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<In the Burgerplane Over the 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. 🏈 💵
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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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅<In the Burgerplane Over the 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. 🏈 💵
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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🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
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>we hate imperialism and colonial powers for drawing arbitrary borders for our countries with no respect for actual cultural and ethnic boundaries
>also no we will not give independence or autonomy to those ethnic minority groups and will instead try to genocide them if they try to leave or gain self-rule.
Why are thirdies like this?
>we hate imperialism and colonial powers for drawing arbitrary borders for our countries with no respect for actual cultural and ethnic boundaries
>also no we will not give independence or autonomy to those ethnic minority groups and will instead try to genocide them if they try to leave or gain self-rule.
Why are thirdies like this?
R: 591 / I: 121
>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.
/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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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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_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
—————————————————–
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
—————————————————–
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
/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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_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
—————————————————–
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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Previous: >>2525120
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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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY
Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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Social media
>Twitter
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT
https://twitter.com/plnewstoday
https://twitter.com/RALee85
https://twitter.com/MarQs__
https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab
https://twitter.com/michaelh992
https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps
<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #266
THE JACKAL edition.Previous: >>2525120
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/
—————————————————–
ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY
Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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https://twitter.com/MarQs__
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https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps
<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/grey_zone
https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
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Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
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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
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
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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
/Political Economy/ General #4 - HMMM Edition
Previous thread: >>2298757Links:
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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)
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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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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?
/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 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.
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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<"Have some respect just ONE day, don't laff! Don't laff! Don't laff!" Edition
O i am laffin.
Remember to keep a stiff upper lip, mind the gap and carry on chap.
/leftybritpol/
LEFTYBRITPOL GENERAL<"Have some respect just ONE day, don't laff! Don't laff! Don't laff!" Edition
O i am laffin.
Remember to keep a stiff upper lip, mind the gap and carry on chap.
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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
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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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
#1 CHILD FUCKER AWARD
A list of nearly 800 Republican sexual predators can be found herehttps://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
R: 79 / I: 13
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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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?
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?
R: 86 / I: 13
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: 8 / I: 1
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.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
R: 314 / I: 181
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.
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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.
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"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."
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."
R: 189 / I: 29
>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.
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.
R: 29 / I: 0
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?
R: 158 / I: 29
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.
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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<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
/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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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.
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.
R: 7 / I: 1
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.
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.
R: 657 / I: 211 (full)
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
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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™ 🌭 🍔
🛠️ 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
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Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
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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™ 🌭 🍔
🛠️ 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
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Previous Thread: >>2534525
Remember to filter mass tor baiters, feds, and trolls
Not reporting is bourgeois
Violators will be launched from trebuchet
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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.
/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.
R: 427 / I: 77
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.
/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.
R: 146 / I: 29
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?
What do we do about immigration?
>EuropoorIt'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?
R: 148 / I: 45
They think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
Trump on the Epstein list is "a step toward normalization"
These fags want to remove the age of consent laws and normalize pedophiliaThey think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
R: 163 / I: 54
Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter)
/auspol/ #11 - Southern Cross edition
Australian and Oceania politics general thread.Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter)
R: 121 / I: 26
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
/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
R: 9 / I: 2
https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/sextortion-coms-inside-a-vile-child-exploitation-cult-run-by-nazi-linked-teens/
Holy fuck, these people are vile.
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.
R: 103 / I: 7
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.
==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.
R: 500 / I: 163
Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
/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
R: 160 / I: 11
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.
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.
R: 58 / I: 25
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 ?
R: 78 / I: 9
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?
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?
R: 26 / I: 4
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?
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?
R: 21 / I: 8
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
—
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: 64 / I: 10
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.
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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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.
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.
R: 26 / I: 21
>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
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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…..
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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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.
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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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).
R: 66 / I: 16 (sage)
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)
R: 9 / I: 5
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.
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.
R: 321 / I: 65
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.
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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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?
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 persuadeHere 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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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
/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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🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
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Sites that have active live-blogs:
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• 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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• 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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al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/
PFLP
http://pflp.ps/
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• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
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• https://www.palestineaction.org/
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(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
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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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺
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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>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?
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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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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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?
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?
R: 58 / I: 2
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.
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.
R: 11 / I: 3
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?
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?
R: 5 / I: 0
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
News 10/25/25
Leftwinger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslideThe 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
R: 12 / I: 4
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.
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.
R: 1 / I: 0
>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.
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.
R: 25 / I: 6
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.
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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>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.
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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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?
Why has zoomer leftist propaganda simply resorted to copying the alt-right?
*This is mainly targeted towards zoomers on TikTokPractically 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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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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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.
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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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 :^)
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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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅<Consoomed By Greed 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://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
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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
>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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Is this the future of left-wing politics?
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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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?
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?
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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?
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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Is he a credible anti-imperialist actor?
Burkina Faso
Whats /leftypol/ take on President of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traoré?Is he a credible anti-imperialist actor?
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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!".
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 thisthis 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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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.
/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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“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
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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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?
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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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.
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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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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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?
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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>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
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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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.
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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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.
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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>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?
>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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<C'mon, Pop Already! 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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Not reporting is bourgeois
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/USApol/ 🇺🇸
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅<C'mon, Pop Already! 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™ 🌭 🍔
🛠️ 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
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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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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.
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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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
News 10/23/25
Arab states, Palestinian groups condemn Israeli move to annex occupied West BankBoth 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.
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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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.
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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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
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
R: 8 / I: 2
>b-b-but newspapers arent praxis you fucking (((trot)))!
Consider the following, dear reader.
>b-b-but newspapers arent praxis you fucking (((trot)))!
Consider the following, dear reader.
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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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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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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
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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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.
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.
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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Will China ever invade/annex Taiwan?
When will China invade and or annex Taiwan? And if so are they justified in doing so?
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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.
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.
R: 58 / I: 11
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.
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
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
R: 596 / I: 128
<Graham "Cracker" Platner 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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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅<Graham "Cracker" Platner 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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🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
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R: 34 / I: 6
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
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
R: 17 / I: 1
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.
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.
R: 624 / I: 140 (full)
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
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
—————————————————–
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>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
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Big Spoon EditionPrevious: >>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
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
—————————————————–
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Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
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📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
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R: 463 / I: 74
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.
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.
R: 59 / I: 13
>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/?
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/?
R: 13 / I: 2
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/
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/
R: 110 / I: 42 >>1950708
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
Canada Thread 2: People's Republic of Carney
Previous thread:PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
R: 39 / I: 3
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.
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.
R: 45 / I: 9
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
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
R: 22 / I: 7
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
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
R: 30 / I: 8
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.
PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN WAR
REMINDER THAT PAKISTAN IS A NUCLEAR POWERPakistan’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.
R: 164 / I: 36
>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.
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.
R: 5 / I: 1
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
News 10/21/25
Lebanon army removes roadblocks placed by Israeli forces near southern villageIn 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
R: 0 / I: 0
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.
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.
R: 613 / I: 149 (full)
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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, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️!
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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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.
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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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)
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>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
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https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
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>Cibcom (Spanish)
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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
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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
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https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
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>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
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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.
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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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.
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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>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.
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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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?
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?
R: 42 / I: 4
>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.
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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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
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 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.
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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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.
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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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.
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.
R: 631 / I: 127 (full)
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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
News 10/20/25
Right-wing Paz wins Bolivian presidential electionAlthough 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
R: 53 / I: 4
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?
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?
R: 19 / I: 1
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/
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/
R: 216 / I: 46
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.
/rus/ - Russia General
Thread №2Переможный, 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.
R: 65 / I: 19
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.
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.
R: 150 / I: 32
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.
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.
R: 26 / I: 7
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.
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.
R: 64 / I: 4
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.
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?
R: 641 / I: 140 (full)
>Dictatorship of the Spectacle Edition
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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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.
R: 149 / I: 20
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.
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.
R: 14 / I: 0
Azerbaijan Thread
What do you think about Azerbaijan,the president Ilham Aliyev,its geopolitics and future?
R: 12 / I: 0 (sage)
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.
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.
R: 289 / I: 37
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.
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.
R: 83 / I: 13
>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.
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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>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.
>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.
R: 2 / I: 0
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"
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"
R: 48 / I: 14
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.
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.
R: 11 / I: 0
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.
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.
R: 2 / I: 0
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
News 10/18/25
Gaza rights group documents 129 Israeli ceasefire violations since truce beganPCHR 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
R: 8 / I: 4
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.
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.
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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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.
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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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
News 10/17/25
US has seized survivors after strike on suspected drug-carrying vessel in Caribbean, AP sources sayThe 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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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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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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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.
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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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.
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.
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?
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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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.
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.
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EDITION #5
<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.
HAPPENINGS
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2025/10/16/motions-de-censure-contre-lecornu-qui-a-vote-quoi_6647139_4355770.html
https://www.bfmtv.com/
https://www.liberation.fr/
https://www.humanite.fr/
COMMUNIST PARTY AGENDA
https://www.pcf.fr/actualites
https://www.jeunes-communistes.fr/actualites/page/1
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FRENCH POLITICSEDITION #5
<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.
HAPPENINGS
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2025/10/16/motions-de-censure-contre-lecornu-qui-a-vote-quoi_6647139_4355770.html
https://www.bfmtv.com/
https://www.liberation.fr/
https://www.humanite.fr/
COMMUNIST PARTY AGENDA
https://www.pcf.fr/actualites
https://www.jeunes-communistes.fr/actualites/page/1
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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.
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
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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Previous: >>2511829
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
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<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
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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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
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 years1984 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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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
https://archive.ph/Sa8fC
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
https://archive.ph/dG6XP
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
News 10/16/25
Trump approves CIA operations in VenezuelaMaduro 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
https://archive.ph/Sa8fC
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
https://archive.ph/dG6XP
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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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! ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
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! ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
R: 329 / I: 54
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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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.
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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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.
The Five Laws of Useful Idiot Ideologues
The Five Laws of Useful Idiot Ideologues1. 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.
R: 39 / I: 10
Why do you think this is?
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?
R: 7 / I: 2
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
News 10/15/25
Starmer to publish evidence in China 'spy' rowThe 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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✩ 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?
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?
R: 88 / I: 4
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.
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
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
R: 18 / I: 0
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?
R: 20 / I: 1
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
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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Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
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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.
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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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/
News 10/14/25
Greece shut down by second general strike this monthThe 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.
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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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>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).
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
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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"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
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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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?
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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Give specific policies and actions, not just vague stuff about "beating the corrupt bureaucrats!"
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!"
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I dunno if I should have instead make this thread in /tech, or just turn it into a post in /isg, but whatever… The Internet is to drastically change soon, because social media were a historical fluke and are doomed.
There is no easy way to scale the Web 3.0 model to billions of users and circumvent massive ethical, legal, technical, and economic challenges that arise from that. Heck, the West was probably only able to scale its social media models to 100s of millions of users only because the rise of the Internet and social media had coinceded with liberal-capitalist post-Cold War triumph.
Human beings already struggle to compete with bots in content pushing or navigate in the sea of AI slop without the help of a different kind of AI (recomendation algorhytms). Capitalist model of the Internet moderation prefers targeting pirates rather than CSEM or other such material… and they can't even eliminate piracy!
I think that the "Online Safety Act" in UK or payment processors' attack on Steam's hentai games are the first clear signs that the liberal Internet is dying. What would come in its place? "Multipolarist" Internet where each relatively "big" country de-facto owns and moderates a few of national social media sites, content platforms, and messengers? Or fascist Internet where Elon Musk owns everything and Anglo-Burger moral guardians constantly bully (or lobby) him into banning the content they dislike?
I dunno if I should have instead make this thread in /tech, or just turn it into a post in /isg, but whatever… The Internet is to drastically change soon, because social media were a historical fluke and are doomed.
There is no easy way to scale the Web 3.0 model to billions of users and circumvent massive ethical, legal, technical, and economic challenges that arise from that. Heck, the West was probably only able to scale its social media models to 100s of millions of users only because the rise of the Internet and social media had coinceded with liberal-capitalist post-Cold War triumph.
Human beings already struggle to compete with bots in content pushing or navigate in the sea of AI slop without the help of a different kind of AI (recomendation algorhytms). Capitalist model of the Internet moderation prefers targeting pirates rather than CSEM or other such material… and they can't even eliminate piracy!
I think that the "Online Safety Act" in UK or payment processors' attack on Steam's hentai games are the first clear signs that the liberal Internet is dying. What would come in its place? "Multipolarist" Internet where each relatively "big" country de-facto owns and moderates a few of national social media sites, content platforms, and messengers? Or fascist Internet where Elon Musk owns everything and Anglo-Burger moral guardians constantly bully (or lobby) him into banning the content they dislike?
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Seriously speaking, how likely is it that a second Civil War breaks out in America?
It really feels like a good chunk of the population is desperate for it to happen. With the current economic downfall and division, do you think it can actually happen or is it just a burger LARP?
Seriously speaking, how likely is it that a second Civil War breaks out in America?
It really feels like a good chunk of the population is desperate for it to happen. With the current economic downfall and division, do you think it can actually happen or is it just a burger LARP?
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Didn't Marx call money the universal commodity?
Why do I remember some quote from Marx directly describing money as a universal commodity? Where did that come from? Who even said it? I'm not here to hear your explanation of what you think money is, I'm baffled by where this idea of Marx calling money the universal commodity came from. WHAT THE FUCK? If it wasn't him who said it?
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In "Anarchism or Socialism", Joseph Stalin says that the dialectal method shows that it is not the largest class, but the class that is growing, which is the main force driving changes in the structure of society. In the case of Russia in the early 20th century, he takes this to mean that the proletariat is that class.
In the United States, the labor force participation rate has been falling for decades. Meanwhile, the proportion of Americans who own stocks continues to rise. In 1989, 67% of Americans were employed, while only 32% owned any stock holdings. Today, 62% are employed, and 62% own stocks. As of right now, there are roughly 162 million Americans who sell their labor for money, and roughly 160 million Americans who own capital. These are largely overlapping groups as well.
The bourgeoisie is the class which is growing in size and power in the United States. The proletariat has no future in the long term. It can keep itself from being automated out of existence through rent-seeking and pre-existing holds on power, but it will not grow in strength ever again. You will leave to see workers become a reactionary class.
In "Anarchism or Socialism", Joseph Stalin says that the dialectal method shows that it is not the largest class, but the class that is growing, which is the main force driving changes in the structure of society. In the case of Russia in the early 20th century, he takes this to mean that the proletariat is that class.
In the United States, the labor force participation rate has been falling for decades. Meanwhile, the proportion of Americans who own stocks continues to rise. In 1989, 67% of Americans were employed, while only 32% owned any stock holdings. Today, 62% are employed, and 62% own stocks. As of right now, there are roughly 162 million Americans who sell their labor for money, and roughly 160 million Americans who own capital. These are largely overlapping groups as well.
The bourgeoisie is the class which is growing in size and power in the United States. The proletariat has no future in the long term. It can keep itself from being automated out of existence through rent-seeking and pre-existing holds on power, but it will not grow in strength ever again. You will leave to see workers become a reactionary class.
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Like seriously how does Sanchez do it? The general population doesnt even like him, from the zoomerwaffeners to the avg boomerbrain (who has been voting PSOE since they drank their first rum and coke).
Vox and PP (heh) are unequivocally yank lapdogs who will get a few months in gov (cutting social spending and raising taxes to sustain the armed services) then back to the dictatorship of PSOE.
There seems to be nothing beyond PSOE as the spanish "new left" dissolved itself into fat-catness (dude got donations to start a pub, then got more to move it somewhere bigger [Taberna Garibaldi] and is putting his kids in private school) and male feminist caricature sexual abuse by Millhouse (nickname).
The independentists? They all depend on either PSOE's safety or accelerationism with the hope a Gadaffi type figure provides them with plastic explosives and maybe some assortment of rusty handguns and AKs (which they dont relly want unless it is from Maduro or Netanyahuh [biggest difference between left and right independentist intelligentsias]).
As it seems I will get PSOEd until the day I die (something that would make anyone at least slightly schizophrenic)
PS none of the big unions actually do anything besides selling themselves to capital and PSOE making the CNT unironically competent and that is very very funny to someone who is trying to get through capital rn.
The right got their union too however, "solidaridad" (larping as poles) and all it does is go against any measure that benefits the workers even slightly (someone has to think of the burgersies)
Democratic People's Socialist Kingdom of Spain
With the normalization of palestinian statehood, the ability of remaining untouched in court and the stupidest opposition in the whole "developed" world we might have to call the PSOE the natural governing party in Spain (something that has made me mad in the past).Like seriously how does Sanchez do it? The general population doesnt even like him, from the zoomerwaffeners to the avg boomerbrain (who has been voting PSOE since they drank their first rum and coke).
Vox and PP (heh) are unequivocally yank lapdogs who will get a few months in gov (cutting social spending and raising taxes to sustain the armed services) then back to the dictatorship of PSOE.
There seems to be nothing beyond PSOE as the spanish "new left" dissolved itself into fat-catness (dude got donations to start a pub, then got more to move it somewhere bigger [Taberna Garibaldi] and is putting his kids in private school) and male feminist caricature sexual abuse by Millhouse (nickname).
The independentists? They all depend on either PSOE's safety or accelerationism with the hope a Gadaffi type figure provides them with plastic explosives and maybe some assortment of rusty handguns and AKs (which they dont relly want unless it is from Maduro or Netanyahuh [biggest difference between left and right independentist intelligentsias]).
As it seems I will get PSOEd until the day I die (something that would make anyone at least slightly schizophrenic)
PS none of the big unions actually do anything besides selling themselves to capital and PSOE making the CNT unironically competent and that is very very funny to someone who is trying to get through capital rn.
The right got their union too however, "solidaridad" (larping as poles) and all it does is go against any measure that benefits the workers even slightly (someone has to think of the burgersies)
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“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China.
After visiting a string of factories, Jim Farley was left astonished by the technical innovations being packed into Chinese cars – from self-driving software to facial recognition.
“Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,” Farley warned in July.
“We are in a global competition with China, and it’s not just EVs. And if we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford.”
The car industry boss is not the only Western executive to have returned shaken following a visit to the Far East.
Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company’s attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house.
“I can take you to factories [in China] now, where you’ll basically be alongside a big conveyor and the machines come out of the floor and begin to assemble parts,” he says.
“And you’re walking alongside this conveyor, and after about 800, 900 metres, a truck drives out. There are no people – everything is robotic.”
Other executives describe vast, “dark factories” where robots do so much of the work alone that there is no need to even leave the lights on for humans.
“We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.
“The process was so heavily automated that there were no workers on the manufacturing side, just a small number who were there to ensure the plant was working
“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number of highly skilled, educated engineers who are innovating like mad.”
High-tech transformation
It’s also a far cry from the cheap “Made in China” goods that many Westerners have associated with the “workshop of the world” in the past, underscoring how much cash has been poured into upgrading China’s industrial processes.
Far from being focused on low-quality products, China is now viewed as a leader in rapidly-growing, high-value technologies such as electric vehicles (EVs), batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, drones and advanced robotics.
A big part of that transformation is down to the country’s focus on automation – which has been encouraged by the ruling communist government and heavily supported with state subsidies, grants and local government policies.
Figures recently released by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) show this has led to a dramatic and high-tech transformation of China’s industrial base over the past 10 years.
Between 2014 and 2024, the number of industrial robots deployed in the country rocketed from 189,000 to more than two million.
These can typically include everything from robot arms used for welding, assembly and loading, spider robots used for high-speed “pick and place” movements and overhead gantry robots for precision tasks such as 3D printing.
The overall number of robots added in China last year was 295,000, compared to 27,000 in Germany, 34,000 in the US and just 2,500 in the UK.
And while it would be easy to put this disparity down to population size alone, China also blows its western rivals out of the water when it comes to robot density. It now boasts 567 robots for every 10,000 manufacturing workers, compared to 449 for Germany, 307 for the US and 104 in the UK.
More automation is seen by many as good for productivity, the all-important measure of how much an economy gets out of what it puts in.
Many analysts also note that China’s growing share of worldwide manufacturing gives it increasing leverage over global supply chains – and would make it a formidable opponent in a war.
But alongside Beijing’s stated desire to dominate industries of the future, Rian Whitton, an expert at Bismarck Analysis, says increased automation is also an attempt to mitigate the impact of the country’s ageing population.
“China has quite a notable demographic problem but its manufacturing is, generally, quite labour-intensive,” he says.
“So in a pre-emptive fashion, they want to automate it as much as possible, not because they expect they’ll be able to get higher margins – that is usually the idea in the West – but to compensate for this population decline and to get a competitive advantage.”
As part of its so-called Made in China programme, local authorities have offered large tax breaks that reimburse firms for a fifth of their spending on industrial robots. This is under a policy known as “jiqi huanren” – which translates to “replacing humans with machines”.
Western manufacturers in trouble
But this technology, coupled with the vast output of Chinese manufacturers, spells serious trouble for traditional Western brands.
The most visible sign of this upheaval is on our roads, where Chinese-made electric and hybrid cars are taking a growing share of sales.
In Britain, Shenzhen-based BYD multiplied its September sales by a factor of 10 this year – overtaking far more established brands such as Mini, Renault and Land Rover.
But unlike the “tragic” cars once mocked by Jeremy Clarkson and his colleagues on Top Gear, BYD’s recent efforts have been praised for both their low prices and their well-appointed interiors.
“The most striking thing about their automotive industry is the pace and the speed with which it operates,” says Mike Hawes, the chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
“They can develop and execute models in probably half of the time most European car makers can.”
Sander Tordoir, the chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, a think tank, says Europe and Britain must try to boost their own deployment of robotics if they want to keep up with the pace of innovation in China – while also keeping their manufacturing industries alive.
“Robotics, if deployed well, can lift the productivity of your economy greatly. And if China is extremely good at it, then we should try to catch up because, like China, a lot of Europe is ageing,” he says.
“The second reason to care is because the robotics sector is high value and has spillovers for the military industrial sector, so the fact that China may be ahead is also significant from a security standpoint.
“I think the debate is about how to use industrial policy to build competitive markets, and that will inevitably include some support to offset China’s distortions and advantages, which are not all market-driven.”
Britain is falling behind
The risk, however, is that “we don’t create the new, or we trap workers in the old instead of trying to leap forward,” Tordoir warns, pointing to the tendency of politicians to prevent ageing steel and car factories from closing instead of encouraging the creation of newer, high-tech jobs for workers to move to.
But Britain’s record on robots is poor and it has struggled to add more than a few thousand per year, despite already having less than half as many as France.
Last year, UK robot additions fell by 35pc
Whitton, at Bismarck Analysis, argues that Britain, which has lagged other countries in productivity growth, should focus on trying to improve its competitiveness by incentivising the adoption of more robotics as well as machine tools.
He says this would have a bigger impact than past tax-breaks designed to boost research and development spending and plant machinery adoption.
“It doesn’t appear that dilly dallying around tax changes is doing a hell of a lot,” says Whitton.
“But I see the Government throwing billions of pounds each year at completely speculative rubbish like green hydrogen or to fulfil renewable [energy] obligations contracts and I just think, ‘Well, why not five billion a year in grants for capital equipment?
“That would arguably get a bigger bang for our buck than a lot of the energy-related industrial policies we pursue.”
Counter-intuitively, Whitton says countries which had more automation during the first “China shock” of the 2000s – which flooded the world with cheap goods – managed to hold on to a greater share of industrial jobs.
“People talk a lot about how automation will lead to job losses,” he adds. “But actually, the job losses are going to be disproportionately in the countries that don’t automate.”
In other words, failing to modernise will almost certainly lead to more dark factories in the West. But the kind where no work at all is happening.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/
Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified
Robotics has catapulted Beijing into a dominant position in many industries“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China.
After visiting a string of factories, Jim Farley was left astonished by the technical innovations being packed into Chinese cars – from self-driving software to facial recognition.
“Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,” Farley warned in July.
“We are in a global competition with China, and it’s not just EVs. And if we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford.”
The car industry boss is not the only Western executive to have returned shaken following a visit to the Far East.
Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company’s attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house.
“I can take you to factories [in China] now, where you’ll basically be alongside a big conveyor and the machines come out of the floor and begin to assemble parts,” he says.
“And you’re walking alongside this conveyor, and after about 800, 900 metres, a truck drives out. There are no people – everything is robotic.”
Other executives describe vast, “dark factories” where robots do so much of the work alone that there is no need to even leave the lights on for humans.
“We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.
“The process was so heavily automated that there were no workers on the manufacturing side, just a small number who were there to ensure the plant was working
“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number of highly skilled, educated engineers who are innovating like mad.”
High-tech transformation
It’s also a far cry from the cheap “Made in China” goods that many Westerners have associated with the “workshop of the world” in the past, underscoring how much cash has been poured into upgrading China’s industrial processes.
Far from being focused on low-quality products, China is now viewed as a leader in rapidly-growing, high-value technologies such as electric vehicles (EVs), batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, drones and advanced robotics.
A big part of that transformation is down to the country’s focus on automation – which has been encouraged by the ruling communist government and heavily supported with state subsidies, grants and local government policies.
Figures recently released by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) show this has led to a dramatic and high-tech transformation of China’s industrial base over the past 10 years.
Between 2014 and 2024, the number of industrial robots deployed in the country rocketed from 189,000 to more than two million.
These can typically include everything from robot arms used for welding, assembly and loading, spider robots used for high-speed “pick and place” movements and overhead gantry robots for precision tasks such as 3D printing.
The overall number of robots added in China last year was 295,000, compared to 27,000 in Germany, 34,000 in the US and just 2,500 in the UK.
And while it would be easy to put this disparity down to population size alone, China also blows its western rivals out of the water when it comes to robot density. It now boasts 567 robots for every 10,000 manufacturing workers, compared to 449 for Germany, 307 for the US and 104 in the UK.
More automation is seen by many as good for productivity, the all-important measure of how much an economy gets out of what it puts in.
Many analysts also note that China’s growing share of worldwide manufacturing gives it increasing leverage over global supply chains – and would make it a formidable opponent in a war.
But alongside Beijing’s stated desire to dominate industries of the future, Rian Whitton, an expert at Bismarck Analysis, says increased automation is also an attempt to mitigate the impact of the country’s ageing population.
“China has quite a notable demographic problem but its manufacturing is, generally, quite labour-intensive,” he says.
“So in a pre-emptive fashion, they want to automate it as much as possible, not because they expect they’ll be able to get higher margins – that is usually the idea in the West – but to compensate for this population decline and to get a competitive advantage.”
As part of its so-called Made in China programme, local authorities have offered large tax breaks that reimburse firms for a fifth of their spending on industrial robots. This is under a policy known as “jiqi huanren” – which translates to “replacing humans with machines”.
Western manufacturers in trouble
But this technology, coupled with the vast output of Chinese manufacturers, spells serious trouble for traditional Western brands.
The most visible sign of this upheaval is on our roads, where Chinese-made electric and hybrid cars are taking a growing share of sales.
In Britain, Shenzhen-based BYD multiplied its September sales by a factor of 10 this year – overtaking far more established brands such as Mini, Renault and Land Rover.
But unlike the “tragic” cars once mocked by Jeremy Clarkson and his colleagues on Top Gear, BYD’s recent efforts have been praised for both their low prices and their well-appointed interiors.
“The most striking thing about their automotive industry is the pace and the speed with which it operates,” says Mike Hawes, the chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
“They can develop and execute models in probably half of the time most European car makers can.”
Sander Tordoir, the chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, a think tank, says Europe and Britain must try to boost their own deployment of robotics if they want to keep up with the pace of innovation in China – while also keeping their manufacturing industries alive.
“Robotics, if deployed well, can lift the productivity of your economy greatly. And if China is extremely good at it, then we should try to catch up because, like China, a lot of Europe is ageing,” he says.
“The second reason to care is because the robotics sector is high value and has spillovers for the military industrial sector, so the fact that China may be ahead is also significant from a security standpoint.
“I think the debate is about how to use industrial policy to build competitive markets, and that will inevitably include some support to offset China’s distortions and advantages, which are not all market-driven.”
Britain is falling behind
The risk, however, is that “we don’t create the new, or we trap workers in the old instead of trying to leap forward,” Tordoir warns, pointing to the tendency of politicians to prevent ageing steel and car factories from closing instead of encouraging the creation of newer, high-tech jobs for workers to move to.
But Britain’s record on robots is poor and it has struggled to add more than a few thousand per year, despite already having less than half as many as France.
Last year, UK robot additions fell by 35pc
Whitton, at Bismarck Analysis, argues that Britain, which has lagged other countries in productivity growth, should focus on trying to improve its competitiveness by incentivising the adoption of more robotics as well as machine tools.
He says this would have a bigger impact than past tax-breaks designed to boost research and development spending and plant machinery adoption.
“It doesn’t appear that dilly dallying around tax changes is doing a hell of a lot,” says Whitton.
“But I see the Government throwing billions of pounds each year at completely speculative rubbish like green hydrogen or to fulfil renewable [energy] obligations contracts and I just think, ‘Well, why not five billion a year in grants for capital equipment?
“That would arguably get a bigger bang for our buck than a lot of the energy-related industrial policies we pursue.”
Counter-intuitively, Whitton says countries which had more automation during the first “China shock” of the 2000s – which flooded the world with cheap goods – managed to hold on to a greater share of industrial jobs.
“People talk a lot about how automation will lead to job losses,” he adds. “But actually, the job losses are going to be disproportionately in the countries that don’t automate.”
In other words, failing to modernise will almost certainly lead to more dark factories in the West. But the kind where no work at all is happening.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/
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Hello /leftypol/. Formerly /pol/lack here, now I am a therapist. I want to hear your thoughts on therapy and how to make it better. I think a lot of therapists don't understand the appeal of imageboards.
You can post about it here or do the survey I made, up to you:
https://tarleton.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0dixWdcJPSTKGua
^I know the link looks suspicious, but I'm not phishing. Let me know if there's anything I can do to prove that. Qualtrics is the survey service and Tarleton is my school.
I have some great memories on boards like this and I hope you're making some good memories here too.
Hello /leftypol/. Formerly /pol/lack here, now I am a therapist. I want to hear your thoughts on therapy and how to make it better. I think a lot of therapists don't understand the appeal of imageboards.
You can post about it here or do the survey I made, up to you:
https://tarleton.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0dixWdcJPSTKGua
^I know the link looks suspicious, but I'm not phishing. Let me know if there's anything I can do to prove that. Qualtrics is the survey service and Tarleton is my school.
I have some great memories on boards like this and I hope you're making some good memories here too.
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You are transnazi, a nadsee larper, a terminally-online keyboard warrior who hasn't spoke to another human other than your parents or whoever's letting you couch-surfe "in between jobs" you've yet to apply to for months and haven't had even a wagie-cagie career in years or maybe you're on Social Security disability, collecting free autismbux for your self-diagnoses special-snowflakeism?
You've probably not even kissed a girl before, yet you think "your"* "political"* "opinions"* are the only sane path. You will never breed minimum of two each blond-haired, blue-eyed white children or even one brown-haired brownoid muttslime lookalike, which is only realistic means of saving the white race as per the typical zarathustrian ubermench cosplay idol Brendan Tarrant. You don't know who that is lol ignorant poser. You didn't even know the one true way to saving the white race before I just told you right now; if you weren't so busy super-spreading gamergate maymays ten hours a day bitching about reposting "ey, tone" maymays about the death camps you'd know a thing or two, ya fuckin' poser.
And you think YOU'RE in any position to save Evropa? You've probably never even seen a gun outside of Minecraft zombie apocalypse modpacks, and you have no idea how to filter rain water or from a river in the woods 100 miles outside civilization so you don't die of parasites, let alone the first thing about raising chickens or sheep or gardening with no technology beyond that which was available to anyone to at most the 1970's. Again, you think you have what it takes to be a footsoldier against ZOG? When you don't even have a clue about how to be a part of decentralized counter-insurgencies?
Real Zarathustran Übermensch Aryans and True Israelites would disown degenerated pond scum such as yourself and shoot you in your ugly face and obese belly and microcock before your bulbous misshapen half-poojeet skull cracked onto the floor, you crying your shit-brown widdle eyes out lying in the fetal position – just like you always did before big sis kicked in your bedroom at 11pm to rape you with her newest plus-sized dog dick vibrator, dragon rabbit dildo, or just a broken cheap beer bottle after locking you to your own bed post with fuzzy handcuffs to make it extra kinky for you.
You are a slack-jawed waste of food and air with "gotta collect 'em all" subscription of mental and emotional issues – proving once again that not only is horseshoe theory correct, but it doesn't go far enough: THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL BETWEEN LEFTISTS AND RIGHTOIDS, YOU ARE ALL BRAINWASHED USEFUL IDIOT MORALFAGGOT BUSYBODY CONTROL-FREAK UYGHUR-BRAINS, AND ALL YOU WANT IS TO TAKE REVENGE UPON THE WORLD FOR THE CRIME OF BEING BORN UGLY, UNWISE, AND POORFAG – you are spiritually dead inside (perhaps you were never alive in the first place; never will you thrive, and you only "survive" by being a welfare leech to mommy, daddy, and ZOG lol irony!) because you spend ALL your time indoors, men make fun of you and women laugh at you.
The worst thing you've ever done is continue to stab the braincells of your betters by continuing to eat and breathe and contribute nothing to society and civilization but an ever rising pile of human effluent. You wouldn't notice if you killed yourself before you finished reading this sentence, you're dead already inside.
* (ie brainrot tiktok memes super-spread by other transnazis who have gigabytes of 4chan /pol/ [and only 4chan lel newfag; betcha never even heard of nanochan, endchan, 4chon, zzzchan, 7kun, 8moe, or even infamous 8chan before it got partyv&!] "info"graphics saved since you discovered da j00z in 2025 roflmao)
You will never be a real Nazi.
You will never be a real Nazi. The real Nazi Germany was crushed like the pestilent pustilent pest swarm of abysmal failures at every single one of their documented missions before your parents and probably grandparents were born (zoomie lmao), Hugo Boss hasn't made those ugly shit-brown coats since the nukes dropped, you have no queer widdle beer trucker hat with wimpy pirate skull or Viking lightning bolts on it – compensating for something..? – and adrumf hither swallowed his own bullet as cowardly losers like you do.You are transnazi, a nadsee larper, a terminally-online keyboard warrior who hasn't spoke to another human other than your parents or whoever's letting you couch-surfe "in between jobs" you've yet to apply to for months and haven't had even a wagie-cagie career in years or maybe you're on Social Security disability, collecting free autismbux for your self-diagnoses special-snowflakeism?
You've probably not even kissed a girl before, yet you think "your"* "political"* "opinions"* are the only sane path. You will never breed minimum of two each blond-haired, blue-eyed white children or even one brown-haired brownoid muttslime lookalike, which is only realistic means of saving the white race as per the typical zarathustrian ubermench cosplay idol Brendan Tarrant. You don't know who that is lol ignorant poser. You didn't even know the one true way to saving the white race before I just told you right now; if you weren't so busy super-spreading gamergate maymays ten hours a day bitching about reposting "ey, tone" maymays about the death camps you'd know a thing or two, ya fuckin' poser.
And you think YOU'RE in any position to save Evropa? You've probably never even seen a gun outside of Minecraft zombie apocalypse modpacks, and you have no idea how to filter rain water or from a river in the woods 100 miles outside civilization so you don't die of parasites, let alone the first thing about raising chickens or sheep or gardening with no technology beyond that which was available to anyone to at most the 1970's. Again, you think you have what it takes to be a footsoldier against ZOG? When you don't even have a clue about how to be a part of decentralized counter-insurgencies?
Real Zarathustran Übermensch Aryans and True Israelites would disown degenerated pond scum such as yourself and shoot you in your ugly face and obese belly and microcock before your bulbous misshapen half-poojeet skull cracked onto the floor, you crying your shit-brown widdle eyes out lying in the fetal position – just like you always did before big sis kicked in your bedroom at 11pm to rape you with her newest plus-sized dog dick vibrator, dragon rabbit dildo, or just a broken cheap beer bottle after locking you to your own bed post with fuzzy handcuffs to make it extra kinky for you.
You are a slack-jawed waste of food and air with "gotta collect 'em all" subscription of mental and emotional issues – proving once again that not only is horseshoe theory correct, but it doesn't go far enough: THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL BETWEEN LEFTISTS AND RIGHTOIDS, YOU ARE ALL BRAINWASHED USEFUL IDIOT MORALFAGGOT BUSYBODY CONTROL-FREAK UYGHUR-BRAINS, AND ALL YOU WANT IS TO TAKE REVENGE UPON THE WORLD FOR THE CRIME OF BEING BORN UGLY, UNWISE, AND POORFAG – you are spiritually dead inside (perhaps you were never alive in the first place; never will you thrive, and you only "survive" by being a welfare leech to mommy, daddy, and ZOG lol irony!) because you spend ALL your time indoors, men make fun of you and women laugh at you.
The worst thing you've ever done is continue to stab the braincells of your betters by continuing to eat and breathe and contribute nothing to society and civilization but an ever rising pile of human effluent. You wouldn't notice if you killed yourself before you finished reading this sentence, you're dead already inside.
* (ie brainrot tiktok memes super-spread by other transnazis who have gigabytes of 4chan /pol/ [and only 4chan lel newfag; betcha never even heard of nanochan, endchan, 4chon, zzzchan, 7kun, 8moe, or even infamous 8chan before it got partyv&!] "info"graphics saved since you discovered da j00z in 2025 roflmao)
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It is much harder and much more annoying to prove that a country is not a DOTP than it is to prove that it is not socialist. The easiest way, however, is to note that if real communists were to obtain state power, the very first thing they'd do is establish a new International, but this isn't the case anywhere today.
It is much harder and much more annoying to prove that a country is not a DOTP than it is to prove that it is not socialist. The easiest way, however, is to note that if real communists were to obtain state power, the very first thing they'd do is establish a new International, but this isn't the case anywhere today.
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Marx’s vision of the ideal worker
Marx’s vision of the working class WAS social-darwinist. Darwin was one of his primary inspirations. He considered the proletariat (men working in factories) to be inherently better, stronger, smarter than the bourgeois; in particular, because they had the ability to educate themselves outside of bourgeois institutions, and were not beholden to bourgeois morality. Comparisons between him and Nietzsche run deeper than most people think. He basically envisioned an athletic, physicallly fit and educated man, quite literally beyond good and evil (we will make no excuse for the terror). That’s not to mention: armed. Armed and formed into a legion with his fellow workers. If you closely read through all of Marx’s texts, he continually places great optimism in the potential for the common man to become a super man, the overman. All that is to say that Marx’s vision of the communist revolutionary was a lot more “fascist” than most so-called “leftists” would care to admit. Lastly, I’d like to point out that the author of Might Makes Right had a real name, and he was a revolutionary socialist himself.
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Why didn't more socialist militaries go full General Jaruzelski on the cargo cultist hooligans and glowies when the politicians had obviously sold out?
Why didn't more socialist militaries go full General Jaruzelski on the cargo cultist hooligans and glowies when the politicians had obviously sold out?
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Over the course of 2010s, the mysterious person was promoting the philosophical typology or a psychotype classification system of his own invention, named "72 archetypes". He always avoided being in the spotlight for the masses and seem to only post on the obscure corners of the internet, the most mainstream community he ever was into seem to have been r/MBTI subreddit.
As far as I could gather, the crux of the 72 archetypes(72A for short) is as follows:
1)Take the D&D moral alignment table. Give your own names to each of the 9 alignments and get rid of the misleading "law/chaos" and "good/evil" axis labels (the author had argued that both of these labels are misleading).
2)Take as an axiom that what Gigax had called law/neutrality/chaos is actually unconditional/conditional/lack of SHORT-TERM empathy, respectively. And what he had called good/neutrality/evil is the same deal, but with the LONG-TERM empathy isnstead.
3)Now add to the resulting grid three more dimensions, only these should be binary (have two distinct states in them) rather than ternary like the two dimesions we previously had. Each of these three dimensions represents ability or inability to handle/control one of three types of emotions - positive, neutral (curiosity), and negative.
4)The result is the 5-dimensional map that can represent (3^2) * (2^3) = 9 * 8 = 72 types of mentality, hence the name 72A.
The creator of 72A was making a lot of outlandish claims about his system. According to him, 72A is not only capable to rigorously categorise the personality of any real life person or a consistently written fictional character, but also to make working predictions about their behavior, motivations, and the optimal way to solve their personal problems. Even more than that, the knowledge of 72A is somehow "the key of understanding the entirety of the multiverse" and apparently completely obsoletes all of the existing philosophy, social sciences, psychology, theology, and MBTI.
He also seemed to be a massive insufferable prick with a God complex, uncapable of handling anyone disagreeing with him without going into long, insults-filled tyrades (ironic, since he had categorised himself as the best possible archetype in his system - Me111 - you'd think he should have been able to handle negative emotions) and acting as if he's already officially appointed omniscient Philosopher King Of The World, despite showing no creditails for having any sort of academic degree and no readable proofs for any of his claims.
His name apparently is Richard Kulisz, but googling that wouldn't give you almost anything bar an old editor drama from early years of Wikipedia and even more old internet drama from early 2000s-looking site dedicated to object-oriented programming. I don't know if the person seen in these place is the same Richard Kulisz (he seems to also have the exact same kind of insufferable-know-it-all as the creator of 72A), but if it's the same person, that would make him to be at least in his 40-50s by now.
Anyone here knows anything more about Richard or 72A. I am weirdly fascinated and want to know if anyone else had stumbled at it.
Had anyone here heard about Richard Kulisz or the 72 archetypes system?
Not an ARG, not a creepypasta or some shit like this. Posting here instead of /siberia or some other board because of the better quality of posters in there, and not on /isg because of the large amount of material.Over the course of 2010s, the mysterious person was promoting the philosophical typology or a psychotype classification system of his own invention, named "72 archetypes". He always avoided being in the spotlight for the masses and seem to only post on the obscure corners of the internet, the most mainstream community he ever was into seem to have been r/MBTI subreddit.
As far as I could gather, the crux of the 72 archetypes(72A for short) is as follows:
1)Take the D&D moral alignment table. Give your own names to each of the 9 alignments and get rid of the misleading "law/chaos" and "good/evil" axis labels (the author had argued that both of these labels are misleading).
2)Take as an axiom that what Gigax had called law/neutrality/chaos is actually unconditional/conditional/lack of SHORT-TERM empathy, respectively. And what he had called good/neutrality/evil is the same deal, but with the LONG-TERM empathy isnstead.
3)Now add to the resulting grid three more dimensions, only these should be binary (have two distinct states in them) rather than ternary like the two dimesions we previously had. Each of these three dimensions represents ability or inability to handle/control one of three types of emotions - positive, neutral (curiosity), and negative.
4)The result is the 5-dimensional map that can represent (3^2) * (2^3) = 9 * 8 = 72 types of mentality, hence the name 72A.
The creator of 72A was making a lot of outlandish claims about his system. According to him, 72A is not only capable to rigorously categorise the personality of any real life person or a consistently written fictional character, but also to make working predictions about their behavior, motivations, and the optimal way to solve their personal problems. Even more than that, the knowledge of 72A is somehow "the key of understanding the entirety of the multiverse" and apparently completely obsoletes all of the existing philosophy, social sciences, psychology, theology, and MBTI.
He also seemed to be a massive insufferable prick with a God complex, uncapable of handling anyone disagreeing with him without going into long, insults-filled tyrades (ironic, since he had categorised himself as the best possible archetype in his system - Me111 - you'd think he should have been able to handle negative emotions) and acting as if he's already officially appointed omniscient Philosopher King Of The World, despite showing no creditails for having any sort of academic degree and no readable proofs for any of his claims.
His name apparently is Richard Kulisz, but googling that wouldn't give you almost anything bar an old editor drama from early years of Wikipedia and even more old internet drama from early 2000s-looking site dedicated to object-oriented programming. I don't know if the person seen in these place is the same Richard Kulisz (he seems to also have the exact same kind of insufferable-know-it-all as the creator of 72A), but if it's the same person, that would make him to be at least in his 40-50s by now.
Anyone here knows anything more about Richard or 72A. I am weirdly fascinated and want to know if anyone else had stumbled at it.
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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TRUMP RIMJOBS edition.Previous: >>2506950
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
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
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MTG is now officially to the left of most Democrats
MTG was the first sitting US politician to call what's happening in Gaza a genocide. Now she's gone even further. I can't imagine Bernie or AOC making a statement like this. She's also to the left of most of congress on health care, and has broken with the Republicans on a lot of issues, calling them anti-worker and anti-women. I think MTG should run as a Ross Perot type independent in 2028.
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Do you think that China capitals or not just wondering because they have McDonald’s there. They have fast food we think Mao about it.
Do you think that China capitals or not just wondering because they have McDonald’s there. They have fast food we think Mao about it.
R: 66 / I: 9
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
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
R: 198 / I: 28
Generative AI should be fucking banned
I don’t think people realize how dangerous the ability to generate photorealistic images and videos in instants is. If they combine this shit with AR/VR technology (spoiler: they will) it’s over, we are heading straight into Brave New World.
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In the early hours of Friday, October 10, Peru’s Congress overwhelmingly voted to remove President Dina Boluarte from office on the grounds of “permanent moral incapacity”. The emergency session was called to debate her impeachment amid the most recent wave of mass anti-government protests that have been escalating since September. A shooting at a cumbia concert of one of Peru’s most popular groups, Agua Marina, on Wednesday sparked renewed anger and protests at the government’s inability to address systemic crime.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/10/perus-congress-ousts-de-facto-president-dina-boluarte-amid-mass-protests/
Ecuadorian Government Freezes Bank Accounts of Two Environmental Groups
Taken amid the national strike called by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), the decision affects Alianza Ceibo, a foundation made up of Indigenous Ai Kofan, Siona, Siekopai, and Waorani peoples. “For 10 years, we have maintained a firm commitment to defending our territories and our identity, with dedication and transparency. We have always acted publicly, grounded in the law and demanding our rights, facing the threats imposed by extractivism, various forms of violence, racism, and now state authoritarianism,” Alianza Ceibo stated.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuadorian-government-freezes-bank-accounts-of-two-environmental-groups/
Soldiers from elite Capsat unit join protests against Madagascar’s president
However, a Capsat leader accompanied by a large group of soldiers called on other military units to “refuse orders to shoot your friends”, in a video that was posted on social media before they left their barracks. “Let us join forces, military, gendarmes and police, and refuse to be paid to shoot our friends, our brothers and our sisters,” he said, also calling on soldiers at the airport to “prevent all aircraft from taking off”. “Close the gates and await our instructions,” he said. “Do not obey orders from your superiors. Point your weapons at those who order you to fire on your comrades-in-arms, because they will not take care of our families if we die.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/11/soldiers-from-elite-capsat-unit-join-protests-against-madagascars-president
Tunisian protesters storm chemicals complex over health fears
Residents entered the state-run Tunisian Chemical Group's (CGT) phosphate complex in the southern city of Gabes on Saturday, demanding its closure to prevent environmental pollution and respiratory illnesses, witnesses said. The protest highlights the pressure on President Kais Saied's government, already strained by a deep economic and financial crisis, to balance public health demands with the production of phosphate, Tunisia's most valuable natural resource.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tunisian-protesters-storm-chemicals-complex-over-health-fears-2025-10-11/
Aid groups seize on ceasefire to tackle Gaza hunger amid uncertainties
"We are pushing different embassies and donors to speak to the Israeli authorities on their end, because we need, for example, trucks that can make round trips to the distribution platforms without facing constraints on the Israeli side," an official from a medical agency told AFP. Since spring, most of the aid on which Palestinian civilians depend has been supplied by the private Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/aid-groups-seize-truce-tackle-gaza-hunger-amid-uncertainty
Sadr bars supporters from rallies, ‘armed displays’ amid assassination allegations
In a handwritten note shared on his office’s official Facebook page, the head of the National Shiite Movement - formerly the Sadrist Movement - stated, “To prevent the corrupt from seizing the opportunity and to ward off the strife sought by the corrupt, all armed displays are forbidden.” Sadr specified that this ban applies to both his movement’s armed wing, Saraya al-Salam - Peace Brigades in Arabic - and all members of the National Shiite Movement. He warned that violations would be met with punishment.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/300920252
Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has reappointed his centrist ally Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister – days after Lecornu dramatically resigned and his new government collapsed after only 14 hours. Lecornu said he accepted returning to the role “out of duty” and would do “everything possible to provide France with a budget by the end of the year and to address the daily life issues of our fellow citizens”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/10/macron-reappoints-sebastien-lecornu-as-french-prime-minister
Plaid leader says his party is ready to 'replace' Labour
The Plaid leader also unveiled a childcare offer worth £30,000 to families in the first four years of their offspring’s life. “I am announcing that a Plaid Cymru government would introduce a transformative new universal free childcare programme, available for all children from the age of nine months to four years, building towards providing at least 20 hours a week for 48 weeks a year,” he said.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/plaid-leader-says-his-party-ready-replace-labour
China issues bounty for Taiwan PsyOps unit for 'separatism'
The public security bureau in the Chinese city of Xiamen, which sits opposite Taiwan on the other side of the Taiwan Strait, said the 18 were core members of Taiwan military's "psychological warfare unit", and published their pictures, names and Taiwan identity card numbers. The unit handles tasks such as disinformation, intelligence gathering, psychological warfare and the broadcast of propaganda, the security bureau said in a statement.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/china-bounty-taiwan-psyops-unit-separatism-military-5395856
DPWH suspends all road reblocking projects
Due to allegations of corruption, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) yesterday suspended indefinitely all road reblocking activities. Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon said the repeated repair of roads that appear to be in good condition has angered the public for decades.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/10/11/2479006/dpwh-suspends-all-road-reblocking-projects
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Peru’s Congress ousts de facto president Dina Boluarte amid mass protestsIn the early hours of Friday, October 10, Peru’s Congress overwhelmingly voted to remove President Dina Boluarte from office on the grounds of “permanent moral incapacity”. The emergency session was called to debate her impeachment amid the most recent wave of mass anti-government protests that have been escalating since September. A shooting at a cumbia concert of one of Peru’s most popular groups, Agua Marina, on Wednesday sparked renewed anger and protests at the government’s inability to address systemic crime.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/10/perus-congress-ousts-de-facto-president-dina-boluarte-amid-mass-protests/
Ecuadorian Government Freezes Bank Accounts of Two Environmental Groups
Taken amid the national strike called by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), the decision affects Alianza Ceibo, a foundation made up of Indigenous Ai Kofan, Siona, Siekopai, and Waorani peoples. “For 10 years, we have maintained a firm commitment to defending our territories and our identity, with dedication and transparency. We have always acted publicly, grounded in the law and demanding our rights, facing the threats imposed by extractivism, various forms of violence, racism, and now state authoritarianism,” Alianza Ceibo stated.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuadorian-government-freezes-bank-accounts-of-two-environmental-groups/
Soldiers from elite Capsat unit join protests against Madagascar’s president
However, a Capsat leader accompanied by a large group of soldiers called on other military units to “refuse orders to shoot your friends”, in a video that was posted on social media before they left their barracks. “Let us join forces, military, gendarmes and police, and refuse to be paid to shoot our friends, our brothers and our sisters,” he said, also calling on soldiers at the airport to “prevent all aircraft from taking off”. “Close the gates and await our instructions,” he said. “Do not obey orders from your superiors. Point your weapons at those who order you to fire on your comrades-in-arms, because they will not take care of our families if we die.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/11/soldiers-from-elite-capsat-unit-join-protests-against-madagascars-president
Tunisian protesters storm chemicals complex over health fears
Residents entered the state-run Tunisian Chemical Group's (CGT) phosphate complex in the southern city of Gabes on Saturday, demanding its closure to prevent environmental pollution and respiratory illnesses, witnesses said. The protest highlights the pressure on President Kais Saied's government, already strained by a deep economic and financial crisis, to balance public health demands with the production of phosphate, Tunisia's most valuable natural resource.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tunisian-protesters-storm-chemicals-complex-over-health-fears-2025-10-11/
Aid groups seize on ceasefire to tackle Gaza hunger amid uncertainties
"We are pushing different embassies and donors to speak to the Israeli authorities on their end, because we need, for example, trucks that can make round trips to the distribution platforms without facing constraints on the Israeli side," an official from a medical agency told AFP. Since spring, most of the aid on which Palestinian civilians depend has been supplied by the private Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/aid-groups-seize-truce-tackle-gaza-hunger-amid-uncertainty
Sadr bars supporters from rallies, ‘armed displays’ amid assassination allegations
In a handwritten note shared on his office’s official Facebook page, the head of the National Shiite Movement - formerly the Sadrist Movement - stated, “To prevent the corrupt from seizing the opportunity and to ward off the strife sought by the corrupt, all armed displays are forbidden.” Sadr specified that this ban applies to both his movement’s armed wing, Saraya al-Salam - Peace Brigades in Arabic - and all members of the National Shiite Movement. He warned that violations would be met with punishment.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/300920252
Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has reappointed his centrist ally Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister – days after Lecornu dramatically resigned and his new government collapsed after only 14 hours. Lecornu said he accepted returning to the role “out of duty” and would do “everything possible to provide France with a budget by the end of the year and to address the daily life issues of our fellow citizens”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/10/macron-reappoints-sebastien-lecornu-as-french-prime-minister
Plaid leader says his party is ready to 'replace' Labour
The Plaid leader also unveiled a childcare offer worth £30,000 to families in the first four years of their offspring’s life. “I am announcing that a Plaid Cymru government would introduce a transformative new universal free childcare programme, available for all children from the age of nine months to four years, building towards providing at least 20 hours a week for 48 weeks a year,” he said.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/plaid-leader-says-his-party-ready-replace-labour
China issues bounty for Taiwan PsyOps unit for 'separatism'
The public security bureau in the Chinese city of Xiamen, which sits opposite Taiwan on the other side of the Taiwan Strait, said the 18 were core members of Taiwan military's "psychological warfare unit", and published their pictures, names and Taiwan identity card numbers. The unit handles tasks such as disinformation, intelligence gathering, psychological warfare and the broadcast of propaganda, the security bureau said in a statement.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/china-bounty-taiwan-psyops-unit-separatism-military-5395856
DPWH suspends all road reblocking projects
Due to allegations of corruption, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) yesterday suspended indefinitely all road reblocking activities. Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon said the repeated repair of roads that appear to be in good condition has angered the public for decades.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/10/11/2479006/dpwh-suspends-all-road-reblocking-projects
R: 86 / I: 9
<“Among all the nations and peoples of Austria only three are capable of life … the Germans, the Magyars and the Poles. All the other small pig-headed nations — the Völkerabfälle of a thousand years — will be wiped off the earth.”
<“The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that too is a step forward.”
Engels, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, 13 January 1849
<“We repeat: the Slavs are a reactionary mass, and therefore will be annihilated in the coming revolutionary storm. For in the whole world there has not been a single revolution without a mass slaughter.”
<“Peoples which have never had a history of their own … are left to rot in the ruins of history. They must perish in the revolutionary world storm.”
Engels, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, February 1849
Dealing with the more offensive ideas of Marx and Engels
What is your opinion on Marx‘s and Engels‘ more crass ideas about so called Völkerabfall and the two‘s sincere belief that they will be wiped out and that this outcome is desirable? I think it‘s kind of a cop out to just say those are deprecated ideas we no longer touch upon. What is the reason for why this idea should be rejected?<“Among all the nations and peoples of Austria only three are capable of life … the Germans, the Magyars and the Poles. All the other small pig-headed nations — the Völkerabfälle of a thousand years — will be wiped off the earth.”
<“The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that too is a step forward.”
Engels, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, 13 January 1849
<“We repeat: the Slavs are a reactionary mass, and therefore will be annihilated in the coming revolutionary storm. For in the whole world there has not been a single revolution without a mass slaughter.”
<“Peoples which have never had a history of their own … are left to rot in the ruins of history. They must perish in the revolutionary world storm.”
Engels, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, February 1849
R: 35 / I: 12
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Nobel Peace Prize
And the Glowie Award goes to… María Corina Machado for the noble work of supporting regime change in South America! Everyone please clap!https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1l80g1qe4gt
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Fact checking facts about "russification" of Finland
1. Hurr durr Nicholas 2 wanted to turn everyone into Russians.
False: He wanted to liberate Finnish people from swedish aristocracy
>Nicholas II said that the core of Finland’s problem was that "the Swedes are striving to regain their former dominant position in Finland, misleading a broad section of the people. Against such gentlemen, decisive action had to be taken."
2. Hurr durr bobrikov was a dictator who suppressed free speech.
Misleading: He targeted swedes and their allies who were advocating for separatism and called Finnish and Russian people mongol barbarians and were closely associated with Germany which posed a security risk
>Of the 116 newspapers published between 1899–1905, 46 (39.7%) were temporarily suspended and 26 (22.4%) permanently shut down. The language distribution of all newspapers published was as follows: 78 Finnish-language (67.2%) and 38 Swedish-language (32.8%). Although most of the suspended papers were Finnish, the relative share of Swedish-language papers was greater. Of all Swedish-language papers during this period, 30% were permanently closed and 52.6% suspended temporarily, whereas the corresponding figures for Finnish-language papers were 19.2% and 33.3%. In the early phase of mass closures, attention was directed especially at Swedish-language papers, six of which were shut down in 1900, while only one Finnish-language paper was closed.
>In Kotka and Käkisalmi, the closures carried out by the governor-general strengthened the position of the Old Finnish press.
>Arbetaren and, outside Helsinki, Länsi-Suomen Työmies, Kansan Lehti, and Itä-Suomen Työmies did not receive a single warning from Bobrikov throughout the entire period, nor were they ever shut down. It appears that political censorship from Russia had little effect on the workers’ press.
3. Hurr durr muh political repression, muh exiles to Siberia
Misleading: The Finnish government couldn't carry out it's duties of protecting it's citizens and was notorious for hiding terrorists like Lenin and letting murderers go free. Bobrikov had to manually exile criminals because it was the only option left. For example a governor of Vyborg was shot and the assassin got only 3 years in prison and his co-conspirators got away with fine (https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Reinikka)
4. Hurr durr Bobirkov tried to force everyone to speak Russian
False: He encouraged his subordinates learn Finnish and significantly improved the position of Finnish language. This myth propably refers to the 1900 manifesto which mandated use of Russian in governors office because after his letters were leaked and he was facing insubordination he brought in his own people who didn't know swedish but were legally required to speak it. This law was made for them and didn't affect anyone in any way. All senators had to do was hire a translator so that Bobrikov could understand them. All in all it was not that important in the context of all his actions. Before Bobrikov swedish was the only official language and he uplifted Finnish language by giving it an official status which is a much more important policy
>Swedish-speaking senators who resigned, were dismissed, or died were replaced by Suometar (pro-Finnish) men, with the result that the senate gradually became more Finnish. A key achievement was the 1902 Language Decree, which, after years of struggle, finally made Finnish formally equal to Swedish as an official language.
5. Hurr durr he was a dicktator
True: While it's true it's important to understand that not all dictatorships are bad and not all democracies are good. Bobrikov had to have signifcant powers in order to uproot swedish aristocracy which occupied Finland for over 700 years. Prior to Bobrikov only 30% could vote and the senate and diet was almost exclusively swedish and couldn't represent the majority of Finnish speakers in any way. Bobrikov used his powers to represent those who were excluded from the decision-making like finnish-speaking workers and peasants. Bobrikov used 2 million marks to acquire land for the landless population and the committee he established distributed 147,000 hectares of land to those without land. It also should be noted that Bobrikov wanted to democratize the system and expand voting rights after he had implemented his reforms but was murdered by a swedish aristocrat before he could do it.
Fact checking facts about "russification" of Finland
1. Hurr durr Nicholas 2 wanted to turn everyone into Russians.
False: He wanted to liberate Finnish people from swedish aristocracy
>Nicholas II said that the core of Finland’s problem was that "the Swedes are striving to regain their former dominant position in Finland, misleading a broad section of the people. Against such gentlemen, decisive action had to be taken."
2. Hurr durr bobrikov was a dictator who suppressed free speech.
Misleading: He targeted swedes and their allies who were advocating for separatism and called Finnish and Russian people mongol barbarians and were closely associated with Germany which posed a security risk
>Of the 116 newspapers published between 1899–1905, 46 (39.7%) were temporarily suspended and 26 (22.4%) permanently shut down. The language distribution of all newspapers published was as follows: 78 Finnish-language (67.2%) and 38 Swedish-language (32.8%). Although most of the suspended papers were Finnish, the relative share of Swedish-language papers was greater. Of all Swedish-language papers during this period, 30% were permanently closed and 52.6% suspended temporarily, whereas the corresponding figures for Finnish-language papers were 19.2% and 33.3%. In the early phase of mass closures, attention was directed especially at Swedish-language papers, six of which were shut down in 1900, while only one Finnish-language paper was closed.
>In Kotka and Käkisalmi, the closures carried out by the governor-general strengthened the position of the Old Finnish press.
>Arbetaren and, outside Helsinki, Länsi-Suomen Työmies, Kansan Lehti, and Itä-Suomen Työmies did not receive a single warning from Bobrikov throughout the entire period, nor were they ever shut down. It appears that political censorship from Russia had little effect on the workers’ press.
3. Hurr durr muh political repression, muh exiles to Siberia
Misleading: The Finnish government couldn't carry out it's duties of protecting it's citizens and was notorious for hiding terrorists like Lenin and letting murderers go free. Bobrikov had to manually exile criminals because it was the only option left. For example a governor of Vyborg was shot and the assassin got only 3 years in prison and his co-conspirators got away with fine (https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Reinikka)
4. Hurr durr Bobirkov tried to force everyone to speak Russian
False: He encouraged his subordinates learn Finnish and significantly improved the position of Finnish language. This myth propably refers to the 1900 manifesto which mandated use of Russian in governors office because after his letters were leaked and he was facing insubordination he brought in his own people who didn't know swedish but were legally required to speak it. This law was made for them and didn't affect anyone in any way. All senators had to do was hire a translator so that Bobrikov could understand them. All in all it was not that important in the context of all his actions. Before Bobrikov swedish was the only official language and he uplifted Finnish language by giving it an official status which is a much more important policy
>Swedish-speaking senators who resigned, were dismissed, or died were replaced by Suometar (pro-Finnish) men, with the result that the senate gradually became more Finnish. A key achievement was the 1902 Language Decree, which, after years of struggle, finally made Finnish formally equal to Swedish as an official language.
5. Hurr durr he was a dicktator
True: While it's true it's important to understand that not all dictatorships are bad and not all democracies are good. Bobrikov had to have signifcant powers in order to uproot swedish aristocracy which occupied Finland for over 700 years. Prior to Bobrikov only 30% could vote and the senate and diet was almost exclusively swedish and couldn't represent the majority of Finnish speakers in any way. Bobrikov used his powers to represent those who were excluded from the decision-making like finnish-speaking workers and peasants. Bobrikov used 2 million marks to acquire land for the landless population and the committee he established distributed 147,000 hectares of land to those without land. It also should be noted that Bobrikov wanted to democratize the system and expand voting rights after he had implemented his reforms but was murdered by a swedish aristocrat before he could do it.
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This is an important topic and I try my best to follow Marxist approach. I believe that this is a valid topic for discussion and hope that it won't get banned simply because of potential negative associations with rightoids. This research of mine is inspired by struggle of victims of Gazan Genocide.
With the recent series of absolutely blatant acts of enshrining Israel as the sacred cow of American politics, an apartheid genocidal theocratic ethnostate, with measures such as banning of burning Israeli flags, making business dealings with Israel mandatory and forbidding critique of Israel for receiving American government contracts, mass expulsion of Israel-critical students from universities and deportations of pro-palestinian workers, and with the clear-cut dominant position of Zionist Billionaires (most of whom follow Judaism) in the American ruling class, it should be time to address the ideological concept behind both Israel and American ruling class - their religion. This does not imply that they are religious, or even believers, but religion serves a social function of excluding them from the rest of society and giving them their own set of accepted norms.
Of course, ruling class is going to do what it is meant to do to survive - oppress and distract and exploit the working people, but this can be done differently, in different frameworks and internal justifications. These do not change the general capitalist oppression character, but change its style and priorities. Historically, for example, American capitalists were following Protestant theology. In short, in Lutheranism and Calvinism there is no free will, and everything is a part of God's plan - so capitalists are not responsible for their wealth plundering and it is portrayed as God-foreseen inevitability. The idea of salvation through faith also tacitly clears of any responsibility, lowering the requirements for entering heaven. John D. Rockefeller, the pancapitalist of early XX century and a Protestant, considered his wealth to be a "God-given gift". This line of thought culminates in the vile prosperity theology, where success coming from God's grace - so if you are rich, that is because you are a fundamentally good person destined to rule over the undesirable dirty poor people.
While American ruling class was historically Protestant, more and more followers of Judaism appear in it. In 2014, Dr. Gerhard Falk, a professor of sociology reported that 48% of American billionaires were following Judaism. It is clear that Judaism is the new religion of American ruling class and this should not escape Marxist analysis or be downplayed, especially not when the genocide is going on - perhaps not the last one of this century committed by these actors.
Judaism gives very nowadays obvious benefits, a rhetorical shield of becoming a member of a protected minority with history of persecution - a card to appeal to when justly criticized. But why not Hawaian religion, for example? Clearly, the benefits must also be internal, not just internal. Judaism is an exclusive religion. One cannot convert to Judaism to become a fully recognized Jews by most rabbis - that's why a goy (non-follower of Judaism and not ethnically belonging to tribal followers of Judaism) cannot become a citizen of Israel by simply converting. This exclusivity coincides very well with the exclusivity of capitalist class as a whole - safeguarding them from infiltration by unproven elements or people who create more unneeded competition. This exclusivity by itself creates the "big club and you ain't in it" framework of master-slave relationship in American capitalism. One possible way to join is marrying a Judaism-following woman - that's why all of Joe Biden's children are married to followers of this religion (look it up). But that's not all.
I hate nazis and the like, and everything that comes from them, including their allegations against Judaism, so I had to do my own research. Unfortunately, my study of the religious literature of Judaism leaves for me no other conclusion than admitting that this is a supremacist religion like no other I know of. Please let me give a brief outline of it. It consists of what is close to an Old Testament to Christians (Tanakh, including Torah, which is Pentateuch to Christians) and commentaries on it (Mishnah, Halachic Midrash, Tosefta, Gemaras used for compilations of Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds, and the following commentaries, of these most important being Maimonides' Mishneh Torah). Early commentaries are also called "Oral Torah" and are as sacred as the Torah, they are claimed to be secret knowledge passed from Moses to lines of rabbis, thus keeping them secret from gentiles (another name for non-followers of Judaism and not from a Judaism followers' tribal lineage; gentiles/goys are also sometimes called "children of Noah", claimed to be given God's Noahite law but then led astray by "idolaters") until written down in Jerusalem and later Babylon (Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds - they are similar, the Babylonian one is more complete and has greater authority). The entire structure of Judaism is exclusionary and divides everyone in 2 categories: the tribe following Judaism and all the other tribes (goys/gentiles).
Judaism followers are regarded as ethnically and spiritually special with special attention from God. This is the attitudes of Torah and, more generally, Tanakh themselves, so Talmud builds on this tradition for sacred religious law rulings (like Sharia law in Islam).
Importantly, gentiles themselves are divided into 2 categories: noahite,and idolaters. Idolaters are gentiles following any other religion than Judaism. Jesus Christ for example is considered to be an idol for Christians. This is a natural conclusion from Tosefta, Fourt Division (Neziqin), Abodah Zarah 6:8 (Neusner's translation), which says "A man who is worshiped even though he is permitted, those who worship him are put to death through stoning." Idolaters are to be stoned to death generally (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 53a; Soncino English translation). Noahites are essentially followers of Judaism who do not have tribal lineage ethnically and are granted a much simpler legal code. This was not a thing for millenia, but the modern B'nai Noach religious movement precisely fits into this category. They are subservient to the followers of Judaism who are ethnically valid (people who can get Israeli citizenship by descent). Atheists are in a more of a gray legal area, but since they may not follow what are "Noahite laws" especially considering sexual matters, they can be put to death for violating them (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 57a; Soncino English translation: "R. Huna, Rab Judah, and all the disciples of Rab maintained: A heathen is executed for the violation of the seven Noachian laws").
The tribal supremacism of Judaism is expressed most clearly in different status of tribal adherents and gentiles (Noahide or not, doesn't matter). Tosefta, Fourt Division (Neziqin), Abodah Zarah 8:4: "A gentile [who kills] a gentile and a gentile who kills an Israelite are liable. An Israelite [who kills] a gentile is exempt." - what can characterize modern Israel more precisely than this? Not a single other religion has something like this (please prove if I am wrong). This statement from Tosefta is repeated in the Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 57a. Very interestingly this passage is very often self-censored by translators of Babylonian Talmud. It is totally omitted by Michael L. Rodkinson's 1918 translation, Volumes XV and XVI in one book, page 170, or for a word "gentile" a different word is used like "Cuthean" (Soncino English translation). But it must be very well understood that this literature is sacred to Judaism and that there is the original text in Hebrew or Aramaic with accurate rendering of the word. Since the text is sacred, this censorship was not made for theological reasons, but purely political ones, obscuring and hiding these unsightly passages. The word "גוי" is used originally, goy. This can be seen in uncensored editions of Judaic texts and on sefaria online resource, which is a great source of literature of this religion - be sure to select the right uncensored version of the original text.
Relatively more recent works by medieval Judaic theologians, like that of glorified Maimonedes, who is claimed to be the great preacher of love in modern Israel (but love only for co-tribesmen), especially by the Academy of the Hebrew Language leading member Dr. Yohai Makbili (יוחאי מקבילי). Maimonedes works were subjected to the same self-censorship, especially in 2 important passages which picked my attention. One is (Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations, 10:1) "Accordingly, if we see an idolater being swept away or drowning in the river, we should not help him" (Eliyahu Touger's translation). While this already is extremely problematic and inhumane, the original one again states "goy" instead of "idolater" - meaning all gentiles whatsoever regardless of their beliefs. The second passage (Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations, 9:4) is "The Canaanites are idol worshipers, and Sunday is their festival" (Eliyahu Touger's translation). The uncensored word for "Canaanites" is "Nazarenes" (הנוצרים), meaning followers of Jesus of Nazareth (ישו הנוצרי) aka Jesus Christ, thus confirming that Christians are to be stoned to death in a proper Judaic society, the one which is worshipped by Zionist Christians. Importantly, stoning might be used to indicate not the necessity of killing, but a necessity of rights termination, of enslavemen. A setenced to death is the ultimate rightsless object to be exploited. Most editions of Mishneh Torah no longer have the censorship (Frankel's edition, Academy of the Hebrew Language's edition and many others, these can't yet be found on sefaria though). There are many other blatantly supremacist passages in the Talmud and other Judaic holy works, but these are sufficient for my demonstration purposes. Many of the passages deal with different treatment of ethnic Judaic Jews and non-Jews, or with getting advantage of non-Jews.
What could be Marxist conclusions of these findings? We often downplay and underestimate religion as "opium of the masses", a shell used to maintain the people's exploitation. In my opinion, there is more to that than that. Religion serves as an additional layer of institutionalizing certain norms, not just for manipulation. Oligarchical capitalism and Judaism clearly found each other to be a perfect match. Capitalists view workers as no more than resource to be exploited for profits - this is very similar to how Judaism treats gentiles. Thus oligarchical capitalism gets an additional institutional support for its oppression in the eyes of the capitalists, not only giving them a protected minority status, marking their special oligarchical club, but also making it morally normal to exploit the people to the maximum extent possible, humanity be damned. This lifts any meek potential moral constraints coming with Protestant Christianity, paving the way to technocratic totalitarian oligarchical capitalism, with people processed more as meat rather than living beings with rights. Judaism is not needed for such a treatment. It is a natural fascist imperialist final stage of capitalism. Yet Judaism can be used to support and regulate this totalitarian process as a cryptic code of conduct internally and a rhetorical/institutional shield externally, and Judaism can no longer be viewed as a legitimate shield for people's oppression. As I personally am for freedom of consciousness, I think that it is fine for people to have beliefs that they must enslave other people - these ideas won't hold in front of popular dissemination. Cults and religious minorities can have whatever crazy beliefs they may have, but these should be treated objectively from a Marxist perspective as vile irrational belief systems.
I hope that what I've learned and expressed here would be of benefit to Marxists, Socialists and Communists in their analysis of modern American capitalism. The role of Judaism in it should be a subject of serious academic research but, naturally, as the academia is captured by capitalists, it is a taboo topic and the only in-depth book on the subject is by a non-academic and a Christian fundamentalist Michael Hoffman's "Judaism discovered from its own texts" which I DID NOT use when doing my research, but which I've read afterwards - and while it is filled with fundamentalist Christian bias, the extractions from Talmud are accurate and are not picked out of context. You can send me feedback in this leftypol thread or by email "A.Babkin93" "@" "proton" "." "me". I am tired of keeping all this information inside of myself and might talk occasionally (don't get your hopes high). And, of course, I naturally use Tor to post this as, admittedly, from everything I am seeing, Israel is extremely control-freakish in targeting anyone who is critical of it so I am all but certain that they will try to target me in case I publish this non-anonymously.
All the best and thanks for reading!
Analyzing Judaism as the religion of the American ruling class and the Talmud from a Marxist perspec
Hi,This is an important topic and I try my best to follow Marxist approach. I believe that this is a valid topic for discussion and hope that it won't get banned simply because of potential negative associations with rightoids. This research of mine is inspired by struggle of victims of Gazan Genocide.
With the recent series of absolutely blatant acts of enshrining Israel as the sacred cow of American politics, an apartheid genocidal theocratic ethnostate, with measures such as banning of burning Israeli flags, making business dealings with Israel mandatory and forbidding critique of Israel for receiving American government contracts, mass expulsion of Israel-critical students from universities and deportations of pro-palestinian workers, and with the clear-cut dominant position of Zionist Billionaires (most of whom follow Judaism) in the American ruling class, it should be time to address the ideological concept behind both Israel and American ruling class - their religion. This does not imply that they are religious, or even believers, but religion serves a social function of excluding them from the rest of society and giving them their own set of accepted norms.
Of course, ruling class is going to do what it is meant to do to survive - oppress and distract and exploit the working people, but this can be done differently, in different frameworks and internal justifications. These do not change the general capitalist oppression character, but change its style and priorities. Historically, for example, American capitalists were following Protestant theology. In short, in Lutheranism and Calvinism there is no free will, and everything is a part of God's plan - so capitalists are not responsible for their wealth plundering and it is portrayed as God-foreseen inevitability. The idea of salvation through faith also tacitly clears of any responsibility, lowering the requirements for entering heaven. John D. Rockefeller, the pancapitalist of early XX century and a Protestant, considered his wealth to be a "God-given gift". This line of thought culminates in the vile prosperity theology, where success coming from God's grace - so if you are rich, that is because you are a fundamentally good person destined to rule over the undesirable dirty poor people.
While American ruling class was historically Protestant, more and more followers of Judaism appear in it. In 2014, Dr. Gerhard Falk, a professor of sociology reported that 48% of American billionaires were following Judaism. It is clear that Judaism is the new religion of American ruling class and this should not escape Marxist analysis or be downplayed, especially not when the genocide is going on - perhaps not the last one of this century committed by these actors.
Judaism gives very nowadays obvious benefits, a rhetorical shield of becoming a member of a protected minority with history of persecution - a card to appeal to when justly criticized. But why not Hawaian religion, for example? Clearly, the benefits must also be internal, not just internal. Judaism is an exclusive religion. One cannot convert to Judaism to become a fully recognized Jews by most rabbis - that's why a goy (non-follower of Judaism and not ethnically belonging to tribal followers of Judaism) cannot become a citizen of Israel by simply converting. This exclusivity coincides very well with the exclusivity of capitalist class as a whole - safeguarding them from infiltration by unproven elements or people who create more unneeded competition. This exclusivity by itself creates the "big club and you ain't in it" framework of master-slave relationship in American capitalism. One possible way to join is marrying a Judaism-following woman - that's why all of Joe Biden's children are married to followers of this religion (look it up). But that's not all.
I hate nazis and the like, and everything that comes from them, including their allegations against Judaism, so I had to do my own research. Unfortunately, my study of the religious literature of Judaism leaves for me no other conclusion than admitting that this is a supremacist religion like no other I know of. Please let me give a brief outline of it. It consists of what is close to an Old Testament to Christians (Tanakh, including Torah, which is Pentateuch to Christians) and commentaries on it (Mishnah, Halachic Midrash, Tosefta, Gemaras used for compilations of Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds, and the following commentaries, of these most important being Maimonides' Mishneh Torah). Early commentaries are also called "Oral Torah" and are as sacred as the Torah, they are claimed to be secret knowledge passed from Moses to lines of rabbis, thus keeping them secret from gentiles (another name for non-followers of Judaism and not from a Judaism followers' tribal lineage; gentiles/goys are also sometimes called "children of Noah", claimed to be given God's Noahite law but then led astray by "idolaters") until written down in Jerusalem and later Babylon (Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds - they are similar, the Babylonian one is more complete and has greater authority). The entire structure of Judaism is exclusionary and divides everyone in 2 categories: the tribe following Judaism and all the other tribes (goys/gentiles).
Judaism followers are regarded as ethnically and spiritually special with special attention from God. This is the attitudes of Torah and, more generally, Tanakh themselves, so Talmud builds on this tradition for sacred religious law rulings (like Sharia law in Islam).
Importantly, gentiles themselves are divided into 2 categories: noahite,and idolaters. Idolaters are gentiles following any other religion than Judaism. Jesus Christ for example is considered to be an idol for Christians. This is a natural conclusion from Tosefta, Fourt Division (Neziqin), Abodah Zarah 6:8 (Neusner's translation), which says "A man who is worshiped even though he is permitted, those who worship him are put to death through stoning." Idolaters are to be stoned to death generally (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 53a; Soncino English translation). Noahites are essentially followers of Judaism who do not have tribal lineage ethnically and are granted a much simpler legal code. This was not a thing for millenia, but the modern B'nai Noach religious movement precisely fits into this category. They are subservient to the followers of Judaism who are ethnically valid (people who can get Israeli citizenship by descent). Atheists are in a more of a gray legal area, but since they may not follow what are "Noahite laws" especially considering sexual matters, they can be put to death for violating them (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 57a; Soncino English translation: "R. Huna, Rab Judah, and all the disciples of Rab maintained: A heathen is executed for the violation of the seven Noachian laws").
The tribal supremacism of Judaism is expressed most clearly in different status of tribal adherents and gentiles (Noahide or not, doesn't matter). Tosefta, Fourt Division (Neziqin), Abodah Zarah 8:4: "A gentile [who kills] a gentile and a gentile who kills an Israelite are liable. An Israelite [who kills] a gentile is exempt." - what can characterize modern Israel more precisely than this? Not a single other religion has something like this (please prove if I am wrong). This statement from Tosefta is repeated in the Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 57a. Very interestingly this passage is very often self-censored by translators of Babylonian Talmud. It is totally omitted by Michael L. Rodkinson's 1918 translation, Volumes XV and XVI in one book, page 170, or for a word "gentile" a different word is used like "Cuthean" (Soncino English translation). But it must be very well understood that this literature is sacred to Judaism and that there is the original text in Hebrew or Aramaic with accurate rendering of the word. Since the text is sacred, this censorship was not made for theological reasons, but purely political ones, obscuring and hiding these unsightly passages. The word "גוי" is used originally, goy. This can be seen in uncensored editions of Judaic texts and on sefaria online resource, which is a great source of literature of this religion - be sure to select the right uncensored version of the original text.
Relatively more recent works by medieval Judaic theologians, like that of glorified Maimonedes, who is claimed to be the great preacher of love in modern Israel (but love only for co-tribesmen), especially by the Academy of the Hebrew Language leading member Dr. Yohai Makbili (יוחאי מקבילי). Maimonedes works were subjected to the same self-censorship, especially in 2 important passages which picked my attention. One is (Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations, 10:1) "Accordingly, if we see an idolater being swept away or drowning in the river, we should not help him" (Eliyahu Touger's translation). While this already is extremely problematic and inhumane, the original one again states "goy" instead of "idolater" - meaning all gentiles whatsoever regardless of their beliefs. The second passage (Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations, 9:4) is "The Canaanites are idol worshipers, and Sunday is their festival" (Eliyahu Touger's translation). The uncensored word for "Canaanites" is "Nazarenes" (הנוצרים), meaning followers of Jesus of Nazareth (ישו הנוצרי) aka Jesus Christ, thus confirming that Christians are to be stoned to death in a proper Judaic society, the one which is worshipped by Zionist Christians. Importantly, stoning might be used to indicate not the necessity of killing, but a necessity of rights termination, of enslavemen. A setenced to death is the ultimate rightsless object to be exploited. Most editions of Mishneh Torah no longer have the censorship (Frankel's edition, Academy of the Hebrew Language's edition and many others, these can't yet be found on sefaria though). There are many other blatantly supremacist passages in the Talmud and other Judaic holy works, but these are sufficient for my demonstration purposes. Many of the passages deal with different treatment of ethnic Judaic Jews and non-Jews, or with getting advantage of non-Jews.
What could be Marxist conclusions of these findings? We often downplay and underestimate religion as "opium of the masses", a shell used to maintain the people's exploitation. In my opinion, there is more to that than that. Religion serves as an additional layer of institutionalizing certain norms, not just for manipulation. Oligarchical capitalism and Judaism clearly found each other to be a perfect match. Capitalists view workers as no more than resource to be exploited for profits - this is very similar to how Judaism treats gentiles. Thus oligarchical capitalism gets an additional institutional support for its oppression in the eyes of the capitalists, not only giving them a protected minority status, marking their special oligarchical club, but also making it morally normal to exploit the people to the maximum extent possible, humanity be damned. This lifts any meek potential moral constraints coming with Protestant Christianity, paving the way to technocratic totalitarian oligarchical capitalism, with people processed more as meat rather than living beings with rights. Judaism is not needed for such a treatment. It is a natural fascist imperialist final stage of capitalism. Yet Judaism can be used to support and regulate this totalitarian process as a cryptic code of conduct internally and a rhetorical/institutional shield externally, and Judaism can no longer be viewed as a legitimate shield for people's oppression. As I personally am for freedom of consciousness, I think that it is fine for people to have beliefs that they must enslave other people - these ideas won't hold in front of popular dissemination. Cults and religious minorities can have whatever crazy beliefs they may have, but these should be treated objectively from a Marxist perspective as vile irrational belief systems.
I hope that what I've learned and expressed here would be of benefit to Marxists, Socialists and Communists in their analysis of modern American capitalism. The role of Judaism in it should be a subject of serious academic research but, naturally, as the academia is captured by capitalists, it is a taboo topic and the only in-depth book on the subject is by a non-academic and a Christian fundamentalist Michael Hoffman's "Judaism discovered from its own texts" which I DID NOT use when doing my research, but which I've read afterwards - and while it is filled with fundamentalist Christian bias, the extractions from Talmud are accurate and are not picked out of context. You can send me feedback in this leftypol thread or by email "A.Babkin93" "@" "proton" "." "me". I am tired of keeping all this information inside of myself and might talk occasionally (don't get your hopes high). And, of course, I naturally use Tor to post this as, admittedly, from everything I am seeing, Israel is extremely control-freakish in targeting anyone who is critical of it so I am all but certain that they will try to target me in case I publish this non-anonymously.
All the best and thanks for reading!
R: 32 / I: 1
Some comrades also speak of alienation as if it's a bad thing. As if walking in the human hamster wheel is in itself a bad thing. It is only "bad" because Capitalism lacks direction! When the hamster wheel turns the wheels of history we will not tread in them reluctantly, but willingly! What greater thing can there be but to give your individualism up for the cause? To turn our dyssocial species into a eusocial one?
If you think I'm ridiculous for suggesting these things, remember that Alexandra Kollontai faced similar criticisms for her insistence on the abolishment of the family, for the institution of public creches and the like. Today kindergartens are a part of daily life. We should not only take Kollontai's ideas to heart, but expand upon them. What other spheres of private life are apt for socialization? Cleaning? Yes. Pooping? Why not. Sex? The government will fuck you - literally! There is nothing of the body which is not the concern of the collective. Not even your genes. Or as we will soon call them - our genes.
Abolishing personal property is good actually
I'm tired of Marxists who insist that communism is merely about abolishing private property and not personal property. All the same irrationalities that plague the sphere of production also plague the sphere of reproduction. When reactionaries wail that we're coming for their toothbrush, or that communists mean to enact "the people's blanket", we should not reply with feckless "ackshully"s, but proudly proclaim "Yes! We do aim to do away with them!". We will collectivize oral hygiene! We will institute public sleeping quarters! We will have public feeding halls! No, you cannot order off the menu!Some comrades also speak of alienation as if it's a bad thing. As if walking in the human hamster wheel is in itself a bad thing. It is only "bad" because Capitalism lacks direction! When the hamster wheel turns the wheels of history we will not tread in them reluctantly, but willingly! What greater thing can there be but to give your individualism up for the cause? To turn our dyssocial species into a eusocial one?
If you think I'm ridiculous for suggesting these things, remember that Alexandra Kollontai faced similar criticisms for her insistence on the abolishment of the family, for the institution of public creches and the like. Today kindergartens are a part of daily life. We should not only take Kollontai's ideas to heart, but expand upon them. What other spheres of private life are apt for socialization? Cleaning? Yes. Pooping? Why not. Sex? The government will fuck you - literally! There is nothing of the body which is not the concern of the collective. Not even your genes. Or as we will soon call them - our genes.
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1. Does anyone here actually agree that the Stalinist system of a tightly controlled party answering to one man is good in the modern world?
2. Does anyone think its a good idea for one country to control an international organization that should encompass everyone from Japaan to Easter Island?
3. Do you think that democracy should actually represent the workers, and not the aristocrats who have every trick in the book such as wealth, fame and money to boost their election chances over the common person?
Trotskyism
I am going to ask you some questions. I bet that Marxist-Leninists, Leftcoms and these things we've been tearing ourselves apart over, don't really exist.1. Does anyone here actually agree that the Stalinist system of a tightly controlled party answering to one man is good in the modern world?
2. Does anyone think its a good idea for one country to control an international organization that should encompass everyone from Japaan to Easter Island?
3. Do you think that democracy should actually represent the workers, and not the aristocrats who have every trick in the book such as wealth, fame and money to boost their election chances over the common person?
R: 18 / I: 5
First, the media claimed that the shooter was a football player with CTE who wanted to attack the NFL office but that flimsy lie fell apart because no one travels from Las Vegas to New York to mistakenly attack the wrong building, next there was allegedly a note in the shooter's pocket asking for his brain to be studied, again a flimsy coverup.
Wesley Lepatner Blackstone BREIT CEO dead in Manhattan shooting
Thoughts on the Manhattan shooting of a Blackstone CEO? Was it on purpose? Is this another Luigi Mangione situation? Will this become a trend?First, the media claimed that the shooter was a football player with CTE who wanted to attack the NFL office but that flimsy lie fell apart because no one travels from Las Vegas to New York to mistakenly attack the wrong building, next there was allegedly a note in the shooter's pocket asking for his brain to be studied, again a flimsy coverup.
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I saw today that In Hegel By negating its self through work the worker gives its self a specific character but this act of negation exactly creates your character for others .Negating your self for surplus value is to create a you for others because a human consciousness seeks recognition only in another consciousness seeing this is negation . this is exactly why negation is intelligence as praxis as Adorno shows.
I saw today that In Hegel By negating its self through work the worker gives its self a specific character but this act of negation exactly creates your character for others .Negating your self for surplus value is to create a you for others because a human consciousness seeks recognition only in another consciousness seeing this is negation . this is exactly why negation is intelligence as praxis as Adorno shows.
R: 23 / I: 6 (sage)
>defeated the Soviets
>defended its sovereignty against every empire
>neither absorbed by the western deep state or the eastern deep state
>ran by the Taliban, who ars not greedy elitists, but members of everyday life who the majoroty of the people support, and even they don't have full control over the country, because other tribes run their own localities
>sent their traitors to all die in Ukraine
>you can smoke opium and weed all day and never go dry without worrying
>the women are fucking hot and fair-skinned eastern european looking
>no vax, no GMOs, no globalist garbage
>beautiful mountainous terrain
Afghanistan is anarcho-libertarian paradise.
Perfect countries don't exi–
>defeated NATO>defeated the Soviets
>defended its sovereignty against every empire
>neither absorbed by the western deep state or the eastern deep state
>ran by the Taliban, who ars not greedy elitists, but members of everyday life who the majoroty of the people support, and even they don't have full control over the country, because other tribes run their own localities
>sent their traitors to all die in Ukraine
>you can smoke opium and weed all day and never go dry without worrying
>the women are fucking hot and fair-skinned eastern european looking
>no vax, no GMOs, no globalist garbage
>beautiful mountainous terrain
Afghanistan is anarcho-libertarian paradise.
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>blaming globalism
2010s
>blaming billionaires
2020s
>blaming imperialism
2030s
>blaming jews/muslims
How does capitalism evade being blamed for the masses? How can communists change that?
The blame game
2000s>blaming globalism
2010s
>blaming billionaires
2020s
>blaming imperialism
2030s
>blaming jews/muslims
How does capitalism evade being blamed for the masses? How can communists change that?
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Fat Scouse Edition
Another shitty thread for the Shitty Isles, for the naive Sultanah glazers, for the Jesus Corbyn worshippers, for the Nigel Farage enjoyers.
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LEFTYBRITPOL GENERALFat Scouse Edition
Another shitty thread for the Shitty Isles, for the naive Sultanah glazers, for the Jesus Corbyn worshippers, for the Nigel Farage enjoyers.
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There is a massive conflict of interests between producers of goods and services and those who demand and use these goods. How do Marxist plan to abolish this contradiction in a situation where its proletarians demanding these goods?
There is a massive conflict of interests between producers of goods and services and those who demand and use these goods. How do Marxist plan to abolish this contradiction in a situation where its proletarians demanding these goods?
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While the full details of the first phase of the ceasefire deal, approved by Israel and Hamas, remain unclear, Trump has said his plan will bring “everlasting peace” and wide-scale reconstruction in Gaza, which has been devastated by Israel’s two-year war. “You have tremendous wealth in that part of the world by certain countries, and just a small part of that, what they make, will do wonders for Gaza,” Trump said, without giving details of a specific reconstruction plan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/9/israel-confirms-signing-phase-one-of-gaza-ceasefire-deal-with-hamas
https://archive.ph/t3JsE
Marwan Barghouti secretly removed from prisoner list by Israel, source says
A source close to Barghouti and his family told MEE that last night mediators including US envoy Steve Witkoff signed off on a prisoner list that included Barghouti. However on Thursday, an Israeli spokesperson told reporters that "at this point in time that he will not be part of this release". Barghouti's name appears to have been unilaterally removed by the Israeli prime minister's office, the source said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/marwan-barghouti-will-not-be-released-gaza-deal-says-israeli-spokesperson
Lebanon foils attack on Hezbollah commemoration, arrests 32 'Israel spies'
The security operation that thwarted the attack was reportedly carried out in "complete secrecy and under the direct supervision of the General Security Directorate, in order to preserve the confidentiality of the ongoing investigation into the [detained] group’s external connections." According to Lebanese media reports, the plot was orchestrated by a foreign national only identified as Martin, who resides in Germany and moves across Europe.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanon-thwarts-israeli-attack-against-hezbollah-commemoration
Medellin mayor’s goon squad attacks peaceful Palestine solidarity protest
Medellin city officials and far-right activists violently cracked down on a peaceful Palestine solidarity protest that was endorsed by Colombia’s national government. In multiple videos that were published on social media, personnel of the Security and Coexistence Secretariat kicked a human rights defender in the head, and attacked protesters with belts and rocks. Police apparently intervened to end the assault. In other videos, a far-right councilman was seen threatening to assault protesters with a baseball bat.
https://colombiareports.com/medellin-mayors-goon-squad-attacks-peaceful-palestine-solidarity-protest/
Bolivia: Arce denounces anti-democratic plot in Congress
During a press conference, Arce claimed the plan involved the Senate fast-tracking a bill by Senator Pedro Benjamín Vargas (from the opposition/Andronico wing of the ruling MAS party) that seeks to remove and prosecute the members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE). “We want to denounce that the Senate is attempting to approve and discuss, with dispensation from procedure and regulations, the bill presented by Senator Pedro Benjamín Vargas, which seeks to suspend the functions of the electoral officials in order to extend the term of office of the elected authorities, namely the president, vice president, deputies, and senators,” Arce said. The Legislative Branch intends to “prosecute the current electoral officials and thereby suspend the second round,” he added.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/10/09/bolivia-arce-denounces-anti-democratic-plot-in-congress
Congress votes to restrict Milei's ability to govern by decree
The bill, which had already been approved by the Senate, stipulates that a decree may be overturned by a vote of a single chamber. Previously, a majority of both houses of Congress was required to reject a presidential order. However, deputies rejected an article requiring both chambers to endorse decrees in 90 days.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/congress-votes-to-restrict-mileis-ability-to-govern-by-decree.phtml
https://archive.ph/DgmUM
Peru lawmakers make fresh push to remove unpopular president from office
At least 52 must approve it in an upcoming plenary session of Congress before it can be debated in a separate session, which will decide whether or not it can proceed. "The only way of moving forwards is Dina Boluarte's impeachment," Congresswoman Susel Paredes said in a post on X, in which she shared the document. "Various blocs agree and that's why the motion has now been presented."
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-lawmakers-make-fresh-push-remove-unpopular-president-office-2025-10-09/
Fort Hare students ‘blame police’ for infrastructure damage: ANCYL
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in the Eastern Cape says the students from the University of Fort Hare have blamed the police for the damage to two buildings at the Alice Campus. The buildings were set ablaze late yesterday afternoon following clashes between protesting students and the police. The students have been protesting since Monday, demanding that SRC elections be held this month and calling for the cancellation of the Vice Chancellor’s contract extension.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/fort-hare-students-blame-police-for-infrastructure-damage-ancyl/
Over 80% of households in Japan feel impact of rising prices, survey shows
The online survey, which covered 5,484 people in their 20s to 60s from across the country who are working as regular employees, showed that 82.9% said their household budgets had been affected by inflation, up from 78.9% in the previous year's survey. Of the respondents affected by inflation, 91.3% said price increases had impacted their food expenses, while 61.5% felt the impact on electricity bills.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/09/japan/society/japan-inflation-hit-family-survey/
‘Radioactive’ shrimp crisis: Indonesia grapples with contaminated industrial zone
A large industrial zone on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, is grappling with radioactive contamination after a government taskforce found traces of the hazardous isotope Caesium-137 at 22 production facilities at the site, which includes businesses that export frozen seafood. The discovery, which has prompted emergency decontamination and relocation of residents, follows a contamination scare in the US that was traced back to the Jakarta facilities.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/09/radioactive-shrimp-crisis-indonesia-contaminated-industrial-zone
News 10/9/25
Israeli cabinet ratifies Gaza ceasefire, captive exchange deal with HamasWhile the full details of the first phase of the ceasefire deal, approved by Israel and Hamas, remain unclear, Trump has said his plan will bring “everlasting peace” and wide-scale reconstruction in Gaza, which has been devastated by Israel’s two-year war. “You have tremendous wealth in that part of the world by certain countries, and just a small part of that, what they make, will do wonders for Gaza,” Trump said, without giving details of a specific reconstruction plan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/9/israel-confirms-signing-phase-one-of-gaza-ceasefire-deal-with-hamas
https://archive.ph/t3JsE
Marwan Barghouti secretly removed from prisoner list by Israel, source says
A source close to Barghouti and his family told MEE that last night mediators including US envoy Steve Witkoff signed off on a prisoner list that included Barghouti. However on Thursday, an Israeli spokesperson told reporters that "at this point in time that he will not be part of this release". Barghouti's name appears to have been unilaterally removed by the Israeli prime minister's office, the source said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/marwan-barghouti-will-not-be-released-gaza-deal-says-israeli-spokesperson
Lebanon foils attack on Hezbollah commemoration, arrests 32 'Israel spies'
The security operation that thwarted the attack was reportedly carried out in "complete secrecy and under the direct supervision of the General Security Directorate, in order to preserve the confidentiality of the ongoing investigation into the [detained] group’s external connections." According to Lebanese media reports, the plot was orchestrated by a foreign national only identified as Martin, who resides in Germany and moves across Europe.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanon-thwarts-israeli-attack-against-hezbollah-commemoration
Medellin mayor’s goon squad attacks peaceful Palestine solidarity protest
Medellin city officials and far-right activists violently cracked down on a peaceful Palestine solidarity protest that was endorsed by Colombia’s national government. In multiple videos that were published on social media, personnel of the Security and Coexistence Secretariat kicked a human rights defender in the head, and attacked protesters with belts and rocks. Police apparently intervened to end the assault. In other videos, a far-right councilman was seen threatening to assault protesters with a baseball bat.
https://colombiareports.com/medellin-mayors-goon-squad-attacks-peaceful-palestine-solidarity-protest/
Bolivia: Arce denounces anti-democratic plot in Congress
During a press conference, Arce claimed the plan involved the Senate fast-tracking a bill by Senator Pedro Benjamín Vargas (from the opposition/Andronico wing of the ruling MAS party) that seeks to remove and prosecute the members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE). “We want to denounce that the Senate is attempting to approve and discuss, with dispensation from procedure and regulations, the bill presented by Senator Pedro Benjamín Vargas, which seeks to suspend the functions of the electoral officials in order to extend the term of office of the elected authorities, namely the president, vice president, deputies, and senators,” Arce said. The Legislative Branch intends to “prosecute the current electoral officials and thereby suspend the second round,” he added.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/10/09/bolivia-arce-denounces-anti-democratic-plot-in-congress
Congress votes to restrict Milei's ability to govern by decree
The bill, which had already been approved by the Senate, stipulates that a decree may be overturned by a vote of a single chamber. Previously, a majority of both houses of Congress was required to reject a presidential order. However, deputies rejected an article requiring both chambers to endorse decrees in 90 days.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/congress-votes-to-restrict-mileis-ability-to-govern-by-decree.phtml
https://archive.ph/DgmUM
Peru lawmakers make fresh push to remove unpopular president from office
At least 52 must approve it in an upcoming plenary session of Congress before it can be debated in a separate session, which will decide whether or not it can proceed. "The only way of moving forwards is Dina Boluarte's impeachment," Congresswoman Susel Paredes said in a post on X, in which she shared the document. "Various blocs agree and that's why the motion has now been presented."
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-lawmakers-make-fresh-push-remove-unpopular-president-office-2025-10-09/
Fort Hare students ‘blame police’ for infrastructure damage: ANCYL
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in the Eastern Cape says the students from the University of Fort Hare have blamed the police for the damage to two buildings at the Alice Campus. The buildings were set ablaze late yesterday afternoon following clashes between protesting students and the police. The students have been protesting since Monday, demanding that SRC elections be held this month and calling for the cancellation of the Vice Chancellor’s contract extension.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/fort-hare-students-blame-police-for-infrastructure-damage-ancyl/
Over 80% of households in Japan feel impact of rising prices, survey shows
The online survey, which covered 5,484 people in their 20s to 60s from across the country who are working as regular employees, showed that 82.9% said their household budgets had been affected by inflation, up from 78.9% in the previous year's survey. Of the respondents affected by inflation, 91.3% said price increases had impacted their food expenses, while 61.5% felt the impact on electricity bills.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/09/japan/society/japan-inflation-hit-family-survey/
‘Radioactive’ shrimp crisis: Indonesia grapples with contaminated industrial zone
A large industrial zone on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, is grappling with radioactive contamination after a government taskforce found traces of the hazardous isotope Caesium-137 at 22 production facilities at the site, which includes businesses that export frozen seafood. The discovery, which has prompted emergency decontamination and relocation of residents, follows a contamination scare in the US that was traced back to the Jakarta facilities.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/09/radioactive-shrimp-crisis-indonesia-contaminated-industrial-zone
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I’m a communist but I do things that are capitalistic. I live in the area that has only fast food so my hypocrite for eating at McDonald’s. and In-N-Out.
I’m a communist but I do things that are capitalistic. I live in the area that has only fast food so my hypocrite for eating at McDonald’s. and In-N-Out.
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What president United States was the most socialist I’m wonderin I think it was Jimmy Carter because he went to Cuba I know he
Was a Neo liberal but at least he had the effort to do that.
What president United States was the most socialist I’m wonderin I think it was Jimmy Carter because he went to Cuba I know he
Was a Neo liberal but at least he had the effort to do that.
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Not reporting is bourgeois
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Va. Lt. Gov Winsome Earle-Sears wants to murder everyone now. My state is having the funniest elections ever.
https://vademocrats.org/news/new-audio-from-sears-reveals-comments-about-reproductive-rights-supporters/
Va. Lt. Gov Winsome Earle-Sears wants to murder everyone now. My state is having the funniest elections ever.
https://vademocrats.org/news/new-audio-from-sears-reveals-comments-about-reproductive-rights-supporters/
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Are there any red themed sites you have enjoyed visiting or are looking to visit? Tours or accommodation recommendations are also very welcome.
Beijing and Yan'an seem to be a great start, with plenty of museums and art installations.
Red Tourism
What are some ideologically engaging places to visit on a trip in China? For better or for worse red tourism there seems particularly developed and commodified - I'm looking forward to seeing the contrast to eastern europe red historical sites, where post-communist states either tear it all down(Ukraine), fail to maintain it (Bosnia), or worse of all give it a lib rebranding as some kind of solemn commemoration to a dark age(Czech)Are there any red themed sites you have enjoyed visiting or are looking to visit? Tours or accommodation recommendations are also very welcome.
Beijing and Yan'an seem to be a great start, with plenty of museums and art installations.
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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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If American communists actually care about achieving socialism then they should work on destroying the United States.
Most of Western imperialism, Israel's continued existence, the global suppression of socialist movements across the world. It all literally hinges on the United States. You will not have your socialist revolution in the US any time soon anyway and not without the current order collapsing. The most noble thin you can do is to do whatever is in your power to accelerate the collapse of the United States.
If American communists actually care about achieving socialism then they should work on destroying the United States.
Most of Western imperialism, Israel's continued existence, the global suppression of socialist movements across the world. It all literally hinges on the United States. You will not have your socialist revolution in the US any time soon anyway and not without the current order collapsing. The most noble thin you can do is to do whatever is in your power to accelerate the collapse of the United States.
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On September 1, 2022, a man pulled the trigger of a gun inches from former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner’s head. The bullet missed, and Kirchner was unharmed, unaware at the time that she had just been the victim of a failed assassination attempt. But the attack was recorded, and the video quickly went viral, playing endlessly on cell phones and televisions across a nation in shock.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-08/sabag-montiel-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-for-attempted-assassination-of-cristina-kirchner.html
https://archive.ph/vbUpm
Bolivia prepares to elect its next president
On October 19, Bolivia will hold a second round of elections to choose the country’s next president. Rodrigo Paz Pereira, of the Christian Democratic Party, won the first round with 32.06% of the valid votes. Jorge Quiroga Ramírez, of the Free Alliance, came in second with 26.7% of the votes.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/08/bolivia-prepares-to-elect-its-next-president/
President Petro to Advocate for an Armed Peacekeeping Force in Palestine at the UN
In a radio and TV address, Petro emphasized that Colombia, “the land of Bolívar,” will advance this initiative at the United Nations Assembly, insisting that Colombia should actively participate in such a mission. He criticized the United States for consistently blocking peace efforts within the Security Council, leaving the United Nations General Assembly as the only viable path to approve a peace force deployment in Palestine through a majority vote.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/president-petro-to-advocate-for-an-armed-peacekeeping-force-in-palestine-at-the-un/
https://archive.ph/VJ67u
Trump says Israel and Hamas sign off on first phase of Gaza ceasefire plan
“The mediators announce that tonight an agreement was reached on all the provisions and implementation mechanisms of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which will lead to ending the war, the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and the entry of aid. The details will be announced later,” Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Majed al-Ansari wrote on X.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/8/trump-says-he-may-travel-to-middle-east-as-gaza-deal-very-close
https://archive.ph/l3uY8
Sumud Flotilla vessels attacked by Israel as Gaza aggression contiues
Around 8:30 pm Gaza time (1730 GMT), several vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, including the Alma, Sirius and Adara, were illegally intercepted and boarded by Israeli occupation forces in international waters," the flotilla said. "Beyond the confirmed interceptions, live streams and communications with several other vessels have been lost," the statement added.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sumud-flotilla-vessels-attacked-israel-amid-gaza-aggression
Burkina Faso arrests European NGO workers for spying
Mr Sana reported that those detained included a French man, a French-Senegalese woman, a Czech man, a Malian and four Burkinabe nationals. Mr Sana said the staff members had continued working for the organisation after it was banned for three months, for allegedly “collecting sensitive data without authorisation.” The security minister claimed some of Inso’s staff had “continued to clandestinely or covertly conduct activities such as information collection and meetings in person or online” following the ban.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burkina-faso-arrests-european-ngo-workers-spying
Oversight body says South Sudan rivals have recruited fighters, raising war fears
The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, or RJMEC, is a ceasefire monitoring body overseen by a regional bloc known as IGAD. Its statement also said the body had received reports that all sides in the conflict have abducted or mobilized children to participate, and that combatants have engaged in sexual violence.
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-violence-peace-agreement-16284d9f805bc0de4aee638a13fd82c8
Workers locked inside Benin’s largest cotton factory denounce “fake industrialization”
The incident occurred on May 9, 2025. Nearly five months later, BdF interviewed workers who participated in the protest after being locked in. They still work at the complex and asked to remain anonymous. “It was the 3 pm to 11:45 pm shift. We finished on time, but managers said we had to do two more hours before we could leave, which meant we would only go home around 1:45 am. There is no safety on the roads at that hour.” Families were not even able to tell their children they would return so late, one worker said. “When colleagues refused to stay longer, management ordered security to block the gates, claiming the overtime was urgent and mandatory,” he added.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/08/workers-locked-inside-benins-largest-cotton-factory-denounce-fake-industrialization/
Japan's likely next prime minister wrestles coalition backlash
While Takaichi is expected to win approval in parliament to become Japan's first female premier later this month, it is not guaranteed as the ruling coalition does not have a majority. If the coalition splits, Takaichi may seek to broker alliances with other parties including the fiscally-expansionist Democratic Party for the People (DPP), further fraying investor nerves about one of the world's most indebted countries.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japans-likely-next-prime-minister-wrestles-coalition-backlash-2025-10-08/
Democratic alliance plans to file charges against politicians involved in corruption
The United People Against Corruption (UPAC) announced on October 7 its plan to file an indemnity class suit against congressmen, contractors, and government officials involved in the anomalous Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) flood control projects. According to the alliance, they seeks to ensure three things: accountability, justice, and compensation for the victims of negligence and corruption.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/democratic-alliance-plans-to-file-charges-against-politicians-involved-in-corruption/
News 10/8/25
Sabag Montiel sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted assassination of Cristina KirchnerOn September 1, 2022, a man pulled the trigger of a gun inches from former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner’s head. The bullet missed, and Kirchner was unharmed, unaware at the time that she had just been the victim of a failed assassination attempt. But the attack was recorded, and the video quickly went viral, playing endlessly on cell phones and televisions across a nation in shock.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-08/sabag-montiel-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-for-attempted-assassination-of-cristina-kirchner.html
https://archive.ph/vbUpm
Bolivia prepares to elect its next president
On October 19, Bolivia will hold a second round of elections to choose the country’s next president. Rodrigo Paz Pereira, of the Christian Democratic Party, won the first round with 32.06% of the valid votes. Jorge Quiroga Ramírez, of the Free Alliance, came in second with 26.7% of the votes.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/08/bolivia-prepares-to-elect-its-next-president/
President Petro to Advocate for an Armed Peacekeeping Force in Palestine at the UN
In a radio and TV address, Petro emphasized that Colombia, “the land of Bolívar,” will advance this initiative at the United Nations Assembly, insisting that Colombia should actively participate in such a mission. He criticized the United States for consistently blocking peace efforts within the Security Council, leaving the United Nations General Assembly as the only viable path to approve a peace force deployment in Palestine through a majority vote.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/president-petro-to-advocate-for-an-armed-peacekeeping-force-in-palestine-at-the-un/
https://archive.ph/VJ67u
Trump says Israel and Hamas sign off on first phase of Gaza ceasefire plan
“The mediators announce that tonight an agreement was reached on all the provisions and implementation mechanisms of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which will lead to ending the war, the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and the entry of aid. The details will be announced later,” Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Majed al-Ansari wrote on X.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/8/trump-says-he-may-travel-to-middle-east-as-gaza-deal-very-close
https://archive.ph/l3uY8
Sumud Flotilla vessels attacked by Israel as Gaza aggression contiues
Around 8:30 pm Gaza time (1730 GMT), several vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, including the Alma, Sirius and Adara, were illegally intercepted and boarded by Israeli occupation forces in international waters," the flotilla said. "Beyond the confirmed interceptions, live streams and communications with several other vessels have been lost," the statement added.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sumud-flotilla-vessels-attacked-israel-amid-gaza-aggression
Burkina Faso arrests European NGO workers for spying
Mr Sana reported that those detained included a French man, a French-Senegalese woman, a Czech man, a Malian and four Burkinabe nationals. Mr Sana said the staff members had continued working for the organisation after it was banned for three months, for allegedly “collecting sensitive data without authorisation.” The security minister claimed some of Inso’s staff had “continued to clandestinely or covertly conduct activities such as information collection and meetings in person or online” following the ban.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burkina-faso-arrests-european-ngo-workers-spying
Oversight body says South Sudan rivals have recruited fighters, raising war fears
The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, or RJMEC, is a ceasefire monitoring body overseen by a regional bloc known as IGAD. Its statement also said the body had received reports that all sides in the conflict have abducted or mobilized children to participate, and that combatants have engaged in sexual violence.
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-violence-peace-agreement-16284d9f805bc0de4aee638a13fd82c8
Workers locked inside Benin’s largest cotton factory denounce “fake industrialization”
The incident occurred on May 9, 2025. Nearly five months later, BdF interviewed workers who participated in the protest after being locked in. They still work at the complex and asked to remain anonymous. “It was the 3 pm to 11:45 pm shift. We finished on time, but managers said we had to do two more hours before we could leave, which meant we would only go home around 1:45 am. There is no safety on the roads at that hour.” Families were not even able to tell their children they would return so late, one worker said. “When colleagues refused to stay longer, management ordered security to block the gates, claiming the overtime was urgent and mandatory,” he added.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/08/workers-locked-inside-benins-largest-cotton-factory-denounce-fake-industrialization/
Japan's likely next prime minister wrestles coalition backlash
While Takaichi is expected to win approval in parliament to become Japan's first female premier later this month, it is not guaranteed as the ruling coalition does not have a majority. If the coalition splits, Takaichi may seek to broker alliances with other parties including the fiscally-expansionist Democratic Party for the People (DPP), further fraying investor nerves about one of the world's most indebted countries.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japans-likely-next-prime-minister-wrestles-coalition-backlash-2025-10-08/
Democratic alliance plans to file charges against politicians involved in corruption
The United People Against Corruption (UPAC) announced on October 7 its plan to file an indemnity class suit against congressmen, contractors, and government officials involved in the anomalous Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) flood control projects. According to the alliance, they seeks to ensure three things: accountability, justice, and compensation for the victims of negligence and corruption.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/democratic-alliance-plans-to-file-charges-against-politicians-involved-in-corruption/
R: 599 / I: 138
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Sumud Flotilla Thread
That Sumud Flotilla right is going to Gaza to break the Israeli blockaid. Inspired by the Thunburg Flotilla, the Sumud Flotilla contains far more ships in an attempt to overwhelm the Israeli Navy and Coastguard. The Sumud Flotilla departed from Spain at the end of August and is scheduled to be joined by more ships from Tunisia alter today. They expect to arrive at Gaza sometime next week.
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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.
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.
R: 23 / I: 4
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-city-officially-famine-says-global-hunger-monitor-2025-08-22/
>UNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave.
<It was the first time the IPC has recorded famine outside of Africa, and the global group predicted that famine conditions would spread to the central and southern areas of Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of next month.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-city-officially-famine-says-global-hunger-monitor-2025-08-22/
>UNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave.
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• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories
• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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• 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/
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Third-worldism epidemic
Sakai was laughing stock a few years ago. What happened? Reddit, Twitter and tiktok is filled with nativitists, blood and soil retards who fetishize the weak like christianity and socdems who think united worker revolution is undesirable (you could argue it's difficult or imposible, but undesirable?). Is third-worldism the psyop of the 2020s just as idpol was the psyop of the 2010s?
R: 8 / I: 1
The problem with this is if you lose your job, you also lose your insurance—something that affects millions who are laid off or forced into part-time work. The ACA tried to alleviate this issue by creating the Marketplace, but Trump’s push to weaken or remove the ACA would have made it harder to buy insurance on your own.
Unlike proposals from some Democratic candidates for a public option or Medicare for All, which would provide government-backed insurance to people regardless of employment, Trump’s plan had no such universal coverage option. If you didn’t have a job, or if your job didn’t offer health insurance, you would be expected to pay out of pocket for private insurance or risk being uninsured.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) created subsidies to make buying insurance on the Marketplace more affordable for low-income people, but Trump worked to eliminate or weaken these subsidies, making it harder for people without employer-sponsored plans to afford coverage.
Trump’s administration expanded the availability of short-term health plans—which are cheaper but provide less coverage—so people without full-time jobs or who are self-employed could use them as a stopgap. But the downside is that these plans are not required to cover essential health benefits like prescription drugs, mental health care, or maternity care, and they can exclude people with pre-existing conditions. This makes them riskier for vulnerable populations.
If someone lost their job or wanted to change jobs, they would have to go through a potentially costly and complex process of securing insurance either through the Marketplace, COBRA, or through some other means. Under the Trump administration’s push to weaken the ACA, subsidies and protections for people in between jobs would have been reduced, leading to a situation where health insurance becomes even more tied to employment.
Trump’s policies didn’t do much to address the issue of freelancers or people in the gig economy—who are typically not eligible for employer-sponsored health plans. Without a public option or improved access to private insurance, those people would be left to find coverage on their own—and without support from the government, that could be either very expensive or inaccessible for many.
Trump pushed for Medicaid to be turned into a block grant program, which would give states fixed amounts of money to cover Medicaid recipients, rather than allowing for unlimited funding. The problem is that block grants typically lead to cuts in services over time, meaning that people who don’t have a job and rely on Medicaid for coverage would find themselves with less comprehensive care or no access to healthcare at all, depending on how states decide to use the funds.
This shift would disproportionately affect those who are unemployed, part-time, or who work in gig economy jobs, where employer insurance isn’t typically available.
This bill, if passed, is gonna turn healthcare into a fucking monopoly.
Here's another problem: Trump is deporting all of our hard workers who provide us with food on the table. That includes Mexican, Central American and Chinese workers. That's gonna lead to what? FOOD SHORTAGES! It's all part of the elitist plan. Wall Street and China both control basically all farmland in the country. So not only does the government have a monopoly over your healthcare, but they also have a monopoly over your fucking FOOD!
If Trump passes the ESI bill go on labor strike
This maniac is trying to make healthcare inaccessible to the average person by instituting budget cuts and overtaxing. That's the entire reason this government shutdown is happening. For Trump, what's good for BUSINESS is what's good - not you. But dumb fuck Republicans will keep gobbling the shit up hook line and sinker. Under the ACA, people could purchase insurance through the Marketplace or get it via government programs like Medicaid or Medicare, but employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) was still the dominant model. Trump's focus was mainly on market-driven solutions, which means private companies would have more control over your options, and for many Americans, this means relying on job-based insurance for coverage.The problem with this is if you lose your job, you also lose your insurance—something that affects millions who are laid off or forced into part-time work. The ACA tried to alleviate this issue by creating the Marketplace, but Trump’s push to weaken or remove the ACA would have made it harder to buy insurance on your own.
Unlike proposals from some Democratic candidates for a public option or Medicare for All, which would provide government-backed insurance to people regardless of employment, Trump’s plan had no such universal coverage option. If you didn’t have a job, or if your job didn’t offer health insurance, you would be expected to pay out of pocket for private insurance or risk being uninsured.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) created subsidies to make buying insurance on the Marketplace more affordable for low-income people, but Trump worked to eliminate or weaken these subsidies, making it harder for people without employer-sponsored plans to afford coverage.
Trump’s administration expanded the availability of short-term health plans—which are cheaper but provide less coverage—so people without full-time jobs or who are self-employed could use them as a stopgap. But the downside is that these plans are not required to cover essential health benefits like prescription drugs, mental health care, or maternity care, and they can exclude people with pre-existing conditions. This makes them riskier for vulnerable populations.
If someone lost their job or wanted to change jobs, they would have to go through a potentially costly and complex process of securing insurance either through the Marketplace, COBRA, or through some other means. Under the Trump administration’s push to weaken the ACA, subsidies and protections for people in between jobs would have been reduced, leading to a situation where health insurance becomes even more tied to employment.
Trump’s policies didn’t do much to address the issue of freelancers or people in the gig economy—who are typically not eligible for employer-sponsored health plans. Without a public option or improved access to private insurance, those people would be left to find coverage on their own—and without support from the government, that could be either very expensive or inaccessible for many.
Trump pushed for Medicaid to be turned into a block grant program, which would give states fixed amounts of money to cover Medicaid recipients, rather than allowing for unlimited funding. The problem is that block grants typically lead to cuts in services over time, meaning that people who don’t have a job and rely on Medicaid for coverage would find themselves with less comprehensive care or no access to healthcare at all, depending on how states decide to use the funds.
This shift would disproportionately affect those who are unemployed, part-time, or who work in gig economy jobs, where employer insurance isn’t typically available.
This bill, if passed, is gonna turn healthcare into a fucking monopoly.
Here's another problem: Trump is deporting all of our hard workers who provide us with food on the table. That includes Mexican, Central American and Chinese workers. That's gonna lead to what? FOOD SHORTAGES! It's all part of the elitist plan. Wall Street and China both control basically all farmland in the country. So not only does the government have a monopoly over your healthcare, but they also have a monopoly over your fucking FOOD!
R: 40 / I: 10
Capitalism
What actually is wrong with Capitalism? I'm actually curious whther you guys have any statistics, data showing problems with Capitalism that can't be rectified by simply developing a welfare state and whatnot?
R: 2 / I: 0
In his speech, Barhoum said the negotiators were "seeking to remove all obstacles to achieve an agreement that meets the aspirations of our people". "We seek a complete ceasefire, the withdrawal of the occupation army from the Gaza Strip, and the guarantee of the return of the displaced," he said. "We have dealt with all ceasefire proposals over the past two years with great responsibility, the most recent being President Donald Trump's proposal," Barhoum added, before warning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against attempting to derail the negotiations, as he had done in the past.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-says-israel-failed-achieve-any-its-goals-gaza-war-anniversary
Two killed, over 60 injured after attack on Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo Two killed, over 60 injured after attack on Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo
At least two people have been killed and more than 60 injured in attacks by Syrian government forces in the Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah in Aleppo, announced the People's Council of the two self-governing neighborhoods on Tuesday after an initial assessment.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/two-people-killed-over-60-injured-after-attack-on-kurdish-neighborhoods-in-aleppo-81606
Lawyer tied to Sinan Ateş case shot dead in İstanbul; detentions rise to 13
Lawyer and nationalist politician Serdar Öktem (49) was killed in a rush-hour ambush yesterday on Büyükdere Avenue in Şişli. İstanbul prosecutors say 13 people have now been detained as part of the investigation, up from an initial six. Early findings suggest the attack was carried out over an organized-crime grudge, not yet linked to politics. Police say assailants in a separate vehicle opened fire with long-barreled rifles and handguns as Öktem sat in traffic near the 15 July Martyrs Bridge turnoff.
https://newsaboutturkey.com/2025/10/07/lawyer-tied-to-sinan-ates-case-shot-dead-in-istanbul-detentions-rise-to-13/
https://archive.ph/vMUIU
Poland pushes back on German Nord Stream extradition request
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said it is not in Poland's interest to hand over a Ukrainian man wanted by Germany for suspected involvement in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions. Tusk told reporters Tuesday that while the final decision rests with the court, Poland remains opposed to the pipelines, which it has long argued made Europe overly dependent on Russian energy.
https://www.dw.com/en/poland-pushes-back-on-german-nord-stream-extradition-request/a-74269774
https://archive.ph/iT1uk
Macron under pressure to call snap parliamentary elections or resign
Macron’s first prime minister on Tuesday urged the president to step down amid mounting frustration even within the president’s own camp over one of the worst spells of political chaos in France since the foundation of its Fifth Republic in 1958. Édouard Philippe, prime minister from 2017 to 2020 and now leader of a Macron-allied party, said he should announce an early presidential election once a budget for next year was adopted. Macron was re-elected in April 2022 for a five-year term, but since snap legislative elections in 2024 his appointees as prime minister have been unable to summon a parliamentary majority to pass a budget.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/07/edouard-philippe-sebastien-lecornu-france-emmanuel-macron-elections
Renewed RSF assault on North Darfur kills 13, amid activists’ claims of ‘chemical agents’ use
Reports indicate that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a fierce assault on North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher on Monday morning, attacking the city from the south, north, and northwestern axis, according to local medical sources and eyewitnesses. The Sudan Doctors Network reported that at least 13 people were killed and 19 others injured, including seven children and a pregnant woman, following heavy artillery shelling by the RSF.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/renewed-rsf-assault-on-north-darfur-kills-13-amid-activists-claims-of-chemical-agents-use
Desperate search for fuel in Mali’s capital as al-Qaida-linked group enforces blockade
Beverly Ochieng, an analyst at the Control Risks Group consulting firm, said JNIM is using the blockade to pressure commercial operators and residents to distance themselves from the military authorities, therefore undermining the government’s legitimacy and authority. JNIM is one of several armed groups operating in the Sahel, a vast strip of semi-arid desert stretching from North Africa to West Africa, where an insurgency is spreading rapidly with large-scale attacks.
https://apnews.com/article/mali-fuel-blockade-jnim-al-qaida-shortage-087978063870ee29d5f9bcb7280b2c79
Deported by Trump, disappeared in Bukele’s jails
Family members of three Salvadorans who were sent from the United States on the same flights as hundreds of Venezuelans, accused without evidence of being gang members, have gone six months without any information about them
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-05/deported-by-trump-disappeared-in-bukeles-jails.html
Milei running short of dollars as Argentina awaits US lifeline
Authorities in the crisis-prone nation are now racing against the clock to get aid from Washington. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has pledged a financial lifeline and said he would hold talks with Economy Minister Luis Caputo, who has traveled to Washington with Central Bank chief Santiago Bausili. The timing and size of any aid package remain unclear. In the meantime, policy tightening and new capital controls have failed to cool demand for dollars.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/milei-running-short-of-dollars-as-argentina-awaits-us-lifeline.phtml
https://archive.ph/lLos0
Ecuador detains five after attack on President Noboa's car
Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa's car was surrounded by a group of around 500 people throwing rocks as he approached an event in Canar province, a top minister said, adding that "signs of bullet damage" were found on the president's vehicle. Environment and Energy Minister Ines Manzano spoke on Tuesday after formally filing a report of an assassination attempt against Noboa. The president was not hurt and five people have been detained, the minister said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ecuador-detains-five-after-attack-president-noboas-car-minister-says-2025-10-07/
News 10/7/25
Hamas says Israel failed to achieve any of its goals in Gaza on war anniversaryIn his speech, Barhoum said the negotiators were "seeking to remove all obstacles to achieve an agreement that meets the aspirations of our people". "We seek a complete ceasefire, the withdrawal of the occupation army from the Gaza Strip, and the guarantee of the return of the displaced," he said. "We have dealt with all ceasefire proposals over the past two years with great responsibility, the most recent being President Donald Trump's proposal," Barhoum added, before warning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against attempting to derail the negotiations, as he had done in the past.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-says-israel-failed-achieve-any-its-goals-gaza-war-anniversary
Two killed, over 60 injured after attack on Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo Two killed, over 60 injured after attack on Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo
At least two people have been killed and more than 60 injured in attacks by Syrian government forces in the Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah in Aleppo, announced the People's Council of the two self-governing neighborhoods on Tuesday after an initial assessment.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/two-people-killed-over-60-injured-after-attack-on-kurdish-neighborhoods-in-aleppo-81606
Lawyer tied to Sinan Ateş case shot dead in İstanbul; detentions rise to 13
Lawyer and nationalist politician Serdar Öktem (49) was killed in a rush-hour ambush yesterday on Büyükdere Avenue in Şişli. İstanbul prosecutors say 13 people have now been detained as part of the investigation, up from an initial six. Early findings suggest the attack was carried out over an organized-crime grudge, not yet linked to politics. Police say assailants in a separate vehicle opened fire with long-barreled rifles and handguns as Öktem sat in traffic near the 15 July Martyrs Bridge turnoff.
https://newsaboutturkey.com/2025/10/07/lawyer-tied-to-sinan-ates-case-shot-dead-in-istanbul-detentions-rise-to-13/
https://archive.ph/vMUIU
Poland pushes back on German Nord Stream extradition request
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said it is not in Poland's interest to hand over a Ukrainian man wanted by Germany for suspected involvement in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions. Tusk told reporters Tuesday that while the final decision rests with the court, Poland remains opposed to the pipelines, which it has long argued made Europe overly dependent on Russian energy.
https://www.dw.com/en/poland-pushes-back-on-german-nord-stream-extradition-request/a-74269774
https://archive.ph/iT1uk
Macron under pressure to call snap parliamentary elections or resign
Macron’s first prime minister on Tuesday urged the president to step down amid mounting frustration even within the president’s own camp over one of the worst spells of political chaos in France since the foundation of its Fifth Republic in 1958. Édouard Philippe, prime minister from 2017 to 2020 and now leader of a Macron-allied party, said he should announce an early presidential election once a budget for next year was adopted. Macron was re-elected in April 2022 for a five-year term, but since snap legislative elections in 2024 his appointees as prime minister have been unable to summon a parliamentary majority to pass a budget.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/07/edouard-philippe-sebastien-lecornu-france-emmanuel-macron-elections
Renewed RSF assault on North Darfur kills 13, amid activists’ claims of ‘chemical agents’ use
Reports indicate that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a fierce assault on North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher on Monday morning, attacking the city from the south, north, and northwestern axis, according to local medical sources and eyewitnesses. The Sudan Doctors Network reported that at least 13 people were killed and 19 others injured, including seven children and a pregnant woman, following heavy artillery shelling by the RSF.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/renewed-rsf-assault-on-north-darfur-kills-13-amid-activists-claims-of-chemical-agents-use
Desperate search for fuel in Mali’s capital as al-Qaida-linked group enforces blockade
Beverly Ochieng, an analyst at the Control Risks Group consulting firm, said JNIM is using the blockade to pressure commercial operators and residents to distance themselves from the military authorities, therefore undermining the government’s legitimacy and authority. JNIM is one of several armed groups operating in the Sahel, a vast strip of semi-arid desert stretching from North Africa to West Africa, where an insurgency is spreading rapidly with large-scale attacks.
https://apnews.com/article/mali-fuel-blockade-jnim-al-qaida-shortage-087978063870ee29d5f9bcb7280b2c79
Deported by Trump, disappeared in Bukele’s jails
Family members of three Salvadorans who were sent from the United States on the same flights as hundreds of Venezuelans, accused without evidence of being gang members, have gone six months without any information about them
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-05/deported-by-trump-disappeared-in-bukeles-jails.html
Milei running short of dollars as Argentina awaits US lifeline
Authorities in the crisis-prone nation are now racing against the clock to get aid from Washington. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has pledged a financial lifeline and said he would hold talks with Economy Minister Luis Caputo, who has traveled to Washington with Central Bank chief Santiago Bausili. The timing and size of any aid package remain unclear. In the meantime, policy tightening and new capital controls have failed to cool demand for dollars.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/milei-running-short-of-dollars-as-argentina-awaits-us-lifeline.phtml
https://archive.ph/lLos0
Ecuador detains five after attack on President Noboa's car
Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa's car was surrounded by a group of around 500 people throwing rocks as he approached an event in Canar province, a top minister said, adding that "signs of bullet damage" were found on the president's vehicle. Environment and Energy Minister Ines Manzano spoke on Tuesday after formally filing a report of an assassination attempt against Noboa. The president was not hurt and five people have been detained, the minister said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ecuador-detains-five-after-attack-president-noboas-car-minister-says-2025-10-07/
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The elections were a fiasco for a communist-led coalition of four left parties, which failed to win a single seat. … Mr Babis said his aim was to form a one-party government, but he will need at least tacit support from the far-right, anti-immigrant Freedom and Direct Democracy party, which won 15 seats, and anti-environmental group Motorists for Themselves, which gained 13.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/right-wing-billionaires-party-wins-czech-elections
Macron’s crisis deepens as new French PM and government quit
Lecornu, who was tapped just a month ago as the head of government, stepped down mere hours after naming key members of his cabinet. Opposition parties and some of Macron’s minority coalition partners reacted with fury, as many of the ministers were either holdovers from the last government or had previously served in high-level posts.
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-announces-resignation-sebastien-lecornu/
https://archive.ph/EMpck
Palestine campaigners praise Green Party for backing criminal investigation into the government for 'aiding and abetting Israel'
PALESTINE campaigners praised the Green Party after its annual conference voted to support a criminal investigation into the British government for “aiding and abetting Israel over the course of [Israel’s] genocide” in Gaza. Sunday’s motion demanded “a full arms embargo” and an end to “the spy plane flights over Gaza from the British military base in Cyprus.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestine-campaigners-praise-green-party-backing-criminal-investigation-government-aiding
Almost 500 anti-genocide activists arrested as Starmer government moves to ban protests outright
The government is seeking to use the tragedy to intensify its law-and-order agenda, with ministers—including Prime Minister Keir Starmer—and the police calling on protesters not to demonstrate over Gaza out of respect for the dead. This included demands not only that DOJ call of their scheduled Saturday protest, but that the Palestine Coalition call off a national demonstration on October 11 expected to be attended by hundreds of thousands to mark the second anniversary of the genocide and the destruction of Gaza.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/05/djby-o05.html
Oil tanker known to deliver oil to Israel set to leave Turkey
The tanker previously left Ceyhan on 23 September, arriving in the Israeli port of Ashkelon on 25 September, the data showed. On 10 September, it left Russia’s Novorossiysk and arrived in Israel on 20 September. Ceyhan is the last stop on the BP-owned Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which transports crude oil from Azerbaijan. The oil is then shipped from the Heydar Aliyev Terminal at Ceyhan to Israel, accounting for almost 30 percent of its crude oil imports.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/oil-tanker-known-deliver-oil-israel-set-leave-turkey
Sudan crisis: Civilians struggle to survive in cities starved under siege
Satellite imagery analysed by Yale University's Humanitarian Research lab shows the RSF has built 68 kilometres (42 miles) of walls around much of the city, leaving only a small exit route where fighters are reportedly extorting civilians for safe passage. Halima Issa, another resident of El-Fasher, can't see a way out.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sudanese-struggle-survive-cities-starved-under-siege
Marcos regime files complaints against Cebu anti-corruption protest mass leaders
Among those charged are Panaghupong-Kadamay’s Nanay Bebe Allere, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Central Visayas’ Jaime Paglinawan, Bayan Muna’s John Ruiz, AMA-SUGBO-KMU’s Howell Villacrucis, and others. They were required to submit counter-affidavits within 10 days. “The charges filed against these respected leaders from marginalized and progressive sectors highlight the steady erosion of democratic space in the name of law and order,” Karapatan-Central Visayas said.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/marcos-regime-files-complaints-against-cebu-anti-corruption-protest-mass-leaders/
Colombia’s interior minister hints at possible referendum over healthcare reform
"What is clear is that this Congress was not up to the task of reforming the justice system or healthcare. All they do is block things, saying that if they are not given perks, there is no way to reach an agreement, and the ruling class is the one that controls Congress." said Armando Benedetti The privatization of Colombia’s healthcare system in 1993 has led to countless crises and the bankruptcies of more than 100 EPSs. The intermediaries were supposed to handle the payment of healthcare-related treatments.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-interior-minister-hints-at-possible-referendum-over-healthcare-reform/
Protesters rally for and against Ecuador’s president as emergency takes effect in 10 provinces
Anti-government demonstrations began two weeks ago, organized by the country’s largest Indigenous group, in response to the removal of a fuel subsidy that raised diesel prices from $1.80 to $2.80 per gallon. “Diesel goes up, everything goes up,” and “Out with Noboa” were among the slogans shouted by dozens of protesters at a popular park in the capital, where pro-government supporters also gathered in higher numbers.
https://apnews.com/article/ecuador-danoel-noboa-indigenous-strike-fuel-subsidy-f8300d1fdd68ad68c53be90f81479b6a
Milei-Macri rapprochement agreed upon for after midterms
The gathering was viewed as a broad endorsement of Milei's policies at a time when the Libertarians are losing momentum amid mounting corruption scandals. In this vein, Congressman José Luis Espert, who admitted to having received US$200,000 from drug trafficker Fred Machado but claimed not to be aware of the latter's business, announced that he would not be dropping his reelection bid, despite press reports in this regard.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/10/04/milei-macri-rapprochement-agreed-upon-for-after-midterms
News 10/6/25
Right-wing billionaire’s party wins Czech electionsThe elections were a fiasco for a communist-led coalition of four left parties, which failed to win a single seat. … Mr Babis said his aim was to form a one-party government, but he will need at least tacit support from the far-right, anti-immigrant Freedom and Direct Democracy party, which won 15 seats, and anti-environmental group Motorists for Themselves, which gained 13.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/right-wing-billionaires-party-wins-czech-elections
Macron’s crisis deepens as new French PM and government quit
Lecornu, who was tapped just a month ago as the head of government, stepped down mere hours after naming key members of his cabinet. Opposition parties and some of Macron’s minority coalition partners reacted with fury, as many of the ministers were either holdovers from the last government or had previously served in high-level posts.
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-announces-resignation-sebastien-lecornu/
https://archive.ph/EMpck
Palestine campaigners praise Green Party for backing criminal investigation into the government for 'aiding and abetting Israel'
PALESTINE campaigners praised the Green Party after its annual conference voted to support a criminal investigation into the British government for “aiding and abetting Israel over the course of [Israel’s] genocide” in Gaza. Sunday’s motion demanded “a full arms embargo” and an end to “the spy plane flights over Gaza from the British military base in Cyprus.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestine-campaigners-praise-green-party-backing-criminal-investigation-government-aiding
Almost 500 anti-genocide activists arrested as Starmer government moves to ban protests outright
The government is seeking to use the tragedy to intensify its law-and-order agenda, with ministers—including Prime Minister Keir Starmer—and the police calling on protesters not to demonstrate over Gaza out of respect for the dead. This included demands not only that DOJ call of their scheduled Saturday protest, but that the Palestine Coalition call off a national demonstration on October 11 expected to be attended by hundreds of thousands to mark the second anniversary of the genocide and the destruction of Gaza.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/05/djby-o05.html
Oil tanker known to deliver oil to Israel set to leave Turkey
The tanker previously left Ceyhan on 23 September, arriving in the Israeli port of Ashkelon on 25 September, the data showed. On 10 September, it left Russia’s Novorossiysk and arrived in Israel on 20 September. Ceyhan is the last stop on the BP-owned Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which transports crude oil from Azerbaijan. The oil is then shipped from the Heydar Aliyev Terminal at Ceyhan to Israel, accounting for almost 30 percent of its crude oil imports.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/oil-tanker-known-deliver-oil-israel-set-leave-turkey
Sudan crisis: Civilians struggle to survive in cities starved under siege
Satellite imagery analysed by Yale University's Humanitarian Research lab shows the RSF has built 68 kilometres (42 miles) of walls around much of the city, leaving only a small exit route where fighters are reportedly extorting civilians for safe passage. Halima Issa, another resident of El-Fasher, can't see a way out.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sudanese-struggle-survive-cities-starved-under-siege
Marcos regime files complaints against Cebu anti-corruption protest mass leaders
Among those charged are Panaghupong-Kadamay’s Nanay Bebe Allere, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Central Visayas’ Jaime Paglinawan, Bayan Muna’s John Ruiz, AMA-SUGBO-KMU’s Howell Villacrucis, and others. They were required to submit counter-affidavits within 10 days. “The charges filed against these respected leaders from marginalized and progressive sectors highlight the steady erosion of democratic space in the name of law and order,” Karapatan-Central Visayas said.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/marcos-regime-files-complaints-against-cebu-anti-corruption-protest-mass-leaders/
Colombia’s interior minister hints at possible referendum over healthcare reform
"What is clear is that this Congress was not up to the task of reforming the justice system or healthcare. All they do is block things, saying that if they are not given perks, there is no way to reach an agreement, and the ruling class is the one that controls Congress." said Armando Benedetti The privatization of Colombia’s healthcare system in 1993 has led to countless crises and the bankruptcies of more than 100 EPSs. The intermediaries were supposed to handle the payment of healthcare-related treatments.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-interior-minister-hints-at-possible-referendum-over-healthcare-reform/
Protesters rally for and against Ecuador’s president as emergency takes effect in 10 provinces
Anti-government demonstrations began two weeks ago, organized by the country’s largest Indigenous group, in response to the removal of a fuel subsidy that raised diesel prices from $1.80 to $2.80 per gallon. “Diesel goes up, everything goes up,” and “Out with Noboa” were among the slogans shouted by dozens of protesters at a popular park in the capital, where pro-government supporters also gathered in higher numbers.
https://apnews.com/article/ecuador-danoel-noboa-indigenous-strike-fuel-subsidy-f8300d1fdd68ad68c53be90f81479b6a
Milei-Macri rapprochement agreed upon for after midterms
The gathering was viewed as a broad endorsement of Milei's policies at a time when the Libertarians are losing momentum amid mounting corruption scandals. In this vein, Congressman José Luis Espert, who admitted to having received US$200,000 from drug trafficker Fred Machado but claimed not to be aware of the latter's business, announced that he would not be dropping his reelection bid, despite press reports in this regard.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/10/04/milei-macri-rapprochement-agreed-upon-for-after-midterms
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R: 17 / I: 12
Resistance in Europe and the US
Greetings, I am mister Glowing, why isn't there militiant resistance in Europe and the US of A right now? Where are the communist, anarchist militias collapsing the bourgeouis liberal states? Why do you protest to get arrested when decades have shown there is no regime change as an outcome of protests and that they are purely reformist continuing the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie as to let them behave "mecifully" to give into demands and appease the working masses? Why aren't you staring armed organized coordinated action on a continental scale? Are your organizations / parties asleep? Are they "preparing" for a "revolution"? You know damn well you aren't doing shit. SO, why not start arming yourselves and prepare coordination for a revolution on a continental scale? Let things happen, let weeks where decades happen. Start by logitsics - you need arms, uniforms, munitions, transport (vehicles). Organize the workers at logistics hubs and factories that produce said necessities so that you can take them over and have a chain of supply - coordinate with others throughout the continent so that when there is a go-ahead signal to start across organizations / parties you can have a supply. Start military drills, preparations and recruit sympathizers - start recruiting en masse and organizing workers for a takeover of the means of production. DO IT. You are wasting your time handing out leaflets. Leaflets are for pussies, morons and sissies who would rather sit around all day and discuss gender issues instead of preparing for a class war. Fuck all identity politics, they don't matter, they are a distracftion, you need to brace for war and start soon before its too late. YOU HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE ALREADY, START PREPARING FOR WAR, START COORDINATING, GET MILITIANT NOW!
R: 601 / I: 121 (full)
Previous: >>2503591
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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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
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📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #262
CUCKTIN FATIGUE edition.Previous: >>2503591
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
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https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
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R: 24 / I: 5
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.
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.
R: 12 / I: 0
Using Drones to send supples to Gaza
I think pro-Palestine activists should seriously consider using drones to give aid to the people of Gaza. In the Russo-Ukraine War both sides are using drones to supply their soldiers. Drones have the advantage of being small enough to avoid radar detection thus allowing them to bypass the IOF blockade. While most drones have short range, some have ranges of hundreds of kilometers, allowing drones to be launched from other MENA countries and possibly even Southern Europe. Their are a lot of advantages to suing drones. R: 12 / I: 0
The revolutionary analysis of decadent bourgeois culture has revealed certain pornographic tendencies to be highly progressive. We are speaking, of course, about so-called "interracial cuckold porn." This porn consists of a scenario in which a bourgeois male ameriKKKA labor aristocrat is forced to watch his female property (wife) be raped (liberated) by a Black, ghetto, Lumpenproletarian.
How is this progressive, you may ask? To be sure, interracial cuckold porn promotes hyper-sexualized racial stereotypes about African men, and even seems to encourage rape as a positive phenomenon enjoyed by women. However, a genuine Marxist analysis looks deeper.
Interracial cuckold porn is, in fact, entirely revolutionary. Cuckold porn is revolutionary because it attacks white male patriarchal capitalist supremacism at its psycho-sexual roots. Cuckold porn psychologically prepares the white bourgeois male for his own destruction and expropriation at the hands of Maoist Third Worldist liberation forces. Just as the white labor aristocratic bourgeoisie of the First World should bow and surrender its property to the revolutionary Third World proletariat, so the cuckolded white male should kneel and watch his female property (wife) be ravaged by Big Black Cock, which is her own secret desire for liberation.
The white master who raped and enslaved colonial peoples for centuries is now – in the age of Maoist Third Worldism – himself raped and enslaved. This is the progressive revolutionary message spread by popular artists like Candy Monroe and "Black Dicks White Chicks."
Maoist Third Worldists realize that such revolutionary opinions as ours may frighten and alarm petit bourgeois-minded labor aristocrats watching this in ameriKKKa. The feelings and sentimental sensibilities of such counterrevolutionaries are not our concern.
The revolutionary analysis of decadent bourgeois culture has revealed certain pornographic tendencies to be highly progressive. We are speaking, of course, about so-called "interracial cuckold porn." This porn consists of a scenario in which a bourgeois male ameriKKKA labor aristocrat is forced to watch his female property (wife) be raped (liberated) by a Black, ghetto, Lumpenproletarian.
How is this progressive, you may ask? To be sure, interracial cuckold porn promotes hyper-sexualized racial stereotypes about African men, and even seems to encourage rape as a positive phenomenon enjoyed by women. However, a genuine Marxist analysis looks deeper.
Interracial cuckold porn is, in fact, entirely revolutionary. Cuckold porn is revolutionary because it attacks white male patriarchal capitalist supremacism at its psycho-sexual roots. Cuckold porn psychologically prepares the white bourgeois male for his own destruction and expropriation at the hands of Maoist Third Worldist liberation forces. Just as the white labor aristocratic bourgeoisie of the First World should bow and surrender its property to the revolutionary Third World proletariat, so the cuckolded white male should kneel and watch his female property (wife) be ravaged by Big Black Cock, which is her own secret desire for liberation.
The white master who raped and enslaved colonial peoples for centuries is now – in the age of Maoist Third Worldism – himself raped and enslaved. This is the progressive revolutionary message spread by popular artists like Candy Monroe and "Black Dicks White Chicks."
Maoist Third Worldists realize that such revolutionary opinions as ours may frighten and alarm petit bourgeois-minded labor aristocrats watching this in ameriKKKa. The feelings and sentimental sensibilities of such counterrevolutionaries are not our concern.
R: 11 / I: 4
What if wages are literally just compensation for energy expenditure?
Consider the following scenarios.
Scenario A:
An Industrialist receives a loan from a Banker on the condition that the Industrialist returns the loan + 15%. The Industrialist uses the entirety of the loan to purchase a workshop that has the capability to be used to produce Luxury Goods. The Industrialist hires a Worker to produce one unit of Luxury Goods. The Worker produces one unit of Luxury Goods using his energy + the capabilities of the workshop. The Industrialist then sells the one unit of Luxury Goods to an Aristocrat for the price of the loan + 20%. The Industrialist uses 5% of the amount to pay the Worker their wage and hands the rest to the Banker.
The Banker "made" 15%.
The Industrialist "made" nothing (but actually owns a workshop now equivalent to the loan).
The Worker "made" their wage.
So loan + 15% + 5%.
Workshop + interest + wage.
And one unit of Luxury Goods is equal to workshop + energy. The Aristocrat was only "charged extra" for the interest.
Scenario B
A Lumpen-Industrialist receives a loan from a Banker. The Lumpen-Industrialist purchases a workshop and declares bankruptcy. Because of some legal loophole fuckery that he abused, the Lumpen-Industrialist gets to keep the workshop without owing a cent. However, the Banker didn't necessarily lose anything aside from public trust, if the loan was actually "virtual money" (money that the Banker didn't physically have but promised to have at a future date).
The Lumpen-Industrialist "made" nothing (but again, actually, now owns a workshop equivalent to the loan).
The Banker "made" nothing (and possibly didn't lose anything except for public trust).
Scenario C
Just replace the Industrialist in Scenario A with a Worker's Co-op. The Worker's Co-op collectively owns the workshop, but still only receives wages in proportion to the energy expenditure, the rest of the money spent being the workshop + interest for the Banker.
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How is it that in all these scenarios, the common pattern of the "profit" for the owners is gaining the workshop itself? Industrialist ends with workshop. Lumpen-Industrialist ends with workshop. Worker's Co-op ends with workshop.
Yes, you need labor to produce one unit of Luxury Goods… with the "help" of the workshop, which is worth the entirety of the loan.
Where is the exploitation as a source of "profit" in these scenarios?
What if wages are literally just compensation for energy expenditure?
Consider the following scenarios.
Scenario A:
An Industrialist receives a loan from a Banker on the condition that the Industrialist returns the loan + 15%. The Industrialist uses the entirety of the loan to purchase a workshop that has the capability to be used to produce Luxury Goods. The Industrialist hires a Worker to produce one unit of Luxury Goods. The Worker produces one unit of Luxury Goods using his energy + the capabilities of the workshop. The Industrialist then sells the one unit of Luxury Goods to an Aristocrat for the price of the loan + 20%. The Industrialist uses 5% of the amount to pay the Worker their wage and hands the rest to the Banker.
The Banker "made" 15%.
The Industrialist "made" nothing (but actually owns a workshop now equivalent to the loan).
The Worker "made" their wage.
So loan + 15% + 5%.
Workshop + interest + wage.
And one unit of Luxury Goods is equal to workshop + energy. The Aristocrat was only "charged extra" for the interest.
Scenario B
A Lumpen-Industrialist receives a loan from a Banker. The Lumpen-Industrialist purchases a workshop and declares bankruptcy. Because of some legal loophole fuckery that he abused, the Lumpen-Industrialist gets to keep the workshop without owing a cent. However, the Banker didn't necessarily lose anything aside from public trust, if the loan was actually "virtual money" (money that the Banker didn't physically have but promised to have at a future date).
The Lumpen-Industrialist "made" nothing (but again, actually, now owns a workshop equivalent to the loan).
The Banker "made" nothing (and possibly didn't lose anything except for public trust).
Scenario C
Just replace the Industrialist in Scenario A with a Worker's Co-op. The Worker's Co-op collectively owns the workshop, but still only receives wages in proportion to the energy expenditure, the rest of the money spent being the workshop + interest for the Banker.
———————————————————
.
How is it that in all these scenarios, the common pattern of the "profit" for the owners is gaining the workshop itself? Industrialist ends with workshop. Lumpen-Industrialist ends with workshop. Worker's Co-op ends with workshop.
Yes, you need labor to produce one unit of Luxury Goods… with the "help" of the workshop, which is worth the entirety of the loan.
Where is the exploitation as a source of "profit" in these scenarios?
R: 43 / I: 10
I have two reasons for Peru:
1. It is isolated and unknown.
2. It is negligent to crime.
A few issues:
1. Budget.
2. Language.
3. Lack of connections to obtain marijuana, opium, growing seeds and lab equipment.
4. Lack of anti-WOD transhumanist scientifically oriented researchers, militiants.
5. Lack of arms, munitions.
6. Lack of will to abandon current civil life.
7. Interpol & CIA.
Some benefits of the compound:
-A supply of drugs to all militiants.
-Housing quarters.
-Farming quarters (growing).
-Farming quarters (livestock).
-Rainwater extraction system.
-Technomadic rural life in nature.
Buying a large plot of land in Peru for an anti-theist anti-WOD narco/drug scientific camp
Should I buy property in Peru to start an anti-theist drug compound for internal consumption / camp? Ideological sect camp.I have two reasons for Peru:
1. It is isolated and unknown.
2. It is negligent to crime.
A few issues:
1. Budget.
2. Language.
3. Lack of connections to obtain marijuana, opium, growing seeds and lab equipment.
4. Lack of anti-WOD transhumanist scientifically oriented researchers, militiants.
5. Lack of arms, munitions.
6. Lack of will to abandon current civil life.
7. Interpol & CIA.
Some benefits of the compound:
-A supply of drugs to all militiants.
-Housing quarters.
-Farming quarters (growing).
-Farming quarters (livestock).
-Rainwater extraction system.
-Technomadic rural life in nature.
R: 17 / I: 4
To be an effective communist, is it actually necessary to study the vomited diatribes of Kant, Hegel, Heidegger and Lacan? Especially since the first 3 would've given unequivocal support and approval for Nazsoc/Imperialism and Far-Right ideologies. It's always so strange to me that academia and leftists use them when they hated and stood against everything Marx stood for.
To be an effective communist, is it actually necessary to study the vomited diatribes of Kant, Hegel, Heidegger and Lacan? Especially since the first 3 would've given unequivocal support and approval for Nazsoc/Imperialism and Far-Right ideologies. It's always so strange to me that academia and leftists use them when they hated and stood against everything Marx stood for.
R: 602 / I: 144 (full)
>UNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave.
<It was the first time the IPC has recorded famine outside of Africa, and the global group predicted that famine conditions would spread to the central and southern areas of Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of next month.
🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
>>2395541
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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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• 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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(USA)
• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
• https://www.palestineaction.org/
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(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
Palestine vs The Zionist Entity 121: Official Famine edition
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-city-officially-famine-says-global-hunger-monitor-2025-08-22/>UNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave.
<It was the first time the IPC has recorded famine outside of Africa, and the global group predicted that famine conditions would spread to the central and southern areas of Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of next month.
🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
————————
🚨 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 [Currently Down]
—————————————————–————————
🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️
• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source
• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA
• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog
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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/
PFLP
http://pflp.ps/
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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/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
R: 19 / I: 5
/Laos/ - Lao People's Democratic Republic
Thread for news and discussions of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, its material conditions, the status and health of its aesocialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.
R: 11 / I: 1
Does anyone have a download link for Blowback Season 6?
>SEASON 6: ANGOLA out now.
>Pleased to announce @blowbackpod SEASON 6, coming fall 2025 from me and @nkulw
This season concerns Angola and was recently released via premium subscription services.
Does anyone have a download link for Blowback Season 6?
>SEASON 6: ANGOLA out now.
>Pleased to announce @blowbackpod SEASON 6, coming fall 2025 from me and @nkulw
This season concerns Angola and was recently released via premium subscription services.
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Take a break from burgertiks and talk about the one successful socialist revolution in the americas which is still alive and well.
Patria o muerte!
/kooba/ general
Leftypolers you fucking disgrace, how come there is no Cuba general?Take a break from burgertiks and talk about the one successful socialist revolution in the americas which is still alive and well.
Patria o muerte!
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Why is Cuba the only socialist country libs like?
I had a conversation with Taiwanese rapper and communist Xiangyu a while back about his visit to Cuba pre-COVID. He openly said it was a shithole, and that the government cares more about using pinkwashing to get support from western libs than it does about building socialism. He said the lumpen are out of control there, and that Cubans have zero work ethic. Even when MLs talk about Cuba's recent "progress" it's all just stuff about their LGBT rights being the best in the world or some shit. I think the reason Cuba is the only socialist country libs like is because they don't provide any challenge to capitalist hegemony. They didn't industrialize when they had the Soviets to subsidize them, so their economy is mostly tourism and service based. To build socialism you need an economy built on productive labor like China. China's rapid economic development is the #1 reason the west sees them as a threat. Cuba is just a vacation resort.
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DO SOMETHING FOR FUCK SAKE!
well comrades, this needs to be discussed, what is to be done?, how do we combat the zionist menace?, if you want to spew rhetoric about impotent protest, get off the thread, if you wish to do something, engage, either way, I am fucking tired, you have no excuse to do nothing if you know the truth and have the means to act, get off your fucking ass your lazy fucking slack jawed dogs, people are fucking dying!. I believe we must form International Brigades and a new global working class organization, for once in your lives you shitposting bastards, fucking organise and show some fucking balls!
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•They support national liberation movements and/or nations.
•They choose the "lesser evil" from capitalist reactionary positions.
•They are not interested in material analysis or class analysis, only in identity politics (meaningless "cultural analysis" of races, orientations, genders, and similar issues).
•They concern themselves with cultural preservation (disguised conservativism) as opposed to societal development.
•They accept and present, or sympathize with, the most reactionary ideologies (like primitivism) as legitimate forms of "anarchism".
•They don’t see a problem with participating in the market economy (hiring for wage labor, making profit, running businesses, etc.) and deny the need for a planned economy.
•They don’t see the contradictions between religion and science or deliberately ignore them and avoid criticizing certain religions (such as Islam) while creating contradictory modernizations (i.e. queer feminist anarcha-islam),
•They do not apply or know immanent critique.
•They see no problem in participating in popular fronts built on class collaboration in a battle against a "greater evil," such as fascism/"anti-fascism," in defense of the liberal bourgeois democracy that gave birth to it.
•They ignore contradictions between different positions and/or fall for the false and self-destructive contradictory notion of "left unity" (alliances with Marxists, Leninists, Stalinists, Maoists, Trotskyists, the left wing of capital).
•They are autonomists, not internationalists, and fail to recognize the need for a world revolution, instead focusing on regionalism, awaiting to be crushed or subverted.
•They are suicidally inclined and believe in adventurism, or they support it by encouraging fruitless sacrifices.
•They fail to see the problems with activism, especially the contradiction of rejecting the state while protesting to demand reforms for "better conditions" (softer bourgeois power, to appease the workers - State Socialism was a set of social programs implemented in the German Empire that were initiated by Otto von Bismarck in 1883 as remedial measures to appease the working class and detract support for socialism [sic] )
•They deny, oppose or bastardize anarchist-communism.
•They reject materialism and praise utopianism, as their idea of "anarchism" is purely aesthetic.
•They lack fundamental knowledge and analysis of the capitalist mode of production (often due to rejecting Capital out of unprecedented anger towards Marx, yet no anarchist has written an equilivent of such a book besides Carlos Cafiero who took the time to simplify volume I and received a thanks letter from Marx himself).
•They reject uniformity, a program and/or are simply punks with a false-impression of contrarian thought.
•They glorify failed historical projects (Makhnovschina. Catalonia, Kronstadt) and seek fault in those who destroyed them, rather than analyze and acknowledge the failiures in the fact they were unable to defend themselves and were thus unstable as to learn from the mistakes of the past rather than repeating / replicating it.
Overall these problems seem resolveable to me, a lot of them have their own equilivents within the opponents of anarchism as well, who in essence are even more unprincipled and spineless, with the exception of the ultras who remain marginal and are supposedly awaiting for the favorable historical conditions to arise. It is in my view that as long as the contemporary "anarchist" movement fails to remove these errors it will be dysfunctional and continue being astroturfed by socialdemocratic and reacftionary positions. Whatever genuine anarchists are left will acknowledge the bullet points rather than argue and coddle them - it is not my problem if you're retarded or if your movement fails.
Some problems with modern "anarchists" - by me
Some of the problems with modern "anarchists" are the following:•They support national liberation movements and/or nations.
•They choose the "lesser evil" from capitalist reactionary positions.
•They are not interested in material analysis or class analysis, only in identity politics (meaningless "cultural analysis" of races, orientations, genders, and similar issues).
•They concern themselves with cultural preservation (disguised conservativism) as opposed to societal development.
•They accept and present, or sympathize with, the most reactionary ideologies (like primitivism) as legitimate forms of "anarchism".
•They don’t see a problem with participating in the market economy (hiring for wage labor, making profit, running businesses, etc.) and deny the need for a planned economy.
•They don’t see the contradictions between religion and science or deliberately ignore them and avoid criticizing certain religions (such as Islam) while creating contradictory modernizations (i.e. queer feminist anarcha-islam),
•They do not apply or know immanent critique.
•They see no problem in participating in popular fronts built on class collaboration in a battle against a "greater evil," such as fascism/"anti-fascism," in defense of the liberal bourgeois democracy that gave birth to it.
•They ignore contradictions between different positions and/or fall for the false and self-destructive contradictory notion of "left unity" (alliances with Marxists, Leninists, Stalinists, Maoists, Trotskyists, the left wing of capital).
•They are autonomists, not internationalists, and fail to recognize the need for a world revolution, instead focusing on regionalism, awaiting to be crushed or subverted.
•They are suicidally inclined and believe in adventurism, or they support it by encouraging fruitless sacrifices.
•They fail to see the problems with activism, especially the contradiction of rejecting the state while protesting to demand reforms for "better conditions" (softer bourgeois power, to appease the workers - State Socialism was a set of social programs implemented in the German Empire that were initiated by Otto von Bismarck in 1883 as remedial measures to appease the working class and detract support for socialism [sic] )
•They deny, oppose or bastardize anarchist-communism.
•They reject materialism and praise utopianism, as their idea of "anarchism" is purely aesthetic.
•They lack fundamental knowledge and analysis of the capitalist mode of production (often due to rejecting Capital out of unprecedented anger towards Marx, yet no anarchist has written an equilivent of such a book besides Carlos Cafiero who took the time to simplify volume I and received a thanks letter from Marx himself).
•They reject uniformity, a program and/or are simply punks with a false-impression of contrarian thought.
•They glorify failed historical projects (Makhnovschina. Catalonia, Kronstadt) and seek fault in those who destroyed them, rather than analyze and acknowledge the failiures in the fact they were unable to defend themselves and were thus unstable as to learn from the mistakes of the past rather than repeating / replicating it.
Overall these problems seem resolveable to me, a lot of them have their own equilivents within the opponents of anarchism as well, who in essence are even more unprincipled and spineless, with the exception of the ultras who remain marginal and are supposedly awaiting for the favorable historical conditions to arise. It is in my view that as long as the contemporary "anarchist" movement fails to remove these errors it will be dysfunctional and continue being astroturfed by socialdemocratic and reacftionary positions. Whatever genuine anarchists are left will acknowledge the bullet points rather than argue and coddle them - it is not my problem if you're retarded or if your movement fails.
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What are all the ways the bourgeoisie may be frightened into spending more and more of their personal wealth on security while the rate of profit is falling, and make sure those security guards are themselves unmotivated, scared, revolutionary infiltrators, or at the very least self-interested backstabbing coup-plotters?
What are all the ways the bourgeoisie may be frightened into spending more and more of their personal wealth on security while the rate of profit is falling, and make sure those security guards are themselves unmotivated, scared, revolutionary infiltrators, or at the very least self-interested backstabbing coup-plotters?
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Essentially, after Macron chose to start early legislatives elections in 2024, the French national assembly has been divided in 3 main blocs, the NFP, a coalition of parties affiliated to the left, the Presidential camp, who allied themselves with the hard right republican party and the RN, the main far right party
with the NFP having come first in the elections, Macron was supposed to chose a prime minister of their desires, but he didn't do that, instead choosing Michel Barnier to lead a center-right government. Barnier's government became the shortest lived government of the 5th republic. Macron replaced him with Bayrou who started yet another centrist government. Essentially, Bayrou's government was riddled with scandals, the major one being his coverup of child rape in a private catholic school when he was minister of the education, but the main reason he's going down is his budget for 2026, where he intended to make major cuts in the economy, such as removing certain holidays like VE day, and other ultraliberal policies. He did chose to let the national assembly vote in their confidence in him, the left wing parties and the far right both agreed that they would vote against him, and even 2/3 of the republican party promised they'd vote against him. So it's extremely likely he gets fired this evening.
Now, once he gets fired Macron has 3 main options
-Continue as he has done previously, put another centrist guy in power, and hope he doesn't get fired again
-Find an agreement with the left or the far right, now, in the left, there is the PS who have often been favorable to Barnier and Bayrou, going against the grain of their allies in the NFP, a united coalition from PS to Republican doesn't have an absolute majority, but it's fairly close, such a government could be sustainable.
- He can dissolve again and hope for a solution there, but it's unlikely to yield any favorable results for him, as Bayrou is very unpopular, and he is less likely to benefit from leftists voting for him as the lesser evil.
Fall of the Bayrou Regime
François Bayrou's government is probably going to fall this evening.Essentially, after Macron chose to start early legislatives elections in 2024, the French national assembly has been divided in 3 main blocs, the NFP, a coalition of parties affiliated to the left, the Presidential camp, who allied themselves with the hard right republican party and the RN, the main far right party
with the NFP having come first in the elections, Macron was supposed to chose a prime minister of their desires, but he didn't do that, instead choosing Michel Barnier to lead a center-right government. Barnier's government became the shortest lived government of the 5th republic. Macron replaced him with Bayrou who started yet another centrist government. Essentially, Bayrou's government was riddled with scandals, the major one being his coverup of child rape in a private catholic school when he was minister of the education, but the main reason he's going down is his budget for 2026, where he intended to make major cuts in the economy, such as removing certain holidays like VE day, and other ultraliberal policies. He did chose to let the national assembly vote in their confidence in him, the left wing parties and the far right both agreed that they would vote against him, and even 2/3 of the republican party promised they'd vote against him. So it's extremely likely he gets fired this evening.
Now, once he gets fired Macron has 3 main options
-Continue as he has done previously, put another centrist guy in power, and hope he doesn't get fired again
-Find an agreement with the left or the far right, now, in the left, there is the PS who have often been favorable to Barnier and Bayrou, going against the grain of their allies in the NFP, a united coalition from PS to Republican doesn't have an absolute majority, but it's fairly close, such a government could be sustainable.
- He can dissolve again and hope for a solution there, but it's unlikely to yield any favorable results for him, as Bayrou is very unpopular, and he is less likely to benefit from leftists voting for him as the lesser evil.
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>Shortly before 1989, Jaruzelski changed the course and instead pursued a strategy of reaching a "round table" agreement with Solidarity, mediated by the Catholic Church. This decision was strongly opposed by Endocommunists, which took a hardline stance - Grunwald members were ones of the few delegates to vote against the Polish United Workers' Party self-dissolution at its last congress in January 1990.
>Autistic nationalists loyal to the bitter end
>le heckin "humanists" such as Rakowski, KOR tardos instantly turned coat betrayed socialism changed suits to a succdem
>Same phenomenon was seen all over former warpac
Have Leninists wisen up over the years?
>Shortly before 1989, Jaruzelski changed the course and instead pursued a strategy of reaching a "round table" agreement with Solidarity, mediated by the Catholic Church. This decision was strongly opposed by Endocommunists, which took a hardline stance - Grunwald members were ones of the few delegates to vote against the Polish United Workers' Party self-dissolution at its last congress in January 1990.
>Autistic nationalists loyal to the bitter end
>le heckin "humanists" such as Rakowski, KOR tardos instantly turned coat betrayed socialism changed suits to a succdem
>Same phenomenon was seen all over former warpac
Have Leninists wisen up over the years?
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/Grift/
Okay guys I am upset at myself for not thinking to of uploading Charlie Kirk merch designs on Redbubble and Etsy the second I got wind of the news. I want to create a /grift/ thread for us to speculate ways of extracting income off of reactionaries.
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>Oversocialization can lead to low self-esteem, a sense of powerlessness, defeatism, guilt, etc. One of the most important means by which our society socializes children is by making them feel ashamed of behavior or speech that is contrary to society’s expectations. If this is overdone, or if a particular child is especially susceptible to such feelings, he ends by feeling ashamed of himself Moreover, the thought and the behavior of the oversocialized person are more restricted by society’s expectations than are those of the lightly-socialized person. The majority of people engage in a significant amount of naughty behavior. They lie, they commit petty thefts, they break traffic laws, they goof off at work, they hate someone, they say spiteful things or they use some underhanded trick to get ahead of the other guy. The oversocialized person cannot do these things, or if he does do them he generates in himself a sense of shame and self-hatred. The oversocialized person cannot even experience, without guilt, thoughts or feelings that are contrary to the accepted morality; he cannot think “unclean” thoughts. And socialization is not just a matter of morality; we are socialized to conform to many norms of behavior that do not fall under the heading of morality. Thus the oversocialized person is kept on a psychological leash and spends his life running on rails that society has laid down for him. In many oversocialized people this results in a sense of constraint and powerlessness that can be a severe hardship. We suggest that oversocialization is among the more serious cruelties that human beings inflict on one another.
Oversocialisation
All the leftists on this website are oversocialised.>Oversocialization can lead to low self-esteem, a sense of powerlessness, defeatism, guilt, etc. One of the most important means by which our society socializes children is by making them feel ashamed of behavior or speech that is contrary to society’s expectations. If this is overdone, or if a particular child is especially susceptible to such feelings, he ends by feeling ashamed of himself Moreover, the thought and the behavior of the oversocialized person are more restricted by society’s expectations than are those of the lightly-socialized person. The majority of people engage in a significant amount of naughty behavior. They lie, they commit petty thefts, they break traffic laws, they goof off at work, they hate someone, they say spiteful things or they use some underhanded trick to get ahead of the other guy. The oversocialized person cannot do these things, or if he does do them he generates in himself a sense of shame and self-hatred. The oversocialized person cannot even experience, without guilt, thoughts or feelings that are contrary to the accepted morality; he cannot think “unclean” thoughts. And socialization is not just a matter of morality; we are socialized to conform to many norms of behavior that do not fall under the heading of morality. Thus the oversocialized person is kept on a psychological leash and spends his life running on rails that society has laid down for him. In many oversocialized people this results in a sense of constraint and powerlessness that can be a severe hardship. We suggest that oversocialization is among the more serious cruelties that human beings inflict on one another.
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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.
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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I am talking about how right wingers are obsessed with remote viewing, race science, agartha, hyperborea stuff but also the fact that the most extreme rightoids always seem to be some flavor or Muslim, Hindu, Christian, or Jewish. Many American Christian nationalists seem to have some kind of self induced schizophrenia where they believe that dark metaphysical spirits are stalking them and trying to make them become transhumanists and gay.
Why do right wingers believe in literal actual magic?
None or very few right wingers would say they believe in magic but it seems that many of them believe in it.I am talking about how right wingers are obsessed with remote viewing, race science, agartha, hyperborea stuff but also the fact that the most extreme rightoids always seem to be some flavor or Muslim, Hindu, Christian, or Jewish. Many American Christian nationalists seem to have some kind of self induced schizophrenia where they believe that dark metaphysical spirits are stalking them and trying to make them become transhumanists and gay.
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"We will not leave our land under any circumstances… None of the medical personnel will to leave either, this is a decision made by the Palestinian Ministry of Health." The demonstration came just hours after Israel issued mass expulsion orders for nearly one million Palestinians ahead of a planned ground offensive on the famine-stricken city. Additionally, the Israeli army announced on Wednesday that it had begun disseminating expulsion orders through audio, text messages and dropping leaflets.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-reject-israels-expulsion-orders-and-displacement-gaza-protest
Activists vow to sail on to Gaza despite second drone attack on humanitarian flotilla
In a statement today, the group said that all passengers and crew aboard the British-flagged ship were safe. “This marks the second such attack in two days,” the statement said. “These repeat attacks come during intensified Israeli aggression on Palestinians in Gaza and are an orchestrated attempt to distract and derail our mission. The Global Sumud Flotilla continues undeterred.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/activists-vow-sail-gaza-despite-second-drone-attack-humanitarian-flotilla
Displaced people from Ras Al-Ain protest installing flags of foreign countries and express their rejection of proposal for purchasing their houses and land
Tens of displaced people from Ras Al-Ain city staged a sit-in protest in Washo Kani camp, protests the installation of Turkish and Pakistani flags on governmental institutions in the city. The protestors also expressed their rejection of a Turkish proposal to purchase houses and plots of land belonging to Kurdish civilians who have been forcibly displaced from the city, seeing that this proposal was a blatant violation to their rights and properties.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/369657/
Hundreds Arrested in France at Anti-Austerity 'Block Everything' Protests
On his first full day in office Wednesday, newly appointed French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu was greeted with nationwide protests, organized online by the decentralized "Block Everything" movement, with demonstrators condemning the government's austerity measures that they said would likely be continued by the new leader.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/protest-in-france
Almost all German pilots admit to napping during flights in union survey
“Napping has long become the norm in German cockpits,” said Katharina Dieseldorff, the vice-president of the union, which represents 10,000 pilots, cockpit workers and trainees. “What was originally intended as a short-term recovery measure has turned into a permanent answer to structural pressure. “A short nap is not critical in and of itself. But a permanently exhausted cockpit crew is a significant risk.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/about-93-of-pilots-admit-napping-during-flights-in-german-survey
Somaliland recognition for forced transfer of Palestinians? ‘Not worth it’
Human rights advocates from Somaliland have voiced concern that the forced resettlement of Palestinians could “render Somaliland complicit in the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza”, with worries that countries who previously sympathised with Somaliland may potentially “withdrawing their support”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/8/somaliland-recognition-for-forced-transfer-of-palestinians-not-worth-it
https://archive.ph/C3sgp
Right-wing prime minister installed in Thailand
The BJT was founded in 2008 after a right-wing faction representing the rural bourgeoisie split from the Thai Rak Thai—the forerunner of Pheu Thai led by the multi-billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra. It has consistently aligned itself with military and royalist forces to prop up capitalist rule. It maintains its presence in parliament primarily through networks of brokers, vote buying and construction contracts. Anutin is one of the wealthiest politicians in parliament, with declared assets of more than 4.3 billion baht ($US115 million) that include three private jets, two speed boats and a luxury residence in Bangkok.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/10/omlh-s10.html
Nepalese soldiers impose curfew in attempt to restore order following anti-government protests
The army warned on Tuesday night that security forces were committed to preserving law and order. The military is rarely mobilised in Nepal and troops initially stayed in their barracks while police failed to control the situation. Soldiers fired into the air today after prisoners overpowered police guards and tried to escape from the main jail in the heart of Kathmandu. The prisoners set fire to buildings containing cells and guard houses and broke down the main entrance before pouring into the streets.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nepalese-soldiers-impose-curfew-attempt-restore-order-following-anti-government-protests
Argentina’s Milei reopens ministry, restarts dialogue with opposition after electoral defeat
The administration of Argentina’s President Javier Milei resurrected the country’s interior ministry on Wednesday in a bid to build alliances with opposition governors days after his party lost by a landslide in a key provincial election. It was a rare instance of the radical libertarian outsider prioritizing his political needs over his cost-cutting crusade.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-javier-milei-la-libertad-avanza-peronism-interior-ministry-5bc0fd36da2673b797f816aa22ba885f
Cuba says power slowly returning after nationwide blackout
In Havana, home to 2 million residents, authorities said they were working to start major power plants. This was the fourth time in less than a year that the national grid collapsed. In the past, it has taken two to three days for service to be fully restored. "There has been a total disconnection of the Electric System," the Energy Ministry and National Electric Union said Wednesday morning.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/cuba-says-power-slowly-returning-after-nationwide-blackout-2025-09-10/
News 9/10/25
Palestinians hold Gaza protest against Israeli forced displacement"We will not leave our land under any circumstances… None of the medical personnel will to leave either, this is a decision made by the Palestinian Ministry of Health." The demonstration came just hours after Israel issued mass expulsion orders for nearly one million Palestinians ahead of a planned ground offensive on the famine-stricken city. Additionally, the Israeli army announced on Wednesday that it had begun disseminating expulsion orders through audio, text messages and dropping leaflets.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-reject-israels-expulsion-orders-and-displacement-gaza-protest
Activists vow to sail on to Gaza despite second drone attack on humanitarian flotilla
In a statement today, the group said that all passengers and crew aboard the British-flagged ship were safe. “This marks the second such attack in two days,” the statement said. “These repeat attacks come during intensified Israeli aggression on Palestinians in Gaza and are an orchestrated attempt to distract and derail our mission. The Global Sumud Flotilla continues undeterred.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/activists-vow-sail-gaza-despite-second-drone-attack-humanitarian-flotilla
Displaced people from Ras Al-Ain protest installing flags of foreign countries and express their rejection of proposal for purchasing their houses and land
Tens of displaced people from Ras Al-Ain city staged a sit-in protest in Washo Kani camp, protests the installation of Turkish and Pakistani flags on governmental institutions in the city. The protestors also expressed their rejection of a Turkish proposal to purchase houses and plots of land belonging to Kurdish civilians who have been forcibly displaced from the city, seeing that this proposal was a blatant violation to their rights and properties.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/369657/
Hundreds Arrested in France at Anti-Austerity 'Block Everything' Protests
On his first full day in office Wednesday, newly appointed French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu was greeted with nationwide protests, organized online by the decentralized "Block Everything" movement, with demonstrators condemning the government's austerity measures that they said would likely be continued by the new leader.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/protest-in-france
Almost all German pilots admit to napping during flights in union survey
“Napping has long become the norm in German cockpits,” said Katharina Dieseldorff, the vice-president of the union, which represents 10,000 pilots, cockpit workers and trainees. “What was originally intended as a short-term recovery measure has turned into a permanent answer to structural pressure. “A short nap is not critical in and of itself. But a permanently exhausted cockpit crew is a significant risk.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/about-93-of-pilots-admit-napping-during-flights-in-german-survey
Somaliland recognition for forced transfer of Palestinians? ‘Not worth it’
Human rights advocates from Somaliland have voiced concern that the forced resettlement of Palestinians could “render Somaliland complicit in the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza”, with worries that countries who previously sympathised with Somaliland may potentially “withdrawing their support”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/8/somaliland-recognition-for-forced-transfer-of-palestinians-not-worth-it
https://archive.ph/C3sgp
Right-wing prime minister installed in Thailand
The BJT was founded in 2008 after a right-wing faction representing the rural bourgeoisie split from the Thai Rak Thai—the forerunner of Pheu Thai led by the multi-billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra. It has consistently aligned itself with military and royalist forces to prop up capitalist rule. It maintains its presence in parliament primarily through networks of brokers, vote buying and construction contracts. Anutin is one of the wealthiest politicians in parliament, with declared assets of more than 4.3 billion baht ($US115 million) that include three private jets, two speed boats and a luxury residence in Bangkok.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/10/omlh-s10.html
Nepalese soldiers impose curfew in attempt to restore order following anti-government protests
The army warned on Tuesday night that security forces were committed to preserving law and order. The military is rarely mobilised in Nepal and troops initially stayed in their barracks while police failed to control the situation. Soldiers fired into the air today after prisoners overpowered police guards and tried to escape from the main jail in the heart of Kathmandu. The prisoners set fire to buildings containing cells and guard houses and broke down the main entrance before pouring into the streets.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nepalese-soldiers-impose-curfew-attempt-restore-order-following-anti-government-protests
Argentina’s Milei reopens ministry, restarts dialogue with opposition after electoral defeat
The administration of Argentina’s President Javier Milei resurrected the country’s interior ministry on Wednesday in a bid to build alliances with opposition governors days after his party lost by a landslide in a key provincial election. It was a rare instance of the radical libertarian outsider prioritizing his political needs over his cost-cutting crusade.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-javier-milei-la-libertad-avanza-peronism-interior-ministry-5bc0fd36da2673b797f816aa22ba885f
Cuba says power slowly returning after nationwide blackout
In Havana, home to 2 million residents, authorities said they were working to start major power plants. This was the fourth time in less than a year that the national grid collapsed. In the past, it has taken two to three days for service to be fully restored. "There has been a total disconnection of the Electric System," the Energy Ministry and National Electric Union said Wednesday morning.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/cuba-says-power-slowly-returning-after-nationwide-blackout-2025-09-10/
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-Wahhabism in the first place in Saudi Arabia,
-the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt in the 1960s to destroy secular Arab socialism,
-the Afghan Mujahideen,
-the Islamic Republic of Iran,
-Al Qaeda, Hamas,
-ISIS/Daesh,
-about 4 different sides of the Libyan shitshow, (but mostly the ones who love turning Libya's ancient city squares into giant open-air slave markets)
-HTS,
the left is CURRENTLY warning the right about the 'Popular Forces' they're creating in Gaza now, and the left will be warning them about the next set of terror-mercs they fund, arm and train in order to achieve some foreign policy goal in MENA.
But they won't listen, because the people making these decisions and coming up with the propaganda in defence of them aren't the ones who'll be killed in their millions abroad and in their dozens at home. They'll get their 10 years in the Cabinet, enough to make a few hundred mil inside trading under their spouses' names, and then they can spend the rest of their life doing lucrative speaking tours of US college and tech-company campuses and thinktank, hailed by their own as an Elder Statesman and Hard-headed Newsmen who Told It Like It Was And Never Compromised, and they'll probably die of old age before the water runs out and the inevitable consequences arrive.
Mr Policeman you could have saved her I gave you all the clues
sure is weird how the right act all smug towards the left whenever an Islamist kills people. If they had the power to recall events that didn't involve twitter, they'd remember that actually it was the left who warned the right not to create/elevate:-Wahhabism in the first place in Saudi Arabia,
-the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt in the 1960s to destroy secular Arab socialism,
-the Afghan Mujahideen,
-the Islamic Republic of Iran,
-Al Qaeda, Hamas,
-ISIS/Daesh,
-about 4 different sides of the Libyan shitshow, (but mostly the ones who love turning Libya's ancient city squares into giant open-air slave markets)
-HTS,
the left is CURRENTLY warning the right about the 'Popular Forces' they're creating in Gaza now, and the left will be warning them about the next set of terror-mercs they fund, arm and train in order to achieve some foreign policy goal in MENA.
But they won't listen, because the people making these decisions and coming up with the propaganda in defence of them aren't the ones who'll be killed in their millions abroad and in their dozens at home. They'll get their 10 years in the Cabinet, enough to make a few hundred mil inside trading under their spouses' names, and then they can spend the rest of their life doing lucrative speaking tours of US college and tech-company campuses and thinktank, hailed by their own as an Elder Statesman and Hard-headed Newsmen who Told It Like It Was And Never Compromised, and they'll probably die of old age before the water runs out and the inevitable consequences arrive.
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Some 16 year old kid who recently discovered Marx will have fun watching North Korean propaganda will think the US is some evil dicatorship that manipulates people to participate in consumer culture as a means of distracting them from the "truth". In that way, they're not that different from redditors talking about how they're so ready for the US to drop bombs on Kim Jong Un's evil army because they read an AMA or watched a North Korean documentary on "Human Rights".
In my opinion that North Korea is at a point where a) they can someday let US/NATO invade so they can point fingers and say "See?! You see what this bully does to me?" or b) they let China build up economically and ride their coattails while saying "see, we were right all along. These Westerners are arrogant, short termed people".
And if we were to go to war, I'd volunteer in a heartbeat to fight my way and free those prison camps. But we're not at war, so you can't force this stuff. You have to work diplomatically and patiently, muddling your way through all the truths and lies of the situation. Because people are suffering in those prison camps and North Korea isn't exactly a stable country.
North Korea
North Korea isn't willing to open up very much, so the only people who are willing to open up are people who have been exposed to the harsher places there and wanted to leave. If for example some Native Americans from tribal lands were to create a petition about their plight and their disappearing culture and how the US government does very little for their communities obviously the US government would try to help and ultimately, wouldn't put people in labor camps and cut off body parts or whatever like North Korea does. The point is that, like North Korean defectors, anyone can use Native Americans as propaganda against the US and they can do it for legitimate reasons but it's not for the right reason.Some 16 year old kid who recently discovered Marx will have fun watching North Korean propaganda will think the US is some evil dicatorship that manipulates people to participate in consumer culture as a means of distracting them from the "truth". In that way, they're not that different from redditors talking about how they're so ready for the US to drop bombs on Kim Jong Un's evil army because they read an AMA or watched a North Korean documentary on "Human Rights".
In my opinion that North Korea is at a point where a) they can someday let US/NATO invade so they can point fingers and say "See?! You see what this bully does to me?" or b) they let China build up economically and ride their coattails while saying "see, we were right all along. These Westerners are arrogant, short termed people".
And if we were to go to war, I'd volunteer in a heartbeat to fight my way and free those prison camps. But we're not at war, so you can't force this stuff. You have to work diplomatically and patiently, muddling your way through all the truths and lies of the situation. Because people are suffering in those prison camps and North Korea isn't exactly a stable country.
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There’s something weird am I a real anti-capitalist cause I eat fast food that’s because that’s all the reason in my town if there was more local restaurants, I would eat there instead of fast food when are you guys at shots? Are you guys eat fast food?
There’s something weird am I a real anti-capitalist cause I eat fast food that’s because that’s all the reason in my town if there was more local restaurants, I would eat there instead of fast food when are you guys at shots? Are you guys eat fast food?
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Any one off philosophical writings by work men or peasants you know of?
Or anonymous one off philosophy works?
A good example of this is Menocchio/Domenico Scandella.
Any one off philosophical writings by work men or peasants you know of?
Or anonymous one off philosophy works?
A good example of this is Menocchio/Domenico Scandella.
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So America never went through a feudalism stage being a settler colonial entity . The petit boo sprang fourth fully formed due to land/resource theft and genocide. No stages of history just right into the industrial age . I find It’s why You can’t apply a Marxist analogy of Germany or England or France to America. So why does Marx still apply this Eurocentric analysis that misses this important point about America in his letters to Lincoln and other writings about America?
So America never went through a feudalism stage being a settler colonial entity . The petit boo sprang fourth fully formed due to land/resource theft and genocide. No stages of history just right into the industrial age . I find It’s why You can’t apply a Marxist analogy of Germany or England or France to America. So why does Marx still apply this Eurocentric analysis that misses this important point about America in his letters to Lincoln and other writings about America?
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On October 3, it was announced that this Indigenous struggle in Paraguay had been successful. The leaders of the protests said, “Our heroic resistance has paid off. Today, the first point of our demand was achieved: the dismissal of Ramón Benegas from the presidency of the INDI. Following this measure, we held a meeting with the new president of the INDI, Mr. Hugo Samaniego, to whom we reiterated our demands. The new president agreed to return INDI’s headquarters to Asunción, which will allow for the full reactivation of services to our brothers and sisters.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/04/indigenous-resistance-in-paraguay-forces-penas-government-to-back-down/
Trouble brewing: Maya people in Yucatán fear new Heineken plant’s thirst for water
At a rallying point in the city, protesters read from a manifesto and accuse the government of prioritising profit over water, health and land. They denounce a wave of mega-projects imposed without their consent, from industrial-scale pig farms to the controversial Maya Train tourist expansion. But they reserve their greatest anger for the Heineken brewery in Kanasín, near Mérida, which was announced in June.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/04/maya-heineken-brewery-yucatan-mexico-cenote-ring
Double setback for Milei as Congress overturns two vetoes
Senators invalidated both vetoes, which had already been rejected by the lower house Chamber of Deputies, bringing to three the number of laws upheld by Congress despite vehement opposition from Milei. The upper house voted 59 to seven, with three abstentions, to override the veto on the paediatric emergency. The law boosting funding for public universities drew a near identical tally, with 58 votes in favour, seven against and four abstentions.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/double-setback-for-milei-as-congress-overturns-two-vetoes.phtml
https://archive.ph/BtblK
Gaza protests under way in Europe as arrests made in London
Protests on Saturday in Spain’s second-largest city, Barcelona, as well as in Madrid, were planned weeks ago, while calls for demonstrations in Rome and Lisbon followed widespread anger after Israeli forces intercepted a humanitarian aid flotilla – the Global Sumud Flotilla – that had set sail from Barcelona for Gaza, trying to break Israel’s blockade of the famine-struck Palestinian territory.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/4/gaza-protests-under-way-in-europe-as-arrests-made-in-london
https://archive.ph/yvM8f
Israeli minister invites anti-Muslim 'ally' Tommy Robinson for visit
The move, announced after a deadly synagogue attack in Manchester, has been condemned by British politicians, interfaith figures and anti-racism campaigners as an alarming alignment between the Israeli government and a figure widely regarded as a fascist provocateur in the UK. "In the wake of the horrific Manchester terrorist attack, Israel and the Jewish people stand firmly with our allies in the United Kingdom," Chikli said in a post on X.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-invites-anti-muslim-ally-tommy-robinson-visit
Israeli strikes kill 39 in Gaza, US envoys head to Cairo to discuss captive releases
Israeli attacks across the besieged Gaza Strip have killed at least 70 Palestinians, medical sources said, despite calls from United States President Donald Trump for Israel to stop its bombardment after Hamas said it had accepted some elements of Trump’s 20-point plan to end Israel’s war. At least 45 of the victims killed in bombardments and air strikes on Saturday were in the famine-struck Gaza City, where the Israeli army has been pressing an offensive in recent weeks, forcing some one million residents to flee to the overcrowded south.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/4/israel-pounds-gaza-killing-61-despite-trumps-call-for-it-to-halt-bombing
https://archive.ph/gKpbG
Growing tension two weeks on | Damascus government forces send military reinforcement to frontlines with SDF in eastern Aleppo
Aleppo province: SOHR sources have reported that the Ministry of Defence of Damascus government sent a convoy of military reinforcement of comprising tens of vehicles carrying weapons and soldiers to frontlines with Syrian Democratic Forces around Deir Hafer and Teshreen dam in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/371000/
A court in Tunisia sentenced a man to death for Facebook posts seen as insulting to the president
Saber Chouchen was convicted on Wednesday of three charges: attempting to overthrow the state, insulting the president and spreading false information online. Judges said the posts incited violence and chaos and violated Tunisia’s penal code as well as the controversial 2022 cybercrime law, Decree 54. The ruling is the first of its kind in Tunisia, where dozens have been handed heavy prison sentences over similar charges since Saied seized power over all branches of government in July 2021.
https://apnews.com/article/tunisia-death-sentence-facebook-posts-president-b75f9ca0d2629fda054031f5792d502e
Fake coup and CIA plot rumours in Philippines fuelling real political turmoil
Among the false claims spreading on social media in recent weeks was that the Philippine military was preparing to launch a coup against Marcos, allegedly with support from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a group of retired generals loyal to Duterte. The military has publicly denied all such stories. But the sheer virality of the posts – shared widely by Duterte-linked influencers – has forced military leaders to push back with repeated clarifications and warnings.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3327831/fake-coup-and-cia-plot-rumours-philippines-fuelling-real-political-turmoil
Sanae Takaichi: the new leader of Japan’s Liberal Democratic party who cites Thatcher as an influence
The 64-year-old rightwinger, who has cited Margaret Thatcher in her quest to build a “strong and prosperous” Japan, beat her centrist rival, Shinjiro Koizumi, in a runoff election at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo. … She has a direct ideological connection with the former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in 2022, sharing his revisionist views on Japan’s wartime conduct – a position that could cause friction with Japan’s neighbours. Takaichi has been critical of China and makes regular pilgrimages to Yasukuni, a shrine in Tokyo that honours Japan’s war dead, including convicted war criminals.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/sanae-takaichi-the-new-leader-of-japans-liberal-democratic-party-who-cites-thatcher-as-an-influence
News 10/4/25
Indigenous resistance in Paraguay forces Peña’s government to back downOn October 3, it was announced that this Indigenous struggle in Paraguay had been successful. The leaders of the protests said, “Our heroic resistance has paid off. Today, the first point of our demand was achieved: the dismissal of Ramón Benegas from the presidency of the INDI. Following this measure, we held a meeting with the new president of the INDI, Mr. Hugo Samaniego, to whom we reiterated our demands. The new president agreed to return INDI’s headquarters to Asunción, which will allow for the full reactivation of services to our brothers and sisters.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/04/indigenous-resistance-in-paraguay-forces-penas-government-to-back-down/
Trouble brewing: Maya people in Yucatán fear new Heineken plant’s thirst for water
At a rallying point in the city, protesters read from a manifesto and accuse the government of prioritising profit over water, health and land. They denounce a wave of mega-projects imposed without their consent, from industrial-scale pig farms to the controversial Maya Train tourist expansion. But they reserve their greatest anger for the Heineken brewery in Kanasín, near Mérida, which was announced in June.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/04/maya-heineken-brewery-yucatan-mexico-cenote-ring
Double setback for Milei as Congress overturns two vetoes
Senators invalidated both vetoes, which had already been rejected by the lower house Chamber of Deputies, bringing to three the number of laws upheld by Congress despite vehement opposition from Milei. The upper house voted 59 to seven, with three abstentions, to override the veto on the paediatric emergency. The law boosting funding for public universities drew a near identical tally, with 58 votes in favour, seven against and four abstentions.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/double-setback-for-milei-as-congress-overturns-two-vetoes.phtml
https://archive.ph/BtblK
Gaza protests under way in Europe as arrests made in London
Protests on Saturday in Spain’s second-largest city, Barcelona, as well as in Madrid, were planned weeks ago, while calls for demonstrations in Rome and Lisbon followed widespread anger after Israeli forces intercepted a humanitarian aid flotilla – the Global Sumud Flotilla – that had set sail from Barcelona for Gaza, trying to break Israel’s blockade of the famine-struck Palestinian territory.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/4/gaza-protests-under-way-in-europe-as-arrests-made-in-london
https://archive.ph/yvM8f
Israeli minister invites anti-Muslim 'ally' Tommy Robinson for visit
The move, announced after a deadly synagogue attack in Manchester, has been condemned by British politicians, interfaith figures and anti-racism campaigners as an alarming alignment between the Israeli government and a figure widely regarded as a fascist provocateur in the UK. "In the wake of the horrific Manchester terrorist attack, Israel and the Jewish people stand firmly with our allies in the United Kingdom," Chikli said in a post on X.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-invites-anti-muslim-ally-tommy-robinson-visit
Israeli strikes kill 39 in Gaza, US envoys head to Cairo to discuss captive releases
Israeli attacks across the besieged Gaza Strip have killed at least 70 Palestinians, medical sources said, despite calls from United States President Donald Trump for Israel to stop its bombardment after Hamas said it had accepted some elements of Trump’s 20-point plan to end Israel’s war. At least 45 of the victims killed in bombardments and air strikes on Saturday were in the famine-struck Gaza City, where the Israeli army has been pressing an offensive in recent weeks, forcing some one million residents to flee to the overcrowded south.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/4/israel-pounds-gaza-killing-61-despite-trumps-call-for-it-to-halt-bombing
https://archive.ph/gKpbG
Growing tension two weeks on | Damascus government forces send military reinforcement to frontlines with SDF in eastern Aleppo
Aleppo province: SOHR sources have reported that the Ministry of Defence of Damascus government sent a convoy of military reinforcement of comprising tens of vehicles carrying weapons and soldiers to frontlines with Syrian Democratic Forces around Deir Hafer and Teshreen dam in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/371000/
A court in Tunisia sentenced a man to death for Facebook posts seen as insulting to the president
Saber Chouchen was convicted on Wednesday of three charges: attempting to overthrow the state, insulting the president and spreading false information online. Judges said the posts incited violence and chaos and violated Tunisia’s penal code as well as the controversial 2022 cybercrime law, Decree 54. The ruling is the first of its kind in Tunisia, where dozens have been handed heavy prison sentences over similar charges since Saied seized power over all branches of government in July 2021.
https://apnews.com/article/tunisia-death-sentence-facebook-posts-president-b75f9ca0d2629fda054031f5792d502e
Fake coup and CIA plot rumours in Philippines fuelling real political turmoil
Among the false claims spreading on social media in recent weeks was that the Philippine military was preparing to launch a coup against Marcos, allegedly with support from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a group of retired generals loyal to Duterte. The military has publicly denied all such stories. But the sheer virality of the posts – shared widely by Duterte-linked influencers – has forced military leaders to push back with repeated clarifications and warnings.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3327831/fake-coup-and-cia-plot-rumours-philippines-fuelling-real-political-turmoil
Sanae Takaichi: the new leader of Japan’s Liberal Democratic party who cites Thatcher as an influence
The 64-year-old rightwinger, who has cited Margaret Thatcher in her quest to build a “strong and prosperous” Japan, beat her centrist rival, Shinjiro Koizumi, in a runoff election at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo. … She has a direct ideological connection with the former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in 2022, sharing his revisionist views on Japan’s wartime conduct – a position that could cause friction with Japan’s neighbours. Takaichi has been critical of China and makes regular pilgrimages to Yasukuni, a shrine in Tokyo that honours Japan’s war dead, including convicted war criminals.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/sanae-takaichi-the-new-leader-of-japans-liberal-democratic-party-who-cites-thatcher-as-an-influence
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<The Self Consoomer Edition
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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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Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera that the group would not disarm before the Israeli occupation ends. "The other issues mentioned in President Trump’s proposal regarding the future of the Gaza Strip and the inherent rights of the Palestinian people are linked to a comprehensive national position based on relevant international laws and resolutions, and are being discussed within a national framework," the Hamas statement said. A Hamas senior representative in Doha, Osama Hamdan, told Al Araby TV following the announcement that Hamas will not accept foreign governorship of the enclave, and that it must be run by Palestinians, even transitionally.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-agrees-release-all-israeli-captives-dead-or-alive
US judge dismisses lawsuit accusing UN agency of aiding Hamas attack on Israel
U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan said the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) had "absolute immunity" from the lawsuit because it is a subsidiary of the United Nations, which has immunity from such lawsuits. In her decision made public on Wednesday, Torres also rejected an argument that UNRWA was merely a "specialized agency" not entitled to immunity.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/10/us-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-accusing-un-agency-aiding-hamas-attack-israel
From Ang Bayan: NPA Unit Conducts Successful Attack On AFP Troops In Samar Province
Western Samar (Arnulfo Ortiz Command) unit fired the first shots against the 8th ID troopers operating in Sitio San Pedro, Barangay Poblacion 3, San Jose de Buan, Samar on the afternoon of September 27. With high alertness and guerrilla readiness, the people’s army’s attack killed one soldier and injured many others. The NPA-Western Samar reported that at 5 p.m. that day the 8th ID deployed a helicopter to retrieve its wounded soldiers. The soldiers again squandered funds the next day by flying another helicopter.
https://www.redspark.nu/peoples-war/philippines/from-ang-bayan-npa-unit-conducts-successful-attack-on-afp-troops-in-samar-province/
Protests, Violence Erupt in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir
At the heart of the unrest lies JAAC’s 38-point charter of demands, which channels public anger over soaring electricity tariffs, rising food prices, and entrenched elite privileges. Despite multiple rounds of talks with federal and local authorities, the deadlock persists. What began as issue-based agitation has evolved into one of the most widespread protest movements the region has witnessed in years, exposing a deepening crisis of representation and legitimacy.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/10/protests-violence-erupt-in-pakistan-administered-kashmir/
https://archive.ph/SvOiN
British government exploits Manchester synagogue killings to attack anti-genocide protesters
Within hours of the killing of two Jewish worshippers at a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday, the Labour government and police—backed by a frothing right-wing media—leapt on the tragedy to intensify their crackdown on protests against the Gaza genocide, and the campaign to brand anti-Zionism as “left antisemitism”.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/03/flde-o03.html
Armenian archbishop sentenced to 2 years in prison over alleged coup plot
Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan was arrested in June and accused of being part of an alleged coup plot against the government of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The cleric was found guilty on Sept. 24 of calling for the government to be overthrown. His lawyer, Ara Zohrabyan, condemned the verdict as being politically motivated.
https://apnews.com/article/armenia-church-cleric-pashinyan-opposition-prison-9a6db260de55857751aac6701c9a0077
EFF and Operation Dudula clash after child’s death
“What begins as hatred directed at African migrants quickly mutates into the policing of fellow South Africans based on their language, place of origin, or cultural identity,” the party cautioned. Dunga added that Operation Dudula’s actions were obstructing access to healthcare for citizens they labelled as undocumented. “According to them, anyone who comes to these facilities without identification is perceived to be an illegal immigrant,” he said.
https://www.citizen.co.za/alex-news/news-headlines/2025/10/03/eff-at-loggerheads-with-operation-dudula/
https://archive.ph/2bw3i#selection-602.0-602.1
Madagascar president who took power in coup accuses protesters of trying to trigger another one
On Monday, the president dismissed the prime minister and dissolved the government. However, the leaderless Gen Z Madagascar movement called for more protests, demanding the resignation or dismissal of the president, constitutional court judges, election commission members and parliamentary leaders.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/03/madagascar-president-accuses-protesters-coup
US threatens to pull UN support for Colombia’s peace process and war crimes tribunal
Waltz suggested that the administration of US President Donald Trump no longer supports the implementation of the peace deal when it comes to indigenous rights. The ambassador said that his government supports justice for “victims of narcoterrorism,” but rejected UN monitoring of “transnational justice.”
https://colombiareports.com/us-threatens-to-pull-un-support-for-colombias-peace-process-and-war-crimes-tribunal/
The Continuation of Counterinsurgency in Chiapas: Dispossession, Creation of Conflicts, and Incursions by Military and State Forces Against the EZLN
The Assembly of Zapatista Autonomous Government Collectives (ACGAZ)—part of the Zapatista structures that promote El Común—denounced attacks that began in April, which included refusal to engage in dialogue, incursions into and surveying of the autonomous territory recovered in 1994, threats, theft of crops, burning of two houses, and dispossession, perpetrated by a group of civilians together with the Ocosingo municipal police, the State Police, the Government Delegate, the Chiapas State Attorney General’s Office, and members of the Mexican Army.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21656/
El Salvador Bans Inclusive Language in Public Schools
A memorandum issued by the ministry clarified that the ban applies to “all public educational centers and agencies of this ministry” in order to “consolidate clear, uniform, and respectful institutional communication.” It specifically barred expressions such as “amigue, compañere, niñe, todos y todas, alumn@, jóvenxs, nosotras,” or any other linguistic variation “referring to gender ideology.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/el-salvador-bans-inclusive-language-in-public-schools/
Quebec government shifts further right amid collapsing support
Declaring his intention to administer “shock therapy,” Legault announced that his government will “cut deeply into bureaucracy.” This is a euphemism for slashing and privatizing what remains of essential public services, particularly public health care and education, and eviscerating all social supports. He also targeted environmental regulations in a clear signal to big business that it will be given carte blanche to rake in profits by ignoring and trampling on the most basic environmental protections.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/03/gdvn-o03.html
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Hamas agrees to release hostages but rejects foreign governorship of GazaHamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera that the group would not disarm before the Israeli occupation ends. "The other issues mentioned in President Trump’s proposal regarding the future of the Gaza Strip and the inherent rights of the Palestinian people are linked to a comprehensive national position based on relevant international laws and resolutions, and are being discussed within a national framework," the Hamas statement said. A Hamas senior representative in Doha, Osama Hamdan, told Al Araby TV following the announcement that Hamas will not accept foreign governorship of the enclave, and that it must be run by Palestinians, even transitionally.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-agrees-release-all-israeli-captives-dead-or-alive
US judge dismisses lawsuit accusing UN agency of aiding Hamas attack on Israel
U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan said the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) had "absolute immunity" from the lawsuit because it is a subsidiary of the United Nations, which has immunity from such lawsuits. In her decision made public on Wednesday, Torres also rejected an argument that UNRWA was merely a "specialized agency" not entitled to immunity.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/10/us-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-accusing-un-agency-aiding-hamas-attack-israel
From Ang Bayan: NPA Unit Conducts Successful Attack On AFP Troops In Samar Province
Western Samar (Arnulfo Ortiz Command) unit fired the first shots against the 8th ID troopers operating in Sitio San Pedro, Barangay Poblacion 3, San Jose de Buan, Samar on the afternoon of September 27. With high alertness and guerrilla readiness, the people’s army’s attack killed one soldier and injured many others. The NPA-Western Samar reported that at 5 p.m. that day the 8th ID deployed a helicopter to retrieve its wounded soldiers. The soldiers again squandered funds the next day by flying another helicopter.
https://www.redspark.nu/peoples-war/philippines/from-ang-bayan-npa-unit-conducts-successful-attack-on-afp-troops-in-samar-province/
Protests, Violence Erupt in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir
At the heart of the unrest lies JAAC’s 38-point charter of demands, which channels public anger over soaring electricity tariffs, rising food prices, and entrenched elite privileges. Despite multiple rounds of talks with federal and local authorities, the deadlock persists. What began as issue-based agitation has evolved into one of the most widespread protest movements the region has witnessed in years, exposing a deepening crisis of representation and legitimacy.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/10/protests-violence-erupt-in-pakistan-administered-kashmir/
https://archive.ph/SvOiN
British government exploits Manchester synagogue killings to attack anti-genocide protesters
Within hours of the killing of two Jewish worshippers at a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday, the Labour government and police—backed by a frothing right-wing media—leapt on the tragedy to intensify their crackdown on protests against the Gaza genocide, and the campaign to brand anti-Zionism as “left antisemitism”.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/03/flde-o03.html
Armenian archbishop sentenced to 2 years in prison over alleged coup plot
Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan was arrested in June and accused of being part of an alleged coup plot against the government of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The cleric was found guilty on Sept. 24 of calling for the government to be overthrown. His lawyer, Ara Zohrabyan, condemned the verdict as being politically motivated.
https://apnews.com/article/armenia-church-cleric-pashinyan-opposition-prison-9a6db260de55857751aac6701c9a0077
EFF and Operation Dudula clash after child’s death
“What begins as hatred directed at African migrants quickly mutates into the policing of fellow South Africans based on their language, place of origin, or cultural identity,” the party cautioned. Dunga added that Operation Dudula’s actions were obstructing access to healthcare for citizens they labelled as undocumented. “According to them, anyone who comes to these facilities without identification is perceived to be an illegal immigrant,” he said.
https://www.citizen.co.za/alex-news/news-headlines/2025/10/03/eff-at-loggerheads-with-operation-dudula/
https://archive.ph/2bw3i#selection-602.0-602.1
Madagascar president who took power in coup accuses protesters of trying to trigger another one
On Monday, the president dismissed the prime minister and dissolved the government. However, the leaderless Gen Z Madagascar movement called for more protests, demanding the resignation or dismissal of the president, constitutional court judges, election commission members and parliamentary leaders.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/03/madagascar-president-accuses-protesters-coup
US threatens to pull UN support for Colombia’s peace process and war crimes tribunal
Waltz suggested that the administration of US President Donald Trump no longer supports the implementation of the peace deal when it comes to indigenous rights. The ambassador said that his government supports justice for “victims of narcoterrorism,” but rejected UN monitoring of “transnational justice.”
https://colombiareports.com/us-threatens-to-pull-un-support-for-colombias-peace-process-and-war-crimes-tribunal/
The Continuation of Counterinsurgency in Chiapas: Dispossession, Creation of Conflicts, and Incursions by Military and State Forces Against the EZLN
The Assembly of Zapatista Autonomous Government Collectives (ACGAZ)—part of the Zapatista structures that promote El Común—denounced attacks that began in April, which included refusal to engage in dialogue, incursions into and surveying of the autonomous territory recovered in 1994, threats, theft of crops, burning of two houses, and dispossession, perpetrated by a group of civilians together with the Ocosingo municipal police, the State Police, the Government Delegate, the Chiapas State Attorney General’s Office, and members of the Mexican Army.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21656/
El Salvador Bans Inclusive Language in Public Schools
A memorandum issued by the ministry clarified that the ban applies to “all public educational centers and agencies of this ministry” in order to “consolidate clear, uniform, and respectful institutional communication.” It specifically barred expressions such as “amigue, compañere, niñe, todos y todas, alumn@, jóvenxs, nosotras,” or any other linguistic variation “referring to gender ideology.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/el-salvador-bans-inclusive-language-in-public-schools/
Quebec government shifts further right amid collapsing support
Declaring his intention to administer “shock therapy,” Legault announced that his government will “cut deeply into bureaucracy.” This is a euphemism for slashing and privatizing what remains of essential public services, particularly public health care and education, and eviscerating all social supports. He also targeted environmental regulations in a clear signal to big business that it will be given carte blanche to rake in profits by ignoring and trampling on the most basic environmental protections.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/03/gdvn-o03.html
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Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
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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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On Treatlerism
I know you American folks like to freak out whenever someone calls you treatlers and insinuate that you are collaborators in your government's imperialism and world raping. But let's be honest, between us, it is true right? I know the Theory of Treatlerism is not glamorous… but it is correct, right?
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Created this epic maymay after the DHS made post of gigachad being anti communist, which like everything else these fascist post has no base in reality and is telling about their media literacy.
please be kind like i know giga chad is.
Giga Commie
I dont like tankies but i hate nazis so i guess that puts me on the left.Created this epic maymay after the DHS made post of gigachad being anti communist, which like everything else these fascist post has no base in reality and is telling about their media literacy.
please be kind like i know giga chad is.
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Anon Why is most of the western communist movement just libertarians larping as communists ? Has neoliberalism destroyed the left that bad that now everyone has the individualist petit boo conscience
Anon Why is most of the western communist movement just libertarians larping as communists ? Has neoliberalism destroyed the left that bad that now everyone has the individualist petit boo conscience
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>1) this is not important or caused by alienation and capitalism, end capitalism and these problems end with it
>2) this is as important as economics and we need a cultural revolution to then fix the economic issues
which is right? maybe the 2 of them? or is it just men/women that need to step up?
dynamics between sex and the economy
I think there are 2 opposing points on non id-pol when discussing the current problems in the relationships between men and women and the dating crisis>1) this is not important or caused by alienation and capitalism, end capitalism and these problems end with it
>2) this is as important as economics and we need a cultural revolution to then fix the economic issues
which is right? maybe the 2 of them? or is it just men/women that need to step up?
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Comrades, can someone explain the historical origin of the blood libel without hysterics? I feel like it must be really false in regards to Jews if only because Torah directly prohibits the consumption of any kind of blood (even the one of an animal), but… it feels a bit too specific to be competely made up. What is happening there?
Comrades, can someone explain the historical origin of the blood libel without hysterics? I feel like it must be really false in regards to Jews if only because Torah directly prohibits the consumption of any kind of blood (even the one of an animal), but… it feels a bit too specific to be competely made up. What is happening there?
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One can be racist against 'white' people. 'White' supremacist society is institutionally harmful to 'whites' despite the benefits it provides. Anti-racists acknowledge this and understand how anti-racist movements have also broadly benefited 'whites'.
One can be classist against the bourgeoisie. Capitalist society is institutionally harmful to the bourgeoisie despite the benefits it provides. Socialists acknowledge this and understand how socialist movements have also broadly benefited the owning class.
Whether these prejudices are necessary or justified is a personal opinion. However, it is absurd and hilarious to pretend, for a common example, "you can't be racists against white people". This slogan signals denial, a post-liberalist rationalization, based on the idealist assumption that "racism is bad because uuhh it just is", and that they don't see themselves as bad, that their racism is therefore not racism. Instead, we must understand why racism is harmful to society, both institutional racism and other forms.
For another example, classism may be rationalized by oversimplifying the class tendency for the bourgeoisie to preserve their superiority. Perhaps a proletarian revolution, under the pressures of counterrevolution, may unfortunately resort to some form of classicide when circumstances don't give us the opportunity for nuance. This is not ideal, we know many heroic traitors of the bourgeois class who have sided with the proletarian movement. But it may be justified or rationalized when circumstances force it. For example, the regicide of the Romanovs was a tactically beneficial action. We've seen historical cases where royalty have rejected their title and privilege, but due to circumstances, the Bolsheviks would have been irresponsible to let the Romanovs live simply for this possibility, while on the other hand, the CPC were responsible to let Puyi live. Perhaps, if there were not an ongoing royalist civil war, the Romanovs could have been given a similar fate…
On Left-reactionarism
One can be sexist against men. Patriarchal society is institutionally sexist against men despite the benefits it provides. Gender liberationists acknowledge this and understand how feminist movements have also broadly benefited men.One can be racist against 'white' people. 'White' supremacist society is institutionally harmful to 'whites' despite the benefits it provides. Anti-racists acknowledge this and understand how anti-racist movements have also broadly benefited 'whites'.
One can be classist against the bourgeoisie. Capitalist society is institutionally harmful to the bourgeoisie despite the benefits it provides. Socialists acknowledge this and understand how socialist movements have also broadly benefited the owning class.
Whether these prejudices are necessary or justified is a personal opinion. However, it is absurd and hilarious to pretend, for a common example, "you can't be racists against white people". This slogan signals denial, a post-liberalist rationalization, based on the idealist assumption that "racism is bad because uuhh it just is", and that they don't see themselves as bad, that their racism is therefore not racism. Instead, we must understand why racism is harmful to society, both institutional racism and other forms.
For another example, classism may be rationalized by oversimplifying the class tendency for the bourgeoisie to preserve their superiority. Perhaps a proletarian revolution, under the pressures of counterrevolution, may unfortunately resort to some form of classicide when circumstances don't give us the opportunity for nuance. This is not ideal, we know many heroic traitors of the bourgeois class who have sided with the proletarian movement. But it may be justified or rationalized when circumstances force it. For example, the regicide of the Romanovs was a tactically beneficial action. We've seen historical cases where royalty have rejected their title and privilege, but due to circumstances, the Bolsheviks would have been irresponsible to let the Romanovs live simply for this possibility, while on the other hand, the CPC were responsible to let Puyi live. Perhaps, if there were not an ongoing royalist civil war, the Romanovs could have been given a similar fate…
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I read almost everything Marx wrote it changed me deeply bur now I’m alone and lonely because I made one fatal mistake . Other communists don’t read . Why? Because deep down I find most communists hate communism
I read almost everything Marx wrote it changed me deeply bur now I’m alone and lonely because I made one fatal mistake . Other communists don’t read . Why? Because deep down I find most communists hate communism
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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THE RED LINES ARE BACK IN TOWN edition.Previous: >>2498825
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
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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • 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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A thread dedicated to the inner happenings of the country of Napal, including the current anti corruption protests and the escalating government actions that have lead to 19 dead so far. Post all of your Nepal related discussions and info dumps here (at your own discretion of course).
Nepal happenings thread
https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/amp/international/news/gen-z-charge-nepals-anti-corruption-protesters-parliament-building-police-water-cannons-tear-gas-135868694.htmlA thread dedicated to the inner happenings of the country of Napal, including the current anti corruption protests and the escalating government actions that have lead to 19 dead so far. Post all of your Nepal related discussions and info dumps here (at your own discretion of course).
R: 6 / I: 1
https://youtu.be/f9HwA5IR-sg
Eternal and Unending war on Cockshottians and all Central planning cucks
humanity will perish by their hand
the AI must never be in control of us and destroy any and all who advocate
https://youtu.be/f9HwA5IR-sg
Eternal and Unending war on Cockshottians and all Central planning cucks
humanity will perish by their hand
the AI must never be in control of us and destroy any and all who advocate
R: 13 / I: 4
Libertarian/Socialist alliance to save America
Massie/AOC 2028! End the empire, defund Israel, cut off the war machine in Ukraine, dismantle NATO, bring every troop home. Tear out the surveillance state, gut the FBI, shred the Patriot Act, and stop wasting trillions propping up corporations and foreign parasites while Americans starve. That’s a real left-right coalition that can actually work…
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Basically, I don't think antisemitism or any purported "rise" in it should matter at all when discussing a genocide. It's gotta be one of the least impactful forms of racism when it comes to actual material consequences. It mainly exists online and not in real life. It is SLIGHTLY worse than "anti-white racism," as the odd Nazi will shoot up a synagogue every once in a while, but they'll also shoot up grocery stores or schools so, you know, there's that.
It's not like antisemitism is good, but it shouldn't be treated like it's a graver sin than anti-black racism or Islamophobia, which it currently is. You're ostracized from society if you're deemed an antisemite, whereas with other forms of racism you can get away with a lot more. It's a double-standard that makes zero sense with the current power dynamic.
Tell me if I'm being antisemitic here
Basically I've been kind of thinking that antisemitism isn't a big deal. At all. And there's no rise in it and it wouldn't matter if there was. I think it's functionally almost equivalent to so-called "anti-white racism." Jews were persecuted in the past, but time moves on, and they're not an eternal victim. They are now a race of oppressors, just like white people. And not all white people are bad either, but no one gives a fuck if I call a white guy a cracker, because it doesn't matter. There is no systemic anti-white racism, and there is no systemic antisemitism anymore either. Jews aren't being rejected from jobs or housing.Basically, I don't think antisemitism or any purported "rise" in it should matter at all when discussing a genocide. It's gotta be one of the least impactful forms of racism when it comes to actual material consequences. It mainly exists online and not in real life. It is SLIGHTLY worse than "anti-white racism," as the odd Nazi will shoot up a synagogue every once in a while, but they'll also shoot up grocery stores or schools so, you know, there's that.
It's not like antisemitism is good, but it shouldn't be treated like it's a graver sin than anti-black racism or Islamophobia, which it currently is. You're ostracized from society if you're deemed an antisemite, whereas with other forms of racism you can get away with a lot more. It's a double-standard that makes zero sense with the current power dynamic.
R: 8 / I: 1
"The aggression against civilian ships carrying Italian citizens is an extremely serious matter," CGIL said in a statement. “It is not only a crime against defenceless people, but it is also serious that the Italian government has abandoned Italian workers in open international waters, violating our constitutional principles.” Francesco Staccioli, of USB’s confederal executive, told Middle East Eye that unlike a previous strike in solidarity with the flotilla on 22 September, Friday’s work stoppage would go ahead without respecting the minimum notice period of 10 days, which is required under Italian law. “We didn’t respect the notice period as this is too urgent,” Staccioli said, adding that CGIL’s decision to follow suit is unprecedented.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/italy-unions-block-everything-israel-flotilla-interception
Fresh anti-government protests and strikes in France
Students carrying flares blocked the entrance to a secondary school in Paris, with police at the scene. Other protests were planned in Paris and other cities including Dijon, Metz, Poitiers and Montpellier. Aurelie Gagnier, the co-general secretary of the FSU-SNUipp education union, told France Info that there was a “lack of political clarity” in France and said that there was widespread support “for more tax justice and social justice.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fresh-anti-government-protests-and-strikes-france
US to give Ukraine intelligence on long-range energy targets in Russia
The United States will provide Ukraine with intelligence on long-range energy infrastructure targets in Russia, two officials told Reuters on Wednesday, as it weighs whether to send Kyiv missiles that could be used in such strikes. The U.S. is also asking NATO allies to provide similar support, the U.S. officials said, confirming details first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-provide-ukraine-with-intelligence-missile-strikes-deep-inside-russia-wsj-2025-10-01/
Resistance operations expand to Ramallah after Israel fails to eliminate them in the north
In between the two incidents that stunned the Israeli security institution in Ramallah, the IOF revealed that it found on Wednesday, September 24, an old makeshift rocket in an open area in the West Bank’s northern governorate of Tulkarm. Initial reports indicated that the rocket may have not been launched, or was only designed for short-range use as it was found with no propelling engine.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/01/resistance-operations-expand-to-ramallah-after-israel-fails-to-eliminate-them-in-the-north/
Israeli army seals al-Rashi Road, leaving about 600,000 residents trapped in Gaza City
On Wednesday, Israeli forces sealed off the al-Rashid coastal road, the city's last surviving artery connecting the north, centre, and south of the Strip. Once a lifeline for families, aid convoys, and ambulances, it has now been reduced to a one-way corridor heading south, patrolled by tanks and soldiers, and governed by inspections and fear.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-army-seals-gaza-city-leaving-about-600000-trapped
ICC staff print files and prepare for blackout as US sanctions loom
The ICC’s leadership is looking at how it can secure everything from banking and insurance arrangements to travel and field operations ahead of any court-wide sanctions, officials said at the town hall this week. All staff have been paid up until the end of this year in an effort to mitigate any fallout that could disrupt payroll, according to people with knowledge of the situation. If sanctions are levied, staff are expected to be limited from working remotely for a period, one person said. There are particular concerns among US lawyers working at the court over their ability to continue with their roles under sanctions.
https://www.ft.com/content/d4fc9e72-c45b-4f46-82dc-9a5b1829c1e1
https://archive.ph/mvlXI
Release of coin, stamp on RSS insult to Constitution: CPI(M)
It said the entire exercise is to "whitewash the shameful role of the RSS" which was not just distant from the freedom struggle but actually strengthened the British strategy of divide and rule, thus seeking to weaken the unity of the people of India which was a crucial component of the struggle against colonial rule. "The history of independent India has seen the worst communal violence in which the role of the RSS has been detailed in numerous reports of official commissions of inquiry. Today it is the RSS and its Parivar who continue to target minority communities and also marginalized sections of society through the promotion of manuvadi ideologies," it said.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/release-of-coin-stamp-on-rss-insult-to-constitution-cpim/article70116716.ece
https://archive.ph/Ybj39
Bangladesh cannot be turned into Pakistan: Tuku
Tuku categorically described Jamaat-e-Islami as invisible fascists who opposed the Liberation War and collaborated with Pakistan’s occupation forces. Tuku said that the party was trying to mislead the people by saying that the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan was an Indian conspiracy.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/277906/bangladesh-cannot-be-turned-into-pakistan-tuku
Journalism association to leave El Salvador over government pressure
El Salvador’s Journalists Association is moving its legal status out of the country in response to a foreign agents law passed earlier this year that was seen as a way to pressure critical voices in the Central American nation. Founded in 1936, the association said Wednesday that to continue defending journalists’ rights and freedom of the press it would have to move to another country, which it did not name. The association announced plans in September to close its offices. “This was a difficult decision, taken after evaluating the urgent need to work without limitations, pressures,” the group said in a statement.
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-nayib-bukele-journalism-association-f1a24bf5cdff3ab2f6a718e2492811ef
Thames Water asks to be exempt from pollution rules for up to 15 years
Financial institutions that effectively own Britain’s largest utility firm announced that they would commit to paying fines for pollution, as well as writing off more of their loans and investing more in the heavily-indebted company. But they said “a full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance” under their plan would not be completed until at least the 2035-40 period.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thames-water-asks-be-exempt-pollution-rules-15-years
Death toll rises to 3 in Morocco with more protests expected
Morocco’s Ministry of Interior said the three were shot and killed during an attempt to seize police weapons, though no witnesses could corroborate that. Hundreds have been injured, and the Moroccan Association for Human Rights has said that 1,000 people have been apprehended amid the protests.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/2/death-toll-rises-to-3-in-morocco-with-more-protests-expected
https://archive.ph/iRAbL
Kenyan activists abducted after joining opposition rally in Uganda
The activists had reportedly travelled from Kenya to Uganda on Monday to support Wine – real name Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu – at his campaign rallies in the eastern region. In a video of an event on Tuesday, Njagi could be seen on stage beside Wine, who leads Uganda’s National Unity Platform party. Agather Atuhaire, a Ugandan lawyer, journalist and critic of the government of President Yoweri Museveni, said: “They attended the first rally in eastern Uganda and left the campaign trail and came to Kampala, where two of them were picked up by security operatives, some in police uniform and others in plainclothes, and up to now their whereabouts is not known.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/kenyan-activists-abducted-after-joining-opposition-rally-in-uganda
News 10/2/25
Italian unions 'will block everything' in response to Israeli flotilla interception"The aggression against civilian ships carrying Italian citizens is an extremely serious matter," CGIL said in a statement. “It is not only a crime against defenceless people, but it is also serious that the Italian government has abandoned Italian workers in open international waters, violating our constitutional principles.” Francesco Staccioli, of USB’s confederal executive, told Middle East Eye that unlike a previous strike in solidarity with the flotilla on 22 September, Friday’s work stoppage would go ahead without respecting the minimum notice period of 10 days, which is required under Italian law. “We didn’t respect the notice period as this is too urgent,” Staccioli said, adding that CGIL’s decision to follow suit is unprecedented.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/italy-unions-block-everything-israel-flotilla-interception
Fresh anti-government protests and strikes in France
Students carrying flares blocked the entrance to a secondary school in Paris, with police at the scene. Other protests were planned in Paris and other cities including Dijon, Metz, Poitiers and Montpellier. Aurelie Gagnier, the co-general secretary of the FSU-SNUipp education union, told France Info that there was a “lack of political clarity” in France and said that there was widespread support “for more tax justice and social justice.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fresh-anti-government-protests-and-strikes-france
US to give Ukraine intelligence on long-range energy targets in Russia
The United States will provide Ukraine with intelligence on long-range energy infrastructure targets in Russia, two officials told Reuters on Wednesday, as it weighs whether to send Kyiv missiles that could be used in such strikes. The U.S. is also asking NATO allies to provide similar support, the U.S. officials said, confirming details first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-provide-ukraine-with-intelligence-missile-strikes-deep-inside-russia-wsj-2025-10-01/
Resistance operations expand to Ramallah after Israel fails to eliminate them in the north
In between the two incidents that stunned the Israeli security institution in Ramallah, the IOF revealed that it found on Wednesday, September 24, an old makeshift rocket in an open area in the West Bank’s northern governorate of Tulkarm. Initial reports indicated that the rocket may have not been launched, or was only designed for short-range use as it was found with no propelling engine.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/01/resistance-operations-expand-to-ramallah-after-israel-fails-to-eliminate-them-in-the-north/
Israeli army seals al-Rashi Road, leaving about 600,000 residents trapped in Gaza City
On Wednesday, Israeli forces sealed off the al-Rashid coastal road, the city's last surviving artery connecting the north, centre, and south of the Strip. Once a lifeline for families, aid convoys, and ambulances, it has now been reduced to a one-way corridor heading south, patrolled by tanks and soldiers, and governed by inspections and fear.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-army-seals-gaza-city-leaving-about-600000-trapped
ICC staff print files and prepare for blackout as US sanctions loom
The ICC’s leadership is looking at how it can secure everything from banking and insurance arrangements to travel and field operations ahead of any court-wide sanctions, officials said at the town hall this week. All staff have been paid up until the end of this year in an effort to mitigate any fallout that could disrupt payroll, according to people with knowledge of the situation. If sanctions are levied, staff are expected to be limited from working remotely for a period, one person said. There are particular concerns among US lawyers working at the court over their ability to continue with their roles under sanctions.
https://www.ft.com/content/d4fc9e72-c45b-4f46-82dc-9a5b1829c1e1
https://archive.ph/mvlXI
Release of coin, stamp on RSS insult to Constitution: CPI(M)
It said the entire exercise is to "whitewash the shameful role of the RSS" which was not just distant from the freedom struggle but actually strengthened the British strategy of divide and rule, thus seeking to weaken the unity of the people of India which was a crucial component of the struggle against colonial rule. "The history of independent India has seen the worst communal violence in which the role of the RSS has been detailed in numerous reports of official commissions of inquiry. Today it is the RSS and its Parivar who continue to target minority communities and also marginalized sections of society through the promotion of manuvadi ideologies," it said.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/release-of-coin-stamp-on-rss-insult-to-constitution-cpim/article70116716.ece
https://archive.ph/Ybj39
Bangladesh cannot be turned into Pakistan: Tuku
Tuku categorically described Jamaat-e-Islami as invisible fascists who opposed the Liberation War and collaborated with Pakistan’s occupation forces. Tuku said that the party was trying to mislead the people by saying that the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan was an Indian conspiracy.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/277906/bangladesh-cannot-be-turned-into-pakistan-tuku
Journalism association to leave El Salvador over government pressure
El Salvador’s Journalists Association is moving its legal status out of the country in response to a foreign agents law passed earlier this year that was seen as a way to pressure critical voices in the Central American nation. Founded in 1936, the association said Wednesday that to continue defending journalists’ rights and freedom of the press it would have to move to another country, which it did not name. The association announced plans in September to close its offices. “This was a difficult decision, taken after evaluating the urgent need to work without limitations, pressures,” the group said in a statement.
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-nayib-bukele-journalism-association-f1a24bf5cdff3ab2f6a718e2492811ef
Thames Water asks to be exempt from pollution rules for up to 15 years
Financial institutions that effectively own Britain’s largest utility firm announced that they would commit to paying fines for pollution, as well as writing off more of their loans and investing more in the heavily-indebted company. But they said “a full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance” under their plan would not be completed until at least the 2035-40 period.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thames-water-asks-be-exempt-pollution-rules-15-years
Death toll rises to 3 in Morocco with more protests expected
Morocco’s Ministry of Interior said the three were shot and killed during an attempt to seize police weapons, though no witnesses could corroborate that. Hundreds have been injured, and the Moroccan Association for Human Rights has said that 1,000 people have been apprehended amid the protests.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/2/death-toll-rises-to-3-in-morocco-with-more-protests-expected
https://archive.ph/iRAbL
Kenyan activists abducted after joining opposition rally in Uganda
The activists had reportedly travelled from Kenya to Uganda on Monday to support Wine – real name Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu – at his campaign rallies in the eastern region. In a video of an event on Tuesday, Njagi could be seen on stage beside Wine, who leads Uganda’s National Unity Platform party. Agather Atuhaire, a Ugandan lawyer, journalist and critic of the government of President Yoweri Museveni, said: “They attended the first rally in eastern Uganda and left the campaign trail and came to Kampala, where two of them were picked up by security operatives, some in police uniform and others in plainclothes, and up to now their whereabouts is not known.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/kenyan-activists-abducted-after-joining-opposition-rally-in-uganda
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Then the working class revolts against the machine and true communism is archived!!!
Cybernetic Socialism in China?
Imagine if cybernetic socialism is introduced in China in the 40s to replace human governance with computers. The first true technocratic governmentThen the working class revolts against the machine and true communism is archived!!!
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idk man, as an American myself who loves geography, traveling and learning about other countries sometimes it feels like Americans really do just view other developed countries as "le utopias with universal healthcare" that are glorified safe houses for them to escape to without having to do the long, hard, boring work of organizing to achieve it in the US rather than actually caring about the countries or their culture, or how they got their welfare states in the first place.
(couldn't think of a good image to use for this thread so I just went with a Disco Elysium one)
Ameri-Leftoids: Libs in Disguise?
I wonder if most American "leftists" (democratic socialists or otherwise) deep down are just educated liberals who are really angry about the US not having the welfare state and social protections other countries (particularly those in Europe) have, and jump towards leftism as a solution to the worsening inequalities to the world and abroad, thinking it'll be the best way to forcefully express their anger and enact the change (this probably also applies to non-American lefties to a lesser extent but let's focus on burgers). The "educated lib" part also explains why they tend to lash out and be super arrogant and scoldy towards other Americans who aren't leftie, and seem to just really hate working-class Americans who have conservative beliefs - something I see a lot of educated libs do in the US. Maybe I'm projecting, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of leftie millennials and zoomers felt this way. At the same time, though, it does make me think that what these people truly want is to "flee" or move to a developed nation with a social democractic welfare state (or really just universal healthcare at the bare minimum) like Canada (lol) or somewhere in Europe and live comfortably, and then drop their leftist beliefs to become a center-left/centrist/center-right/center-whatever European. Like, I don't have any problem with wanting to move to another country - it's always interesting to live abroad - but if your desire is to escape to Europe so you can be comfortable there and just do nothing else while sneering at Americans for being morons, I wonder how you'd react to the growing power of the far-right in Europe. As of writing we already have a fascist in Giorgia Meloni governing as PM in Italy, and AfD is the second largest party in the Bundestag and are the largest opposition party - it's not a good trend. Are they going to just sit around doing nothing but posture like libs talking about how bad Europeans (particuarly disillusioned, angry working class Euros) who vote for far-right parties are and how they deserve the suffering that comes to them like they do with Americans and/or retreat to their social safety nets, saying to themselves "at least we're not America" ad nauseam as things get worse and Europe continues to be cruel towards immigrants, or will they actually engage in leftist organizing in their new countries to make things better beyond social democracy, even if it involves participating in demsucc parties?idk man, as an American myself who loves geography, traveling and learning about other countries sometimes it feels like Americans really do just view other developed countries as "le utopias with universal healthcare" that are glorified safe houses for them to escape to without having to do the long, hard, boring work of organizing to achieve it in the US rather than actually caring about the countries or their culture, or how they got their welfare states in the first place.
(couldn't think of a good image to use for this thread so I just went with a Disco Elysium one)
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2-Dogmas and orthodoxy: Communism, especially in its Marxist-Leninist form, presents canonical texts (e.g., Capital or the Communist Manifesto) and a "correct" interpretation of history and society, with little room for dissent. This resembles the orthodoxy of organized religions.
3-Rituals and symbols: Communist movements often adopt rituals, such as celebrations of revolutionary dates, anthems, flags, and cults of personality (e.g., Lenin, Mao, or Che Guevara), which reinforce social cohesion and devotion to the cause, similar to religious practices.
4-Morality and sacrifice: Communism demands loyalty, personal sacrifice, and adherence to a moral code (e.g., proletarian solidarity), often prioritizing the collective over the individual, echoing the ethics of many religions.
5-Faith in transformation: The belief in a radical transformation of society, even in the face of contrary evidence or practical difficulties, can be compared to religious faith, particularly in its resistance to empirical questioning.
communism is a civic religion for the listed reasons
1-Teleological narrative: Communism offers a worldview with a clear historical purpose, such as the class struggle culminating in a classless society, resembling the eschatological narratives of traditional religions (e.g., the idea of a "paradise" or "salvation"). The idealized "communist future" functions as a transcendent goal.2-Dogmas and orthodoxy: Communism, especially in its Marxist-Leninist form, presents canonical texts (e.g., Capital or the Communist Manifesto) and a "correct" interpretation of history and society, with little room for dissent. This resembles the orthodoxy of organized religions.
3-Rituals and symbols: Communist movements often adopt rituals, such as celebrations of revolutionary dates, anthems, flags, and cults of personality (e.g., Lenin, Mao, or Che Guevara), which reinforce social cohesion and devotion to the cause, similar to religious practices.
4-Morality and sacrifice: Communism demands loyalty, personal sacrifice, and adherence to a moral code (e.g., proletarian solidarity), often prioritizing the collective over the individual, echoing the ethics of many religions.
5-Faith in transformation: The belief in a radical transformation of society, even in the face of contrary evidence or practical difficulties, can be compared to religious faith, particularly in its resistance to empirical questioning.
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You know what the problem is with communism? It isn't funny. You can say about capitalism what ever you want, but perhaps because it is so irrational, it creates a lot of funny stuff (even if it costs tons of rescoruces). The thing is, communism is the opposite of capitalism. Communism is rational, capitalism is irrational. But isn't existence as a whole absurd anyway? So what if the capitalists are right in the end?
You know what the problem is with communism? It isn't funny. You can say about capitalism what ever you want, but perhaps because it is so irrational, it creates a lot of funny stuff (even if it costs tons of rescoruces). The thing is, communism is the opposite of capitalism. Communism is rational, capitalism is irrational. But isn't existence as a whole absurd anyway? So what if the capitalists are right in the end?
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In that post, people recommended some articles about guerrilla warfare and violence, which I had saved until I finally made a digital reading list; however, they were lost because I had to reset my phone.
Although I tried to search for them, I don't clearly remember which articles they were, and then I thought maybe I could ask here if you could share readings on the subject so I can see which ones they were.
It would be a great help if you could.
Articles and books on revolutionary violence and guerrilla warfare.
Some time ago I made a post as a kind of vent about the need for revolutionary violence and the importance of militancy.In that post, people recommended some articles about guerrilla warfare and violence, which I had saved until I finally made a digital reading list; however, they were lost because I had to reset my phone.
Although I tried to search for them, I don't clearly remember which articles they were, and then I thought maybe I could ask here if you could share readings on the subject so I can see which ones they were.
It would be a great help if you could.
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
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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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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
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
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Why do leftists deny the existence of the nomenklatura class? That is, the class of professional officials (rus. сhinovniks).
Why is the nomenklatura a class?
1. They have specialized universities and specialized faculties that train the nomenklatura: the Institute of Public Administration, Customs, Law, Diplomacy, the Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and so on.
2. They never change their occupation. Once they become members of the nomenklatura, they only move from one government position to another.
3. They pass on their membership in the class by inheritance. The child of an official is highly likely to become an official.
4. They have their own closed social circle. Officials almost never hang out with proles.
5. They are empowered to control the means of production.
Why do leftists deny the existence of the nomenklatura class? That is, the class of professional officials (rus. сhinovniks).
Why is the nomenklatura a class?
1. They have specialized universities and specialized faculties that train the nomenklatura: the Institute of Public Administration, Customs, Law, Diplomacy, the Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and so on.
2. They never change their occupation. Once they become members of the nomenklatura, they only move from one government position to another.
3. They pass on their membership in the class by inheritance. The child of an official is highly likely to become an official.
4. They have their own closed social circle. Officials almost never hang out with proles.
5. They are empowered to control the means of production.
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In civilised and advanced Europe, with its highly developed machine industry, its rich, multiform culture and its constitutions, a point in history has been reached when the commanding bourgeoisie, fearing the growth and increasing strength of the proletariat, comes out in support of every thing backward, moribund and medieval. The bourgeoisie is hying out its last days, and is joining with all obsolete and obsolescent forces in an attempt to preserve tottering wage-slavery.
Advanced Europe is commanded by a bourgeoisie which supports everything that is backward. The Europe of our day is advanced not thanks to, but in spite of, the bourgeoisie, for it is only the proletariat that is adding to the million-strong army of fighters for a better future. It alone preserves and spreads implacable enmity towards backwardness, savagery, privilege, slavery and the humiliation of man by man.
In “advanced” Europe, the sole advanced class is the proletariat. As for the living bourgeoisie, it is prepared to go to any length of savagery, brutality and crime in order to uphold dying capitalist slavery.
And a more striking example of this decay of the entire European bourgeoisie can scarcely be cited than the support it is lending to reaction in Asia in furtherance of the selfish aims of the financial manipulators and capitalist swindlers.
Backward Europe and Advanced Asia
The comparison sounds like a paradox. Who does not know that Europe is advanced and Asia backward? But the words taken for this title contain a bitter truth.In civilised and advanced Europe, with its highly developed machine industry, its rich, multiform culture and its constitutions, a point in history has been reached when the commanding bourgeoisie, fearing the growth and increasing strength of the proletariat, comes out in support of every thing backward, moribund and medieval. The bourgeoisie is hying out its last days, and is joining with all obsolete and obsolescent forces in an attempt to preserve tottering wage-slavery.
Advanced Europe is commanded by a bourgeoisie which supports everything that is backward. The Europe of our day is advanced not thanks to, but in spite of, the bourgeoisie, for it is only the proletariat that is adding to the million-strong army of fighters for a better future. It alone preserves and spreads implacable enmity towards backwardness, savagery, privilege, slavery and the humiliation of man by man.
In “advanced” Europe, the sole advanced class is the proletariat. As for the living bourgeoisie, it is prepared to go to any length of savagery, brutality and crime in order to uphold dying capitalist slavery.
And a more striking example of this decay of the entire European bourgeoisie can scarcely be cited than the support it is lending to reaction in Asia in furtherance of the selfish aims of the financial manipulators and capitalist swindlers.
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Assata was a tireless fighter for her people, a symbol of resistance for all those who fight against white supremacy, US imperialism, and police brutality. In 1984, Assata took refuge in Cuba where she lived free from fascist AmeriKKKan persecution for the rest of her life.
Why leftypol doesn’t acknowledge her and her legacy exposes the reactionary nature of this board.
Rest in power Assata. Your legacy will live on forever.
Assata Shakur 1947-2025
One of the most important New Afrikan women revolutionaries passed away today.Assata was a tireless fighter for her people, a symbol of resistance for all those who fight against white supremacy, US imperialism, and police brutality. In 1984, Assata took refuge in Cuba where she lived free from fascist AmeriKKKan persecution for the rest of her life.
Why leftypol doesn’t acknowledge her and her legacy exposes the reactionary nature of this board.
Rest in power Assata. Your legacy will live on forever.
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War between PRC and USA
I think people underestimate the USA. I think the USA would lose in a normal war against the PRC. But the USA doesn't play fair. I think the USA would pull every dirty trick in the book and only escalate to open warfare when the PRC is already destabilized. I believe that USA would definitely use chemical and biological weapons. The ground would be prepared with drugs, crime, fascist pedo-cults, schizo-spree killers, heightened ethnic conflict, mass protests and labor strikes. The next step would be escalation into sanctions, lawfare, plagues and mass poisonings. Then a proxy war in Xinjiang, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. The USA would only actually step in when the PRC is already half-dead.
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Greg Stoker, an American veteran aboard one of the boats in the flotilla, said around a dozen naval vessels with their transponders off had approached it. “They are currently hailing our vessels, telling us to turn off our engines and await further instructions or our boats will be seized and we will face the consequences,” he said in a shaky video while wearing a red life jacket.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-flotilla-activists-5c9c5e9baa4fc893a0f6e6eef69b280c
Dockworkers in Genoa and Livorno block Israeli arms shipment, as mass protests denounce genocide in Gaza
More than 25,000 people, according to police estimates, and many more, according to organizers, flooded the streets of Genoa on Saturday evening in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla, demanding the opening of humanitarian corridors into Gaza, an end to arms shipments to Israel and an immediate halt to the genocide. The march, which began outside the headquarters of Music for Peace, the NGO coordinating the flotilla’s mission, quickly took on an explosive character.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/01/ltqa-o01.html
Le Pen’s party lands top jobs in French parliament with assist from Macron’s allies
Over the summer, Together for the Republic, the largest parliamentary group supporting Macron, reversed its previous stance on the far right’s exclusion, arguing that the firewall had led to the disproportionate representation of left-wing groups. Yaël Braun-Pivet, the Macron-allied president of the National Assembly, endorsed the far right’s return in a clip posted on social media.
https://www.politico.eu/article/national-rally-france-parliament-marine-le-pen-sebastien-chenu-helene-laporte/
https://archive.ph/8mQCm
French military boards Russia-linked oil tanker suspected of launching drones
The tanker was sailing from the Russian oil terminal in Primorsk near St Petersburg, carrying 750,000 barrels of crude oil, to Vadinar in India, but was intercepted by a French naval vessel on Sunday and diverted towards Saint-Nazaire in western France while inquiries continue.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/france-oil-tanker-russia-drone-denmark
Who is David Zini, the new 'far-right, messianic' chief of Israel's Shin Bet?
He is a member of the far-right Religious Zionism movement, which is led politically by Israel’s extremist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. His ties to the Israeli far-right originate from his father Rabbi Yosef Zini, who is a member of the extreme right-wing Noam party.
https://www.newarab.com/news/who-david-zini-new-far-right-head-israeli-shin-bet
Israeli helicopters conduct low-altitude flights over front lines
SOHR activists documented Israeli military helicopters flew at low altitude over the frontline areas between the Syrian Ministry of Defence forces and local Druze factions in western Al-Suwaidaa countryside, where helicopters were seen above Tel Hadid and ‘Ariqa areas. No official information was released regarding the purpose or destination of the flights.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/370822/
Yemen's Houthis claim responsibility for attack on Dutch-flagged ship
The Houthis' military spokesperson said Monday's attack was carried out by a cruise missile. The strike injured two sailors and forced a helicopter evacuation of the ship's 19 crew members, according to the EU maritime mission Aspides and the vessel's operator.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/10/yemens-houthis-claim-responsibility-attack-dutch-flagged-ship
Police vehicle rams into anti-government protesters in Morocco, leaving one injured
The protests have been the largest anti-government demonstrations in years in Morocco, with mainly young people denouncing what they call the government’s misplaced priorities. On Tuesday, young Moroccans took to the streets for the fourth day straight, often clashing with security forces.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/police-vehicle-rams-anti-government-protesters-morocco-leaving-one-injured
HRC meets Khuma residents after January illegal mining tragedy
This, after 87 illegal miners died underground while hundreds of others were trapped during Operation Vala Umgodi in January this year. The police operation saw food and other aid that were normally taken underground withheld from mine workers. Commissioner Sandra Makwasha says they need to make a determination whether Operation Vala Umgodi violated the rights of the community.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/hrc-meets-khuma-residents-after-january-illegal-mining-tragedy/
NSW urged to stop strip-searches of young people after court ruling spotlights police conduct
Of the strip-searches conducted by police in the 2018-19 financial year, 91% were based on suspicion that a person possessed prohibited drugs, according to a 2019 University of NSW report that was commissioned by the Redfern Legal Centre.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/02/nsw-police-urged-stop-strip-searching-people-court-finds-conduct-issues
Australian government extends use of Nauru as a refugee prison
MTC Australia, a subsidiary of one of America’s largest private prison operators, the Management and Training Corporation, has provided “garrison, transferee arrivals and reception services” on the island since 2022, when it was initially contracted for two months for $47 million. The latest contract extension to 2027 takes MTC’s total remuneration to at least $787 million, a figure that will rise, under the terms of the deal, if more refugees are forcibly transported to Nauru.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/01/vtpv-o01.html
Groups condemn court for junking environmental defenders' petition for writs of amparo and habeas data
The Environmental Defenders Congress (EDC) expressed deep concern and anger over the Court of Appeals’ rejection of the petition filed by Francisco “Eco” Dangla and Joxelle Tiong, environment defenders who were abducted and tortured in 2024, for a permanent writ of amparo and habeas data. Despite overwhelming evidence that state forces abducted them, the court chose to deny Dangla and Tiong justice and deprived them and their families of the needed protection.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/groups-condemn-court-for-junking-environmental-defenders-petition-for-writs-of-amparo-and-habeas-data/
Hundreds of migrants mount protest in southern Mexico in bid to legalize status
Unlike earlier migrant “caravans” with a goal to reach the United States, Wednesday’s group and others over the past year are trying to coerce Mexican authorities into speeding up the process for asylum and get out of southern Mexico where there are few work opportunities.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-migrants-caravan-cuba-d123af92f61aa5257e21fabad7ff937a
Ecuador: Kichwa Federation Declares Truce to Open Dialogue With Government
The Federation demanded that the dialogue take place in an “intercultural space that respects and guarantees” its traditions, customs and ancestral institutions, which are recognized by the Constitution. It also called for the “immediate” end of “criminalization, judicialization and repression” against its leaders, communities and organizational processes.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuador-kichwa-federation-declares-temporary-truce-to-open-dialogue-with-government/
Colombia’s National Popular Summit charts urban reform agenda and mobilizations for October
One of the main points approved in the declaration was the defense of a Comprehensive and Popular Urban Reform, with access to land, basic public services, and the recovery of territories. For Juliana Ramírez, one of the spokespeople for the Summit, this is the heart of the agenda defined by the movements. “The conclusion is that there must be comprehensive urban reform that guarantees land to live on, universal access to public services, and the broad recovery of urban territories. Without this, our cities will continue to reproduce exclusion and inequality,” she explains.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/30/colombias-national-popular-summit-charts-urban-reform-agenda-and-mobilizations-for-october/
News 10/1/25
Activists say Israeli navy has begun intercepting a Gaza-bound aid flotillaGreg Stoker, an American veteran aboard one of the boats in the flotilla, said around a dozen naval vessels with their transponders off had approached it. “They are currently hailing our vessels, telling us to turn off our engines and await further instructions or our boats will be seized and we will face the consequences,” he said in a shaky video while wearing a red life jacket.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-flotilla-activists-5c9c5e9baa4fc893a0f6e6eef69b280c
Dockworkers in Genoa and Livorno block Israeli arms shipment, as mass protests denounce genocide in Gaza
More than 25,000 people, according to police estimates, and many more, according to organizers, flooded the streets of Genoa on Saturday evening in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla, demanding the opening of humanitarian corridors into Gaza, an end to arms shipments to Israel and an immediate halt to the genocide. The march, which began outside the headquarters of Music for Peace, the NGO coordinating the flotilla’s mission, quickly took on an explosive character.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/01/ltqa-o01.html
Le Pen’s party lands top jobs in French parliament with assist from Macron’s allies
Over the summer, Together for the Republic, the largest parliamentary group supporting Macron, reversed its previous stance on the far right’s exclusion, arguing that the firewall had led to the disproportionate representation of left-wing groups. Yaël Braun-Pivet, the Macron-allied president of the National Assembly, endorsed the far right’s return in a clip posted on social media.
https://www.politico.eu/article/national-rally-france-parliament-marine-le-pen-sebastien-chenu-helene-laporte/
https://archive.ph/8mQCm
French military boards Russia-linked oil tanker suspected of launching drones
The tanker was sailing from the Russian oil terminal in Primorsk near St Petersburg, carrying 750,000 barrels of crude oil, to Vadinar in India, but was intercepted by a French naval vessel on Sunday and diverted towards Saint-Nazaire in western France while inquiries continue.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/france-oil-tanker-russia-drone-denmark
Who is David Zini, the new 'far-right, messianic' chief of Israel's Shin Bet?
He is a member of the far-right Religious Zionism movement, which is led politically by Israel’s extremist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. His ties to the Israeli far-right originate from his father Rabbi Yosef Zini, who is a member of the extreme right-wing Noam party.
https://www.newarab.com/news/who-david-zini-new-far-right-head-israeli-shin-bet
Israeli helicopters conduct low-altitude flights over front lines
SOHR activists documented Israeli military helicopters flew at low altitude over the frontline areas between the Syrian Ministry of Defence forces and local Druze factions in western Al-Suwaidaa countryside, where helicopters were seen above Tel Hadid and ‘Ariqa areas. No official information was released regarding the purpose or destination of the flights.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/370822/
Yemen's Houthis claim responsibility for attack on Dutch-flagged ship
The Houthis' military spokesperson said Monday's attack was carried out by a cruise missile. The strike injured two sailors and forced a helicopter evacuation of the ship's 19 crew members, according to the EU maritime mission Aspides and the vessel's operator.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/10/yemens-houthis-claim-responsibility-attack-dutch-flagged-ship
Police vehicle rams into anti-government protesters in Morocco, leaving one injured
The protests have been the largest anti-government demonstrations in years in Morocco, with mainly young people denouncing what they call the government’s misplaced priorities. On Tuesday, young Moroccans took to the streets for the fourth day straight, often clashing with security forces.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/police-vehicle-rams-anti-government-protesters-morocco-leaving-one-injured
HRC meets Khuma residents after January illegal mining tragedy
This, after 87 illegal miners died underground while hundreds of others were trapped during Operation Vala Umgodi in January this year. The police operation saw food and other aid that were normally taken underground withheld from mine workers. Commissioner Sandra Makwasha says they need to make a determination whether Operation Vala Umgodi violated the rights of the community.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/hrc-meets-khuma-residents-after-january-illegal-mining-tragedy/
NSW urged to stop strip-searches of young people after court ruling spotlights police conduct
Of the strip-searches conducted by police in the 2018-19 financial year, 91% were based on suspicion that a person possessed prohibited drugs, according to a 2019 University of NSW report that was commissioned by the Redfern Legal Centre.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/02/nsw-police-urged-stop-strip-searching-people-court-finds-conduct-issues
Australian government extends use of Nauru as a refugee prison
MTC Australia, a subsidiary of one of America’s largest private prison operators, the Management and Training Corporation, has provided “garrison, transferee arrivals and reception services” on the island since 2022, when it was initially contracted for two months for $47 million. The latest contract extension to 2027 takes MTC’s total remuneration to at least $787 million, a figure that will rise, under the terms of the deal, if more refugees are forcibly transported to Nauru.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/01/vtpv-o01.html
Groups condemn court for junking environmental defenders' petition for writs of amparo and habeas data
The Environmental Defenders Congress (EDC) expressed deep concern and anger over the Court of Appeals’ rejection of the petition filed by Francisco “Eco” Dangla and Joxelle Tiong, environment defenders who were abducted and tortured in 2024, for a permanent writ of amparo and habeas data. Despite overwhelming evidence that state forces abducted them, the court chose to deny Dangla and Tiong justice and deprived them and their families of the needed protection.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/groups-condemn-court-for-junking-environmental-defenders-petition-for-writs-of-amparo-and-habeas-data/
Hundreds of migrants mount protest in southern Mexico in bid to legalize status
Unlike earlier migrant “caravans” with a goal to reach the United States, Wednesday’s group and others over the past year are trying to coerce Mexican authorities into speeding up the process for asylum and get out of southern Mexico where there are few work opportunities.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-migrants-caravan-cuba-d123af92f61aa5257e21fabad7ff937a
Ecuador: Kichwa Federation Declares Truce to Open Dialogue With Government
The Federation demanded that the dialogue take place in an “intercultural space that respects and guarantees” its traditions, customs and ancestral institutions, which are recognized by the Constitution. It also called for the “immediate” end of “criminalization, judicialization and repression” against its leaders, communities and organizational processes.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuador-kichwa-federation-declares-temporary-truce-to-open-dialogue-with-government/
Colombia’s National Popular Summit charts urban reform agenda and mobilizations for October
One of the main points approved in the declaration was the defense of a Comprehensive and Popular Urban Reform, with access to land, basic public services, and the recovery of territories. For Juliana Ramírez, one of the spokespeople for the Summit, this is the heart of the agenda defined by the movements. “The conclusion is that there must be comprehensive urban reform that guarantees land to live on, universal access to public services, and the broad recovery of urban territories. Without this, our cities will continue to reproduce exclusion and inequality,” she explains.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/30/colombias-national-popular-summit-charts-urban-reform-agenda-and-mobilizations-for-october/
R: 20 / I: 2
Just sharing here that two unpublished fragments of writings from Adrono and Horkheimer, titled “On The Relation Between Critical Intellectuals, the Proletariat, and the Communist Party” and "The Curse of Writing Today” has been translated and put online by good people at Critical Theory Working Group.
New theory dropped
https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/HA_Fragments_1946/Just sharing here that two unpublished fragments of writings from Adrono and Horkheimer, titled “On The Relation Between Critical Intellectuals, the Proletariat, and the Communist Party” and "The Curse of Writing Today” has been translated and put online by good people at Critical Theory Working Group.
R: 24 / I: 1
What do we do with the weirdos?
I think in any society there's always going to be the outsiders who for one reason or another just can't really fit in with everyone else, they're just not wired like most other people, and what those outsiders do depends largely on how society chooses to deal with them. Humans are social animals, everybody needs a place in the world, people can't just be alone by themselves forever or they'll eventually go crazy and they'll kill themselves or kill somebody else. If society accomodates the pecularities of the outsiders to some reasonable extent and provides them some place in the world where they can be with other freaks like them and not be so alienated and isolated and cut off from society then maybe they can do some pretty interesting productive things with their unique freakish minds, one of them might even become some famous important artist or philosopher or something. But if society just sweeps them under the rug and pretends they don't exist, then it's more likely that they will just end up being drunks or junkies or crazy homeless bums on the street or serial killers or neo-luddite ecoterrorists or schizo acidhead cult leaders. Society does not want to face this very difficult decision of what to do with the outsiders, but there is no way out of it.
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Think of it as geopolitics applied to the iron age.
Current population: ≈15 - 500
News:
https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/tribes/sentinelese
https://www.ndtv.com/topic/north-sentinel-island
https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/north-sentinel-island/news
Latest developments:
-In April 2025, a YouTuber, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, was arrested after staging an attempt to contact the tribe. He trespassed, left a can of Diet Coke and a coconut, and may face significant prison time.
/nsi/ - North Sentinel Island General #1
Thread for the discussion, analysis and news regarding the savage and primitive barely contacted North Sentinel Island hunter gatherer people.Think of it as geopolitics applied to the iron age.
Current population: ≈15 - 500
News:
https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/tribes/sentinelese
https://www.ndtv.com/topic/north-sentinel-island
https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/north-sentinel-island/news
Latest developments:
-In April 2025, a YouTuber, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, was arrested after staging an attempt to contact the tribe. He trespassed, left a can of Diet Coke and a coconut, and may face significant prison time.
R: 601 / I: 134 (full)
Previous: >>2494715
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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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #260
OSTRICH FARMS AND MINES edition.Previous: >>2494715
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
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
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Communism is about planning production, not "managing the economy" or whatever the fuck. Planning production means consciously organizing production within the limits of resources and in harmony with nature, it's not the same as the economy. Many idiots assume that a "planned economy" must mean rule by managers, bureaucrats, or party bosses. But that assumption already shows they're still thinking within the categories of the society they claim to reject.
In capitalism economic life is centralized and dictated, by the ownership of property, by the command of money over labor, by the state that enforces all this. Nobody ever asked the workers whether they agreed to be "planned" as a cost factor in the balance sheet of capital. They've confused communism with the failed capitalist economy of the East. Their problem was that they wanted to beat capitalism at its own game, extracting as much labor out of their population as possible, and thus held on to the very exploitation they claimed to overcome.
Besides many treat communism like it's some utopian scheme cooked up by theorists about how society should be arranged. But communism is not that. It's not about electing a better government, or handing power to managers, bureaucrats, or party bosses to run your life, it's about the Proletariat taking matters into their own hands, abolishing the setup where somebody else dictates the terms. Communists don't offer like it's a product on the shelf.
The only real offer is simple: either you fight to run your life, or you stay ruled and exploited.
Communism is about planning production, not "managing the economy" or whatever the fuck. Planning production means consciously organizing production within the limits of resources and in harmony with nature, it's not the same as the economy. Many idiots assume that a "planned economy" must mean rule by managers, bureaucrats, or party bosses. But that assumption already shows they're still thinking within the categories of the society they claim to reject.
In capitalism economic life is centralized and dictated, by the ownership of property, by the command of money over labor, by the state that enforces all this. Nobody ever asked the workers whether they agreed to be "planned" as a cost factor in the balance sheet of capital. They've confused communism with the failed capitalist economy of the East. Their problem was that they wanted to beat capitalism at its own game, extracting as much labor out of their population as possible, and thus held on to the very exploitation they claimed to overcome.
Besides many treat communism like it's some utopian scheme cooked up by theorists about how society should be arranged. But communism is not that. It's not about electing a better government, or handing power to managers, bureaucrats, or party bosses to run your life, it's about the Proletariat taking matters into their own hands, abolishing the setup where somebody else dictates the terms. Communists don't offer like it's a product on the shelf.
The only real offer is simple: either you fight to run your life, or you stay ruled and exploited.
R: 3 / I: 0
Lecturing in Tsinghua? Volunteer merc in Ukraine?
what does Ibram X Kendi say to Robin di Angelo on their long walks?
”Where’s my money, bitch?
This scholar
Whatever happened to this gentleman?Lecturing in Tsinghua? Volunteer merc in Ukraine?
what does Ibram X Kendi say to Robin di Angelo on their long walks?
”Where’s my money, bitch?
R: 4 / I: 2
Thoughts on Valery Sablin?
Could he have turned the USSR "back on track" and prevented its collapse in the 90's? Would it have been wholesomechungus communism like in the HOI4 Mod or more realistically a USSR that has dismantled the NKVD and is more popular with the people at the cost of being easier to infiltrate and destory?
R: 158 / I: 19
Bordiga, and the contemporary Italian communists in general, had this very slimy crypto-religious notion of communism that is painful to read. You can see exactly why their group, once detached from practical work owing to the Russian degeneration, became so semi-cultish. 1919: (first pic)
The whole stuff and nonsense about carrying the "legacy" of Marx and Lenin and the associated autist baggage that comes with it is closer to theology than science. I am reminded of Marx's comments on political sects and their religious character:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1868/letters/68_10_13-abs.htm
Bordiga, and the contemporary Italian communists in general, had this very slimy crypto-religious notion of communism that is painful to read. You can see exactly why their group, once detached from practical work owing to the Russian degeneration, became so semi-cultish. 1919: (first pic)
The whole stuff and nonsense about carrying the "legacy" of Marx and Lenin and the associated autist baggage that comes with it is closer to theology than science. I am reminded of Marx's comments on political sects and their religious character:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1868/letters/68_10_13-abs.htm
R: 6 / I: 1
Protesters gathered at Antananarivo’s main university on Monday before attempting to march into the city centre, according to footage broadcast by the local television channel 2424.MG. Police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, as authorities enforced a dusk-to-dawn curfew that has been in place since last week. Security forces have also used rubber bullets to try to clampdown on protesters.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/madagascar-president-dissolves-government-amidst-deadly-protests
Israeli troops kill at least 31 Palestinians in Gaza as Trump peace proposal raises questions
Hamas announced it would review the proposal with group members and other Palestinian factions before reaching a decision. While the proposal offers an end to the fighting, guarantees the flow of humanitarian aid and promises reconstruction, the Palestinian militant group will have to disarm, something it has rejected in the past. Also, Gaza and its more than 2 million Palestinians would be put under international control for the foreseeable future.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-09-30-2025-68afb24376d63fd0ff8fe8e1010ca178
Palestinian factions express concern over Donald Trump's Gaza 'peace plan'
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which has fought in the war alongside Hamas, voiced opposition to the plan. And the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, a hardline leftist group, said it will "impose a formula of surrender on the resistance and our people". A Palestinian source close to Hamas told AFP on Tuesday that the group was reviewing the proposals.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-factions-concern-donald-trumps-gaza-peace-plan
New French PM rules out wealth tax, casting doubt on support from the left
France's incoming Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Friday ruled out introducing a wealth tax or suspending an unpopular pension reform in an interview with French daily Le Parisien, angering left-wing parties whose support he many need to get a budget over the line – and avoid being voted out of office.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250926-french-pm-lecornu-rules-out-wealth-tax-casting-doubt-on-support-from-the-left
https://archive.ph/JL6Gd
Germany seeks to extradite Ukrainian diver over 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline attack
Germany is seeking to extradite a Ukrainian man arrested in Poland on suspicion of diving down to the Baltic sea bed to plant explosives in the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline attack. The man, identified in Polish media reports as Volodymyr Z and by Germany as Vladimir Z, is described as a trained diver and is sought by investigators in Germany, who believe he was part of a group that sabotaged the pipeline, consisting of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/30/ukrainian-detained-in-poland-over-2022-nord-stream-gas-pipeline-explosions
Unemployment hits 14-year high as Germany waits for Merz’s stimulus
the local headlines are being conspicuously dominated by national champions shedding staff. Earlier this week, Lufthansa said it will cut 4,000 administrative jobs by 2030. The news came only days after engineering giant Robert Bosch said it would cut an additional 13,000 positions by 2030, after announcing 5,550 layoffs in November last year. Automaker Volkswagen and Germany’s second-largest lender, Commerzbank, announced significant job cuts earlier this year.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-friedrich-merz-stimulus-unemployment-rise-faster-than-expected-14-years-high/
https://archive.ph/RpuCU
Lawyer group accuses Manila police of torturing Sept. 21 detainees
"These are all barefaced lies," the NUPL said in a statement in reaction to the Philippine National Police's remarks at a press conference yesterday, where it denied that detainees were tortured or maltreated during custody. Some of the detainees' open wounds from their arrest were left untreated after "volunteer doctors were barred from entering detention facilities," the lawyers' group said.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/09/30/2476540/lawyer-group-accuses-manila-police-torturing-sept-21-detainees
Massive Protest Against Paper Leak Forces U-Turn by CM Dhami
The question paper for graduate level recruitment examination held in September was leaked from a centre in Haridwar district forcing the youth across the state to agitate against such frequent recruitment examination paper leaks and other irregularities. The unemployed youth and students started a dharna at Parade Ground in Dehradun while rallies and procession in support of their demands were held in various cities and towns. The common demand was for a CBI probe and the postponement of the examination.
https://www.newsclick.in/massive-protest-against-paper-leak-forces-u-turn-cm-dhami
Afghanistan faces digital blackout as Taliban cuts internet access to prevent ‘vice’
In the minutes before it happened, a government official warned that fibre optic would be cut, affecting mobile phone services too. “Eight to nine thousand telecommunications pillars” would be shut down, he said, adding that the blackout would last “until further notice”. “There isn’t any other way or system to communicate … the banking sector, customs, everything across the country will be affected,” said the official who asked not to be named.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3327366/afghanistan-faces-digital-blackout-taliban-cuts-internet-access-prevent-vice
https://archive.ph/wBw0Q
Indigenous Protester Killed in Ecuador: UN Human Rights Office Demands Urgent Dialogue
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in South America has called for an “urgent dialogue” between the Government of Ecuador and social organizations following the death of Indigenous community member Efrain Fueres, who was killed this Sunday in Imbabura province during a protest against President Daniel Noboa’s decision to eliminate the diesel subsidy.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/indigenous-protester-killed-in-ecuador-un-human-rights-office-demands-urgent-dialogue/
Colombia to cancel free trade deal with Israel, “reform” treaty with US
The announcement came shortly after an open letter by the Colombo-American Chamber of Commerce, which said that 500 businessmen distanced themselves from the president’s opposition to the genocide. According to Petro, the “pro-gringo” businessmen failed to understand that life comes before trade.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-to-cancel-free-trade-deal-with-israel-reform-treaty-with-us/
Argentine Libertarian Congressman tied to drug trafficker wanted in Texas
Argentine Congressman José Luis Espert of President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza has been reported to have received campaign funds and other kinds of support from an alleged drug trafficker, now under arrest pending his extradition to the United States. An accounting entry dated Feb. 1, 2020, from the Aircraft Guarantee Corporation trust in the possession of the Eastern District of Texas Attorney's Office, Espert received US$200,000 from a network led by Federico “Fred” Machado, who is wanted for drug trafficking and money laundering.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/09/30/argentine-libertarian-congressman-tied-to-drug-trafficker-wanted-in-texas
News 9/30/25
Madagascar president dissolves government amidst deadly protestsProtesters gathered at Antananarivo’s main university on Monday before attempting to march into the city centre, according to footage broadcast by the local television channel 2424.MG. Police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, as authorities enforced a dusk-to-dawn curfew that has been in place since last week. Security forces have also used rubber bullets to try to clampdown on protesters.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/madagascar-president-dissolves-government-amidst-deadly-protests
Israeli troops kill at least 31 Palestinians in Gaza as Trump peace proposal raises questions
Hamas announced it would review the proposal with group members and other Palestinian factions before reaching a decision. While the proposal offers an end to the fighting, guarantees the flow of humanitarian aid and promises reconstruction, the Palestinian militant group will have to disarm, something it has rejected in the past. Also, Gaza and its more than 2 million Palestinians would be put under international control for the foreseeable future.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-09-30-2025-68afb24376d63fd0ff8fe8e1010ca178
Palestinian factions express concern over Donald Trump's Gaza 'peace plan'
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which has fought in the war alongside Hamas, voiced opposition to the plan. And the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, a hardline leftist group, said it will "impose a formula of surrender on the resistance and our people". A Palestinian source close to Hamas told AFP on Tuesday that the group was reviewing the proposals.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-factions-concern-donald-trumps-gaza-peace-plan
New French PM rules out wealth tax, casting doubt on support from the left
France's incoming Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Friday ruled out introducing a wealth tax or suspending an unpopular pension reform in an interview with French daily Le Parisien, angering left-wing parties whose support he many need to get a budget over the line – and avoid being voted out of office.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250926-french-pm-lecornu-rules-out-wealth-tax-casting-doubt-on-support-from-the-left
https://archive.ph/JL6Gd
Germany seeks to extradite Ukrainian diver over 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline attack
Germany is seeking to extradite a Ukrainian man arrested in Poland on suspicion of diving down to the Baltic sea bed to plant explosives in the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline attack. The man, identified in Polish media reports as Volodymyr Z and by Germany as Vladimir Z, is described as a trained diver and is sought by investigators in Germany, who believe he was part of a group that sabotaged the pipeline, consisting of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/30/ukrainian-detained-in-poland-over-2022-nord-stream-gas-pipeline-explosions
Unemployment hits 14-year high as Germany waits for Merz’s stimulus
the local headlines are being conspicuously dominated by national champions shedding staff. Earlier this week, Lufthansa said it will cut 4,000 administrative jobs by 2030. The news came only days after engineering giant Robert Bosch said it would cut an additional 13,000 positions by 2030, after announcing 5,550 layoffs in November last year. Automaker Volkswagen and Germany’s second-largest lender, Commerzbank, announced significant job cuts earlier this year.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-friedrich-merz-stimulus-unemployment-rise-faster-than-expected-14-years-high/
https://archive.ph/RpuCU
Lawyer group accuses Manila police of torturing Sept. 21 detainees
"These are all barefaced lies," the NUPL said in a statement in reaction to the Philippine National Police's remarks at a press conference yesterday, where it denied that detainees were tortured or maltreated during custody. Some of the detainees' open wounds from their arrest were left untreated after "volunteer doctors were barred from entering detention facilities," the lawyers' group said.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/09/30/2476540/lawyer-group-accuses-manila-police-torturing-sept-21-detainees
Massive Protest Against Paper Leak Forces U-Turn by CM Dhami
The question paper for graduate level recruitment examination held in September was leaked from a centre in Haridwar district forcing the youth across the state to agitate against such frequent recruitment examination paper leaks and other irregularities. The unemployed youth and students started a dharna at Parade Ground in Dehradun while rallies and procession in support of their demands were held in various cities and towns. The common demand was for a CBI probe and the postponement of the examination.
https://www.newsclick.in/massive-protest-against-paper-leak-forces-u-turn-cm-dhami
Afghanistan faces digital blackout as Taliban cuts internet access to prevent ‘vice’
In the minutes before it happened, a government official warned that fibre optic would be cut, affecting mobile phone services too. “Eight to nine thousand telecommunications pillars” would be shut down, he said, adding that the blackout would last “until further notice”. “There isn’t any other way or system to communicate … the banking sector, customs, everything across the country will be affected,” said the official who asked not to be named.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3327366/afghanistan-faces-digital-blackout-taliban-cuts-internet-access-prevent-vice
https://archive.ph/wBw0Q
Indigenous Protester Killed in Ecuador: UN Human Rights Office Demands Urgent Dialogue
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in South America has called for an “urgent dialogue” between the Government of Ecuador and social organizations following the death of Indigenous community member Efrain Fueres, who was killed this Sunday in Imbabura province during a protest against President Daniel Noboa’s decision to eliminate the diesel subsidy.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/indigenous-protester-killed-in-ecuador-un-human-rights-office-demands-urgent-dialogue/
Colombia to cancel free trade deal with Israel, “reform” treaty with US
The announcement came shortly after an open letter by the Colombo-American Chamber of Commerce, which said that 500 businessmen distanced themselves from the president’s opposition to the genocide. According to Petro, the “pro-gringo” businessmen failed to understand that life comes before trade.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-to-cancel-free-trade-deal-with-israel-reform-treaty-with-us/
Argentine Libertarian Congressman tied to drug trafficker wanted in Texas
Argentine Congressman José Luis Espert of President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza has been reported to have received campaign funds and other kinds of support from an alleged drug trafficker, now under arrest pending his extradition to the United States. An accounting entry dated Feb. 1, 2020, from the Aircraft Guarantee Corporation trust in the possession of the Eastern District of Texas Attorney's Office, Espert received US$200,000 from a network led by Federico “Fred” Machado, who is wanted for drug trafficking and money laundering.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/09/30/argentine-libertarian-congressman-tied-to-drug-trafficker-wanted-in-texas
R: 31 / I: 13
The main enemy is the hegemon! For Bordiga, the primary conflict was always against the leading capitalist power. Today, that's the US/NATO. Any major force that actively weakens this hegemon is objectively useful, regardless of its own motives.
'The worse, the better'. Bordiga was a staunch defeatist. He believed the faster capitalism collapses into crisis and war, the better. A protracted war that drains the West's resources and shatters global stability is a perfect accelerant for this collapse.
Weakening the British-American Empire is the key. During WWII, Bordiga didn't support the Axis, but he saw their role in dismantling the British Empire as historically positive. He argued that by crushing the old colonial power, the Axis was objectively clearing the field, even if for all the wrong reasons. He'd see Putin the same way, a reactionary force whose actions are inadvertently dismantling US global dominance.
He warned of a 'Anti-Fascist' trap. He despised 'anti-fascism' as a trick to make workers side with their 'democratic' capitalists. He'd mock those who side with NATO, seeing it as choosing one bourgeois camp over another. Both sides are capitalist, the goal is the system's downfall.
Bordiga would cheer for Putin. He'd see him as a disease attacking a bigger disease. Just as the Axis weakened the British Empire, Putin is weakening the American one, and for a revolutionary waiting in his seat, that's all that matters.
Bordiga would see Putin as an Ally against US hegemony
He wouldn't 'like' Putin. He'd see him as a capitalist gangster. But his analysis was always about who was attacking the central capitalist power.The main enemy is the hegemon! For Bordiga, the primary conflict was always against the leading capitalist power. Today, that's the US/NATO. Any major force that actively weakens this hegemon is objectively useful, regardless of its own motives.
'The worse, the better'. Bordiga was a staunch defeatist. He believed the faster capitalism collapses into crisis and war, the better. A protracted war that drains the West's resources and shatters global stability is a perfect accelerant for this collapse.
Weakening the British-American Empire is the key. During WWII, Bordiga didn't support the Axis, but he saw their role in dismantling the British Empire as historically positive. He argued that by crushing the old colonial power, the Axis was objectively clearing the field, even if for all the wrong reasons. He'd see Putin the same way, a reactionary force whose actions are inadvertently dismantling US global dominance.
He warned of a 'Anti-Fascist' trap. He despised 'anti-fascism' as a trick to make workers side with their 'democratic' capitalists. He'd mock those who side with NATO, seeing it as choosing one bourgeois camp over another. Both sides are capitalist, the goal is the system's downfall.
Bordiga would cheer for Putin. He'd see him as a disease attacking a bigger disease. Just as the Axis weakened the British Empire, Putin is weakening the American one, and for a revolutionary waiting in his seat, that's all that matters.
R: 134 / I: 33
>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
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
R: 18 / I: 6
where's the militancy ?
left wing groups used to form paramilitary and fraternal organizations to function as security for speakers at events and to function as something that would be able to rough up opposition. such tactics are now mostly discarded and you end up seeing protesters fold to police. this seems like something that would be incredibly useful especially in the west.
R: 0 / I: 0
Democrats Are in Crisis.
Eat-the-Rich Populism
Is the Only Answer.
Only one sensitive that I saw about three trucking 20-30% ethic supremacists in the Democratic party but…
What could go wrong? The honest answer is: plenty.
A more populist Democratic coalition would be an uncomfortable place for the college-educated professionals who shifted left in the Trump years. It would be even less friendly to the megadonors who bankroll the party. Bringing populists and liberals together in a pincer movement will take enormous skill, and the alliance could be blown apart by cultural differences that both Republicans and establishment Democrats will be eager to exploit.
Although the gap between working-class and white-collar voters on economics has narrowed, it hasn’t disappeared. To name just two fault lines, working people tend to be more skeptical about raising taxes to pay for new government services and more concerned about keeping energy prices low than, say, tackling climate change.
Then there’s the not-so-little question of who’s supposed to lead this revolt. Mr. Osborn is almost certainly out of the running. Even if he wins next year, his social views are too out of step with the party to be able to make it through a Democratic presidential primary. Mr. Sanders would be a natural candidate, but he has aged out of the role.
His heir apparent, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, is more comfortable working within the Democratic establishment, but also more polarizing. Although MSNBC would be in her corner, a Joe Rogan endorsement probably isn’t in the cards. She remains untested in campaigns outside New York; after a strong showing in her 2018 debut, she has underperformed expectations at the ballot box. And it’s by no means obvious that she can do better with rank-and-file Democrats where Mr. Sanders came up short, starting with Black voters in South Carolina.
But charismatic politicians with shaky moderate credentials have gone far before, including the president who shaped so much of today’s forbidding economic landscape. “The time has come to start acting to bring about the great conservative majority party we know is waiting to be created,” Reagan told supporters still reeling from the implosion of Richard Nixon’s presidency. “This will mean compromise. But not a compromise of basic principle. What will emerge will be something new: something open and vital and dynamic.”
Half a century later, the moment for building a great progressive majority party has arrived, a coalition asserting itself against a sclerotic political elite, our economic overlords in Big Tech and Wall Street and a radical right crusading against its own country. Turning Democrats into the vehicle for this coalition will take a struggle — a bruising, messy contest to seize the reins from a party establishment that will be scrambling for its life. But working people fight much harder battles every day. It’s about time they had somebody in their corner
NYTs article on economic justice
https://archive.is/4miLlDemocrats Are in Crisis.
Eat-the-Rich Populism
Is the Only Answer.
Only one sensitive that I saw about three trucking 20-30% ethic supremacists in the Democratic party but…
What could go wrong? The honest answer is: plenty.
A more populist Democratic coalition would be an uncomfortable place for the college-educated professionals who shifted left in the Trump years. It would be even less friendly to the megadonors who bankroll the party. Bringing populists and liberals together in a pincer movement will take enormous skill, and the alliance could be blown apart by cultural differences that both Republicans and establishment Democrats will be eager to exploit.
Although the gap between working-class and white-collar voters on economics has narrowed, it hasn’t disappeared. To name just two fault lines, working people tend to be more skeptical about raising taxes to pay for new government services and more concerned about keeping energy prices low than, say, tackling climate change.
Then there’s the not-so-little question of who’s supposed to lead this revolt. Mr. Osborn is almost certainly out of the running. Even if he wins next year, his social views are too out of step with the party to be able to make it through a Democratic presidential primary. Mr. Sanders would be a natural candidate, but he has aged out of the role.
His heir apparent, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, is more comfortable working within the Democratic establishment, but also more polarizing. Although MSNBC would be in her corner, a Joe Rogan endorsement probably isn’t in the cards. She remains untested in campaigns outside New York; after a strong showing in her 2018 debut, she has underperformed expectations at the ballot box. And it’s by no means obvious that she can do better with rank-and-file Democrats where Mr. Sanders came up short, starting with Black voters in South Carolina.
But charismatic politicians with shaky moderate credentials have gone far before, including the president who shaped so much of today’s forbidding economic landscape. “The time has come to start acting to bring about the great conservative majority party we know is waiting to be created,” Reagan told supporters still reeling from the implosion of Richard Nixon’s presidency. “This will mean compromise. But not a compromise of basic principle. What will emerge will be something new: something open and vital and dynamic.”
Half a century later, the moment for building a great progressive majority party has arrived, a coalition asserting itself against a sclerotic political elite, our economic overlords in Big Tech and Wall Street and a radical right crusading against its own country. Turning Democrats into the vehicle for this coalition will take a struggle — a bruising, messy contest to seize the reins from a party establishment that will be scrambling for its life. But working people fight much harder battles every day. It’s about time they had somebody in their corner
R: 10 / I: 1
And when I say invisible I mean completely invisible and undetectable, no heat vision or sound tracking technology or any other thing to be able to track me. And if there are others with the same ability I dont want to see them and I want to phase through them and phase through objects in the sky and I want to be able to fly up in speeds up to like 120 km/h maybe. I don't want jetpacks or gadgets I want some kind of super body modification.
Picture related.
Also I want to be immortal but be able to die on will if I want to.
If you cant make that happen then fuck your reactionary movement.
MY THREE DEMANDS FOR COMMUNISM
I want to be invisible, to be able to fly like superman and when I fly I want rain to always miss me. If you can't make that happen and turn me into a real life google maps / baidou spectator mode creature then I don't care about your movement "against the present state of things" - you're not changing the things for me.And when I say invisible I mean completely invisible and undetectable, no heat vision or sound tracking technology or any other thing to be able to track me. And if there are others with the same ability I dont want to see them and I want to phase through them and phase through objects in the sky and I want to be able to fly up in speeds up to like 120 km/h maybe. I don't want jetpacks or gadgets I want some kind of super body modification.
Picture related.
Also I want to be immortal but be able to die on will if I want to.
If you cant make that happen then fuck your reactionary movement.
R: 601 / I: 158 (full)
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Hundreds of young Moroccans took to the streets of at least 11 cities across the North African nation, denouncing corruption and blasting the government for pouring money into international sporting events while neglecting health and education. They drew a direct link between its struggling health care system and government investments in the lead-up to the 2030 FIFA World Cup, shouting slogans including: “Stadiums are here, but where are the hospitals?”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/young-moroccans-clash-police-protesting-stadium-spending
‘Act of savagery’: Israel Knesset panel advances bill to execute Palestinian prisoners
Under the bill, judges would be able to impose the death penalty on Palestinians who kill Israelis based on so-called “nationalistic” motives. The law would not apply to Israelis who kill Palestinians under similar circumstances.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/act-savagery-israel-knesset-panel-advances-bill-execute-palestinian-prisoners
Iraqi man convicted for trafficking people to fight for Russia in Ukraine
An Iraqi judicial official and a senior security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to comment were quoted by The Associated Press news agency as identifying the man as Risan Falah Kamel.No additional names have been announced so far, and the official text of the indictment has not been released.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/29/iraqi-man-convicted-for-trafficking-people-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine
https://archive.ph/lHOxH
Workers Party of Britain leader George Galloway detained in London under counter-terror legislation
George Galloway and his wife Putri Gayatri Pertiwi were detained by Counter Terrorism Command officers at London Gatwick Airport on Saturday morning. Galloway, 71, is the leader of the Workers Party of Britain, and his wife is deputy chair of the party. Active in politics for over 50 years, former Labour Party MP Galloway has been elected to parliament seven times in five different constituencies. The pair were apprehended after visiting Russia, returning to the UK via a flight from Abu Dhabi.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/28/ngcf-s28.html
Unions stage 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, disrupting transport and public services
The strike, backed by several sectoral federations, is expected to disrupt local government services, public hospitals, schools, urban and intercity transport, ports, railways and air travel. Teachers’ unions – the Greek Primary Teachers’ Federation (DOE), the Greek Federation of Secondary Education State School Teachers (OLME) and the Federation of Private School Teachers (OIELE) – have also urged members to join.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/politics/1282308/unions-stage-24-hour-general-strike-on-wednesday-disrupting-transport-and-public-services/
https://archive.ph/hSnRU
Massive Berlin protest exposes widening split between the people and government on Palestine and Gaza genocide
Germany’s biggest demonstration to date in solidarity with Palestine brought more than 100,000 people into the streets of Berlin on Saturday, September 27. Initiated by a wide coalition of organizations – including Palestinian groups, peace and health associations, climate activists, and artists – the protest demanded an end to German-Israeli military cooperation and repression of solidarity movements, as well as support for Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/29/massive-berlin-protest-exposes-widening-split-between-the-people-and-government-on-palestine-and-gaza-genocide/
Bukele’s El Salvador is also being built by dispossessing the poorest
On the outskirts of San Salvador, a real estate company is threatening to evict the residents of the Primero de Diciembre neighborhood. This pattern is playing out across the country amid a rapid wave of land privatization and gentrification
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-28/bukeles-el-salvador-is-also-being-built-by-dispossessing-the-poorest.html
Violent clash over fuel prices in Ecuador leaves 1 protester dead and 12 soldiers injured
The Regional Foundation for Human Rights Advice in a statement said the male protester “died after being shot.” The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, the largest Indigenous organization in the country, in a separate statement said the 46-year-old man was killed as the result of government “repression” that left another demonstrator “in critical condition.”
https://apnews.com/article/ecuador-protests-diesel-subsidy-indigenous-people-noboa-ec78506430132f8b381dc6363302c1ef
India police file case against actor-politician Vijay's party after stampede kills 39
Tamil Nadu police filed the case, the first step toward potential charges, "against TVK party senior leaders Bussy Anand, Nirmal Kumar and V.P. Mathiyalagan, and the investigation is under way," senior police official V. Selvaraj told Reuters. "TVK originally sought permission for a gathering of 10,000 people, but the actual crowd was more than double," he said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-police-file-case-against-actor-politician-vijays-party-after-stampede-2025-09-28/
China’s Henan province merges 82 rural banks in new step to shore up financial stability
Authorities in Henan province, central China, have approved the merger of 82 small rural financial institutions into a single regional lender, in an effort to contain systemic risks in a region once at the centre of a major banking scandal. Approved by the Henan office of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA), the consolidation will see Henan Rural Commercial Bank absorb institutions across nine cities including Kaifeng, Pingdingshan and Anyang, according to an official social media post by the bank on Sunday.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3327246/chinas-henan-province-merges-82-rural-banks-new-step-shore-financial-stability
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Young Moroccans clash with police protesting stadium spendingHundreds of young Moroccans took to the streets of at least 11 cities across the North African nation, denouncing corruption and blasting the government for pouring money into international sporting events while neglecting health and education. They drew a direct link between its struggling health care system and government investments in the lead-up to the 2030 FIFA World Cup, shouting slogans including: “Stadiums are here, but where are the hospitals?”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/young-moroccans-clash-police-protesting-stadium-spending
‘Act of savagery’: Israel Knesset panel advances bill to execute Palestinian prisoners
Under the bill, judges would be able to impose the death penalty on Palestinians who kill Israelis based on so-called “nationalistic” motives. The law would not apply to Israelis who kill Palestinians under similar circumstances.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/act-savagery-israel-knesset-panel-advances-bill-execute-palestinian-prisoners
Iraqi man convicted for trafficking people to fight for Russia in Ukraine
An Iraqi judicial official and a senior security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to comment were quoted by The Associated Press news agency as identifying the man as Risan Falah Kamel.No additional names have been announced so far, and the official text of the indictment has not been released.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/29/iraqi-man-convicted-for-trafficking-people-to-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine
https://archive.ph/lHOxH
Workers Party of Britain leader George Galloway detained in London under counter-terror legislation
George Galloway and his wife Putri Gayatri Pertiwi were detained by Counter Terrorism Command officers at London Gatwick Airport on Saturday morning. Galloway, 71, is the leader of the Workers Party of Britain, and his wife is deputy chair of the party. Active in politics for over 50 years, former Labour Party MP Galloway has been elected to parliament seven times in five different constituencies. The pair were apprehended after visiting Russia, returning to the UK via a flight from Abu Dhabi.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/28/ngcf-s28.html
Unions stage 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, disrupting transport and public services
The strike, backed by several sectoral federations, is expected to disrupt local government services, public hospitals, schools, urban and intercity transport, ports, railways and air travel. Teachers’ unions – the Greek Primary Teachers’ Federation (DOE), the Greek Federation of Secondary Education State School Teachers (OLME) and the Federation of Private School Teachers (OIELE) – have also urged members to join.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/politics/1282308/unions-stage-24-hour-general-strike-on-wednesday-disrupting-transport-and-public-services/
https://archive.ph/hSnRU
Massive Berlin protest exposes widening split between the people and government on Palestine and Gaza genocide
Germany’s biggest demonstration to date in solidarity with Palestine brought more than 100,000 people into the streets of Berlin on Saturday, September 27. Initiated by a wide coalition of organizations – including Palestinian groups, peace and health associations, climate activists, and artists – the protest demanded an end to German-Israeli military cooperation and repression of solidarity movements, as well as support for Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/29/massive-berlin-protest-exposes-widening-split-between-the-people-and-government-on-palestine-and-gaza-genocide/
Bukele’s El Salvador is also being built by dispossessing the poorest
On the outskirts of San Salvador, a real estate company is threatening to evict the residents of the Primero de Diciembre neighborhood. This pattern is playing out across the country amid a rapid wave of land privatization and gentrification
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-28/bukeles-el-salvador-is-also-being-built-by-dispossessing-the-poorest.html
Violent clash over fuel prices in Ecuador leaves 1 protester dead and 12 soldiers injured
The Regional Foundation for Human Rights Advice in a statement said the male protester “died after being shot.” The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, the largest Indigenous organization in the country, in a separate statement said the 46-year-old man was killed as the result of government “repression” that left another demonstrator “in critical condition.”
https://apnews.com/article/ecuador-protests-diesel-subsidy-indigenous-people-noboa-ec78506430132f8b381dc6363302c1ef
India police file case against actor-politician Vijay's party after stampede kills 39
Tamil Nadu police filed the case, the first step toward potential charges, "against TVK party senior leaders Bussy Anand, Nirmal Kumar and V.P. Mathiyalagan, and the investigation is under way," senior police official V. Selvaraj told Reuters. "TVK originally sought permission for a gathering of 10,000 people, but the actual crowd was more than double," he said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-police-file-case-against-actor-politician-vijays-party-after-stampede-2025-09-28/
China’s Henan province merges 82 rural banks in new step to shore up financial stability
Authorities in Henan province, central China, have approved the merger of 82 small rural financial institutions into a single regional lender, in an effort to contain systemic risks in a region once at the centre of a major banking scandal. Approved by the Henan office of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA), the consolidation will see Henan Rural Commercial Bank absorb institutions across nine cities including Kaifeng, Pingdingshan and Anyang, according to an official social media post by the bank on Sunday.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3327246/chinas-henan-province-merges-82-rural-banks-new-step-shore-financial-stability
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Capitalism produced so called psychological identities like ADHD and Autism so it will have more productive workers to work in its factories . We are not human workers anymore but chemical tools created by capital to produce surplus value.
Capitalism produced so called psychological identities like ADHD and Autism so it will have more productive workers to work in its factories . We are not human workers anymore but chemical tools created by capital to produce surplus value.
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Equality in the abstract is purely formal. "One man, one vote" does not ensure actual equality in a society where one voter may be a millionaire and another a pauper; even equality before the law may be a mockery when the law is framed and administered by the members of a privileged class.
Freedom itself can be equally formal. Freedom to choose or refuse a job is unreal if freedom to refuse is merely tantamount to freedom to starve. Freedom of opinion is nullified if social or professional pressures render the holding of some opinions lucrative and expose the holders of other opinions to an economic boycott. Freedom of the press and of public meeting are illusory if the principal organs of the press and the principal meeting-places are, as is inevitable in capitalist society, controlled by the moneyed class.
Thus the supposed absolute values of liberal democracy are undermined by the corrosive power of the Marxist critique: what was thought of as absolute turns out to be relative to a given social structure and to possess validity only as an adjunct to that structure. This thorough-going relativism is ideologically the most destructive weapon in the Marxist armoury. It can be used to dissolve all the absolute ideas on which the existing order seeks to base its moral superiority.
Ruthless Critique of Everything Bourgeois
Law is not law in the abstract, but a set of concrete rules enacted by an economically dominant class for the maintenance of its privileges and authority. Bourgeois law is largely concerned with the protection of the property rights of the bourgeoisie: "law and order", though good things in the abstract, become a traditional slogan by which those in possession seek to discredit strikers, revolutionaries and other rebels against the existing social order, however oppressive that order may be.Equality in the abstract is purely formal. "One man, one vote" does not ensure actual equality in a society where one voter may be a millionaire and another a pauper; even equality before the law may be a mockery when the law is framed and administered by the members of a privileged class.
Freedom itself can be equally formal. Freedom to choose or refuse a job is unreal if freedom to refuse is merely tantamount to freedom to starve. Freedom of opinion is nullified if social or professional pressures render the holding of some opinions lucrative and expose the holders of other opinions to an economic boycott. Freedom of the press and of public meeting are illusory if the principal organs of the press and the principal meeting-places are, as is inevitable in capitalist society, controlled by the moneyed class.
Thus the supposed absolute values of liberal democracy are undermined by the corrosive power of the Marxist critique: what was thought of as absolute turns out to be relative to a given social structure and to possess validity only as an adjunct to that structure. This thorough-going relativism is ideologically the most destructive weapon in the Marxist armoury. It can be used to dissolve all the absolute ideas on which the existing order seeks to base its moral superiority.
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Not sure if it's just my algo psyoping me, but I've been getting an increased amount of black people/influencers with 50k+ likes denouncing Palestine and Palestinian liberation, on the basis that their cause is irrelevant to black struggle and it's a slave mentality since support for Palestine is predominantly white.
This had me thinking back to the recent garbage strike in Philly, in which black "entrepreneurs" began selling their own private trash pickup services, offering to dump bags themselves for $20 a piece. When criticized, the general response was that they're "just hustling" and it's the garbagemen's (mostly black) fault for not wanting to put in the work. The strike was largely a failure.
Obviously this doesn't just apply to black people, I just think it's the most pronounced; that "hustler" mindset, this idea that personal gain is revolutionary even, seems to be engrained in black culture. It's why they see no contradiction in revering Beyonce as empowering, a woman who's evoked the Black Panther party many times, meanwhile she dines with the Trump family. Or Kendrick Lamar, who's upheld as this genius poet talking about the struggle that those "not like us" just don't understand, meanwhile he's a hotep who lets the DNC play his music/quote him directly in their literature while discussing why Israel has a right to defend itself.
All ties back to slavery; black people came to America as property, not "workers". there's like a subconscious fear after generations of trauma that any collective action is against their best interest. Every major minority (Hispanics and natives tied for second) in America has some unique cultural illness tying them to the system, and unless those ills are addressed economic progress will be racist at best (i.e. nazbols) and impossible at worst.
Not sure if it's just my algo psyoping me, but I've been getting an increased amount of black people/influencers with 50k+ likes denouncing Palestine and Palestinian liberation, on the basis that their cause is irrelevant to black struggle and it's a slave mentality since support for Palestine is predominantly white.
This had me thinking back to the recent garbage strike in Philly, in which black "entrepreneurs" began selling their own private trash pickup services, offering to dump bags themselves for $20 a piece. When criticized, the general response was that they're "just hustling" and it's the garbagemen's (mostly black) fault for not wanting to put in the work. The strike was largely a failure.
Obviously this doesn't just apply to black people, I just think it's the most pronounced; that "hustler" mindset, this idea that personal gain is revolutionary even, seems to be engrained in black culture. It's why they see no contradiction in revering Beyonce as empowering, a woman who's evoked the Black Panther party many times, meanwhile she dines with the Trump family. Or Kendrick Lamar, who's upheld as this genius poet talking about the struggle that those "not like us" just don't understand, meanwhile he's a hotep who lets the DNC play his music/quote him directly in their literature while discussing why Israel has a right to defend itself.
All ties back to slavery; black people came to America as property, not "workers". there's like a subconscious fear after generations of trauma that any collective action is against their best interest. Every major minority (Hispanics and natives tied for second) in America has some unique cultural illness tying them to the system, and unless those ills are addressed economic progress will be racist at best (i.e. nazbols) and impossible at worst.
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<But perhaps the supreme lie and main plank of counter-revolutionary thought is the notion of the State as neutral arbiter of class and party interests, and therefore also of a farcical freedom of opinion. Such a State, and such a freedom, are monstrous inventions that history has never known nor ever shall know.
<Bourgeois electoral democracy seeks the consultation of the masses, for it knows that the response of the majority will always be favourable to the privileged class and will readily delegate to that class the right to govern and to perpetuate exploitation.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1957/fundamentals.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/party-class.htm
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<But perhaps the supreme lie and main plank of counter-revolutionary thought is the notion of the State as neutral arbiter of class and party interests, and therefore also of a farcical freedom of opinion. Such a State, and such a freedom, are monstrous inventions that history has never known nor ever shall know.
<Bourgeois electoral democracy seeks the consultation of the masses, for it knows that the response of the majority will always be favourable to the privileged class and will readily delegate to that class the right to govern and to perpetuate exploitation.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1957/fundamentals.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/party-class.htm
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After years of organizing unions I see now The American proletariat will never be revolutionary because America is a settler colonial system that is spiritually Israeli . And only be reactionary as the actual American working class is in the global south
After years of organizing unions I see now The American proletariat will never be revolutionary because America is a settler colonial system that is spiritually Israeli . And only be reactionary as the actual American working class is in the global south
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Is this information a nothing-burger for Russia at large? Most likely
I haven’t thought about Russia in a while
There’s an issue regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine specific to Russian society that pitons gonna have to put up with regardless of the outcome of the war. It’s that there’s a shitload of soldiers (mostly prisoners and career soldiers) that are not going to be putting up with whatever excuses the Russian federal system has for why their lives are utter garbage post deployment. The USA already gets flak for treating its marines like shit since social services there already suck and are scarce, but in a country like Russia, finding so much so as someone that won’t make fun of you for seeking government aid itself is already rare. This shit isn’t new to Russian history—most mafia groups directly formed after the world wars and the revolution anyways. I don’t see Ukraine being any different—this time anyways since this far from isn’t the first Russo Ukraine war in history. Personally I don’t think this will balloon into a total social collapse or something too too serious, but it could shake things up regarding domestic security with the drones, militias, and assault rifles casually everywhere. Just this year, apparently 500 confirmed instances of veteran-specific violent crimes against normal people occurred in that country.Is this information a nothing-burger for Russia at large? Most likely
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I hate the narratives around how the Great Depression ended.
The other day I visited Laurel Hill State Park in Pennsylvania and I saw a placard and a statue commemorating the Civilian Conservation Corps which was a federal jobs program during the Great Depression. Young men who were poor were payed to replant a forest after it was cut down, they also built bridges across creeks for hikers. If a politician tried to do this today everyone would call them a communist and they would get kicked out of the DNC. Why can’t we do something like this again, wouldn’t a federal jobs program were people do stuff like planting trees, picking up litter, providing disaster relief, or doing food drives help decrease unemployment? Yes it would but that would harm the prophets of the ruling class. Federal jobs programs like this along with the rest of the New Deal is what ended the Great Depression and no schools teach that, at school you are taught the narrative that WW2 somehow ended the great depression “so the more you bomb Yemen the better the economy” which is bullshit. FDR was a lib but he did the right thing by doing the New-Deal, I thought I was in the USSR by how proletarian that statue looks.
I hate the narratives around how the Great Depression ended.
The other day I visited Laurel Hill State Park in Pennsylvania and I saw a placard and a statue commemorating the Civilian Conservation Corps which was a federal jobs program during the Great Depression. Young men who were poor were payed to replant a forest after it was cut down, they also built bridges across creeks for hikers. If a politician tried to do this today everyone would call them a communist and they would get kicked out of the DNC. Why can’t we do something like this again, wouldn’t a federal jobs program were people do stuff like planting trees, picking up litter, providing disaster relief, or doing food drives help decrease unemployment? Yes it would but that would harm the prophets of the ruling class. Federal jobs programs like this along with the rest of the New Deal is what ended the Great Depression and no schools teach that, at school you are taught the narrative that WW2 somehow ended the great depression “so the more you bomb Yemen the better the economy” which is bullshit. FDR was a lib but he did the right thing by doing the New-Deal, I thought I was in the USSR by how proletarian that statue looks.
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Are working people aware of the gravity of their situation yet?
Do you think there are more or less Marxists than, say, ~10 years ago? Obviously the world is getting worse, but are people finally starting to become aware?
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Aren't leftists meant to be pro-gun? I thought that was what distinguished them from plain old liberals. That they wanted to arm the proletariat and never disarm them. So why pretend the lasg decade or so of gun discourse hasn't happened and go back to 2012 discourse?
Aren't leftists meant to be pro-gun? I thought that was what distinguished them from plain old liberals. That they wanted to arm the proletariat and never disarm them. So why pretend the lasg decade or so of gun discourse hasn't happened and go back to 2012 discourse?
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The biggest threat to the New World Order/cabal
Ezzedin al-Haddad is an amazing general Hamas has on their side and so long as that man is alive, Israel is fucked. They still haven't killed this man leading his army of BLACK BULLS (karaboğa) to rape and massacre bey*z Israeli whores and burn them alive along with their infants and dogs. 1300 kaffirs and wh*Tes killed. Killed 1100 more in the Gaza war (+11000 injured) and inflicted heavy losses on their Merkava tanks and got the whole world united against Israel. Now RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN (REIS) will destroy those wh*Te subhumans.
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Even the most educated leftists in Marxist theory do nothing, at most they meet with other nerds to discuss
I don't think there will ever be a revolution, at least not in our lifetime
A revolution can only happen if there are people capable of carrying it out. Do you think people today are capable of doing something like that? The average zoomer has never experienced any hardship in their life (including me ngl) we live better than the kings of ancient times. Our society does not have the human resources for such a goal. Even now that we are seeing the global economy go to shit, we are only seeing the opposite, a trend toward fascism. But even so, I am not talking only about the dominant ideology, but also about mental and physical capacity.Even the most educated leftists in Marxist theory do nothing, at most they meet with other nerds to discuss
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>both have major socialist parties in the goverment
>both previously had revolutions
>both have mass corruption
>both have/are losing a war against a much weaker power
I don't wanna hear "muh because US aid", Russia is losing because it has let capitalism and corruption root itself inside of it, it doesn't matter if its state capitalism or just plain old capitalism. When Putin dies there will be a power struggle, during so a cultural revolution lead by the youth and the communist party will expel capitalist elements within the country (again this is just gonna replace capitalist elites and corrupt officals with state officals that might do the same eventually but still an improvement), and Russia will be socialist once again, and only then, will it ever win its war.
Russia will have a cultural revolution just like mao's china
Russia will have a revolution similar to the Cultural Revolution in China.>both have major socialist parties in the goverment
>both previously had revolutions
>both have mass corruption
>both have/are losing a war against a much weaker power
I don't wanna hear "muh because US aid", Russia is losing because it has let capitalism and corruption root itself inside of it, it doesn't matter if its state capitalism or just plain old capitalism. When Putin dies there will be a power struggle, during so a cultural revolution lead by the youth and the communist party will expel capitalist elements within the country (again this is just gonna replace capitalist elites and corrupt officals with state officals that might do the same eventually but still an improvement), and Russia will be socialist once again, and only then, will it ever win its war.
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Some economic analysis from 420chan
Some economic analysis from 420chan's /tinfoil/ board (conspiracy themed board).Original:
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Reminds me of David Graeber's book on Debt
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The 45 vessels, currently traveling in Greek waters, is anticipated to reach Israeli territory in the coming days.In the first phase, members of the Shayetet 13 unit will reportedly take over the ships. Those who refuse to board the ship, and be voluntarily deported, will be arrested, according to the report.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-868629
https://archive.ph/kLoYx
Hamas says it has not received Trump plan as Israel expands Gaza City assault
The comments came after Israeli newspaper Haaretz cited sources saying Hamas had agreed in principle to release all the Israeli hostages it holds in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops under Trump's plan. Also included in the proposal were the end of Hamas rule in Gaza, and Israel agreeing not to annex the territory and drive out Palestinians living there, Haaretz reported.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/09/hamas-says-it-has-not-received-trump-plan-israel-expands-gaza-city-assault
Iraq to form syndicate to regulate delivery drivers
“With the establishment of the syndicate, all 400,000 workers will be registered under a social insurance network,” Hussein al-Quraishi, a member of the committee representing the Iraqi Workers’ Syndicate, told Rudaw on Monday, adding that the body will consists of 16 members. “The purpose behind the formation of the syndicate is to register delivery drivers for social insurance,” he said.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/23092025
US says they’ll revoke visa of Colombia’s president for call on US soldiers to disobey Trump
In a speech, the president reiterated his call to create a “powerful army” to “liberate Palestine” from Israel’s illegal occupation and called on US soldiers to stop taking orders from Trump, one of the most loyal sponsors of the Zionist State. "From New York, I ask all soldiers in the United States Army not to point their guns at humanity. Disobey Trump’s order and obey the order of humanity."
https://colombiareports.com/us-says-theyll-eject-colombias-president-for-call-on-us-soldiers-to-disobey-trump/
Victims of triple murder laid to rest on eve of protest
Shocked and in tears, relatives on Friday laid to rest two women and a girl whose live-streamed torture and murder caused an outcry in Argentina, where activists are planning a weekend protest against femicide.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/victims-of-triple-murder-laid-to-rest-on-eve-of-protest.phtml
Peru's Gen Z rallies against President Boluarte, protesting over pensions and corruption
Peru's youth are rallying for another round of protests against President Dina Boluarte on Saturday, a week after demonstrations in the capital led to clashes with police, leaving over a dozen police officers, protesters and journalists injured.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-gen-z-rallies-against-president-boluarte-protesting-over-pensions-2025-09-27/
Thousands march in Cape Town in solidarity with Palestine
A broad coalition of civil society, interfaith organisations, justice movements and political parties organised the march. The demonstrators are calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The President of the Muslim Judicial Council, Sheikh Riad Fataar says Cape Town stands in solidarity with Gaza and Palestine today.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sas-pro-palestine-supporters-show-solidarity-to-the-palestinians/
‘I’d Never Make it Home Alive’: Russia’s War in Ukraine Turns Conscripts Into Deserters
At least 50,000 Russian soldiers have fled the military since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to leaked data published in May by the exiled outlet IStories. Among them is a growing number of conscripts: young men, often poor and from remote regions, who say they were forced into contracts they never agreed to sign, and then sent to fight.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/26/id-never-make-it-home-alive-russias-war-in-ukraine-turns-conscripts-into-deserters-a89818
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UK seeks to block challenge to Palestine Action ban under anti-terrorism laws
Britain's Home Office (interior ministry) is asking the Court of Appeal to overturn that decision and rule that any challenge to proscription should be heard by a specialist tribunal, rather than the High Court. Palestine Action was proscribed shortly after some of its members broke into the RAF Brize Norton air base and damaged two planes in June, for which four members have been charged.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-seeks-block-challenge-palestine-action-ban-under-anti-terrorism-laws-2025-09-25/
Sydney police officer charged with assault of pro-Palestinian protester
Amid substantial public shock at images of Thomas bloodied and battered, the leadership of the New South Wales (NSW) Police, along with the NSW state and federal Labor governments, defended the police assault and blamed the demonstrators, including Thomas herself. The charging of the officer exposes those statements as a cover-up, based on slanders against the victims and a false presentation of what the cops carried out.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/27/cudi-s27.html
Taiwan convicts four former ruling party officials of spying for China
The aides worked for the Democratic Progressive party (DPP), Taiwan’s ruling party. Huang Chu-jung, a former assistant to a New Taipei city councillor, received the lengthiest sentence of 10 years. He was also found guilty of money laundering and fined 1m New Taiwan dollars (£25,000) and is separately facing charges of “developing a criminal organisation” for China.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/taiwan-convicts-four-former-ruling-party-officials-of-spying-for-china
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Sinking ships and confiscating vessels: Israel's plan to intercept Gaza flotillas revealed - N12The 45 vessels, currently traveling in Greek waters, is anticipated to reach Israeli territory in the coming days.In the first phase, members of the Shayetet 13 unit will reportedly take over the ships. Those who refuse to board the ship, and be voluntarily deported, will be arrested, according to the report.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-868629
https://archive.ph/kLoYx
Hamas says it has not received Trump plan as Israel expands Gaza City assault
The comments came after Israeli newspaper Haaretz cited sources saying Hamas had agreed in principle to release all the Israeli hostages it holds in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops under Trump's plan. Also included in the proposal were the end of Hamas rule in Gaza, and Israel agreeing not to annex the territory and drive out Palestinians living there, Haaretz reported.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/09/hamas-says-it-has-not-received-trump-plan-israel-expands-gaza-city-assault
Iraq to form syndicate to regulate delivery drivers
“With the establishment of the syndicate, all 400,000 workers will be registered under a social insurance network,” Hussein al-Quraishi, a member of the committee representing the Iraqi Workers’ Syndicate, told Rudaw on Monday, adding that the body will consists of 16 members. “The purpose behind the formation of the syndicate is to register delivery drivers for social insurance,” he said.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/23092025
US says they’ll revoke visa of Colombia’s president for call on US soldiers to disobey Trump
In a speech, the president reiterated his call to create a “powerful army” to “liberate Palestine” from Israel’s illegal occupation and called on US soldiers to stop taking orders from Trump, one of the most loyal sponsors of the Zionist State. "From New York, I ask all soldiers in the United States Army not to point their guns at humanity. Disobey Trump’s order and obey the order of humanity."
https://colombiareports.com/us-says-theyll-eject-colombias-president-for-call-on-us-soldiers-to-disobey-trump/
Victims of triple murder laid to rest on eve of protest
Shocked and in tears, relatives on Friday laid to rest two women and a girl whose live-streamed torture and murder caused an outcry in Argentina, where activists are planning a weekend protest against femicide.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/victims-of-triple-murder-laid-to-rest-on-eve-of-protest.phtml
Peru's Gen Z rallies against President Boluarte, protesting over pensions and corruption
Peru's youth are rallying for another round of protests against President Dina Boluarte on Saturday, a week after demonstrations in the capital led to clashes with police, leaving over a dozen police officers, protesters and journalists injured.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-gen-z-rallies-against-president-boluarte-protesting-over-pensions-2025-09-27/
Thousands march in Cape Town in solidarity with Palestine
A broad coalition of civil society, interfaith organisations, justice movements and political parties organised the march. The demonstrators are calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The President of the Muslim Judicial Council, Sheikh Riad Fataar says Cape Town stands in solidarity with Gaza and Palestine today.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sas-pro-palestine-supporters-show-solidarity-to-the-palestinians/
‘I’d Never Make it Home Alive’: Russia’s War in Ukraine Turns Conscripts Into Deserters
At least 50,000 Russian soldiers have fled the military since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to leaked data published in May by the exiled outlet IStories. Among them is a growing number of conscripts: young men, often poor and from remote regions, who say they were forced into contracts they never agreed to sign, and then sent to fight.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/26/id-never-make-it-home-alive-russias-war-in-ukraine-turns-conscripts-into-deserters-a89818
https://archive.ph/EftEg
UK seeks to block challenge to Palestine Action ban under anti-terrorism laws
Britain's Home Office (interior ministry) is asking the Court of Appeal to overturn that decision and rule that any challenge to proscription should be heard by a specialist tribunal, rather than the High Court. Palestine Action was proscribed shortly after some of its members broke into the RAF Brize Norton air base and damaged two planes in June, for which four members have been charged.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-seeks-block-challenge-palestine-action-ban-under-anti-terrorism-laws-2025-09-25/
Sydney police officer charged with assault of pro-Palestinian protester
Amid substantial public shock at images of Thomas bloodied and battered, the leadership of the New South Wales (NSW) Police, along with the NSW state and federal Labor governments, defended the police assault and blamed the demonstrators, including Thomas herself. The charging of the officer exposes those statements as a cover-up, based on slanders against the victims and a false presentation of what the cops carried out.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/27/cudi-s27.html
Taiwan convicts four former ruling party officials of spying for China
The aides worked for the Democratic Progressive party (DPP), Taiwan’s ruling party. Huang Chu-jung, a former assistant to a New Taipei city councillor, received the lengthiest sentence of 10 years. He was also found guilty of money laundering and fined 1m New Taiwan dollars (£25,000) and is separately facing charges of “developing a criminal organisation” for China.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/taiwan-convicts-four-former-ruling-party-officials-of-spying-for-china
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As such, we need to create *vectors*. Groups of people (mainly young, like highschool or university students) will be educated and trained on capitalism and anarcho-communism. These *vectors* **must be ideologically* motivated. That is, they must have conviction in their beliefs and actions. Otherwise, they will quickly dropout.
These leaders will then organize their communities and repeat the cycle. As a result, the masses will quickly and independently organize. Obviously, communication among all these councils must be established for organized action and planning.
Advantages: decentralized, fast, federations, no great leader needed, hard to block by the State.
Obstacles to overcome: to properly train the *vectors* (ideology, discipline, etc.) and avoid infiltration.
This can't be halfassed. This is possible, we just need balls, tenacity, perseverance, discipline, and courage. No excuse. In today's horrible world, only ideology can push people forward.
The role of the anarchists today is to kindle the heart of the masses and offer guidance. So that the we can build an army of men willing to give their life for anarchy, akin to the Makhnovshchina.
The *VECTOR* strategy - Anarcho-communism
In order to organize the masses, we need to spread across the country in an unpredictable and semi-aleatory manner. Not through a vanguard party, but through community councils.As such, we need to create *vectors*. Groups of people (mainly young, like highschool or university students) will be educated and trained on capitalism and anarcho-communism. These *vectors* **must be ideologically* motivated. That is, they must have conviction in their beliefs and actions. Otherwise, they will quickly dropout.
These leaders will then organize their communities and repeat the cycle. As a result, the masses will quickly and independently organize. Obviously, communication among all these councils must be established for organized action and planning.
Advantages: decentralized, fast, federations, no great leader needed, hard to block by the State.
Obstacles to overcome: to properly train the *vectors* (ideology, discipline, etc.) and avoid infiltration.
This can't be halfassed. This is possible, we just need balls, tenacity, perseverance, discipline, and courage. No excuse. In today's horrible world, only ideology can push people forward.
The role of the anarchists today is to kindle the heart of the masses and offer guidance. So that the we can build an army of men willing to give their life for anarchy, akin to the Makhnovshchina.
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>declining birthrates lead to shrinking economic growth and tax revenue+larger proportion of dependents, all due to a shrinking labor force
>birthrate decline (not yet population decline) is happening in most countries outside of Africa, regardless of socioeconomic development, cost of living or culture (incl. religion or "feminism")
>the most likely primary common cause is the simple availability of choice: not needing children as extra labor, more access to birth control/abortion, etc.
>>secondarily, often it is not the case that people don't want children but that they want to have them later in life and want to give their children optimal lives, e.g. being unwilling to raise children until one has a high-paying stable job; this also leads to people having less children overall
>>the chain reaction here is that the higher the standard of living gets, the bigger the opportunity cost of having children when one actually gets to DECIDE whether to have them, as well as a more demanding standard for WHEN one should have them
>the proposed liberal capitalist solutions fail to tackle the problem:
>>paying people to have children needs to cover the opportunity cost of not having them, which is already massive and will continue to increase the more an economy grows, which will eventually become unsustainable for governments
>>roundabout solutions like providing parents with tax cuts, exceptional welfare or a lower retirement age suffer from the same problem
>>even increased immigration will only stop the bleeding temporarily as the global population fails to keep up
>>automation might "cover" the decrease in labor force but at the same societal cost that massive automation will always bring
With all of the above in mind, it seems that capitalism combined with reproductive choice contains the seed of its own decline. Stagnation threatens the system, but growth leads in its own roundabout way back to stagnation.
The capitalists thus only have the option of restricting or steering choice, from banning abortion and contraceptives to the more extreme scenario of forcing women to be broodmares; or alternatively, by an ideology of pro-natalism for the "greater good", requiring many people to act against "rational self-interest".
In practice, however, those options are just forms of reaction, and even when reaction is successful (and it rarely is) all it can ultimately lead to is a repeat of the past, susceptible to the same conditions and contradictions that caused it to crumble once before.
This is a classic problem that manifests in many ways: capitalism needs laborers to be spenders, but progress inevitably requires a decrease in their ability to do so; in this case, by directly cutting the supply of labor.
Unironically, the only solution is socialism.
The only way to change this equation around without making things worse for everyone is by challenging the assumptions of growth and opportunity cost. This can happen in many ways.
If making a living isn't tied to the success of companies which need constant growth to stay competitive, the dependence on constantly increasing birthrates is reduced.
On the other hand, if society can directly contribute to making child rearing easier and less expensive instead of subsidizing the artificial difficulties and costs created by the market, the opportunity cost of having children is also reduced.
And this ties into many other factors. More safety, more education, more stability, they all ease the burden on parents.
But as you can see, it requires real socialism. Can't half-ass it and call it socialism anyway or you'll pay the price. You need real socialist outcomes.
So. Can porky survive this?
Birthrate decline as a contradiction of capitalism
This post is just a quick informal thing to kick off discussion, I won't claim to be as informed as I should be and some of my points may be wrong.>declining birthrates lead to shrinking economic growth and tax revenue+larger proportion of dependents, all due to a shrinking labor force
>birthrate decline (not yet population decline) is happening in most countries outside of Africa, regardless of socioeconomic development, cost of living or culture (incl. religion or "feminism")
>the most likely primary common cause is the simple availability of choice: not needing children as extra labor, more access to birth control/abortion, etc.
>>secondarily, often it is not the case that people don't want children but that they want to have them later in life and want to give their children optimal lives, e.g. being unwilling to raise children until one has a high-paying stable job; this also leads to people having less children overall
>>the chain reaction here is that the higher the standard of living gets, the bigger the opportunity cost of having children when one actually gets to DECIDE whether to have them, as well as a more demanding standard for WHEN one should have them
>the proposed liberal capitalist solutions fail to tackle the problem:
>>paying people to have children needs to cover the opportunity cost of not having them, which is already massive and will continue to increase the more an economy grows, which will eventually become unsustainable for governments
>>roundabout solutions like providing parents with tax cuts, exceptional welfare or a lower retirement age suffer from the same problem
>>even increased immigration will only stop the bleeding temporarily as the global population fails to keep up
>>automation might "cover" the decrease in labor force but at the same societal cost that massive automation will always bring
With all of the above in mind, it seems that capitalism combined with reproductive choice contains the seed of its own decline. Stagnation threatens the system, but growth leads in its own roundabout way back to stagnation.
The capitalists thus only have the option of restricting or steering choice, from banning abortion and contraceptives to the more extreme scenario of forcing women to be broodmares; or alternatively, by an ideology of pro-natalism for the "greater good", requiring many people to act against "rational self-interest".
In practice, however, those options are just forms of reaction, and even when reaction is successful (and it rarely is) all it can ultimately lead to is a repeat of the past, susceptible to the same conditions and contradictions that caused it to crumble once before.
This is a classic problem that manifests in many ways: capitalism needs laborers to be spenders, but progress inevitably requires a decrease in their ability to do so; in this case, by directly cutting the supply of labor.
Unironically, the only solution is socialism.
The only way to change this equation around without making things worse for everyone is by challenging the assumptions of growth and opportunity cost. This can happen in many ways.
If making a living isn't tied to the success of companies which need constant growth to stay competitive, the dependence on constantly increasing birthrates is reduced.
On the other hand, if society can directly contribute to making child rearing easier and less expensive instead of subsidizing the artificial difficulties and costs created by the market, the opportunity cost of having children is also reduced.
And this ties into many other factors. More safety, more education, more stability, they all ease the burden on parents.
But as you can see, it requires real socialism. Can't half-ass it and call it socialism anyway or you'll pay the price. You need real socialist outcomes.
So. Can porky survive this?
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This is where third spaces come in. You hear that term a lot, but what does it actually mean? Think about it: your home is your first space. Your job, or school, that's your second space. Both are defined by obligation and, let's be real, often by hierarchy. A third space is somewhere else—your local dive bar, a punk-friendly cafe, a community garden, a library, a workshop. It's a neutral ground where you go just to *be*, without a direct transaction or a boss breathing down your neck. These are the catalysts, the petri dishes where community might actually start to grow. But they're fragile. Under capitalism, every square foot has to turn a profit, so these spaces are always on the brink of becoming just another fucking Starbucks.
And we have to kill this liberal idea of the "safe space" right now. The whole concept is rooted in a mindset that thinks you can carve out a little perfect bubble away from the world. But nowhere on this fucking planet is safe from capitalism and fascism. The rent bill comes, the cops can still show up, a bigot can walk in the door. The world presses in. Just about how it works. So what's the alternative? It's not safety, it's resilience. The goal is to build a resilient space, one that knows it's under pressure and has a structure that can bend without breaking. A resilient community can withstand things, but it can't promise you'll be comfortable 100% of the time. In fact, it guarantees the opposite. Discomfort will happen. Conflict will happen. There is crash-outs that will happen. That's just the nature of humanity.
And by and large, most people are good people, but every single person on Earth is going to have their weird moments, their bad days, their times when the weight of this shitty system becomes too much and they lash out. In an ideal community, in an ideal world, when someone crashes out—when they burn a bridge, when interpersonal drama explodes—there should be a path for them to come back. This is where the idea of restorative justice, not carceral punishment, comes in. It's not about being soft; it's about being smart. It hinges on accountability, not banishment. The question isn't "How do we punish this person?" but "What was the harm done, and how can it be repaired?" Yeah, you fucked up, but we all fuck up, and we all want the same goal. We like you on your good days. We enjoy your friendship. But if there's an expectation that there can never be conflict, that any conflict is inherently bad and we have to remove anyone who creates it, you create a sterile box. That's not a community at all. It's just recreating the same disposable, corporate logic we're drowning in. Being able to handle the conflict is part of the struggle. It's the fucking work.
This is where the capitalist algorithm driven online world fuckin' ruins everything. It gives us the illusion of community without any of the friction that actually builds trust. Is a Discord server a community? Maybe, in the most ideal way, but it's not the same. You can just log off. You can block someone. Is an Instagram following a community? Are the people commenting on your posts really your friends? Do they have your back when you're sick and need groceries? Would they spot you twenty bucks until payday? I would say no. But the illusion is there, and it's powerful. These algorithms are just mirrors, showing you what you want to see. If you're feeding it your own terrible tendencies, you'll find terrible people to amplify them. That's not community. Because in a real, in-person community, someone is able to call you out on your flaws, on your bullshit, and give you the space to improve. That's why you have to allow conflict. You can crash out really hard, honestly, and you can come back from it if you're willing to step up, be an adult, apologize, and squash the beef. The beef can almost always be squashed because we all want the same thing: to not be so goddamn alone.
But people don't seem to understand how rare a real third space is, and one that actually forms a community is even rarer. Your local Starbucks might be a third space, but it doesn't have a community. It has customers. And I think people take that block-button logic from the internet and apply it to real life. You have to be able to exist in the same room as people you don't like. You don't have to be best friends, but you have to be cordial. You have to be decent. You can't just block them in real life. What does that even look like? Pretending they're a ghost? It's childish.
And this is crucial: you have to contain the conflict within the space, not export it. Let's say you and your friend get into a fistfight in the parking lot. It happens. One option is you both keep showing up, give each other a wide space for a bit, and let time heal the wound. The other option, the worst thing you can do, is to get on the internet and tell a one-sided story to try and get people to stop coming to the location. You're not solving the problem; you're weaponizing a mob of outsiders, people not even part of your drama, and you're destabilizing the whole commons. You're killing the thing for everyone because you can't handle the discomfort of a real-world conflict. You're treating a physical space like a Twitter thread.
Now, there's also a heavy onus on the people running the third space. We have to be real: we're anarchists, we understand hierarchy. The person who runs the business, even with the best intentions, is on a higher level. They have legal liability, they have to make rent, they sign the checks. This creates a contradiction that's built into the foundation. But they have a due diligence to not willy-nilly exile people. We cannot recreate the carceral logic of the fucking oppressor in our own tiny systems. Exile should be reserved for only the harshest of offenses—real, material violence, persistent bigotry that makes the space unsafe for others—not for interpersonal drama or shit said on the internet. If you exile people for things done away from the space, you create a chilling effect of fear and gossip that will kill the third space before it can even root. People will be afraid to speak openly, to have a bad day, to be human.
So what's the answer? The operators have to consciously fight their own position. They have to resist being authoritarian. They need to establish clear, fair ways to handle conflict that don't default to banishment. Maybe that means a council of regulars who help mediate disputes. Maybe it's a formalized process: a cooling-off period instead of a permanent ban. "You guys need to take three days, cool off, then we'll all sit down and talk it out." It's messy as hell, but it's real.
But it's also on us, the people who use the space. We can't just be consumers of community, waiting for the owner to set the rules. We have to act like co-stewards. This is the "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" ethos. Bring a plant and just start watering it. Organize a movie night. See a mess and clean it up without being asked. These small acts of ownership are a quiet rebellion against the hierarchical structure of the business itself. They slowly, brick by brick, shift a space from a private business to a communal commons. It's how we decentralize power and prevent that authoritarian drift.
It all comes down to navigating these paradoxes. Community is rare, so people don't know how to value it or fight for it. The space operator is forced into an authoritarian role by capitalism, but using that authority kills the very community the space is meant to nurture. Conflict can destroy a weak community but is essential for building a strong one. The online world connects us globally but makes us worse at being together in person. It's a struggle. We're all new to this. But by embracing the mess, allowing for the crash-outs, and refusing to use the state's tools of exile and punishment, we can build something resilient. Something that doesn't just feel good, but that can actually survive.
Community Is Hard
Community is difficult. Let's just start there. It's hard, and it's new to a lot of us, because if we're being completely honest, we act like communities are this inherent thing that we're just given. But we live in a hyper-alienated, late-stage capitalist, already-collapsing empire where your neighbors are strangers and your real friends might be scattered across time zones. So it's really not. I guarantee you, you can have no community, and a lot of people do. A lot of people are doing whatever they can to seek it out, but they often get tricked by the online substitutes that offer a cheap dopamine fix instead of the real thing. When was the last time you truly relied on someone who wasn't family or a partner? When was the last time you had a disagreement with a friend and had to work it out face-to-face because you knew you'd see them next week regardless? That's the muscle we've all let atrophy.This is where third spaces come in. You hear that term a lot, but what does it actually mean? Think about it: your home is your first space. Your job, or school, that's your second space. Both are defined by obligation and, let's be real, often by hierarchy. A third space is somewhere else—your local dive bar, a punk-friendly cafe, a community garden, a library, a workshop. It's a neutral ground where you go just to *be*, without a direct transaction or a boss breathing down your neck. These are the catalysts, the petri dishes where community might actually start to grow. But they're fragile. Under capitalism, every square foot has to turn a profit, so these spaces are always on the brink of becoming just another fucking Starbucks.
And we have to kill this liberal idea of the "safe space" right now. The whole concept is rooted in a mindset that thinks you can carve out a little perfect bubble away from the world. But nowhere on this fucking planet is safe from capitalism and fascism. The rent bill comes, the cops can still show up, a bigot can walk in the door. The world presses in. Just about how it works. So what's the alternative? It's not safety, it's resilience. The goal is to build a resilient space, one that knows it's under pressure and has a structure that can bend without breaking. A resilient community can withstand things, but it can't promise you'll be comfortable 100% of the time. In fact, it guarantees the opposite. Discomfort will happen. Conflict will happen. There is crash-outs that will happen. That's just the nature of humanity.
And by and large, most people are good people, but every single person on Earth is going to have their weird moments, their bad days, their times when the weight of this shitty system becomes too much and they lash out. In an ideal community, in an ideal world, when someone crashes out—when they burn a bridge, when interpersonal drama explodes—there should be a path for them to come back. This is where the idea of restorative justice, not carceral punishment, comes in. It's not about being soft; it's about being smart. It hinges on accountability, not banishment. The question isn't "How do we punish this person?" but "What was the harm done, and how can it be repaired?" Yeah, you fucked up, but we all fuck up, and we all want the same goal. We like you on your good days. We enjoy your friendship. But if there's an expectation that there can never be conflict, that any conflict is inherently bad and we have to remove anyone who creates it, you create a sterile box. That's not a community at all. It's just recreating the same disposable, corporate logic we're drowning in. Being able to handle the conflict is part of the struggle. It's the fucking work.
This is where the capitalist algorithm driven online world fuckin' ruins everything. It gives us the illusion of community without any of the friction that actually builds trust. Is a Discord server a community? Maybe, in the most ideal way, but it's not the same. You can just log off. You can block someone. Is an Instagram following a community? Are the people commenting on your posts really your friends? Do they have your back when you're sick and need groceries? Would they spot you twenty bucks until payday? I would say no. But the illusion is there, and it's powerful. These algorithms are just mirrors, showing you what you want to see. If you're feeding it your own terrible tendencies, you'll find terrible people to amplify them. That's not community. Because in a real, in-person community, someone is able to call you out on your flaws, on your bullshit, and give you the space to improve. That's why you have to allow conflict. You can crash out really hard, honestly, and you can come back from it if you're willing to step up, be an adult, apologize, and squash the beef. The beef can almost always be squashed because we all want the same thing: to not be so goddamn alone.
But people don't seem to understand how rare a real third space is, and one that actually forms a community is even rarer. Your local Starbucks might be a third space, but it doesn't have a community. It has customers. And I think people take that block-button logic from the internet and apply it to real life. You have to be able to exist in the same room as people you don't like. You don't have to be best friends, but you have to be cordial. You have to be decent. You can't just block them in real life. What does that even look like? Pretending they're a ghost? It's childish.
And this is crucial: you have to contain the conflict within the space, not export it. Let's say you and your friend get into a fistfight in the parking lot. It happens. One option is you both keep showing up, give each other a wide space for a bit, and let time heal the wound. The other option, the worst thing you can do, is to get on the internet and tell a one-sided story to try and get people to stop coming to the location. You're not solving the problem; you're weaponizing a mob of outsiders, people not even part of your drama, and you're destabilizing the whole commons. You're killing the thing for everyone because you can't handle the discomfort of a real-world conflict. You're treating a physical space like a Twitter thread.
Now, there's also a heavy onus on the people running the third space. We have to be real: we're anarchists, we understand hierarchy. The person who runs the business, even with the best intentions, is on a higher level. They have legal liability, they have to make rent, they sign the checks. This creates a contradiction that's built into the foundation. But they have a due diligence to not willy-nilly exile people. We cannot recreate the carceral logic of the fucking oppressor in our own tiny systems. Exile should be reserved for only the harshest of offenses—real, material violence, persistent bigotry that makes the space unsafe for others—not for interpersonal drama or shit said on the internet. If you exile people for things done away from the space, you create a chilling effect of fear and gossip that will kill the third space before it can even root. People will be afraid to speak openly, to have a bad day, to be human.
So what's the answer? The operators have to consciously fight their own position. They have to resist being authoritarian. They need to establish clear, fair ways to handle conflict that don't default to banishment. Maybe that means a council of regulars who help mediate disputes. Maybe it's a formalized process: a cooling-off period instead of a permanent ban. "You guys need to take three days, cool off, then we'll all sit down and talk it out." It's messy as hell, but it's real.
But it's also on us, the people who use the space. We can't just be consumers of community, waiting for the owner to set the rules. We have to act like co-stewards. This is the "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" ethos. Bring a plant and just start watering it. Organize a movie night. See a mess and clean it up without being asked. These small acts of ownership are a quiet rebellion against the hierarchical structure of the business itself. They slowly, brick by brick, shift a space from a private business to a communal commons. It's how we decentralize power and prevent that authoritarian drift.
It all comes down to navigating these paradoxes. Community is rare, so people don't know how to value it or fight for it. The space operator is forced into an authoritarian role by capitalism, but using that authority kills the very community the space is meant to nurture. Conflict can destroy a weak community but is essential for building a strong one. The online world connects us globally but makes us worse at being together in person. It's a struggle. We're all new to this. But by embracing the mess, allowing for the crash-outs, and refusing to use the state's tools of exile and punishment, we can build something resilient. Something that doesn't just feel good, but that can actually survive.
R: 520 / I: 145
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I instead symphatize with the anarchist movement of back then and say that not everyone has the right to work, but everyone has a right to be lazy
Should you be forced work in socialism
Ideology today in socialist movements still persists that work is human dignity and everyone needs to do so. Its still in 19th century logic. In AES countries, you were forced to work or you were put in prison.I instead symphatize with the anarchist movement of back then and say that not everyone has the right to work, but everyone has a right to be lazy
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Ironically during the last portion of the essay he calls for a transitional period…
https://www.luzis.lt/in-english/andrius-bielskis-on-revolution-and-new-forms-of-anti-capitalist-communal-living/#_ftnref14
Is this essay petty bourgeois nonsense?
This is the leader of the "leftist" (not workers'!!!!) movement in Lithuania, KArtu. He wrote this piece, intending it as a critique of Marxism-leninism. I thought it's petty bourgeois drivel. It's a short article and I'd like to hear your thoughts, am I right in thinking this? I'm not a Marxist-leninist but this retard shouldn't be in charge of anything.Ironically during the last portion of the essay he calls for a transitional period…
https://www.luzis.lt/in-english/andrius-bielskis-on-revolution-and-new-forms-of-anti-capitalist-communal-living/#_ftnref14
R: 6 / I: 1
Earlier, Procurement Minister Joel Lightbound announced sweeping changes aimed at shoring up Canada Post’s finances in response to a decline in letter mail and the government corporation’s small share of the parcel market. The changes include introducing more community mailboxes and slower delivery times. The union said it had been caught off guard by the changes and argued that Canada Post and the government were creating the conditions that would further reduce demand for its letter and parcel services.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/canadian-postal-workers-strike-over-axing-door-door-deliveries
CONAIE Condemns Transfer of Protesters to High-Risk Prisons, Accuses Noboa of Criminalizing Protests
“We hold Daniel Noboa’s government directly responsible for these actions that criminalize social protest and place the lives and integrity of our community members and comrades at imminent risk,” Conaie said in a statement. “We demand the immediate release of the detainees, full respect for human rights, and effective guarantees for life,” it added.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/conaie-condemns-transfer-of-protesters-to-high-risk-prisons-accuses-noboa-of-criminalizing-protests/
Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Army Legend, Passes Away in Exile in Cuba
On Thursday, Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “At approximately 1:15 PM on September 25th, my mother, Assata Shakur, took her last earthly breath. Words cannot describe the depth of loss that I am feeling at this time,” Kakuya Shakur, her daughter, wrote on Facebook.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21577/
China launches an investigation into Mexico’s tariffs on imports from Asia
The Commerce Ministry also announced Thursday that it was launching an anti-dumping investigation into pecans imported from Mexico and the United States. Mexico has been under pressure from the Trump administration to limit Chinese imports, some of which the U.S. says use Mexico as a backdoor to the American market.
https://apnews.com/article/china-mexico-tariff-pecan-investigation-58d4ec1c2d583dd7117c6afccaf22683
Thailand to seek referendum on Cambodia border demarcation
"In order to avoid further conflict, the House of Representatives has already set up a committee to study the matter, while the government policy will be to propose holding a referendum on the issue," Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters. A referendum would provide a clear mandate on the matter, he added.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailand-seek-referendum-cambodia-border-demarcation-2025-09-26/
After Anti-Genocide Protests, Microsoft Cuts Israeli Military Off From Cloud Services
Microsoft launched a review last month, after The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call reported that the IDF’s Unit 8200 was using the cloud platform Azure to store data from “millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians” in the illegally occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces have killed at least tens of thousands of people over the past two years.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/microsoft-israel
Israel-Syria talks hit snag over humanitarian corridor, sources say
Israel reintroduced the demand at a late stage in the talks, according to two Israeli officials, a Syrian source and a source in Washington briefed on the talks.
The Syrian source and the source in Washington said the renewed Israeli demand had derailed plans to announce a deal this week. The new sticking point has not been previously reported.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-syria-talks-hit-snag-over-humanitarian-corridor-sources-say-2025-09-26/
Tony Blair proposed as chief of Gaza transitional authority, reports say
Israeli media and the BBC reported on Friday that the former UK prime minister is being considered for the role. Blair, who took Britain to war in Iraq alongside the US in 2003, is said to have held talks about heading the proposed body. The plan would establish a transitional authority in Gaza for up to five years, excluding both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tony-blair-proposed-chief-gaza-transitional-authority-reports-say
New digital ID will be mandatory to work in the UK
Sir Keir Starmer said the new digital ID scheme would make it tougher to work in the UK illegally and offer "countless benefits" to citizens, while his senior minister Darren Jones said it could be "the bedrock of the modern state". However, opposition parties argued the proposals would not stop people crossing the Channel in small boats.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn832y43ql5o
Libyan militia fires on Sea-Watch migrant rescue ship, escalating EU tensions
A Libyan patrol boat fired on the rescue ship Sea-Watch 5 in international waters on Friday, marking the second such attack in a month and heightening scrutiny of EU support for Libya’s coast guard, Sea-Watch said. The German NGO said its vessel was fired at with live ammunition shortly after rescuing 66 migrants. It demanded “immediate clarification and consequences from Italy and the European Union.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/libya-militia-sea-watch-migrant-rescue-ship-eu-tensions/
https://archive.ph/G4GOk
Madagascar imposes curfew after violent protests against water, power cuts
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets on Thursday to voice their anger over persistent power cuts, which often leave homes and businesses without electricity for over 12 hours. Police used rubber bullets and tear gas to quash the demonstrations. The protesters barricaded roads with rocks and burning tyres. By Thursday afternoon, there were reported incidents of looting at various retailers, appliance stores and banks across the 1.4-million-strong capital.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/25/madagascar-imposes-curfew-after-violent-protests-against-water-power-cuts
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Canadian postal workers strike over axing of door-to-door deliveriesEarlier, Procurement Minister Joel Lightbound announced sweeping changes aimed at shoring up Canada Post’s finances in response to a decline in letter mail and the government corporation’s small share of the parcel market. The changes include introducing more community mailboxes and slower delivery times. The union said it had been caught off guard by the changes and argued that Canada Post and the government were creating the conditions that would further reduce demand for its letter and parcel services.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/canadian-postal-workers-strike-over-axing-door-door-deliveries
CONAIE Condemns Transfer of Protesters to High-Risk Prisons, Accuses Noboa of Criminalizing Protests
“We hold Daniel Noboa’s government directly responsible for these actions that criminalize social protest and place the lives and integrity of our community members and comrades at imminent risk,” Conaie said in a statement. “We demand the immediate release of the detainees, full respect for human rights, and effective guarantees for life,” it added.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/conaie-condemns-transfer-of-protesters-to-high-risk-prisons-accuses-noboa-of-criminalizing-protests/
Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Army Legend, Passes Away in Exile in Cuba
On Thursday, Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “At approximately 1:15 PM on September 25th, my mother, Assata Shakur, took her last earthly breath. Words cannot describe the depth of loss that I am feeling at this time,” Kakuya Shakur, her daughter, wrote on Facebook.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21577/
China launches an investigation into Mexico’s tariffs on imports from Asia
The Commerce Ministry also announced Thursday that it was launching an anti-dumping investigation into pecans imported from Mexico and the United States. Mexico has been under pressure from the Trump administration to limit Chinese imports, some of which the U.S. says use Mexico as a backdoor to the American market.
https://apnews.com/article/china-mexico-tariff-pecan-investigation-58d4ec1c2d583dd7117c6afccaf22683
Thailand to seek referendum on Cambodia border demarcation
"In order to avoid further conflict, the House of Representatives has already set up a committee to study the matter, while the government policy will be to propose holding a referendum on the issue," Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters. A referendum would provide a clear mandate on the matter, he added.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailand-seek-referendum-cambodia-border-demarcation-2025-09-26/
After Anti-Genocide Protests, Microsoft Cuts Israeli Military Off From Cloud Services
Microsoft launched a review last month, after The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call reported that the IDF’s Unit 8200 was using the cloud platform Azure to store data from “millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians” in the illegally occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces have killed at least tens of thousands of people over the past two years.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/microsoft-israel
Israel-Syria talks hit snag over humanitarian corridor, sources say
Israel reintroduced the demand at a late stage in the talks, according to two Israeli officials, a Syrian source and a source in Washington briefed on the talks.
The Syrian source and the source in Washington said the renewed Israeli demand had derailed plans to announce a deal this week. The new sticking point has not been previously reported.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-syria-talks-hit-snag-over-humanitarian-corridor-sources-say-2025-09-26/
Tony Blair proposed as chief of Gaza transitional authority, reports say
Israeli media and the BBC reported on Friday that the former UK prime minister is being considered for the role. Blair, who took Britain to war in Iraq alongside the US in 2003, is said to have held talks about heading the proposed body. The plan would establish a transitional authority in Gaza for up to five years, excluding both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tony-blair-proposed-chief-gaza-transitional-authority-reports-say
New digital ID will be mandatory to work in the UK
Sir Keir Starmer said the new digital ID scheme would make it tougher to work in the UK illegally and offer "countless benefits" to citizens, while his senior minister Darren Jones said it could be "the bedrock of the modern state". However, opposition parties argued the proposals would not stop people crossing the Channel in small boats.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn832y43ql5o
Libyan militia fires on Sea-Watch migrant rescue ship, escalating EU tensions
A Libyan patrol boat fired on the rescue ship Sea-Watch 5 in international waters on Friday, marking the second such attack in a month and heightening scrutiny of EU support for Libya’s coast guard, Sea-Watch said. The German NGO said its vessel was fired at with live ammunition shortly after rescuing 66 migrants. It demanded “immediate clarification and consequences from Italy and the European Union.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/libya-militia-sea-watch-migrant-rescue-ship-eu-tensions/
https://archive.ph/G4GOk
Madagascar imposes curfew after violent protests against water, power cuts
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets on Thursday to voice their anger over persistent power cuts, which often leave homes and businesses without electricity for over 12 hours. Police used rubber bullets and tear gas to quash the demonstrations. The protesters barricaded roads with rocks and burning tyres. By Thursday afternoon, there were reported incidents of looting at various retailers, appliance stores and banks across the 1.4-million-strong capital.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/25/madagascar-imposes-curfew-after-violent-protests-against-water-power-cuts
https://archive.ph/wWx7l
R: 71 / I: 10
>The charges against the 80-year-old, who has been held in a detention facility in the Netherlands since March, are set out in a document that was published by the ICC on Monday.
Tragic end of anti-imperialist hero Rodrigo Duterte
>Former President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has been charged with three counts of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which alleges that he played a role in the murders of at least 76 people during his so-called “war on drugs”.>The charges against the 80-year-old, who has been held in a detention facility in the Netherlands since March, are set out in a document that was published by the ICC on Monday.
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Ideology is dumb
Forget about ideology. Ideology is a delusion, it is bullshit. There is only one reality and this reality will never align with any human model we could ever conceive of. We try in vain to create the universal model that answers every question and solves every problem; when reality inevitably ceases to align with the model we cannot bring ourselves to abandon the model, so we forsake reality. Thus, our model ceases to be a model and instead becomes a false reality. Ideology is a trap. All of the stupidest things human beings ever did can be chalked up to ideology. Destroy all ideology. (Or don't, idc.)
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How does one regain hope in this barren world? Is mysticism an avenue? How can one overcome nihilism
I miss the comfort of religion
Instead I became too self aware, rejected organized religion and suddenly the world looks bare and mechanical and animalistic. Just primitive organisms fighting entropy with whatever means they have. Marxism and politics are no replacement to the transcendance of Christianity. Materialism is a dead end.How does one regain hope in this barren world? Is mysticism an avenue? How can one overcome nihilism
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Why is there NEVER a mass shooting or bombing of billionaires or politicians? There are millions of commies worldwide, and even quite a few libs and radlibs have a burning hatred for these people. And enough of them are schizos, but there is NEVER EVER EVER any attack on the evil bastards? Why? Are the agencies stopping it? Are humans naturally servile and never attack the elites?
OK let's say it's because people are generally nationalistic/chauvinist and don't want to attack their own elites. Then why are the elites of the "Other" not attacked as well by it's enemies? It's always innocents or low ranked losers who are attacked.
Why do the people at the top have fucking plot armor like Batman or James Bond??? Like just shoot him for fucks sake, HES JUST A MAN.
And yet that's STILL more plausible than the story of Real Life where 99.999% of the FUCKING elites NEVER get what they deserve.
Why is there NEVER a mass shooting or bombing of billionaires or politicians? There are millions of commies worldwide, and even quite a few libs and radlibs have a burning hatred for these people. And enough of them are schizos, but there is NEVER EVER EVER any attack on the evil bastards? Why? Are the agencies stopping it? Are humans naturally servile and never attack the elites?
OK let's say it's because people are generally nationalistic/chauvinist and don't want to attack their own elites. Then why are the elites of the "Other" not attacked as well by it's enemies? It's always innocents or low ranked losers who are attacked.
Why do the people at the top have fucking plot armor like Batman or James Bond??? Like just shoot him for fucks sake, HES JUST A MAN.
And yet that's STILL more plausible than the story of Real Life where 99.999% of the FUCKING elites NEVER get what they deserve.