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 No.388764[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

What's the deal with reactionary "communists"
Mandatory reading before answering
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/
(It's old and inaccurate in some ways but dude who wrote that invented the "marxism" term so pay attention.)

I'm talking about people defending family, monogamy and this whole load of shit.

So what now, we're supposed to uphold a capitalist social construction because some state crushed by imperialism said so? Doesn't sound communist to my ears tbh.

Weird pic because it's late and I don't care anymore.
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 No.392219

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>I'm talking about people defending family, monogamy and this whole load of shit.

Reading Origin of the Family we can conclude that
<the family has always existed just in different forms depending on economic mode of production
<this is by no means an excuse for you hippie free love commune.

In fact it is capitalist alienation that is reducing the size of the family and monogamous relationships in society
with the end of capitalism we will see a lot more healthily families and relationships
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 No.392810

>>392219
I agree. People here shit on "1984 larpers", but it seems that being a leftist for them is when you read Brave New World and think it's actually a good thing lol
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 No.392817

>>392810
its a good thing BNW is so underrated so people are content with orgy-porgy for the sake of fighting big brother
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 No.400349

> >>>/dead/ fag
>quoting marx


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 No.210868[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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 No.392961

>>392944
>why new American left isn’t wrong
be he's wrong
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 No.392964

bump
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 No.393649

>>388572
lmao did you cyber autists really report this
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 No.393652

>>392758
did anyone save it?
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 No.412775

>>231854
You've never done any linear programming modeling in your life if you think it can solve a universal economic allocation problem


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 No.384067[Reply]

Has terrorism ever been sucessfully usef to destabilize a country? I have heard of hundreds of groups like this from the 60s to the 90s from all sides of the political spectrum, but they never seem to have gotten anywhere. Is there an example of this strategi unsuccessfully sparking a revolt/uprising or is it just revolutionary idealism? I know it's useless in a neoliberal society, but what about an authoritarian dictatorship with a history of abuse? Is this counter productive and has it ever done anything other than delegitimize a cause and get people killed/tortured/imprisoned end legitimize thw regime's repression?
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 No.392588

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>>392568
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 No.392598

>>384067
"Terrorism" is often the precursor to revolution. It depends on from where it comes from and why.
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 No.392605

>>391027
>>390885
>people are still repeating 100 year old Habsburg imperialist propaganda
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 No.392608

>>392568
Noone is reading this, faggot. Paste this somewhere on reddit
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 No.392770

>>392605
I mean can you blame them that's how most people think the Great War started to begin with. Not realizing there was a bunch of other shit leading up to it and the crocodile tears shed for Franz was just an excuse for the Austro-Hungrians to try and get rid of the Serbs.


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 No.392078[Reply]

False consciousness is generated by the capitalist mode of production which requires as a condition for its functioning the reification of its economic categories. This reification is done by individuals that operate within the capitalist mode of production as members of classes, groups of people that relate to each other socially based on their roles in capitalist production. Class consciousness develops from self-consciousness as individuals identify their material interests as proletarians or capitalists. An individual, as a member of a social class, can be said to harbor a false consciousness when their material interests are obscured by ideology. False consciousness prevents the individual's self-consciousness from developing into class consciousness, a process which on a mass scale prevents the formation of a conscious social class.

The development of false consciousness stifles the struggles between classes, which occur due to the conflicting objective interests of each social class. By preventing the consciousness of the proletariat from interfering with the fulfillment of the material interests of the bourgeoisie, false consciousness directly protects the well-being of a particular social class, the capitalist class. Class-conscious proletarians aware of false consciousness and of their own material interests should consider the abolition of false consciousness a necessary political action for the complete fulfillment of their interests - a necessary action in the process of becoming the dominant class in society.

So far, the concept of false consciousness has been limited in that it has explained only the intelligible social relations of production. Those intelligible relations still structure our thinking, but mass consciousness from the 19th century until today has do-cohered and metamorphosed to the point that it is no longer possible to describe the content of false consciousness using those categories. To explain the source and content of false consciousness, it isn't sufficient to point to the fetishism of commodities, the capitalist phenomenon of interpreting social relations as relations between things, because the false consciousness generated in capitalism is no longer constricted to the domain of production, it has dominated all other aspects of self-consciousness. The traditional Marxist explanation presented, which focuses on commodity production and all of its associated social relations, does not explain false coPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.392463

And yes, I've actually read Marx, Engels, Freud, Lacan, Zizek, as opposed to OP.
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 No.392586

>>392458
Thanks for your thorough reply, it helped me refine my position. I'll go through and clarify some points.
>Consciousness is always already *false consciousness*
>you can actually argue that there are non- (or less-) obfuscatory means to address class relations
I agree that consciousness is never directly interfacing with reality, but what I meant by false consciousness wasn't just obfuscatory means to address class relations, but the fact that they are actually obscured to people who are experiencing them. That's a phenomenon that has always been interesting to Marxists for political reasons, and those political reasons are why I even bothered to make the post.
>The proposed "un-thingified beyond" was never available to us.
Below a certain point, I agree that "thingification" is inescapable, but the "thingification" of the categories of the capitalist of mode of production is temporary, because it is dependent on a transitory mode of production. Because the theory of reification has restricted scope of "thingification", the aim isn't to do away with "thingification" altogether, only to explain how a certain set of thingified social relations affects consciousness and the subsequent political implications.
>Already in "primitive communism" ideology operates and obfuscates the social's access to nature
I agree that ideology is not an element only of class societies, I was distracted by the point I was attempting to make, which remains the same, that ideology obfuscates and directs thought away from a more honest approximation of the real world.
>This is like a pre-modern understanding of the dichotomy of the individual and the social, neither of which could exist without the other.
I completely agree, but I really don't see how this disagrees with what I wrote, given that a dichotomy between individual and the social exists, although each depend upon the other for existence. I made this dichotomy clear because I was attempting to get the point across that, in capitalist production, different classes exist and that these different classes have conflicting interests, which are objective.
>You think this is a revolutionary insight of yoursPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.392587

Where’s your source that it’s false consciousness? Did you pull that out of your ass with out substantiating it?
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 No.392623

>>392587
>Where’s your source that it’s false consciousness?
The concept is introduced because from the perspective of capitalist production, the different classes should have conflicting interests, but in reality these interests are obscured by something else, it's part of the reason why we didn't immediately have communism after capitalism established itself. I agree that calling it "false" consciousness is contentious because it implies that the "true" consciousness is from the perspective of the capitalist mode of production, which would reduce people to economic agents. Whatever you call it, this phenomenon still exists and it poses a political problem for Marxists who might like to spur along class consciousness and the social revolution.
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 No.392641

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>>392586
>Do you think that economic classes based on objective property relations and relations of production exist?
D'uh.

>If they exist, can people identify with them?

"Identification" is NEVER a conscious act. It "happens" from the outside, like how black people come to realize in the USA how "they are black."

>Does the limited scope of "thingification" described in Lukacs reification actually occur?

It does, but the problem is that his reification theory moves beyond of what is given and describes shit that has been going on since we became conscious, him not realizing this.

>If it does occur, is it possible and desirable to expose and oppose this reification?

If you want to oppose capitalist "reification" you should propose a non-capitalist "reification," and that is EXACTLY what Zizek does when he proposes that we should have a "bureaucratic socialism."

>how can it be done today

It can't. I already told you: it is hard coded into our very being (via language, etc.).
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 No.392181[Reply]

I came here to make all of you a question.
Who of you is the most communistier? Explain why your more communist than the other posters of /leftypol/.
I just wanted to ask that, discuss.
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 No.392191

>>392186
>having your fist language be the language of the most capitalistic and bloodthirsty countries.
That makes most non-anglo posters more communistic than anglo-posters imo ngl tbh
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 No.392256

>>392181
something something commodity form
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 No.392264

>>392181
I have a thorough understanding of capitalist production and the social classes that are constituted in it. This understanding includes the conflicting material interests between the classes, and the various forms of social consciousness (ideology) that this conflict has generated. I know that communism is the sublation of this struggle between classes into a new mode of production and therefore a new mode of social organization. Because this conclusion follows from a purely materialist analysis of social relations, this makes me more authentically communist than most on this board who come to a similar conclusion by assimilating an ideology.
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 No.392268

I tested my communist power level yesterday, it’s pretty high I’d say. Vegeta was wrong when he said that “hard work” could not achieve greatness the way “talent” does.
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 No.392296

>>392191
cope and seethe ESL


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 No.391809[Reply]

Are reparations based and should leftist support it?
I know some leftypolack here opposed but i wanna know why would you.
To who should go reparations? Only africans?
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 No.392232

>Are IDpol based?
No. Go to the reeducation camp.
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 No.392248

Any dollar amount that would be electorally feasible would be a band-aid fix
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 No.392543

https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2019/09/04/reparations-to-slave-descendants-in-the-usa-and-germany/
>But the demand for reparations is a bourgeois reformist demand and the bourgeois politicians advocating it will try desperately to eliminate and reference to class and class relations. They will shy away even more decisively from any prospect of forcible confiscation of property from part of the ruling class since that throws the safety of the entire class into question.
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 No.398062

>>392232
Dont care plus ur white
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 No.386712[Reply]

Stupidpol is currently doing a donation campaign to a charity that sends syringes to Cuba to help them fight COVID-19 infections.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cubasi/
https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/omc85d/stupidpols_syringes_4_cuba_campaign_has_kicked/
https://ghpartners.org/syringes4cuba/
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 No.391869

>>391864
They could have cashed in by investing more into public health. Now thousands more will die, which will cause more economic damage than just investing to begin with, not to mention the loss of life, which is of course of most importance to the Cuban government.
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 No.391965

>>391869
Ah yes, Cuba, a country notorious for not investing enough into public health. Just say that you have no idea what's going on.
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 No.392172

>>386712
how are they gonna get it there ?
if not said, basically a scam
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 No.392174

>>391854
>Cuba can import almost anything
well they could, if they had dollars you absolute fucking moron
retarded brainlet have no idea how embargoes work
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 No.392178

>>391869
>Posting this kind of shit
>Even when you're much more likely of dying of COVID in the US than in in Cuba
Stupid Burgeroid


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Police Motor Pool Firebombed by Dutch Anarchist Group, Revolutionary Resistance
Militant anarchists in the Netherlands have claimed the July 15th attack targeting a police motor pool with an improvised incendiary device/explosive device (IID/IED) in the small Dutch town of Gemert. The detonation of the device and the ensuing conflagration destroyed at least one police squad car and seriously damaged two others. The burning vehicles were discovered around 4 a.m. and extinguished.
https://thewannabewonk.substack.com/p/police-motor-pool-firebombed-by-dutch

Kurdish forces claim to have killed nine Turkish invading soldiers as battle rages in Iraqi Kurdistan
KURDISH guerillas claimed on Sunday night to have killed nine Turkish soldiers in raids in the Avashin mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan as fierce fighting continues. According to Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) sources, two military camps and a rocket launcher were destroyed in last Friday’s operation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/kurdish-forces-claim-have-killed-nine-turkish-invading-soldiers-battle-rages-iraqi

Duque isolated as many in Colombia go on strike again
Colombia’s far-right President Ivan Duque found himself isolated on Monday as mayors and protesters prepared for the 84th day of anti-government protests. Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez gave the indigenous people from southwest Colombia a warm welcome as they entered the city to take part in the Independence Day protests.
https://colombiareports.com/duque-isolated-over-colombias-new-anti-government-protests/

Mexican Journalist Shot Dead in Morelia City
A group of armed men opened fire on him in the facility parking lot and drove away through Madero Poniente Avenue. In the attack, an ice-paddle salesman was also hurt. Michoacan State Prosecutor’s Office already arrested three suspects on the La Huerta road, less than three kilometers from the crime scene. The dPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.391732

>>390911
Dutchie here, shut the fuck up bootlicker
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 No.391953

>>391732
Cuban here, kill yourself marxista
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 No.391958

>>391953
>Cuban
<not a Miami Mutt
They’re not sending their best.
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>>391953
German here
are there jews in this room rn?
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 No.391964

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>>391953
American intervention will not give you your family's slaves back


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 No.391424[Reply]

Thoughts on the ideas of Henry George? Seems pretty based to me. Marx was critical of his ideas, agreeing with them in some basic respects but viewing it as a limp half-measure. I disagree with Marx here. George does not have the stigma Marx carries, and his idea is simple and utterly agreeable to all but the most hardened of porkies: people keep the value earned from everything they produce and unearned income from the ownership of land is all that is to be taxed. No sort of wishy-washy neoliberalist critique that taxing land would disincentivize development, land is a necessity and will be developed in more proactive ways if land speculation is impracticable because simply sitting on it will not yield a profit. As this would be a tax on "unimproved land value."

The masses, right or left, except porky would ultimately get behind this idea had it any currency in modern political discourse. As capitalism has curdled over in recent decades and porky has tightened his grip on the levers of power, unearned income is taxed more favorably than earned income.

Georgism is a great hedge between capitalism and socialism. Had Marx saw it more clearly, it could be a viable and massively popular intermediate stage between capitalism and socialism. No income or sales tax? Who would say no to that?

It's clear that unlike an idealistic, huge change such as a massive revolution, popular, uncontroversial practical concrete steps to tip the scales and erode porky's power have a much better chance of putting the first foot forward.
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 No.391600

Henry George was popular in the big cities in the late 19th century. He represented a unique part of the left wing movement, or the broader working class movement that was taking form in the US. Engels talks about him in his notes on Conditions of the Working Class in England. He speaks of where the American working class movement is at by the late 1880s and he talks of the Knights of Labor and the Henry George movement we’re the biggest then. The socialist party wasn’t so popular since it was made up of mostly German immigrants who brought all their experience from 4 decades of class struggle in Europe but had not much experience with it in the US.
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 No.391624

It's interesting how Georgist ideas have almost completely fallen out of favor these days. His book Progress and Poverty was one of the most popular books in US history.
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 No.391897

>>391594
>it's viable as a "stepping stone" is just SocDem rhetoric
George's idea is in the Communist Manifesto. Although you might not think of it as a stepping stone, it does challenge the way people think and leads to people thinking about radical politics, like yourself.
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 No.391931

>his idea is simple and utterly agreeable to all but the most hardened of porkies
DOA.
Porkies will never settle for anything less of the absolute most they can get away with squeezing out of the proletariat. FDR enacted critical labour reforms that directed some of porky's surplus labour profits back the working class to temporarily save capitalism and the American economy during the great depression and Porky called him a communist and made plans to kill him and instate a corporate dictatorship. When the communists won in Cuba, the American state made plans to terror bomb and massacre thousands of their own citizens to blame on the Cubans, in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. Georgism does not work for the same reason social democracy could never work: Porky will never settle with the proletariat, unless the proletariat is strong enough to take much more by force. Once the militant working class is pacified, porky will sink his fangs in once more.
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 No.391948

>>391931
>Porkies will never settle for anything less of the absolute most they can get away with squeezing out of the proletariat.
But landlordism also squeezes Porkies. There's a reason Winston Churchill of all people ran around saying incredibly based things about the parasitism of landlords. They screw over businessmen just as surely as they screw over workingmen.
(Nominally, at least. With modern finance-capitalism it's quite easy to come to an analysis that the situation has shifted as part of the general split of finance and industrial capital, with industrial capital left holding the can or moving to countries which were smart enough to do a bit of the ol' landlord ""classicide"", but it's worth remembering that fundamentally landlordism is a feudal holdover.)


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