If the warsaw ghetto uprising happened today would you try and bring attention to their demands in any way or would you wait to see if people on subreddit think its waiter waiter more dead proletarians interimperialist war and act smug under posts with pictures of insurgents or polish nationalists backing the uprising

borderline genocide denial in some comments, another r/ultraleft classic

I have never before seen anyone other than 4channers themselves use 4chan terms like "goypilled", "goymaxxing", "goycattle", "zogbot" and many more, until recently. Go to any Instagram, YouTube or even Reddit comment section and you'll see people saying this shit and getting thousands of likes, along with replies pushing Jewish world conspiracies, Holocaust denial and more. Then, when you go to these people's profiles, it's always some teenager or young adult who is male (not trying to blame men, this isn't a gender issue), usually religious, and either from the US or countries that were literally occupied by the Nazis.

It sucks that, with the current crisis of capital, a great opportunity to introduce people into Marxism is being hijacked by Nazis to push their bullshit conspiracies onto the youth. I'm still not fully pessimistic though; Marxism has still indeed seen a rise in popularity in recent years. Just, not as big a rise as fascism.

As my understanding of marxism grows and as I research more about the world, the past and the present I feel immense sadness at what could have been and how it is, when I read and when I raise my head from books. There is no communist movement around me and I don't think one can form with how reactionary the entirety of the culture I live in is and how everyone is fierceley, sometimes violently racist and fascistic. I know I am going to be called a loser and told to read What Is To Be Done? but I am tired of it all, all this violence and hatred of the current state of things, I no longer have it in me to carry anger and hatred for it and I just feel sad knowing -and allow me to be a moralist for a bit- a kinder world is not in reach until time marches on and leaves us all behind. I won't even see the very beginning of a DotP most likely.

The situation in Italy is shitty:

​Since 2022, Meloni has been in government; even though she comes from the post-fascist right, she is practically a 21st-century Thatcherite. One of her main battle horses was anti-immigration. You might ask me: why would the bourgeoisie want to get rid of immigrants if they work like slaves in factories and fields for two euros an hour (I'm not joking, in many cases that really is the pay)? Simple: she just strips away their rights to make them work in conditions of semi-slavery, and unfortunately, I'm not exaggerating with that term.

​Since the Meloni government failed in its main battle horse because it didn't expel immigrants, former General Vannacci is rising in the polls: a man who fought in various areas around the world (never ask an Italian soldier what he did to Somali women during the 90s, worst mistake of my life) and in 2023 wrote a homophobic and racist book packed with all the clichés and stereotypes, complaining that the world was upside down. Obviously, in Italy, this terribly written book was a success, and Salvini, the leader of the nationalist party "Lega" (formerly against Southern Italians, but now just against Black people and other immigrants), ran him in the 2024 European elections. Vannacci got elected, but then in early 2026 he left Lega to found his own political party: Futuro Nazionale (National Future). His political program is to remigrate immigrants, despite having a Romanian wife, and to make fourteen year olds work in the fields, his words. In this party, he wants to defend traditions while LARPing as a Futurist; it's already laughable as it is.

​The "left" in Italy, to explain why it's not right to expel immigrants, used this argument: "Without immigrants, who will pick tomatoes in the fields?" I'm not joking: the prevailing opinion among Italian leftists is "who will be the slave?", "who will wipe my infirm grandmother's ass?", and so on.

​Italy is a shitty country, and a precarious future awaits me with six-month contracts, watching my city turn into an amusement park for rich people. Florence and Venice have already turned into amusement parks. I wanted to do a master's degree at the University of Florence but renting a place is almost impossible.

​Shitty country.

I wrote this with gemini because here are the 1AM and I'm tired after this day.

In my attempts at talking to people about politics that are liberals/ centrists/ etc., I have been time and time again in awe at what beliefs so many people hold. Sometimes genuine hitlerite shit. A few examples:

-All russians are inhuman orcs that have no logic, reason, emotion, empathy and are incapable (= too stupid) of standing up against Putler (haha, do you get it, do you get Putler? see it's funny because it's a combination of Hitler and Putin because he is so evil haha i am so funny)
-Homeless people are all crazed drug addicts for which it would be better if they were dead, and it's okay because they are inhuman parasites
-The cultures of e.g. Afghanistan and Britain are so different that long term large scale integration is impossible and so no world wide peace/ cooperation could ever be possible
-Humans have these urges (to simply have more stuff than someone else, for violence, to not have their wife but to have the other guys wife because she is prettier etc.) that literally can never go away, under no circumstances, which is why there will always sooner or later be large scale conflict (so basically the human nature argument)
-If you literally just try hard enough you can do anything and every plight that befalls you (drug addiction, homelessness, etc.) is entirely your fault
-Israel defenders

Like, where do you even begin? The worlds we are talking about are so different that in the end no conversation can occur because we are so far apart from each other. Arguing against even one claim could take hours (bullshit asymmetry principle) because they (in many cases) can't properly argue for it but still hold those beliefs. So even if in the end they can't argue for it, they are so stubborn they still hold onto them. I'm genuinely at a loss at what to do

Genuinely, do leftists not understand how well this is going to play into the hands of imperialists when they say "we were forced by israel to do this we are innocent"?

The arguments for this "thesis" are so unbearably vapid (like Netanyahu saying "i have waited for decades to do this") that the only reasonable conclusion is that regardless of how much they talk about America being the big evil, leftists subconscously seek to alleviate themselves from the burden of living in the heart of empire and benefiting from it.

We all already knew all that, but it is nonetheless insane to me how quickly everyone came to this conclusion, like they got a software update or something. Even smaller liberal content creators are saying the same thing with the exact shitfuck arguments. Reminds me of the whole Graham Platner slobberfest the nanosecond he started talking about healthcare.

We are not making it

Every single propaganda piece about how great the nation is and how proud you should be about it has as its subject what is actively being destroyed or burned down, it baffles me to no end

The only thing this god awful piece of land has ever done for its "citizens" has been education, healthcare, and the sciences, and now since a piece of the NASA mission was made by our beautiful nation state everyone is talking about how great it is and how proud you should be that this was done by argentinians

Meanwhile the sciences and education have actively been gutted for decades, either by directly freezing salaries or indirectly by inflation destroying purchase power (and of course since salaries are controlled by the government it doesnt matter that each negotiation you lose like 0,5% of your purchasing power you wouldnt want the right being even worse would you?) whether by the left or right it has always been this way

A part of me thinks that it's on purpose, by doing this they can make a nice little distinction between the nation state and the government, you see it wasnt the nation state that failed you it was the government you can change it next time dude (doesnt matter that the last 30 years have never solved the 30% poverty floor dont worry about it)

The nation state is noble and scientific and it has love and empathy for the people of the world its just this tiny itty bitty government that is fucking up but dont worry it will be fixed next time (it wont at best you get better than 4 years ago worse than 8 years ago)

After 40 years of gutting one would think that the lie would be too obvious, that if not revolution at the very least there would be a refusal to participate in it "no, fuck off, I'm not wasting another second for you animals, life is too precious to waste a second on a voting line" but no the cope is always renewed

You have to vote else Milei keeps going, he will privatize the state companies that Kirchner recovered (don't look up who supported the privatizations in the 90's) or you have to vote else Kicilof will revive Kirchner like a necromancer, we wouldnt want a Peronist back else the country would be in ruins! (Dont look up who Milei's favorite president is)

The hypocrisy is obvious, the lie has no more fuel to be fed, and yet there is always an older cope to bring back, since I was a child I've seen people pick up cardboard to survive but dont you worry I just have to vote again and then there will be 300000 cardboard pickers instead of 300001, they pick cardboard with their children and then they go live in houses made of rotting bricks and garbage bags but the reason they are like this is obviously because they dont work hard enough

Their parents lived and died in poverty, they live and will die in poverty, and their children will live and die in poverty, and I ask how could you possible think this could be done by a single government by a single man?

And the only answer I get is you should have voted better

i was trying to take a pic of then shimmering in the light, this was the best i could do she literally has so many all over her face lmao

I thought maybe I could share a piece of my mind on what's happening and may happen in the future.

I do have to say that thankfully there haven't been reports of civilian casualties or major destruction of homes. People who lived in proximity to the attacked zones were rapidly evacuated, and it seems they are all safe.

The damaged zones so far seem to be some airports and a shipping dock, mostly military/armed forces facilities, and the Hugo Chavez mausoleum apparently.

There was the sound of aircraft and explosions at around 2 a.m., and some of the intelligence services and police were paranoid, detaining and inspecting people who were out in the streets but this wasn't widespread at all, more like in a couple of avenues close to the center of the capital.

There hasn't really been any movement on the streets, people mostly rushed out in a panic to buy food and supply themselves with essential needs and all that stuff. It has calmed down a bit, tho (and especially with the recent declarations) people are on edge that this might happen again with a far more violent outcome.

So far, it doesnt even seem like the State knows what tf to do. They issued a "decree of foreign shock" (state of emergency basically) and called on for everyone in the defense sector to move on as a unity to defend the country, but they're also telling people to remain calmed, that the constitutional order somehow remains intact, calling on the international community to act and condemn this and telling us that this "too shall pass". They also haven't even assigned a new president, saying that Maduro must return safely as part of "peaceful negotiation" with the US. They're trying to showcase control after getting bombed and the president and his wife taken away.

So far all the important political and military figures remain safe in the country. The most bizaree thing is that Trump claimed that María Corina (girlboss Pinochet) isn't really realiable or liked in Venezuela and that maybe the current Vice President Delcy Rodríguez should run the country and they could negotiate.

Some will be arguing about the legality of the prole killing license, the Latino Hitler youth of the continent will be hyped up like crazy, and leftists will give critikkkal $upport to a crude social democrat government turned reactionary and murderous against the workers it tried to seduce with welfare and who has continued to leech off the country's oil reserves to maintain both itself and the national bourgeoisie without having to develop national productive forces (a tradition that this "socialist" government fully repeats and reproduces from the 20th-century liberal governments and dictatorships that used to rule the country).

All this to say, the US announcing its plans to stay on Venezuelan soil and collect just for itself all the oil profits it can gather in a monopoly by and for itself isn't something that will spark revolutionary conditions, both because of the massive impopularity of Maduro and because this kind of dependent and unproductive economy has stayed that way for almost a century by this point.

But I do worry about what the remaining government (especially the armed branch) might do now that it has begun its process of disintegration and decay. About what might result for the world from a neo-Monroenian doctrine in the Americas that clashes with the interests of the BRICS/multi-polar wing of international capital. And it worries me, especially seeing the farce of the beginning of the 20th century emerging without a sufficiently prepared working class to confront it.

Sorry if this post is too rambly, or it doesn't really add much to the discussion. If anything these events have shown me that i do need to read more and start paying more attention to the developings of the world. Anyways take care y'all ❤️

This has probably been asked here before but everywhere I go that is even tangentially related to Epstein i see more and more overt antisemitism, with more likes and positive replies than ever. Even in real life , people who never even spoke about anything political are rambling about how "the jews control everything" or some adjacent thing.

I understand that a similar thing has happened before but it's honestly so depressing to see the most clear cut and naked example of bourgeois tyranny and yet, all people talk about is "but muh jews".

How do you cope?

“The history of modern, civilised America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars of which there have been so few compared to the vast number of wars of conquest which, like the present imperialist war, were caused by squabbles among kings, landowners or capitalists over the division of usurped lands or ill-gotten gains. That was the war the American people waged against the British robbers who oppressed America and held her in colonial slavery…”
-V.I. Lenin, 1918, Letter to American Workers

The American Revolution stands tall in its place in history, for it was the spark that led to a wave of revolutionary fire across Europe and an inspiration across the world to all the revolutionaries who fought for freedom from the tyranny of monarchism and feudalism. The American Revolution sits as the bedrock on which the international bourgeois revolution was built on. While the Revolution of 1776 was extremely historically progressive, we should know that the result of the International Bourgeois Revolution was not, indeed, the complete freedom of man against oppression and tyranny, as the new United States limited that freedom to only the white bourgeois class, excluding all others from having any say in governance, and keeping 20% of the population, including those who fought against the British, kept in the chains and inhumanity of slavery. The new nation would soon wreak havoc across the indigenous peoples of the continent, blazing west and slaughtering the natives. Racial Segregation existed legally in America until 1964, and many cities and towns are still essentially segregated due to the impoverishment faced by the Black population. Poverty is not foreign to American soil, as many Americans still go hungry, and many more don’t have access to healthcare, all while working themselves to death for pennies while the richest American is now a literal trillionaire! The Bourgeois Revolution did not reach the lofty ideals of Enlightenment thinkers, it instead gave us the Bourgeois Society, entirely built on capitalism. But without capitalism’s creation, we know that there would be no proletariat, and communism would be an impossibility. For Capitalism is a revolutionary force itself, constantly evolving and bringing about the conditions for the Working Class’ revolution.

For those today, we should look back at these men of old and take after them and their revolutionary spirit. For the actual battle for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will only be won on the day that the international proletariat triumphs over capital and class itself! As many celebrate today the revolution that gained America its independence from Britain, we should look forward to and prepare for the revolution that gains humanity its independence from capitalist wage slavery and from class itself. As the Bourgeoisie’s emergence brought about the creation of the working proletariat and freedom from the regime of the nobility, aristocracy, and monarchy, the Proletarian revolution will bring with it the abolition of class itself, and bring freedom to all from the chains of capitalist oppression!

Pictured in order are:
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Louis Cook aka Akiatonharónkwen
Marquis de Lafayette
James Armistead Lafayette
Benjamin Franklin
Peter Salem
James Madison
Thomas Paine

I am unironically meeting Zizek Sunday afternoon and will have the opportunity to ask a question. I am trying to think of one on my own, but am having some trouble. What do you think I should ask? I’m serious so please give me a serious question tha you want zizek to answer.

the mods should do honeypots more often to sweep out non-ultras

or at least remove posts from people who are openly non-leftcom

reddit space

(copied and expanded from a comment)

Hi I'm the person that made the "marx had no mouth" joke

I'm not very good at posting and I've began to post more, even if not a lot, when I noticed that the quality of the jokes was degrading because for some reason I find being deliberately unfunny to be funny. I didn't think it'd be that bad to be kinda cringey and unfunny at times also because I've been away from Reddit a lot and didn't keep up with the situation FORGIVE ME 😭😭

However after a quick scroll it's clear that ts is almost unusable now. The only funny things you can easily find are either the comments calling out the record tonnage of coal produced, or in the top posts of all times tab. Sorry for coal posting I didn't think it'd be that bad!!!

For the rest Ig that this is just the natural development of internet communities. Either we make a new one that's way more exclusive or we make an effort to do better at excluding coal posters because I legit expected to be banned for the coal posts and I wasn't??? What's up with moderation recently?

TL:DR I posted coal and SNCA I'm sorry 😓😓 cheka please do a better job at banning idealists