/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>the ancient ecosystem of the Huwaizah Marshes
They're actually not quite that ancient. In antiquity the marshes were largely drained for irrigation canals by the Sumerian city-states, and the shore of the Persian Gulf was much closer inland. Eventually silt deposition in the Euphrates and Tigris deltas pushed the Persian Gulf further south, contributing to the abandonment of many Sumerian urban centers and creating space for marshlands to develop.

>>496053
Interesting. 🤔

>>496053
That's wild

Imperialism 101 by Michael Parenti Excerpted from Against Empire
Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject of imperialism has been sanitized, so that empires become “commonwealths,” and colonies become “territories” or “dominions” (or, as in the case of Puerto Rico, “commonwealths” too). Imperialist military interventions become matters of “national defense,” “national security,” and maintaining “stability” in one or another region. In this book I want to look at imperialism for what it really is.
https://www.michael-parenti.org/article-class-warfare-indeed

Dem-Backed ICE Body Cams Are a Giveaway to Weapons Makers
Amid President Donald Trump’s violent immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, industry-backed Democrats just helped congressional Republicans turn proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reforms into a $20 million windfall for the body camera industry. Federal disclosures reviewed by the Lever show that Axon Enterprise, Inc., a weapons company and the country’s largest manufacturer of body-worn cameras, has lobbied aggressively since July on the $64 billion Department of Homeland Security spending bill that lawmakers passed on Thursday. The company’s CEO, a regular campaign contributor to Republicans, also donated directly to key Democratic lawmakers who pushed for the body camera measures. Now, the company is well-positioned to reap the benefits of the $20 million allocated by the legislation for body cameras as part of ICE’s extended $10 billion budget, on top of the $75 billion in additional funding the agency received from the One Big Beautiful bill last year. Axon has faced lawsuits for monopolizing the police body camera market and raising prices on local government contracts. Its profits have soared despite recent studies casting doubt on body cameras’ ability to curb law enforcement misconduct. The homeland security spending bill has faced public opposition as unrest grows nationwide over ICE’s tactics. But instead of organizing against thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Consortium News had a nice little send off to Parenti in their weekly wrapup yesterday. It's in the last 10min. I've always respected Joe Lauria for focusing on just the facts with Consortium News without wearing politics on his sleeve, but I had no idea he was so heavily influenced by Parenti. I think I'm going to finally get off my ass and read Inventing Reality after this.

Grayzone tribute to the life and work of Michael Parenti

In defense of Yugoslavia: Max Blumenthal on Michael Parenti's bravest work
On April 24, 2026, Max Blumenthal addressed a memorial for the late socialist scholar Michael Parenti at the Universal Unitarian Church in Berkeley, California.

Blumenthal emphasized to posthumous attacks on what he called Parenti's most courageous work: his book, To Kill A Nation, exposing the planned breakup of Yugoslavia and NATO's subsequent war on Serbia.

>>496039
Would have made Parenti proud.

I've realized since… 2024 or 2025 that LaRouchites unironically are actually great academics. A lot of the research they've done is rock solid and just doesn't exist much outside of their work. I don't know if they're right about the British or not, but they definitely make a good case for it. I respect Jose Vega more than I respect a lot of other politicians.

I mean British bankers did finance Hitler…

>>494513
>LaRouchites unironically are actually great academics. A lot of the research they've done is rock solid
first thing I read in the morning after I wwake up thinking that maybe goyim deserve to live.

>>495997
Did you know that a guy named Simon Wolf, a prominent Freemason (later president of B'Nai B'Rith) whose masonic lodge pledged allegiance to Confederate General Albert Pike (an even more prominent Freemason), and who was a close friend & confidant of Abraham Lincoln, was once arrested by the Union Army on suspicion of Confederate espionage and later met with John Wilkes Booth on the morning of Lincoln's assassination?

I would literally not have ever known this had I not happened upon pages from LaRouchite publications. I had to look for Wolf's autobiography myself just to try and verify it, because it's such an astonishing thing to just not be common knowledge at all - and sure enough, it's right there in Simon Wolf's autobiography.

First two pics attached from Wolf's 1918 autobiography, third from part of an article in Executive Intelligence Review circa May 1993.

No.

Yes.

Double no.

>>495925
>>495955
undialectical

No

Can you even define a "lumpen" as a class?

>>495977
>romanticizing lumpen
It's 2026 and you're still using this retarded claim. Nobody is "romanticizing" anything. You talk about the segments of the working class as though they're some distant thing for us to fantasize about, but it's not the case. I don't have to "romanticize" anything; I'm lumpen, and I have plenty of experience with others in this strata. I make no broad positive or negative claims about lumpenproles; no pedestals, no moralistic condemnations, our class status is related to our material conditions, and I don't believe, from my experience, that this inherently results in reactionary behaviors as an entire strata.

By contrast, the capitalist propaganda which perpetually incites working people against other working people, and perpetually obfuscates the crimes of the rich while condemning the crimes (and supposed crimes) of low-level workers, is by its nature reactionary, and it's very telling that this is the only thing you focus on perpetuating when you come here and make your same old strawman argument about how everybody on the left today totally thinks lumpenproles are magic negros who spray sunshine out of their butts.

>Bukele is super popular
Also super mobbed up. An insanely corrupt guy whose actual programme is based around incorporation of large drug cartels' influence into state policy, and heavy backing from the U.S.

>lumpens can be tools of reaction like fascist paramilitias
Weird thing to argue while also shilling for Bukele. I'm told (by you every time you post this dumb argument) to uncritically believe that fascist paramilitaries are popular with the working class, so if your argument is that lumpens are inherently fascistic, then what's the problem? That's popular, or at least seems to be if you evaluate nothing else and don't take any other factors into account.

Marx's tirade about the lumpenproletariat, his most famous one, besides being a short part of a broader bibliography whose ire was focused far more against capitalists, landlords, etc. than against lumpen (unlike bourgeois propaganda, which incites especially against lumpenproles), was also distinctly moralistic. It's far, far, far away from the height of material analysis when he's basically just compPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>495981
… but with that said, there are two aspects which are still insightful. First, the concept of the lumpenprole itself comes from it, and second the description of the "reserve army of labor" actually is helpful and useful and you can actually understand the situation better if you focus on this aspect of the analysis and not all the shit where Marx is seething over how much he personally hates prostitutes. Seething over hookers isn't worth shit; a Fascist can blame the hookers for moral rot and seethe over it and incite, and those who have not been relegated to the positions of whores (yet) might cheer. It's worth much more to understand why lumpens exist, and to use that understanding to create a society with more educated people and more opportunities which produces less need for people to became prostitutes or beggars.

This naturalismizing tendency of class pseudostudies is just the sign of childs' fake marxism. Learn proper marxoid science and think in actual true categories. Think about goyim.

This is Stalinist revisionism.
https://www.leftvoice.org/marxism-stalinism-and-queerphobia/

https://www.leftvoice.org/marxism-stalinism-and-queerphobia/
By decriminalizing male homosexuality, the Bolsheviks stood in the long tradition of the labor movement. In 1898, for example, the leader of the German Social Democrats, August Bebel, had been the first politician to call for homosexual emancipation in a parliament. Three years earlier, socialists had defended the famous writer Oscar Wilde when he was put on trial for his homosexuality. Eduard Bernstein sharply criticized the idea that homosexuality deviated from “nature,” proposing instead that it be understood as a deviation from “the firmly maintained fictional norm,” and holding that “there is no reasonable ground why a similar contract between man and man should be criminally punished.”7 Socialists were not the only ones to call for the legalization of homosexuality. After the October Revolution, however, they not only raised the demand but actually put it into practice.

errm his daughter described him as gay so its safe too say he was a faggot or else how could Marx x Lasselle yaoi exist

>>495929
Stalin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Marx

m8 this is an English image board

>>495972
chauvinist spotted

ok bro

baysd

>critical support
>critical
Nah fam I ain't critical of shit. China has my support 100%. They should annex my country and yours, and send your leftcom asses to the morgue.

i am instantly suspect of anyone who either glazes or trashes on China
they just don't get it

*suspicious
lol

>>495867
>shit no-one said
woah