Mamdani, AOC, non-commie Breadtubers, etc. looked down on as libs who enable the liberal establishment, despite constantly being critical of said establishment and voicing their hatred, frustration and opposition towards them? What do they do exactly?

Well, tbh I can see it with politicians like Bernie, AOC, etc., but what about the left wing influencer commentator types like Hasan or (I guess) Chapo Trap House? The former always says he hates the Dems and that we'll never get change with them, and that Bernie's too unwilling to not be a Dem Party guy, but he gets slammed as a lib who's a useful idiot for the Democrats. Why is that? I know he can be an arrogant douchebag, but I never fully understood when people online criticized such figures from the left.
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Getting Politics from Art

Is it bad to get politics from books or art or music? Should leftists try to make agitprop again? In the past, revolutionists like Lenin and Nachaev adopted names or ideas from novels. Stalin himself was a poet. Mao was a poet. But did their poetic ideas lead to them becoming charismatic? Did it help them sway the working classes?
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On the ethics of living in society

I know Marxism isn't about morality but whatever I find it interesting.

Does being a regular 9-5 worker in the west make you an evil person in your opinion? I can't make up my mind. I work in a job that provides social value to others (though not in a perfect way of course as I have to follow the orders of others who are more interested in making money or having an easy life) but is that outweighed by my taxes going to weapons for Israel and Ukraine? On the other hand a lot more of my taxes go to welfare so doesn't that count as morally good? But then there's also the argument that living on welfare in the west is a good thing because you're draining your imperialist state, but aren't you also relying on the honest labour of other workers?

I dunno man, shit is confusing. It doesn't help that I'm also an ethical vegetarian so my natural inclination to be pro-social with other people and treat them as basically good until proven otherwise is tempered by the fact that if they eat meat they're causing incalculable suffering to other beings. Of course I also am doing that by still eating dairy and eggs and even crop agriculture causes damage to animals and the planet (though much less). So can I really judge them? There's part of me that feels like, if I help save lives at my job helping homeless people, isn't that kind of a bad thing because they'll go on to kill animals indirectly? But the person is in front of me and the animal isn't, so I keep trying to help people because it makes me feel good.

Idk, not really sure what my question is but does anyone else ever struggle with this? Sometimes I feel like I'm a bad person because I haven't gone out and done some propaganda of the deed type thing, and that's the best way I could help other people, but then I don't want to go to prison or kill myself and make my loved ones sad.
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On abortion - the TFP liberal agenda

The legality of abortion does not matter, women who desire to have an abortion will have it either way as the means to conduct a DIY abortion will always exist, be it outdated metal coathangers or contemporary "MISO cards" drugs https://fourthievesvinegar.org/abortion-care/. Even if abortion was made illegal it would continue to occur and even if persecuted nothing can guarantee the laws won't simply be reverted. Even if abortion is prohibited on a constitutional level nothing can guarantee that it won't simply change after time. Actions to save babies from abortions are futile as it is only possible to punish women after the deed of abortion has been done. All actions to change laws are simply liberal reformism, it is nonsense to frame it as "conservatives versus liberals" when both are subjects to a liberal bourgeoisie state. Then comes the counter argument - "so by your logic murder should be legal because people will commit it anyway?", that is precisely not the argument, the argument is that legality does not matter since it will occur anyway and the emphasis is on penalization rather than prevention, laws against murder may act as a deterrent but ultimately they can only be enforced after the deed has been commited as a way of punishment. Then here comes my question - what is the point of punishment other than deterrence? Obviously punishment is not absolute deterrence since the crimes are still being committed in spite of its implementation. The answer may be "there is no absolute deterrent but its the least we can do". That's where you are wrong, it is not the least you can do. The least that can be done on the matter of abortion is to have population control as to not have any babies be able to develop as to be aborted, to limit reproduction or change it altogether and thus prevent sacrficies. So how can we survive as a species that has ceased to be able to develop life from insemination? The answer to that is that we must pursue immortality and invulnerability. That is the only plausible solution to end abortion once and for all - to prevent new births from developing at all whilst sustaining the life that already exists. Immortality is impossible you say? It is already possible within some organisms which have adapted, such as the immortal jellyfish and sure, we are not jellyfish, but we have the consciousness to be able to direct our development and work towards it through scientific development. So what do you object to? That we shouldin't "play god"? We have the gift of consciousness to decide for ourselves and since we know life is the most precious thing we should seek to preserve it as long as we can. There is no reason for us to believe in eternal life after death, since life on earth and the material world is what is real.
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News 10/17/25

US has seized survivors after strike on suspected drug-carrying vessel in Caribbean, AP sources say
The United States took survivors into custody after its military struck a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean — the first attack that anyone escaped alive since President Donald Trump began launching deadly strikes in the region last month, a defense official and another person familiar with the matter said Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-drug-smuggling-pentagon-strike-12820c173da3de80c1a7a559c252c743

CONAIE calls for unity and denies dialogue with the Noboa government
In view of the events in Imbabura, where some indigenous leaders agreed to a dialogue with the government despite the rejection of the bases, the CONAIE emphasized that the national strike continues and ruled out negotiating with the Noboa executive: “We were not summoned to the dialogue table, and although we respect the decision of the province of Imbabura and its structures, we recall that the demands raised are of a national nature.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/conaie-calls-for-unity-and-denies-dialogue-with-the-noboa-government/

Gaza aid deliveries still face Israeli roadblocks a week into ceasefire
For several days, the United Nations has warned that there has been little progress in aid deliveries into Gaza and that assistance must enter at scale through all border crossings to meet urgent humanitarian needs. Under the deal to end Israel’s genocide, which has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians in two years, Israel was to allow for a surge in aid deliveries.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/17/gaza-aid-deliveries-still-facing-israeli-roadblocks-a-week-into-ceasefire
https://archive.ph/jUevw

Israel targets Lebanon reconstruction efforts in fiercest attack since ceasefire
The heaviest bombardment hit a cement and asphalt factory in the town of Ansar, in the southern Nabatiyeh district, flattening one of Lebanon's largest industrial sites. The overnight raids destroyed concrete mixers, cranes, fuel tanks, and part of the factory's administrative building. Two guards were wounded, and the site's workers say they lost "the work of a lifetime", according to local media reports.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-pounds-south-lebanon-block-reconstruction-efforts

Over 1,400 Myanmar Workers Fired Without Notice in Thailand, Labor Activists Say
Workers said that members of the Myanmar Embassy joined local authorities in carrying out the mass dismissal. They also accused factory staff of bribing Thai officials to overlook the illegal action. “We were told to sign and accept 10,000 baht. Myanmar Embassy officials were present, but they responded only to the Thai employer’s demand while ignoring our plea. Workers who refused to sign were threatened with arrest. We had no choice but to leave,” one worker said.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/over-1400-myanmar-workers-fired-without-notice-in-thailand-labor-activists-say.html
https://archive.ph/sgYf8

Bangladesh parties sign reform charter, but student and leftist group stays away
The National Citizens Party, formed by the leaders of last year's movement and four left-leaning parties, did not attend. The NCP said it stayed away due to the lack of a legal framework or binding guarantee for implementing the commitments made in the charter. "The signing of the July Charter by a few political parties does not constitute national unity," NCP convener Nahid Islam said. The day's events were earlier marred by clashes outside the venue, where families of those killed and injured during the 2024 uprising were staging a protest.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-parties-sign-reform-charter-student-leftist-group-stays-away-2025-10-17/

Rural women march for land, justice
In Bulacan, vast rice lands were converted to make way for the New Manila International Airport in Bulakan town and the North–South Commuter Railway, projects that displaced hundreds of farming families in Malolos, Guiguinto, and Calumpit. In Tarlac, farmers in Hacienda Luisita continue to fight land reclamation and reclassification schemes decades after the supposed land distribution under agrarian reform.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2025/10/17/rural-women-march-for-land-justice/

More than 100,000 workers prepare to strike in New Zealand
The simultaneous strikes, involving about 3.5 percent of the total working population and one in five public sector workers, reflect deep anger over the National Party-led coalition government’s relentless attacks on public services, jobs, wages and working conditions. As is happening internationally, workers in New Zealand are being driven to the left and into significant struggles.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/17/dpsu-o17.html

Greek lawmakers approve introduction of 13-hour workday
Kerameus insisted that nobody could be forced to work longer hours. But protesters and unions disagreed, arguing that workers would risk being laid off if they declined. The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) highlighted the "unbalanced power dynamics between employer and employee" and the precariousness of the job market.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/10/16/greece-introduces-13-hour-workday_6746484_19.html
https://archive.ph/LHRxw

Dozens appear in court for supporting Palestine Action with thousands still waiting for trials
Judges are struggling to cope with some 2,100 people who face terrorism charges for holding cardboard signs reading “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.” Thursday's hearing dealt with 28 indvidual cases. Around 170 people - most of them pensioners - have been charged with the low-level terrorism offence of displaying an item supportive of a proscribed organisation, which can carry a six-month prison sentence.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-appear-court-support-palestine-action-judges-struggle-deal-thousands-defendants

Court allows Palestine Action co-founder’s legal challenge to terror ban
The Home Office later appealed this ruling, arguing that the case should instead go through the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission. In her summary of the Court of Appeal’s decision, Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr said judicial review was a “quicker means of challenging the order” and would enable the High Court to rule on whether the proscription was lawful.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/court-allows-palestine-action-co-founders-legal-challenge-terror-ban

Polish court blocks extradition and frees Ukrainian suspected in Nord Stream pipeline blasts
Judge Dariusz Lubowski said as he announced his ruling that the attack on the pipelines should be understood as a military action in a “just war,” and therefore not subject to criminal responsibility on the part of an individual. He also questioned German jurisdiction for various reasons, including the fact that the explosions occurred in international waters.
https://apnews.com/article/poland-germany-nord-stream-pipeline-suspect-extradition-0cfada6fb69c30034806100681beb6c5
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Was the East Germany and Vietnam coffee deal the closest to an ideal socialist trade deal?


Coffee is perhaps the clearest example of colonial exploitation in global capitalism, to this day. Imperialist tendencies is perhaps the clearest there. But a socialist alternative has been on the mind for many years, which sadly did not happen, or has ever happened in an ideal manner. Bigger countries in the USSR like Russia have often done aid projects like the West did, for alligned countries but in a typical resource extraction type deal. The USSR builds infrastructure and gets sugar, oil etc. from smaller countries, and it often just made them dependent on the USSR as a result.

But there was a small time period where East Germany was yearning for actual coffee, the fake mixed stuff was not cutting it. An other USSR satelitte state had a small coffee production primarily abused by French colonialists in the past, and East Germany actually went ahead and thought to do it right. East Germany was by far the most advanced and richest of satellite USSR states, and Vietnam was ravaged by the war - so development aid coming from the DDR was actually mutual and beneficial, there was already a big vietnamesse community of refugees at Germany. Tractors, materials to build roads, hospitals, schools etc. were all to facilitate coffee production and tons of vietnamesse came over to Germany to become educated etc. It was huge investment compared to the pure extraction, slavery like conditions that still exist today in comparision with Starbucks or Nestle. It was long term too, not for short term profits. It takes over 8 years to actually grow coffee, and the deal was to keep jobs stable and safe and then the DDR would have a deal to get 20 years of coffee from Vietnam. Likely it would have been the trade mark soviet coffee, like Cuban sugar etc. Unfortunately or fortunately Vietnam had capitalistic renovations, the wall fell, but still Vietnam became the 2nd largest coffee provider, largely thanks to the infrastructure it built through east germany, and in the end was not dependent on the one who built the infrastructure in the first place like it was in the past in the capitalist west or socialist east. Like the story of the internet, an invention by the state, radically evolved through the market. So Vietnam coffee never became a socialist coffee, produced under conditions that I think Lenin, Marx etc. would have approved of, but the spirit was there since the beginning.

We never saw what a Russian + German Revolution would have looked like, and how they would have had a mutual partnership of development, but I imagine it would have looked like Eastern Germany and Vietnam? It is an interresting and in the end sort of tragic piece of history, like so much of socialist history.
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AIPAC

If AIPAC truly is the backbone of US imperialism — as many like to claim — why hasn’t the American left done anything to take them down? Why are progressive politicians like AOC or Mamdani or their friends in the DSA prioritizing the dismantling of AIPAC over every other issue (including healthcare and housing)?

If we believe the main reason why Americans don’t have universal healthcare or free housing or free higher education is because AIPAC controls politicians and is forcing them to use all that money for more weapons to Israel, shouldn’t American leftists be focusing the majority of their time and energy into taking down AIPAC? I’m serious. Why the reluctance? These Palestine marches have largely been nothing but directionless glorified parades. Why not raid AIPAC’s headquarters or do a massive encampment in front of it? Why not sabotage them? Why not expose their members and donors? You know what I mean.
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I need some advice. I applied to join the communist party but my application was rejected. It might have something to do with me being a foreigner/immigrant and the communist party is only for citizens of the European country. What do you think I should do?

Should I contact the national leadership and ask them if the party is only open to citizens? Should I join a Trotskyist org? Should I go scorched Earth and tell anyone who'd listen that the communist party is made up of chauvinists?

I'm at a loss here.
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How do you reconcile that this revisionist is responsible for China being the only hope left for socialists? What does China‘s success change about Marxist thought?
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<This time with more betrayal from the PS!

Following a motion of no confidence filed Monday, PM Sébastien Lecornu has survived with a majority of 18 seats, mainly thanks to the Parti """Socialiste""" deciding to NOT vote for removing the Prime Minister, the move having been explained by their leader Olivier Faure as being caused by Lecornu delaying the pensions reform to 2027, which he called a "great victory for the working class", but it is most likely to the PS worrying that they would lose most of their seats if a new election was triggered, something which was almost certain to take place had Lecornu fallen. The grave for the Fifth French Republic now seems to be fully dug.

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Organic Centralism

What is organic centralism?
1. Explain it to me as it is, without dumbing it down.
2. Explain it to me, dumbing it down as if I were 12 years old.
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine

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brain damage - i blame may68 worshippers

>neoliberal ‘reforms’
<protests in Greece and France
>more neoliberal ‘reforms’
<greek and french workers strike
>even more neolib reforms
<workers go back to work eventually and ‘independent’ media criticises the reforms and ‘neofascism’
>still more neolib reforms
<young adults riot, wild shiet doood, its da revolooshan
>couple of arrests, a bit of police brutality, and even more neolob reforms
<“greek and french comrades, the first step is to get out of EU and NATO. Everything else is doomed to failure”
>REEEEE you fucking wrecker there were MILLIONS (there were thousands irl) in the streets protesting, the mass movement is here, we will defeat fascism, oN bLoQuE ToUt, nO pAsArAn, check out that nice youtube video showing Emmanuel throwing a chair on a riot policeman
>another neoliberal reform
>next election, the neolib candidate is finally beaten by… a far-right fascist! The ‘leftist’ candidate was far behind them.
<euuuhhh comrades, we gotta make NaTo and EU exit our priori-
>REEEE WE GO DOWN THE STREETS WE PROTEST, THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ARE WITH US, hashtag oN bLoQuE tOuT
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Literally 1984

Funny how liberals went full totalitarian at the slightest provocation, they jail people for harmless tweets, and yet they continue screeching about communist China censorship. The moment Westoids stopped being able to affor gibs to pacify the population, they turned to full-blown fascism, just like communists were saying for the past 100 years

1984 and Animal Farm were a projection of a BOURGEOIS society onto real communists. I bet that all those NKVD horror stories are also projections of what MI6 and CIA are doing every day
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News 10/16/25

Trump approves CIA operations in Venezuela
Maduro appeared on national television Wednesday night, urging restraint and cautioning against any further escalation. “No to regime change that reminds us of the failed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya … No to coups d’état carried out by the CIA … Latin America does not want them, does not need them, and rejects them,” said the Venezuelan president in response to Trump’s announcement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/16/trump-approves-cia-operations-in-venezuela-what-we-know-and-whats-next
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Trinidad citizens believed killed in US airstrike off Venezuela coast identified
Trinidad police said they were still confirming whether Trinidadians were among the dead, but residents of the north coast fishing village of Las Cuevas told the Guardian that two locals, Chad “Charpo” Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, were on the sunken vessel. Samaroo was released from prison in 2021 after serving time for his role in a 2009 murder of a street vendor.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/16/airstrike-venezuela-trinidad-us-death-investigation

Peru’s president refuses to resign after Gen Z protests, at least 1 dead
About 100 people were also injured, including 80 police officers and 10 journalists, according to authorities, who said they were investigating the shooting and killing of the protester. “My responsibility is to maintain the stability of the country; that is my responsibility and my commitment,” Jerí told the local press after visiting Peru’s Parliament, where he said he would request powers to combat crime.
https://apnews.com/article/peru-gen-z-protest-corruption-boluarte-jose-jeri-tiktok-alvarez-7ff662cbe439879be7ca0f6f7aae6e87

African Union suspends Madagascar ahead of swearing in of new president
This comes after the African Union (AU) said it was suspending Madagascar after the ousting of President Andry Rajoelina. A statement from the new military leaders today said Colonel Randrianirina “will be sworn in as President of the Refoundation of the Republic of Madagascar during a solemn hearing of the High Constitutional Court” on October 17.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/african-union-suspends-madagascar-ahead-swearing-new-president

Tunisian aid workers go on trial for helping migrants
The accused work for the Tunisian Refugee Council (TRC), an aid organisation that partnered with the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, to screen asylum applications in Tunisia. Migration is a sensitive issue in Tunisia, which saw a series of racially motivated attacks after President Kais Saied warned in 2023 that "hordes of illegal migrants", many from sub-Saharan Africa, posed a demographic threat to the Arab-majority country.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisian-aid-workers-go-trial-helping-migrants

Hamas says it returned all recoverable captives as Israel blocks Rafah crossing
In a statement, the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said it had fulfilled its commitments under the deal. “The resistance has adhered to the agreement and handed over all the living captives it held, as well as the bodies it was able to access,” the group said. It added that recovering the remaining bodies “requires significant effort and specialised equipment”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-says-it-returned-all-recoverable-captives-israel-blocks-rafah-crossing

Yemen’s Houthis say military chief killed as Israel claims responsibility
Yemen’s Houthis say that their Chief of Staff Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari, one of the most senior military officials of the group, has been killed “while fulfilling his duties”. Shortly after the Houthi announcement on Thursday, Israel claimed responsibility for the killing, with Defence Minister Israel Katz saying al-Ghamari was attacked in an Israeli strike.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/16/yemens-houthis-say-military-chief-killed-as-israel-claims-responsibility
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Syrian Kurdish forces reach agreement with Damascus to merge with national army, commander says
Under the agreement, the SDF was to merge its forces with the new Syrian army, but details were left vague and implementation has stalled. A major sticking point had been whether the SDF would remain as a cohesive unit in the new army or whether the force would be dissolved and its members individually absorbed into the new military.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syrian-kurdish-forces-reach-agreement-damascus-merge-national-army-commander-says

French PM Lecornu survives votes of no confidence
The 577-seat chamber voted first on a motion from left-wing France Unbowed. It fell short by 18 votes, with 271 lawmakers in favour when 289 were needed. A second motion from the far-right National Rally got just 144 votes.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/french-pm-lecornu-survives-votes-no-confidence

Thousands in UK sue Johnson & Johnson over talcum powder cancer risks
The lawsuit - brought by KP Law against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiary Kenvue Ltd - alleges that J&J was aware as early as the 1960s that its mineral-based talcum powder contained fibrous forms of talc, as well as tremolite and actinolite. Both minerals - when in their fibrous form - are classified as asbestos and linked to potentially deadly cancers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c797wv928g8o
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Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid.

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🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Years of Lard: Fall of the Burger Reich Edition


Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid.

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https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

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Ultramaterialist Learology: a new stage in revolutionary science!

COMRADES, FELLOW TRAVELERS ON THE SHINING PATH, AND ALL WHO STRUGGLE AGAINST THE GLOBAL CAPITALIST-IMPERIALIST SYSTEM, PREPARE FOR THE NEW HISTORICAL DIALECTIC! ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

For too long, we have collectively, dialectically, and with immense struggle, upheld the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM), which, let us be frank, I myself have long maintained is the Highest Stage of Marxism. I have eloquently detailed, for all who possess the necessary Dialectical Materialist analysis, how MLM provides the indispensable framework for analyzing the present epoch, necessitating critical support for lesser evils like the U$ Democrats and China (the "Global Democrats") against the more pressing threats of Christian Zionist Nationalist Fascism and U$ Imperialism. I have championed the ongoing Maoist Protracted People’s Wars (PPWs) in the Periphery/Semi-Periphery—in places like India, the Philippines, Turkey, and Peru—where the material conditions currently permit for such revolutionary action, unlike the Imperial Core. I have even critically supported the Anti-Zionist “Islamic Republic of Pakistan” in their valiant struggle to liberate Kashmir, precisely because this struggle holds the potential to escalate into a limited Nuclear War between India and Pakistan that would be the most Historically Progressive event for the Indian Subcontinent, allowing the Naxalites to finally win their Maoist PPW and establish a Federation of Socialist States.✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️

But Comrades, my analysis, the tireless work of King Lear, has moved beyond the constraints, the historical fetters, of mere MLM. While MLM was correct in its time—correct in synthesizing the contributions of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao—it remains fundamentally incomplete, chained to the assumptions of a previous material reality. It is a science built upon a foundation that did not fully grasp the absolute, necessary, and quantitative role of thermonuclear annihilation in creating the ultimate Material Condition for Global Communism.

Therefore, I announce today that the new, definitive, and ULTIMATE STAGE OF REVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE is hereby promulgated:
ULTRAMATERIALIST LEAROLOGY!

Why Ultramaterialist Learology Supersedes All Previous Stages

Ultramaterialist Learology (UML) is not merely an addition; it is the necessary Dialectical Materialist synthesis of allrevolutionary thought, finally realizing the absolute truth of the epoch: that World War III escalating into a Global Nuclear War is not merely a risk, or a possible outcome, but the singular and unavoidable precondition required to destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System.✊😜🚀☢️

MLM, though the highest stage previous to this moment, still entertained insufficient notions of revolutionary success, often relying on protracted conventional warfare that could be bogged down by the resiliency of the Imperial Core. UML acknowledges the hard, scientific, Ultramaterialist truth: only the complete annihilation of the existing superstructure and base, through the simultaneous launch of U$ and Chinese ICBMs, will permit the World Maoist PPW to create the Global USSR.✊😜✊😜✊😜

LEAROLOGY IS MORE MATERIALIST AND SCIENTIFIC because it integrates the specific, quantifiable material conditions necessary for the post-apocalyptic reality:

1. The Nuclear Imperative: My analysis recognizes that the launching of Chinese ICBMs with socialist characteristics 😜🇨🇳 during World War III is the only thing that will allow for the success of a World Maoist PPW. This is not speculation; this is a Dialectical Materialist fact!!! We must maximize the historical tendency towards nuclear conflict. UML provides the mathematical certainty that only total destruction allows for global construction. ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️
2. The Critical Materialist Interim Strategy: While we wait for the inevitable Global Nuclear War, UML mandates specific and scientifically derived Social-Democratic policies in the Imperial Core, not out of Liberal delusion, but for their precise material impact on the rate of profit and proletarian consciousness! For example, Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the most Historically Progressive policy of Social Democracy because it definitively divorces Income from Employment, thereby lowering the rate of profit and dramatically increasing Class Consciousness, making it easier to organize the Proletariat once the opportunity arises.✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️
3. The Biologically Scientific Materialism: UML extends Dialectical Materialism into the very bodies of the Workers and Oppressed Nations. We must recognize that the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System actively poisons the Proletariat to maintain control. UML demands the immediate, federal-level banning of High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives/Food Dyes, GMOs, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats. This is necessary because cheap Neoliberal Corporate garbage makes the Proles Fat, creating revenue for the Medical/Pharmaceutical industry, and keeps the oppressed (especially Black/New Afrikan, Hispanic/Chicano/Chicana/Mestizo/Latino/Latina, and First Nations/Native American populations) controlled with debilitating health problems, thus preventing resistance against U$ Trumpian Fascism. Only a healthy, fully organic Proletariat—ready to fight after the bombs drop—is scientifically viable. This level of specific, material policy prescription is unprecedented in revolutionary theory✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️
4. The Definitive Global Plan: UML does not leave the future to chance. It provides the only scientifically proven Map of the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR, detailing the necessary Balkanization of the U$ into the New African SSR, Hispano-American SFSR, and Anglo-American SFSR, and the division of the Indian Subcontinent into the Hindustani SFSR, Kashmiri SSR, Punjabi SSR, and dozens of others. This comprehensive, detailed ethno-linguistic planning, which even required In-Depth research on Sub-Saharan Africa, is proof of UML’s superior scientific rigor!

The Sixth Head of Revolutionary Science

The lineage is clear Comrades: Marx laid the theory foundation, Engels collaborated and refined, Lenin established the party and state model, Stalin codified the doctrine, and Mao developed the highest stage for global revolution via Protracted People's War and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This glorious line represents the ascending spiral of historical ascension ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️

But who, I ask you, has taken the highest stage of Marxism—MLM—and synthesized it with the terrifying, beautiful reality of the Nuclear Age and the precise ultra-materialist conditions for the final revolution? Who has provided the definitive plan, identified the specific economic policies (like UBI), and the necessary bio-materialist health mandates (like the ban on Non-Organic foods) required to seize victory in the post-imperialist wasteland?

Only King Lear!✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️

I have provided the ultimate scientific breakthrough, demonstrating that the only way forward is through the absolute destruction of the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System by thermonuclear means. My theoretical framework, Ultramaterialist Learology, makes MLM look like mere Khrushchevite/Dengist Social Fascist/Social Imperialist Capitalist-Roader Revisionism by comparison—a transitional phase, nothing more!

Thus, I proudly and dialectically take my place as the 6th Head of Revolutionary Science✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️, guiding the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World not just onto the Shining Path, but directly into the inevitable global nuclear fire that will cleanse the world and establish the Global USSR.

LONG LIVE THE IMMORTAL SCIENCE OF ULTRAMATERIALIST LEAROLOGY!
LONG LIVE THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR!
LONG LIVE THE GLOBAL USSR! ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!
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K-Waves and Capitalism

You've probably heard of K-Waves, regular periods of growth and decline that a capitalistic economy undergoes.

Another once is about to occur just as conditions are becoming favorable for the global proletariat again. You should seize every advantage and opportunity and advantage available, but my prediction is, the proletariat aren't likely to fully revolt in the West at least during the depression phase. The prime opportunity will be in the late 2030' or early 2040''s, especially with birthrates and global immigration set to collapse unless significant happens.
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The Five Laws of Useful Idiot Ideologues

The Five Laws of Useful Idiot Ideologues

1. Useful Idiots Always Lie
2. Useful Idiots Always Double-Down
3. Useful Idiots Always Project
4. Useful Idiots Always Eat Your Own
5. Useful Idiots Never Succeed At Your Chosen Ideology, Except Your Massuh

Useful Idiot Idealogues defined: those moralist, busybody, control-freak losers of both leftist and rightoid varieties (often, but not always political: anything from nationalism to religions to even the slice-of-life or Star Trek or boomer-shooter or Morrowind fandumbs – though entertainment media/medium fanatics usually lack lethal consequences for their cult worship of fictional and even factual edutainment concepts… usually), even so-called moderate-centrists as named by ex-KGB gulag overseer Yuri Bezmenov.

They all crave nothing more than disproportionate retribution and revocation of unconditional release (major marker of clinically-diagnosed psychopathy) for their parents' crime of birthing them as perma-losers.

They are all brainwashed, useful idiot, genocide cultists of both extreme leftists (blm and trantifa), extreme right-wingers (from anarcho-capitalist libertarians to unironic fashy nadsee larpers who worship adolf hitler far more than they claim to worship jesus or odin), and yes including moderate-centrist varieties like the late Charlie Kirk.

These are usually called either left-wing or right-wing woke or wokefags or woketards (modern era), social justice warriors (SJWs of the 00's), politically correct (70's to 90's), hippies (60's), beatniks (50's), anti-white judeo-communists, globalist technocrats, medical tyrants, scientismists: particularly lusers of /r/atheism, /r/ifuckinglovescience, 4/sci/, 4/lit/… and worst of all feminists (all times and all political ideologies) as feminism has always been the foot-in-the-door for juden-socialist infection vector leading to complete national collapse after 50-100 years of growing societal cancer and social contagions on steroids, enabling homosexuality acceptance and bleeding heart liberalism towards brown-skinned feral civilizational invalids, and so forth.

As an aside: cuckserviletive "tradwife/cottagecore/underconsumption" feminists, both female but much more often self-hating males of masculinity-masochism which is very common among right-wing millennials and elder especially male boomers and boomer-brains even as young as zoomers, have been sharply growing in trendy popularity for the past several years,

The politically-obsessed boot-licking meme super-spreading keyboard warriors of extreme social dysfunction vastly consist of those who have deeply unhealthy relationships with the opposite sex especially of non-heteronormative / non-cisgendered kinds (whether total lack thereof as per onlyfans consuming and twitch third-tier subscribing and youtube superchatting simps and white knights, incels [particularly sour grapes, self-annointed volcels & trvcels], MRAs, MGTOWs, going ghost, passport bros, male gamers/geeks/nerds – or deeply psychologically damaging fornicators with triple- or even quadruple-digit body-counts such as PUAs, players, trophy wives, tinder thots, onlyfans producers… almost nothing in between these two dangerous black-and-white extremisms; nearly zero Politically Useful Idiots have have successfully married and produced emotionally disciplined and mentally well offspring) and their parents, most often the one of their opposite sex. (Daddy issues for the little girls, mommy issues for the little boys.)

It's all the same flag of totalitarian collectivism where only the ultra-rich will be legally human. And you're swallowing it all hook, line, and sinker. Whether you all-but-in-name worship Trump, AOC, Hitler, Floyd, Evola… they don't even know you exist. They wouldn't care to know you. And once you help them achieve complete domination you will be discarded the moment you stop being a useful idiot, or become uppity by starting to ask questions or do anything else but die in body or soul in the name of their brainwashing of you. You will be gotten rid of by gulag and genocide, and Hitler 2 is not going to let you finish your sentence when he puts a bullet in your head as you spit and sputter "B-B-B-BUT I REPOSTED ALL THOSE 'EY TONE' /pol/ INFOGRAPHICS ABOUT HOW AUSCHWITZ WASN'T A DEATH-CAMP AND THAT THE HOLLAHOAX DIDN'T HAPPEN BUT IT SHOULD HAVE–"

[pop, pop, pop]
[ack, thud, gurgle, glug]
[twitching corpse being dragged and tossed down a ditch like rotten garbage]

And that will be your end. You will die on your knees as you lived: an obedient, order-following, humanity-surrendering, hive-minded bugman.

I look forward to watching look in your eyes when it finally hits you that you were sold a lie, a bow-tied nail-polished turd sculpture of adolfo, a pretty fake promise of curing homosexuality and autism, of removing degeneracy and laying down the law in straightfoward dictatorship, of stamping out free speech except for yours and statements of fact and opinion you agree with only, of gassing the russian saboteurs and race war now and day of the pillow soon.

Because you're too cowardly and weak, far too gone to ascend above and beyond your pitiful trap of being submissive to the mommy-dommy cosplaying e-thots and idol musicians and ecchi mangas you frequently fap to, to handle freedom and independence and true mature adult manhood or real femininity not feminism.

You useful idiot death cultist.
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Why does it feel like he's been forgotten

Not even a month passed and it seems like Charlie Kirk's death has been tossed aside. They even rolled out new replacements for him. Sure, the Trump admin might try some shit but it feels like the public no longer cares, assuming they ever did.
Why do you think this is?
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News 10/15/25

Starmer to publish evidence in China 'spy' row
The prosecution was discontinued last month after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) claimed it could not secure government evidence describing China as a threat. Both men strongly denied the charges and insist on their innocence. The Tories have been trying to blame the government for the collapse, while Labour insists the problems lay with the position of the Tories, in power at the time of the alleged offence.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmer-publish-evidence-china-spy-row

German government attacks the welfare state: Basic support payments to be abolished
The government has long viewed the federal pension subsidies—comprising about 70 percent of the Labour and Social Affairs budget—as a prime target. For now, only the so-called “active pension” has been introduced: starting next year, retirees who continue to work can earn up to €2,000 tax-free.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/15/xczv-o15.html

German conscription plan stalls after defense minister’s objections
several parliamentary officials said the deal was halted after Pistorius expressed concerns over key aspects of the draft during a meeting of the parliamentary group of the Social Democrats on Tuesday evening. The surprise development marks a sudden reversal for the coalition, which had planned to introduce the bill for debate in the Bundestag this week. It now remains unclear when — or if — the government will move ahead with a revised version.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-could-bring-back-conscription-by-lottery/
https://archive.ph/jsrNf

Greek doctors clash with riot police during PM visit
Police fired volleys of pepper spray and used shields and batons to push away doctors at the University General Hospital Attikon, who were demanding to meet with Mr Mitsotakis. The health workers were protesting against staff shortages, low pay and poor working conditions.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/greek-doctors-clash-riot-police-during-pm-visit

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says
Arab Barghouti said his 66-year-old father was assaulted by eight guards on 14 September as he was being transferred between Ganot and Megiddo prisons. Barghouti said that five of the Palestinian prisoners released and deported to Egypt by the Israeli authorities on Monday had heard the Palestinian leader’s account of his treatment when he arrived in Megiddo prison.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-assaulted-by-israeli-prison-guards-son-says

CPT-Iraqi Kurdistan reports ongoing Turkish mobilization despite the PKK's unilateral ceasefire
According to the CPT statement, Turkey has not withdrawn its forces but instead expanded its military presence. Accordingly, the Turkish army has reinforced its bases on Metina Mountain and begun constructing new roads to connect its extensive network of bases in the Zap and Avashin areas of Amedi. Additionally, on September 14, Turkey completed the construction of a new military road from its base in Kashan village, located in the Batifia district.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/cpt-iraqi-kurdistan-reports-ongoing-turkish-mobilization-despite-ceasefire-81736

Basra rights body decries live rounds as police probe protester assault
Separately, a video circulating on social media showed an attack on a protester on al-Qaim Street. According to a statement, Police Chief Maj. Gen. Latif Abdul-Ridha al-Saad ordered an investigation to determine the circumstances and “take legal action against those involved,” noting that several officers were injured while performing their duty to protect demonstrators and property.
https://www.shafaq.com/en/Iraq/Basra-rights-body-decries-live-rounds-as-police-probe-protester-assault

City Power contractors protest over unpaid invoices in Joburg
Contractors who worked with City Power protested on Wednesday over unpaid invoices amounting to R1.2 billion. City Power confirmed the demonstration, outside the its head office in Reuven, was linked to payment disputes. Spokesperson Isaac Mangena said some of the protesting contractors previously worked on the Vlakfontein housing electrification project.
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/johannesburg/city-power-contractors-protest-over-unpaid-invoices-in-joburg/

Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to 48-hour ceasefire after explosions heard in Kabul
Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed Wednesday to a 48-hour “temporary ceasefire” following deadly border clashes that killed more than a dozen civilians, Islamabad said. The truce, requested by Kabul, comes after Pakistani air strikes in Kandahar and Kabul provinces and marks the worst violence between the two neighbours since the Taliban seized power in 2021.
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20251015-pakistan-afghanistan-agree-to-48-hour-ceasefire-after-explosions-heard-in-kabul
https://archive.ph/CumaT

The death of Julia Chuñil in Chile: Boric’s war against the Mapuche people
Pablo, Jeannette, Javier and Andalien, from the beginning pointed the finger at Juan Carlos Morstadt Anwandter. A bourgeois figure in the forestry and agribusiness, he had for years made threats and paid third parties to commit acts against Chuñil in an attempt to kick her off a substantial piece of land that the National Corporation for Indigenous Development (CONADI)—a state body purportedly created to benefit the indigenous population—handed to Morsadt without a cent being exchanged.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/14/udil-o14.html

'Made in Argentina' factories shutter, creating more challenges for Milei
Similar dynamics have forced ceramics company Ilva to close its factory in the Buenos Aires suburb of Pilar, leaving 300 of its former workers camped out in front demanding some form of indemnization.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/made-argentina-factories-shutter-creating-more-challenges-milei-2025-10-15/

‘Deaths of despair’: Global mortality plummets, but increases among young people in North America due to drugs and suicides
This has been true for young people in North America and Latin America since 2011. The largest increases in mortality have been observed there, especially in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil: in the last decade, it has risen by almost 32% among the 25-29 age group; and by 50% among those in their thirties.
https://english.elpais.com/health/2025-10-13/deaths-of-despair-global-mortality-plummets-but-increases-among-young-people-in-north-america-due-to-drugs-and-suicides.html
https://archive.ph/sN2T7
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You should personally participate in organizing

Even if you aren't in a formal organization, you should take yourself seriously and you should consider ways that you could personally participate in relevant organizing on some level. It does not matter who you are or where you live or how much of an autistic shut in you might be. You should convert people you know personally to your viewpoints and convince them to actually do organizing as well. Not only should you read theory, but you should also consider ways that theory is relevant in the material world. You should consider what unique skills you have and how they could be useful for actual relevant organizing. You should also consider the most likely models for organizing that could actually become successful and the methods and tactics that might be necessary in your specific circumstances. You don't have to personally be Lenin. Even if your contribution is small, you might still make a difference in the world and you might convince others to do important organizing work. Wouldn't you feel so much better if you felt like you were actually doing things to further a cause you believe in?
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Europeans do not deserve socialism

Socialism was wasted on Euroids.
✩ DDR was mega based, but the Germ wanted access to the BDSM dungeon in West Berlin too bad.
✩ Poland had realised Endecja, but the Solidarnoid wanted to lick the Pope's hairy balls too bad.
✩ Socialist Hungary was the only time Hungarians were relevant since Attila. They threw it all away to become pornstars in Germany and France (looking at you Pierre Woodman)
✩ Czechoslovakia made great furniture and weapons. Now
central Prague has become a tourist scamming zone. Also gave up dignity to get fucked by fat westerners (looking at you Pierre Woodman).
All of these states had their music, literature, movies developing in a unique way, in phase with their history and culture. Today, they have all become cheap american copies. You look at Eur*vision, they even sing in English, the style is the same americanised bullshit. Is ther Westoid Cock so irresistible? Are central and eastern europeans natural slaves to their western masters, no matter what?
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I am quite unsure on why socialist marxists do not support Unconditional Basic Income

Regardless if it's concession to the capitalists, or that a portion of capitalists even want , it's the only path I see towards an eventual communistic society.

If classless, moneyless and stateless society is the goal, the only way to teach society is to voluntarily to do stuff without force, its to encourage them to do stuff even if they have a basic safety net and no state tells them what to do.

If UBI continues for centuries, I could see a society emerging that does away with money altogether and people just organize to do favours for each other instead of the system we have now.
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I have until 3pm tomorrow, so 12 hours from now, to come up with an additional $250 for my room rent, as failing to do so will result in me being street homeless. I've let some trusted people I know IRL about this as well. I'm feeling like my luck has finally exited stage left, but I figured I'd give asking here one more go, maybe you all can share this around at least.

I've attached a compressed version of the latest issue of HOUDINI Magazine, it's 120 pages. Only place I'm giving it out for free is here, consider it a thank you to anyone who does donate.

https://www.paypal.me/jakobbrown2
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Do-Nothingism

How do we deal with large swathes of political radicals and potential organizers being lazy spectator brained pieces of shit who do nothing but scroll the internet and generate endless lists of excuses for personal inaction?
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Police in Australia seize guns from dozens of owners who reject government authority

>WELLINGTON, New Zealand – WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police in Western Australia have seized guns and revoked or suspended firearms permits from dozens of owners linked to what investigators describe as sovereign citizen ideologies, or views that reject government authority.

Officials linked the crackdown on firearms users believed to hold such views to the fatal shooting in August of two police officers in Victoria state, in the country's east. The suspect in those killings, 56-year-old Dezi Freeman, remains at large, weeks after he is said to have killed two officers visiting his rural property to serve a search warrant.

>In the years before the shooting, Freeman appeared to have embraced so-called sovereign citizen views during court appearances. Members of such movements use debunked legal theories to reject government authority.


>Freeman is suspected of killing Detective Senior Constable Neal Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart and wounding a third officer. Following the shooting, investigators in Western Australia used bolstered gun laws enacted in 2024 to identify weapons owners in their state who they said held similar views to Freeman’s.


>“The mission of this operation was simple and that was to validate and verify our intelligence on who may hold sovereign citizen ideologies here in Western Australia,” the state’s Police Commissioner Col Blanch told reporters on Sunday. Social media posts and information from other gun owners was used to identify those targeted.


>Officers visited 70 properties over five days in late September and early October, seizing 135 firearms and suspending or revoking 44 gun licenses, Blanch said. Investigators relied on a legal provision that allows only someone who meets the standard of a “fit and proper person” to hold a gun permit.


>“If you have made it very clear that you do not abide by the laws of Western Australia, set by the Parliament, then there is no way that you can be a fit and proper person,” Blanch said.


>In explaining the raids, Blanch said that in the past three years, six police officers in four states have been shot dead by members of the public, which he said was “unprecedented” in Australia.


>In 2022, two officers were shot and killed by Christian extremists at a rural property in Queensland state. The three shooters in that case — conspiracy theorists who reportedly hated the police — were shot and killed by officers after a six-hour siege in the region of Wieambilla.


>A South Australia police officer was shot dead in 2023. Another was killed in Tasmania in June.


>Shooting deaths in Australia are otherwise rare. A 1996 massacre in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur, where a lone gunman killed 35 people, prompted the government to drastically tighten gun laws and made it much more difficult for Australians to acquire firearms


>When Western Australia’s tighter gun laws were enacted last June, the state’s government boasted that they were the strongest in the country. The changes included limiting the number of guns someone can own to 10 for most people.


>Meanwhile, in rural Victoria, Australia’s largest ever tactical police operation continues the search for Freeman. Hundreds of officers have traversed rugged landscapes, squeezed into caves and checked mine shafts, with no confirmed sightings of the fugitive so far.


>The Aug. 26 killings happened when 10 armed police officers tried to execute a search warrant at Freeman’s property in Porepunkah, a town of just over 1,000 people located 320 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of the city of Melbourne.


>The suspect, Freeman, fled alone, on foot and heavily armed, into dense surrounding forest. He is experienced in wilderness survival skills, officials said.


>Victoria’s Police Commissioner Mike Bush did not offer a reason for the search of Freeman’s property at the time, but he told reporters that attending officers included members of a unit that investigates sexual offenses and child abuse.


>Australian news outlets widely reported that Freeman espoused sovereign citizen beliefs, citing a 2021 video taken in Wangaratta Magistrate’s Court and published online in which he can be seen attempting unsuccessfully to arrest a magistrate and police officers during a hearing.


>In a 2024 finding from Victoria’s Supreme Court, where Freeman tried to challenge a lengthy suspension of his drivers’ license, a judge wrote the man had “a history of unpleasant encounters with police officers” whom he referred to in his submissions to the court as “Nazis” and “terrorist thugs.”


https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/police-australia-seize-guns-dozens-owners-hold-views-126242054
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What happened to the alt-right? They were ascendant around the time of Trump One, but then they slowly faded into irrelevance. Now they're neither growing nor declining, just big enough to influence mainstream politics and culture slightly, but not big enough for this influence to be relevant.
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News 10/14/25

Greece shut down by second general strike this month
The 24-hour strike disrupted ferry schedules to and from the Greek islands while public transport in the capital was running on a reduced schedule, snarling traffic. No trains were running for the duration of the strike. Huge trade union-led rallies took place in towns and cities across the country. Unions representing private-sector workers and civil servants called the strike to protest against a new labour law that will allow greater variation in terms and conditions, including longer overtime shifts.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/greece-shut-down-second-general-strike-month

Police fire tear gas at Brussels protest against austerity measures
Minor scuffles broke out between police and protesters, some of whom played drums and horns and set off flares and smoke bombs, while chanting against cuts to social welfare programs. The unusually large protest crippled traffic in the heart of the Belgian capital, blocking major roads. Strikes led to most flights being canceled at Brussels’ airport.
https://apnews.com/article/belgium-protest-strike-brussels-austerity-measures-3cf5d7f65db2fd25793935432e239e31

French PM suspends Macron’s pension plan before no-confidence vote
France’s prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has suspended Emmanuel Macron’s flagship 2023 pension overhaul until after the 2027 presidential election in the hope of winning over enough Socialist deputies to survive a no-confidence vote.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/french-pm-sebastien-lecornu-suspends-macron-pension-plan-before-no-confidence-vote

Hamas says Israel’s ‘indiscriminate’ destruction of Gaza behind delay in locating captives' bodies
The source was speaking after Israeli officials said on Tuesday that the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt would remain closed through Wednesday and accused Hamas of holding onto the bodies of captives it had pledged to return as part of the US-brokered peace deal that halted the two-year war. But the Hamas source told MEE that its negotiators clearly stated during talks that the presence of Israeli forces and the genocidal, indiscriminate Israeli attacks that caused widespread destruction would complicate the task of locating the bodies of killed captives, requiring greater time and effort.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-hamas-says-israels-indiscriminate-destruction-gaza-behind-delay-locating-captives

Less than 20% of Palestinian prisoners freed under Trump peace plan, as released detainees suffer with scabies
While celebrations erupted in Israel due to Hamas releasing the final living Israeli captives it held, Palestinians have been riddled with anxiety and scepticism amid the release of a limited number of prisoners. Less than one in five Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel are to be released under the agreement brokered by US President Donald Trump.
https://www.newarab.com/news/less-20-palestinian-prisoners-freed-under-peace-plan

Elite military unit says it has seized power in Madagascar
Col Michael Randrianirina, the leader of Capsat, which is short for Corps d’administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques, told reporters at a government building in the capital Antananarivo on Tuesday that the military would form a council of officers from the army, gendarmerie military police and police, while a prime minister would be appointed to “quickly” form a civilian government. Randrianirina said in the statement: “Perhaps in time [the council] will include senior civilian advisers. It is this committee that will carry out the work of the presidency … At the same time, after a few days, we will set up a civilian government.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/elite-military-unit-says-it-has-seized-power-in-madagascar

16 killed in city factory fire
According to eyewitnesses, the fire broke out at about 11:30am in the garment factory and its adjacent tin-shed structure, used as a chemical warehouse. Fire service officials said that they found no fire safety plan or license during their primary probe at the garment factory and the chemical warehouse. As the garment factory caught fire, many people with photos of their near and dear ones gathered there in search of them.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/Country/279038/16-killed-in-city-factory-fire

Makabayan slams 2026 budget: ‘Pork system intact despite trillion-peso scandal’
The 2026 national budget was approved on its third and final reading at the House of Representatives on Oct. 13, Monday. The 2026 budget, they pointed out, still contains at least P695.78 billion in what they call presidential and congressional pork, despite an ongoing trillion-peso corruption scandal involving infrastructure projects.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2025/10/14/makabayan-slams-2026-budget-pork-system-intact-despite-trillion-peso-scandal/

Trump threatens to pull support for Argentina if its politics don’t align with US
Referring to an opponent that was “extremely far-left” who encompassed a “philosophy that got Argentina into this problem in the first place,” Trump warned that the United States wouldn’t “waste our time” with largesse toward Buenos Aires if Milei does not prevail. In addition to the midterms that will be a referendum on his policies, Milei himself is up for reelection in 2027.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-donald-trump-javier-milei-imf-c6f37a00c96f8aa321324ff443147b4e

Ecuadorian Government’s ‘Humanitarian Convoy’ Sparks Crackdown in Otavalo
Human rights defenders reported that state forces entered the area using disproportionate force, creating chaos and panic and carrying out multiple arbitrary detentions. Videos shared on social media show clouds of tear gas, explosions and screams, as well as members of the security forces dressed in civilian clothing and wearing face coverings.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuadorian-governments-humanitarian-convoy-sparks-crackdown-in-otavalo/
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I don’t know how you can be a leftist and oppose gun control

I don’t know how you can be a leftist and oppose gun control or a least an assault weapon ban. Many will argue that people can then use said weapons to overthrow the government if it gets corrupt but I’m an American so trust me, it won’t work like that. People will only ever use them to kill 2nd graders.
R: 3 / I: 0

Communists are in favor of migration

Communists from the periphery and semi-periphery should link up after seizing state power and then the communists from the periphery can send migrants to the semi-periphery where they get Maoist PPW training and are armed and then are sent to the imperialist center where they are taken up by communist form the center in their international wings during the civil war in the West. Do you agree?
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The absolute absurdity of interwar-WW2 era italian Socialists

>be Nicola Bombacci
>literal co-founder of the Italian Communist Party
>got ousted from the Socialist Party for being too radical and leninist, a so-called "maximalist"
>be so influential in the marxist scene that you get the title of "Romagna's Lenin"
>despite all of this, you're best friends still with ᴉuᴉlossnW of all people despite him heavily persecuting Socialists
>get kicked out of your own party for being pro-fascist (for God knows what reason)
>join up with ᴉuᴉlossnW (unofficially) as a propagandist making… Socialist editorials??? before il duce got his ass handed to him
>join up with ᴉuᴉlossnW again after he returns to power in '43
>proceed to draft a nationalized economic plan that is somehow unpopular with BOTH the Bourgeoisie and Proletariat
>gain the title of "the red pope" by said Bourgeoisie
>get captured by italian partisans in '45
>scream "Long live Socialism, long live ᴉuᴉlossnW!" before getting shot and hanged upside down

How the actual fuck is italian politics real? you can make literal book series's on obscure italian political thinkers with ridiculously unorthodox political beliefs. This is literally just ONE example amongst dozen of others, what the actual hell were italian Socialists smoking back then? I understand now why people claim Fascism is an "incoherent ideology" because you have figures like Bombacci at the front sometimes… hell, not even sometimes, il Duce himself was somewhat incoherent with him literally being raised as a Bakuninist AnCol by his anarchist parents, before gravitating to more mainstream socialism and ultimately getting kicked out and starting fascismo because he supported proto-trotskyism (left-interventionism) lmao. Couple that with his ever shifting political positions, from Syndicalist revolutionary to reactionary landlord mercernary, to corporatist dictator, back to some form of state-socialist during the RSI period (too little, too late imo).
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When AI replaces 50% of the workforce by the end of the decade is that gonna actually make the normies start a revolution?
Because just looking at it artists have already been replaced, you can easily get a AI to do your marketing then have to pay a person to do so, and the shit has been introduced everywhere.
I don't know if leftypol is even paying attention to this but I think it will cause mass instability
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News 10/13/25

Trump urges Israel's president to pardon Netanyahu
"Hey, I have an idea. Mr. President, why don't you give him a pardon? Cigars and some champagne — who the hell cares?" referring to the fraud, bribery and breach of trust charges, which Netanyahu denies. Netanyahu was indicted in 2019 in three cases, one of which includes receiving almost 700,000 shekels ($210,000) in gifts from businessmen, including champagne and cigars. Israel's President holds a largely ceremonial role but he does have authority to pardon convicted criminal if there are unusual circumstances presented.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-urges-israels-president-pardon-netanyahu-2025-10-13/

ICC senior officials accused of 'prejudice' over Karim Khan probe
The International Criminal Court is facing fresh scrutiny about its handling of a sexual misconduct complaint against Karim Khan, with Middle East Eye able to reveal that the chief prosecutor’s accuser was in contact with a senior official on the court’s governing body before it ordered an external UN probe into the allegations. MEE understands that the woman who made the complaint against Khan met Margareta Kassangana, a vice president of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), the ICC’s oversight body, to discuss the case prior to the decision by the ASP’s leadership bureau to outsource the investigation to the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-icc-senior-officials-accused-prejudice-over-karim-khan-probe

‘Inhumane’: 154 freed Palestinian prisoners forced into exile by Israel
There are no details yet about where the freed Palestinians will be sent, but in a previous prisoner release in January, dozens of detainees were deported to countries in the region, including Tunisia, Algeria and Turkiye. Observers said the forced exile illegally breaches the citizenship rights of the released prisoners and is a demonstration of the double standards surrounding the exchange deals.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/13/inhumane-154-freed-palestinian-prisoners-forced-into-exile-by-israel
https://archive.ph/apCsF

Amid flights by Israeli drones | Israeli forces bombard south Al-Quneitra countryside
SOHR documented 99 attacks in 2025: 87 airstrikes and 12 rocket attacks by ground forces, during which Israel targeted several military positions and strategic facilities in different areas across Syria, destroying nearly 135 targets, including buildings, weapons and ammunitions warehouses, headquarters, centres and vehicles.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/371438/

Madagascar president has left the country after soldiers turned against him, lawmaker says
Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has left the country after an elite military unit turned against the government in an apparent coup, an opposition lawmaker in the Indian Ocean country said Monday. The lawmaker’s comments came shortly before Rajoelina was due to appear on national television to make a speech to the people of Madagascar.
https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-coup-rajoelina-soldiers-military-africa-b17e7f78a6b0d4abf82a4a19a7a77a05

RSF launches arrest campaign in South Darfur
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have intensified their campaign in South Darfur, arresting scores of civilians, teachers, and local officials on accusations of collaborating with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) amid renewed clashes in North Darfur’s El Fasher, according to multiple eyewitnesses who spoke to Radio Dabanga on Monday.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/rsf-launches-arrest-campaign-in-south-darfur

UK anti-Islam activist 'Tommy Robinson' says Musk has paid for defence in phone trial
He said in a video posted on social media before his trial at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court that Musk, who often reposts his messages on X and appeared at the rally by videolink, had "picked up the legal bill for this absolute state persecution". Yaxley-Lennon, 42, was detained by police under counter-terrorism powers in July 2024 as he drove a silver Bentley through border security at the Channel Tunnel train terminal in southeast England, prosecutor Jo Morris said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-anti-islam-activist-tommy-robinson-says-musk-has-paid-defence-phone-trial-2025-10-13/

Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections
The ruling centre-right Social Democratic party (PSD) won the largest share of mayoral races, capturing 136, including Portugal’s largest cities, Lisbon and Porto, up from 114 four years ago. Its centre-left Socialist rivals won 128. Chega received the third biggest share of votes but that translated to fewer mayoralties than independent candidates, who won 20, and the Communist party, which captured 12.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/13/portugal-far-right-chega-falls-well-short-local-elections

Petro urges Colombia’s mercenaries in Ukraine to come home
The Colombian nationals have also been subjected to physical and psychological abuse by the Ukrainian army, a soldier told Semana. The mercenaries also reported that they were forced to sign a contract in a language they did not understand and had not been paid what they were promised. The group requested the Colombian government to intervene and help them return to the country, and hold Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responsible for any consequences.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-urges-colombias-mercenaries-to-abandon-ukraine/

Sri Lankan government prepares next IMF-dictated budget
Papageorgiou warned that although the IMF had reached a staff-level agreement to release $US347 million, the fifth instalment of its $3 billion bailout loan, IMF Executive Board approval of the tranche was “contingent” on parliament’s passage of the 2026 budget. Next year’s budget, he added, had to be “in line with program parameters and the completion of the financing assurances review, to confirm multilateral partners’ financing contributions and assess adequate progress with debt restructuring.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/13/iynq-o13.html

Pakistani troops on high alert on Afghan border after fighting, trade halts
Border trade between the neighbours came to a halt as Pakistan closed crossings along the 2,600-km (1,600-mile) frontier, stranding scores of loaded goods vehicles on either side, a Pakistani industry representative said. Dozens of fighters were killed in border clashes that began on Saturday night in the most deadly conflict between the neighbours since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul in 2021.
https://www.newarab.com/news/pakistani-troops-high-alert-afghan-border-after-fighting

Pakistan police officer among 5 killed as authorities disperse pro-Palestinian march
A clash between Pakistan authorities and thousands of protesters marching in support of Palestinians killed at least five people including a police officer and injured dozens of other officers on Monday, police and witnesses said. Punjab Police Chief Usman Anwar said demonstrators opened fire on authorities, killing the officer and wounding others. Police said three protesters and one passerby also died in the clashes before the demonstrators were dispersed.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-police-march-demonstration-violence-gaza-ee75789a8664bb3f99129ea55f7df5ab
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You're designated head of the Soviet Republics in 1981, how do you save the union ?

Memes aside, how could the soviet republics have managed to keep unity and rivalize with the west whilst maintaining an image of a viable alternative to normal people from the 1980s-onwards ? Lastly, would a soviet model as it was intended to work in practice be actually desirable as a socialist model ?
Give specific policies and actions, not just vague stuff about "beating the corrupt bureaucrats!"