/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>480520
Yep. Did.

Thousands participate in global protests targeting economic arteries and weapons manufacturers

On April 15, thousands of peaceful protesters around the world demonstrated against the ongoing US-Israeli genocide in Gaza by blocking traffic on major bridges, roadways, airports, and inside and outside the offices of weapons contractors and government buildings.

As of this writing protests, some involving a few dozen people, while others have drawn in several hundred, have taken place in Melbourne, Australia; Gothenburg, Sweden; Barcelona and Tarragona, Spain; Zwolle and Utrecht, Netherlands; Copenhagen, Denmark; Swalwell, Leeds and London, England; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Ottawa, Ontario; Vancouver, British Columbia; Montreal, Quebec; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois; New York City; Elizabeth, New Jersey; Eugene, Oregon; Oakland and San Francisco, California; San Antonio, Texas; Washington D.C. and many other cities.

Defying police violence, job loss and “antisemitism” slanders for over six months, millions of people around the world have participated in protests against the US-NATO-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. Since October 7, the Israeli military, supplied with billions of dollars in bombs, bullets and missiles by the US government, has killed over 33,000 Palestinians, according to the official count by the Gaza Health Ministry, although the true death toll is likely far higher.

On April 11, human rights organization Euro-Med Monitor released a report estimating that in addition to the over 33,000 dead, another 13,000 Palestinians were missing “under debris, buried in indiscriminate mass graves, or forcibly disappeared in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, where some have been been killed.”

The organization divided the missing into four categories: dead buried under the rubble, dead buried in mass graves or “in haphazard individual” graves, those whose bodies have been exhumed by the Israeli military and stolen/relocated, and those whose fate is unknown. The organization had previously documented more than “120 random mass graves.” Recently, the organization working with rescue teams and civil defense crews, recovered 422 Palestinian bodies at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex and in Khan Younis following the temporary withdrawal of the Israeli military.

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>>480533
sauce: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/16/myjd-a16.html

>>480510
>>480531
>>480533
Woah so much Pure Ideology

The are no "unemployed people". Unemployment is an attribute of economic systems like capitalism, it's not an attribute of people.

Socialism has full-employment policy hence it has no unemployment. Feudalism had 90% unemployment because 90% of the people were agrarian serfs that weren't payed a wage by an employer. This clearly proves it's a system-attribute. Technically speaking most capitalists aren't really employed workers either.

>>480394
>The economic relations in the Soviet Union had some left over feudal and capitalist relations, and the dominant mode of production was lower stage socialism.
I don't believe in lower stages, communism, and other shit that doesn't logically follow from histmat.

We have empirical (ie historical) data only about two industrial modes of production: ancient-industrial and asicatic-industrial. That's it.

So your appeals to pulled out of the ass future stages means nothing to me.

>Which did not produce class divisions.
It did.

Class composition of the SU was extensively analyzed by Voslensky in his "Nomenklatura" from marxist positions.

It took a person ACTUALLY LIVING under that mode of production to actually analyze its class character. Duh.

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>assuming one ideological school is universally applicable
ISHYGDDT

Material conditions, people.

>>480405
So your ideology is that material conditions matter more than anything else.

>>480406
Prove it.

>>480407
And now your ideology is that assertions must be proven. How ideological of you.

>>480266
Youre confusing all education as the same.

Higher education should be more for white collar. Theyre forcing young people to be these absolute polymaths with all this scholastic stuff but theyre scared of teaching young people technical skills.

>>480269
>theyre scared of teaching young people technical skills.
Who's they, and how do we get young people interested in technical tinkering ?

>>480266
there is no reason this shit should be 4 years

KISS, you don't need any math for majority of work

cut the length, cut the costs

1 year and you get your degree, that's what I'm talking about

>>480271
We all start out interested in technical tinkering as kids.

Also by "they", I mean adults in general.

>>480265
The K-12 grade-level educational system was made in Prussia circa the 18th century.
Germans adapted it.

>>480144
>The quickest way is to start the work now and not stop.
So grinding for political power ?
I guess that requires analyzing what the neo-libs do to entrench their power and then use that to fuel the grind, the harder they seek to entrench: the more fuel. This type of activity is incredibly miserable for normal people, we won't be able to do it unless we find a way to counteract the "mental abrasion".

>We need to reindustrialize, and small-scale won't cut it.
The small scale stuff is something that can be done right now.
Reindustrializing only happens as a public sector expansion via appropriate industrial policy, that requires political changes, ie later.

>Yes, they want to militarize
>and we need to prepare to crush that
Sure, reigning in military spending is needed, but how would you achieve that ?
They continue to provoke conflicts to justify military spending.
They make the people in other countries fight and die, to avoid political backlash at home.
If they try to conscript westerners, we'll have a unstoppable peace movement of epic scale within a week, but as long as the dying is externalized…
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>>480133
>just curious, do you see a reason to attempt building alternate distribution system?

You have to pay for shipping, so that means whatever we produce, part of it would have to be sold so that we have cash to pay for our operations. An alternate distribution network would be necessary if we can't do that, or for example if we have perishable food that we need delivered quickly, locally.

Can we think of a commodity that's going to be the most impactful for the people to produce for themselves?
I'm sitting here thinking what to eat for lunch so it's gotta be food right?

Let's think it through:

The criteria should be:

1. It has to make sense for us to produce ourselves, either because it frees us from reliance on corporations, or because it can be made competitively and we get rich, and use that money for socialist shit.

I was going to also include this:
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>>480162
So you want
- food preparation with a local distribution network.
- Value added metal production, for "high tech shit" like machine tools.
Sounds reasonable enough, can i ask why no end-consumer stuff ?

> It has to make sense for us to produce ourselves, either because it frees us from reliance on corporations, or because it can be made competitively and we get rich, and use that money for socialist shit.
I can agree with the idea of reducing corporate dependency.

But if you want to get rich in current conditions, there's basically just energy and war industry, every other sector is getting shafted. Those are very dangerous monopolies that are racking in preposterous profit margins, they will sabotage your operation or just flat out murder you if you compete with them.

>>480171
Actually isn't what I want closer to a commune then?

>>480199
Lets say there is some overlap with a commune.

>>480166
Yeah, that and if you're on there, you're forced to Combat Liberalism a lot

Hi mate, I'm already working that thread from the inside. I'm posting some communist materials where I can, and otherwise riling up the rorkes over there x

>>480145
I don't know what to think about this, on the one hand they kidnapped a fucking head of state, on the other hand it's a illegitimate dictator they installed.

>Washington is once again carrying out regime change in Haiti
I'm guessing this is more of a regime shuffle, because nothing significant really changes and Shit continues to be fucked up.

>>480150
>I don't know what to think about this, on the one hand they kidnapped a fucking head of state, on the other hand it's a illegitimate dictator they installed.

I mean, the reason they're doing it is to re-take control of Haiti.

>I'm guessing this is more of a regime shuffle, because nothing significant really changes and Shit continues to be fucked up.

"fucked up" isn't a quantifiable status tho.

>>478114
More like picrel, plz.

>>478114
What Losurdo?

>>478506
no, not losurdo

>>478114
>>479650
Maybe 'Another View of Stalin' by Ludo Martens from Belgium?

What about Harpal Brar from the UK? He is a member of the British 'Stalin Society'.

>>480058
sadly a dengoid and a vaxcuck

>>479950
Yes, + opposed to general US fuckery both wrt China and wrt Gaza.

>>479951
I mean, they elected another Marcos, so… that's at least equally baffling.

>>479959
yeah i would not necessarily blame that on Filipino people because you know how difficult it is to get reformers elected that prioritize the needs of the masses, especially when there's a big super-power putting its thumb on the scale.

>>479950
The US elites learned lessons of Vietnam war too well. Wars go much smoothier if the coffins arrive to another country instead of yours.

>>480076
You're hinting at the Ukraine proxy war ? While there are few coffins coming back from that war, it's not going smooth either.

>Waffle House’s mandatory meal credit policy means that at least $3 dollars is deducted from workers’ pay every shift, regardless of whether we actually eat.


Dafaq? How is that legal.

>>480015
I have no idea if it actually is legal. I assume it's a deliberate abuse of a 'loophole,' but sometimes those "loopholes" don't actually exist and it's just a big exercise in pretending that whatever wage theft "trick" employed is legal. Not sure.

>>480013
<we didn't steal 3 bucks from our workers per shift, we deducted it
wow that's so petty

based, waffle house is easily one of the most obviously illegal and evil employers in the usa. maybe we should print out waffle house union propaganda and pass it around at our local waffle houses. only problem is the food is such disgusting poisonous proleslop that i can't think of a good reason to go there

>>480035
I like waffle house

>>479962
yeah i'm wondering about that too.

>>479962
I believe that court case is still ongoing.

>>479973
maybe they were self-aware on some level ?

>>479974
Probably, yes.
That's a weird habit of certain kinds of tremendously evil people. Like the Ku Klux Klan with the whole dressing as ghosts and burning crosses thing, La Cagoule in France, the Romanian Iron Guard, Haiti's Tonton Macoute, etc.