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 No.494400[Reply]

Hey, I'm a guest here. Why do leftists believe that sex is morally good and that sex-positivity is nessesary?

I'm currently writing a paper of sorts and I need to know the perspective of the sex-positive.

I'm not looking for pretentious sources that try to overcomplicate themselves to make the author look smsrt. I just need a good explanation of the whole thing.

What do most people here agree is a valid reason to push sex-positivity on society itself?

And what do sex-positivists think of leftist puritism?
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 No.494408

>>494404
>I couldn't tell you about the "dos."
What does "dos." mean?
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 No.494415

You can have sex after you've won something.
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 No.494418

OP, are you ok?
Why are people so morally obsessed with sex and sexuality?
Leftists don't view sex as good. They call anything sexual as "predatory"
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 No.494419

>>494401
>Sex, gooner shit, troon shit, pornography etc is pushed onto people by the ruling class,

This is popular anti-sec sentiment pushed by people.
iMO, there's nothing wrong with sex and porn. People just wanna politicize things that should not be.
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 No.495007

the real contradiction is the promotion of sex, but prohibition of childbirth, making sex a purely destructive act. further, some even think that childbirth should be alienated to central controls (e.g. eugenic breeing) and that de facto, all unplanned pregnancies should be killed.


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 No.494892[Reply]

New big thread for American studies.

Previous thread: >>487075
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 No.494999

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those are very obviously gas chambers you genocidally racist holocaust bound denial-prone white american nazi.
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 No.495000

remember when you all wouldn't stop running the gas chambers no matter what?
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 No.495001

Look at the US military, dont look at us running hitler's army on 4 wheels right now.
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 No.495002

you racist fucking white people dont let any one speak until it's already too late. You built the gas chambers.
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 No.495003

I'm supposed to give you the intel but you all are too fucking gross.


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 No.491830[Reply]

https://cpusa.org/article/imperialism-hurts-workers-everywhere-including-here-in-the-usa/
Imperialism hurts workers everywhere, including here in the USA – Communist Party USA

Genocide

The Netanyahu Israeli government rained down U.S.-made bombs provided by Biden on Gaza killing over 40 thousand Palestinians 80 percent of whom are women and children, destroying most housing, hospitals, schools, universities, mosques, churches, industry, farms. Wantonly killing health care and aid workers, Israel’s siege starves Palestinians of food, water, medicines, sanitation and electricity. Now Trump wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza and turn it into a resort.


Assassinations

On the African continent Burkina Faso’s Thomas Sankara, Congo’s Patrice Lumumba, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and Guinea-Bissau’s Amilcar Cabral were all overthrown and assassinated to assist the continued transnational theft of each country’s resources.


Blockades

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 No.494520

CPUSA are master dickriders
Dickless faggots all of them
Left-imperialists
Cucks
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 No.494521

>>494517
This is pathetic beyond words.
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 No.494524

>>494517
Any org that is still doing this "nothing to see here 'cuz Marxism" shit is totally discredited. It's one thing to think critically about what is or isn't supported by demonstrable facts; it's another to continue to run cover for capitalists' gangster-like collusion and criminality even after they have come to light.

With that said, I refuse to click it - what conclusion did CPUSA reach with this article or segment, can you quote it? I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt even if they are DNC cucks, this is just the introduction - perhaps their conclusion is less stupid. Is it?
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 No.494966

The cpusa is imperialist
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 No.494994

>>493993
🤣🤣🤣


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 No.492247[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Since there have been new doc releases and recent new exposures of notorious child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his activities with Israeli intelligence, Donald Trump, Ehud Barak, (former) Prince Andrew, Peter Thiel, and various ops, corporate states, and world governments, and with new information now coming very fast, I thought I'd create a new thread just to collect more of this new stuff in one place, as well as to potentially add previously released info which might be getting memory holed.
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 No.494562

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World Economic Forum head Borge Brende quits after Epstein links revealed
The World Economic Forum boss, a former Norwegian foreign minister, had dinners and exchanged messages with Epstein.

Borge Brende has resigned from his roles as the president and CEO of the World Economic Forum (WEF), following revelations of his links with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Brende, a former Norwegian foreign minister who became president of the WEF in 2017, announced his departure on Thursday, joining the ranks of prominent figures to have left their jobs or faced criminal investigations after their contacts with Epstein were revealed in files released by the US Department of Justice last month.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/26/world-economic-forum-head-borge-brende-quits-after-epstein-links-revealed
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 No.494572

https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb/status/2027369720987496863
Whitney Webb - Carbyne, the Israeli intelligence linked (and probable front) company that Epstein helped fund and guide along with Ehud Barak and Peter Thiel, now runs and controls the 911 emergency systems throughout numerous states and counties in the US.

Their initial software descriptions revealed that they harvest tons of data from phones that call into those 911 call systems and store that information, previously touting they would use it for pre-crime-style functionality.

You may be outraged about the Epstein files and the Epstein cover-up, but you should also be investigating how nothing practical is being done to dismantle what Epstein helped build. This foreign company should be nowhere near essential US services, but it continues to rack up local contracts.

I wrote about it first in 2019 but recent releases have revealed more of the comms and intent between Barak, Thiel and Epstein.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2019/09/invest

"Carbyne’s call-handling/crisis management platform has already been implemented in several U.S. counties and the company has offices not only in the U.S. but also in Mexico, Ukraine and Israel. Carbyne’s expansion to more emergency service provider networks in the U.S. is likely, given that federal legislation seeks to offer grants to upgrade 911 call centers throughout the country with the very technology of which Carbyne is the leading provider. One of the main lobby groups promoting this legislation, the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), has a “strong relationship” with Carbyne, according to Carbyne’s website. In addition, Carbyne has also begun marketing its platformfor non-emergency calls to governments, educational institutions and corporations."
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 No.494574

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>>494200
>>494303
Photo of current Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on Epstein's island Little Saint James with Jeffrey Epstein.
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 No.494787

>>494552
there's probably a ton of long-term congresspeople like McConnell that have been getting their jollies off at the island for years.

Public pressure is high on the degeneracy of the capitalist class (or "epstein class" kek) but there's no will in the government since they are all the perpetrators.
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 No.485932[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Syrian rebels enter Aleppo three days into surprise offensive
Insurgents had recaptured territory around Syria’s second city with civilians including children killed in fighting

Islamist insurgents have entered Syria’s second city of Aleppo in a shock assault, eight years after forces loyal to Damascus seized control of the city.

Fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began a major offensive earlier this week from their base in the Idlib countryside, a slim strip of land in Syria’s north-west. It took only three days for the fighting to reach Aleppo, with insurgents capturing territory around the city’s outskirts for the first time in four years as Syrian government forces pummelled rebel-held areas.

Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency reported on Friday afternoon that the insurgents had entered Aleppo, while unverified images and video circulating online showed armoured vehicles and armed uniformed militants on its streets. The Associated Press said residents reported hearing missiles striking its outskirts.

The fighting over the last three days had killed 27 civilians, including eight children, David Carden, the UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, told Reuters.

The rebels have rapidly recaptured dozens of towns and villages in the Aleppo countryside, seizing a military base, weaponry and tanks from Syrian government forces, while some Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups based elsewhere in north-west Syria joined the fighting.

The UN said Syrian government forces based in Damascus carried out at least 125 airstrikes and shelled areas across Idlib and western Aleppo controlled by the rebels in response to the offensive, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 46 others, and displacing 14,000 people.

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Al-Sharaa meets Putin as Russia seeks to secure military bases in Syria
Kremlin has not indicated whether it will agree to al-Sharaa’s repeated requests for Bashar al-Assad’s extradition.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow as the latter seeks to shore up Russia’s presence in the country, including militarily, just over a year after al-Sharaa ousted Russia’s former ally, Bashar al-Assad.

Speaking at a news conference before their meeting on Wednesday, al-Sharaa thanked Putin for supporting unity in Syria and what he said was the “historic” role Russia had played in the “stability of the region”.



Putin and al-Sharaa spent more than a decade on opposing sides of Syria’s civil war, prompting concerns in Moscow about the future of Russia’s military presence there.

Before the talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “the presence of our soldiers in Syria” would be discussed. They are stationed at the Khmeimim airbase and the Tartous naval base in Syria’s Mediterranean coastal region.

Earlier this week, Russia reportedly withdrew its forces from the Qamishli airport in Kurdish-held northeastern Syria, leaving it with only its two Mediterranean bases – now its only military outposts outside the former Soviet Union.

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Russian forces have reportedly begun a rapid withdrawal from their military outpost at Qamishli airport in north-east Syria. The pullout occurred just as Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in Moscow for a state visit on 28 January 2026, to discuss the future of Russia's remaining military presence.

Analysts suggest Putin is sacrificing isolated outposts like Qamishli to secure long-term rights to the more vital Hmeimim airbase and Tartus naval base on Syria's Mediterranean coast. Despite the "conciliatory tone" of recent talks, Russia's continued sheltering of Bashar al-Assad in Moscow remains a major sticking point, as Sharaa has repeatedly requested his extradition.

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 No.494461

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/2024933301321171115
"The president of Syria, who I essentially put there, is doing a phenomenal job."

During a press conference at the White House today, US President Donald Trump admits that his administration helped put unelected president Ahmad al-Sharaa into power in Syria.
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 No.494834

The arch-cuck strikes again:

Syrian President Abu Mohammed Al-Julani (Ahmed Al-Sharaa) calls for disarming Hezbollah from the weapons it uses to resist zionist aggression and occupation.
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 No.491353[Reply]

I keep finding myself wanting to post MOATS episodes, but they typically cover so much ground that I don't know where to post them. So here's a thread for discussion of Mother Of All Talk Shows episodes, George Galloway, and the Workers' Party in general.

Today's episode attached - Galloway covers Venezuela, Yemeni retaliations hitting "Israeli" airports, speculates that Iran may respond to "Israeli" threats (in light of previous attacks) with a strike, and more!

WAR GAMES | Pentagon re-named | Venezuela threatened | Russia advances | MOATS LIVE
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 No.494428

02/11/2026:
WAR WH*RE | Netanyahu White House lobby | Epstein and Andrew | Canada shootings | Starmer clings on
🔥 The war machine is roaring again — and tonight on The Mother of All Talkshows, George Galloway takes aim at the political class that feeds it.

From Washington to Tel Aviv, from Gaza to Moscow, power, propaganda and political survival collide in a world lurching from crisis to crisis.

George opens with a blistering monologue on Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House lobby, and the deep entanglement between US politics and Israel’s war strategy. As Gaza remains under bombardment and tensions with Iran escalate, we ask: who is driving the conflict — and who profits from it?

Joining live is Chris Hedges — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former New York Times correspondent, and host of The Chris Hedges Report. Hedges delivers a devastating assessment of the moral collapse of Western leadership, the Gaza war, Washington’s complicity, and the growing authoritarian drift in US politics.

Then, live from Moscow, Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi joins the programme to analyse the Iran angle, shifting global alliances, Russia’s position, and what the White House doesn’t want you to hear about Tehran, Ukraine, and the widening fault lines in global power.

We also examine:
– The resurfacing of the Epstein Files and renewed scrutiny around Andrew
– The Canada shootings and the political fallout
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 No.494429

02/15/2026:
RUMBLE IN THE JUMBLE | Silent summit | Trump, Netanyahu, Iran | Israel’s phoney peace | Epstein now
🌍 RUMBLE IN THE JUMBLE | The world is sliding deeper into chaos — and tonight on The Mother of All Talkshows, George Galloway cuts through the noise.

Was there a silent summit between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu? What is really happening behind closed doors over Iran, Gaza, and the so-called “peace” process? And why are the Epstein Files back in the headlines again — with explosive questions about who is being protected?

🔥 In this episode:

– Trump, Netanyahu and the Iran question
– Israel’s “phoney peace” — ceasefire or cover story?
– The Persian Gulf flashpoint and rising regional tensions
– Washington, Moscow, Beijing — shifting global power lines
– The Epstein Files: are documents being edited to protect Trump?
– Starmer, Congress and the Western political class under pressure

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 No.494430

JAW JAW | Peace pow-wows | Zelensky riles Trump | Iran readies for war | Randy Andy crime probe
🚨 War or peace? Diplomacy or disaster? Tonight on The Mother of All Talkshows, George Galloway tackles the global storm gathering over Ukraine, Iran, Gaza and Washington.

As “peace pow-wows” dominate the headlines, tensions are rising fast. Is Volodymyr Zelensky playing a dangerous game with Donald Trump? Is Iran preparing for open confrontation in the Persian Gulf? And what does it all mean for Israel, Gaza and the wider Middle East?

Joining George:

Larry Johnson – Veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, founder of BERG Associates. A deep dive into the real war report: Ukraine, Washington DC, Moscow and the intelligence reality behind the rhetoric.

Trita Parsi – Executive VP of The Quincy Institute, award-winning author and expert on US-Iran relations. Is the Persian Gulf on the brink? Are we heading toward another catastrophic Middle East war?

Plus:

The Epstein Files fallout

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 No.494495

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT | Royal rumpus | Trump tariff war | Iran in the crosshairs | Pakistan strikes
🚨 ANDREW ARRESTED | Royal scandal. Tariff wars. Iran in the crosshairs. Is the world edging toward a catastrophic escalation?

Tonight on The Mother of All Talkshows, George Galloway examines the Royal rumpus, Trump’s expanding tariff war, rising tensions with Iran, Pakistan’s latest strikes and the mounting geopolitical pressure stretching from Washington DC to Moscow and the Persian Gulf.

Joining George:

Max Blumenthal – Author, journalist and editor of The Grayzone. A forensic breakdown of US foreign policy, Israel, Gaza and the Iran confrontation.

Jackson Hinkle – US political analyst and host of Legitimate Targets. Trump, Washington power struggles and the global realignment.

Plus:

The Epstein Files fallout
Starmer under pressure
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 No.494842

George Galloway:
On Donald Trumps unhinged press conference

A quick summary of Donald Trump’s bizarre sometimes maniacal press conference from Mar a Lago.

As he now frequently does my 18 year old son Zein asked the best question: is he delusional or is he lying. It’s both obviously.

He was lying when he suggested that Iran may have somehow “bought” a Tomahawk missile and fired it at their own school massacring 167 of their own schoolchildren in the first hour of the war (and presumably another to double-tap their desperate parents, teachers, and frantic emergency workers)

In fact this may be the most vile despicable lie an American president has ever uttered in public. And that’s saying something.

It is certainly the most consequential lie because it will define what is left of his presidency.

But he must have delusional to repeatedly declare the Iranian forces as essentially disarmed, with no ships no air defence no missiles no launchers.

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 No.488544[Reply]

Retards here have been claiming an imminent stock market crash for almost 10 years straight.

But it looks like this time we might actually get a crash this time because the Republicans seem to like crashing the market in their second terms.

And it does seem like Trump and his advisors are trying to crash the market.

Either that or Trump's economic advisors are just stupid.
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 No.494250

>>494246
I doubt that anything would change.
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 No.494340

US tech stocks collapsing.
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 No.494827

Futures diving today as oil prices spike.
KOSPI, Nikkei, and Taiwan each plunged 5 to 7 percent as well.
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 No.494836

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Dow Jones down 666 points.
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 No.494838

Ahem.


 No.492068[Reply]

>Be Northern Virginia.

>Corporations build hundreds of data centers that receive most internet traffic.


>So much demand for data centers here that they are literally shutting down garden centers to build more data centers



(Not saying we should do any trolling, but AI slop is ruining the internet, sooo…)

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layerId=0&layers=ffda13ae2bb8433cb1c97258c6474f56
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 No.494779

Northern Virginia is the hub of the bourgeois in America. It contains both the wealthiest and most powerful people. But it isn't a community in any sense of the word, nor are sub-areas.

They could build picket fences over every parcel and nothing would change. Datacenters, unless they make noise bother few.

People are very isolated and everything in public has a price. The mental health of the state and even its economy is in freefall.

Also nothing is going to slow down AI and neo-Ludditism is cringe, especially when made on internet devices and articulated by developers who are just worried about their jobs.
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 No.494780

>>494779
Only thing I disagree with is:
>nothing is going to slow down AI
AI has already peaked. We haven't seen any giant leaps forward from gpt4, so it's slowing down by virtue of the technology reaching it's limits. It's wrong to expect AGI at this rate, rather we will see incremental improvements with diminishing returns.

Economically, the booj are going to ride this bubble until it pops, but then America will truly have nothing left.
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 No.494786

Do Iran's missiles have the range to hit Virginia?
If they take out data centers that would be a big W
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 No.494791

>>494780
this is kinda like the "internet bubble" did companies over-leverage and make too many businesses at that exact moment? sure.

But the internet itself wasn't a bubble it was just getting started, now we've far exceeded the amount of internet businesses seen during the gold rush phase of the internet, by multiples.

> We haven't seen any giant leaps forward from gpt4


Turns out you can pick the worst performing AI company and say anything you want. But 3 years ago people were saying the big LLM models couldn't do basic math (and many couldn't often), now every other cognitive-task oriented professional is using them to do their jobs for them because they've gotten so much more intelligent.
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 No.494826

>>494779
> Northern Virginia is the hub of the bourgeois in America. It contains both the wealthiest and most powerful people. But it isn't a community in any sense of the word, nor are sub-areas.


Does it have to do with the historical cash cow of tobacco plantations?


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 No.494485[Reply]

February 21, 1994 – January 10, 2026
8ch founder Hotwheels has died in his sleep at 31. Brennan created 8ch before the site was stolen by feds in a hostile takeover which eventually led to its end.

https://shows.acast.com/im-from-the-internet-a-podcast-about-somethingawfulcom/episodes/the-late-great-fredrick-brennan-part-one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick_Brennan
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 No.494808

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>>494778
>right-wingers to his site, a space for disgruntled gamergaters
I hope you didn't just do that thing the horseshit games media did. The vast majority of gamergate people were not, in fact, right wing.
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 No.494809

>>494808
yea about half of republicans show up as "left-wing" on the Nolan chart, but what matters are people's speech and actions not their test scores. 8chan's main board was rabidly right-wing the entire lifetime of the site.

Brennan explicitly recruited people from 4chan's /pol/ and /v/, like the central hub of sociopathic right-wingism
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 No.494815

>>494809
>/v/, like the central hub of sociopathic right-wingism
Nah, you're full of shit. There may have been some overlap with /pol/tards but as a whole 4chan's /v/ community covered a pretty general spread of American politics. The transformation of 4chan into Stupid Boomer Politics only happened after the exodus and gamergate.
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 No.494816

>>494815

>may have been


lmao


/pol/ and /v/


you purposefully omitted /pol/ because you know you can't fudge the history on that.


There's only a few readily accessible archives 2014, the year GG hit a peak and then discussion was banned. All I see is right-wingism: hating on jews in multiple separate threads, and promoting right-wing e-celebs like Ed Morrissey and Adam Baldwin

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 No.494817

>>494816
Two celebrities (I don't even remember this Morrissey clown) who don't even use image boards are hardly representative of the general opinion on /v/. Here's my counter anecdote: I was involved in a large project to compile all the games journalism scandals over the years and of the 20-ish people I collaborated with only two of them were hardcore right wingers. There were maybe three or four progressives and socialists on the left, while most everyone else was somewhere in the middle.

>you purposely omitted /pol/

I think it's pretty clear that I'm not disputing /pol/'s politics.


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 No.494673[Reply]

Marxism is not about vibes, justice, or who feels bad. It is about material development. Any attempt to condemn American imperialism on moral grounds is liberal humanism and thus idealism. Despite the moral indignation that are likely to follow this post, let me explain…

As you all know, of all the things Karl Marx was, idealist he was not. Nor was he a moralist for he never gave moral judgements when discussing topics as fraught as juvenile prostitution, and would be incredulous as seeing the self-declared "marxists" of our times using the language of liberal moralisms when it comes to the Epstein saga. Sure, as a man of his time, he wasn't immune to contemporary prejudices as was his case with gay people that I don't need to mention.

Needless to say, unlike whig historians, for Marx history was neither moral nor immoral, but amoral.
Indeed, he described the democide of the Native Americans in the New World and the subsequent settling by European colonists and their African slaves, as well as British colonialism in India, and even slavery in Ancient Greece as progressive in that it advanced societies relative to their predecessors (in ancient Greece's case, from tribal society to city-states). For him, European colonialism was a double mission: Destructive but necessary in order to destroy material obstacles to historical development.

It is with this in mind that I can confidently say that Marx would deem modern American imperialism as a force of progress. If historical progress is defined by the destruction of pre-capitalist social relations and the creation of modern productive forces — then American imperialism is not only progressive, but the most progressive force in human history. After all, for Marx the capitalism of his time was a destructive force of progress that was necessary for communism arises through capitalism, not instead of it. Before objections begin, I'll bluntly state that I'm simply engaging in historical materialism to its conclusions and refuse to apply moral exceptions to the infantilised leftism that dominates the current milieu of the western left.

We may object to it on moral grounds, but if we are to be materialist, then we'd have to acknowledge the following facts with regards to American imperialism in this day and age:

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 No.494698

>>494690
>Reza Shah Pahlavi’s white revolution that, if continued, would have brought Iran into the modern age of industrial production rather than having its industry ossified as it is the case in the present.
What is your basis for this prediction? Under the Islamic Republic, Iran actually has become one of the world's leading manufacturers of drones and Iran is otherwise well-known for having an enormous corps of engineering talent. This in spite of decades of attempts to block Iran's access to outside resources through economic sanctions. Conversely, under many vassal regimes in history the puppeteering power has kept economies purposely undeveloped in order to exploit cheap labor.
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 No.494699

>>494698

That shows how little you know about Iranian modern history, for the very weapons manufacturing and educated human capital you praise theocratic Iran for is built on the back of Pahlavi's white reforms which not only increased literacy in the country, but also kickstarted a minor Industrial Revolution that today's Iran continues to rely on to this day. Matter of fact, economic growth under Reza Shah approached close to 10%, while today growth has been stagnant even factoring for western sanctions.

If the 1979 revolution never occurred, then Iran would be wealthier than today, and with a more proletarianised populace as well. This are just facts you can easily read on any book on Iranian history, not an endorsement for current attempts by the American empire at re-instituting the bourgeois monarchy.

Just because Iran today sits on the opposite end of the USA doesn't mean that I, a historical materialist, will make a moral exception for that bourgeois theocracy in west Asia solely because it's besieged today. Moralisms and shitlib idealism shouldn't seep into material analysis.
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 No.494700

>>494699
>If the 1979 revolution never occurred, then Iran would be wealthier than today
On the one hand there would probably be less economic sanctions and Western attacks on them to contend with over the decades. On the other hand their oil sovereignty would still be in the hands of British Petroleum.
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 No.494758

>slavery in Ancient Greece as progressive in that it advanced societies relative to their predecessors (in ancient Greece's case, from tribal society to city-states)
Completely ahistorical nonsense. Not only did city-states exist well before the Greek Classical period, but it was preceded by a historically regressive period at the end of the Bronze Age where creditor oligarchies were allowed form and seize control of governance away from the palace monarchies that had once kept them in check. This gave way to people losing first their land and then their freedoms by creditors. The same thing happened in the late Roman Republic, and a similar, more rigorously documented phase happened in Mesopotamia at the end of Hammurabi's Babylonian dynasty. In all cases they led to the mass enslavement of civilizations, a dramatic reduction in written records, desertion of urban centers, and stagnation in innovation beyond warfare.

It was not slavery that played a progressive role in the Greek Classical period. It was figures like Solon issuing mass debt amnesties that built a body of free citizens to give way to democracy. Or, when city-states like Argos experienced cataclysmic disasters in warfare, they were forced to make new citizenship bodies out of the slave population and the consequent turn over lead to democratic rule. Slavery has never been a progressive force in history, it represents something more akin to a destructive detour on the path of progressive development.
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Firstly, Kudos on such a great effortpost in the era of AIposting on imageboards.
However, I disagree with your primary thesis. If Marx would alive today he wouldn't be using the same analysis of the 1800s, because he understood that dialectical materialism requires our analysis to adapt to changing circumstances. The US has next to no organized work force and technology has only inched forward since the cold war. Technologies such as AI which only exist to kill jobs and surveille the working class are anything but progressive.

>Iran's archaic mode of production and imperialism

You'll need some evidence for this bold take. To where does Iran export capital? What private monopolies does Iran extend past its borders? Funding groups like Hamas is not imperialism by any definition. I'll admit that I also find the uncritical support given by "tankies" to be cringey, but the wholesale destruction of Israel should be celebrated by everyone, Left or Right, Gentile or Jew.

Marx had just begun to investigate metabolic rift and the externalities of capitalism in his final years. I doubt he would have the same productivist focus today when we see the pollutions of capitalism poisoning our bodies, minds, and planet.


All-in-all, a good post. You're wrong, but it's still a good post and I hope you have a good day.


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