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by Las Islas de Metanoia » Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:09 am
by Rojava Free State » Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:11 am
Las Islas de Metanoia wrote:So the other day I found out that my mother who was deeply religious had a hidden life, before the Church led People Power Revolution she apparently joined the Communist New People's Army and had guerrilla operations in the mountains.
I am conflicted she always told me to be a good Catholic but he subscribed to Communist ideology which was vehemently Atheist.
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by Las Islas de Metanoia » Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:26 am
Rojava Free State wrote:Las Islas de Metanoia wrote:So the other day I found out that my mother who was deeply religious had a hidden life, before the Church led People Power Revolution she apparently joined the Communist New People's Army and had guerrilla operations in the mountains.
I am conflicted she always told me to be a good Catholic but he subscribed to Communist ideology which was vehemently Atheist.
Feeling's mutual. Knew a girl from your country who cheated on her boyfriend with a Romanian guy and then said to me "I'm a good christian, I love my husband." The art of being fake, being a hypocrite and living double lives must be something people in the Philippines learned from America, since we're experts at that kind of stuff.
by Las Islas de Metanoia » Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:28 am
The New California Republic wrote:
Hi folks! Welcome to the 9th iteration of the Left Wing Discussion Thread. As always please follow the forum rules when posting here. Take a break if you start feeling angry, instead of that anger determining the content of your posts here.
Relevant subjects for discussion include:
- The politics, philosophies, and ideologies of the political left.
- Left-wing perspectives on economics and political economy.
- News and history relevant to the political left.
- Left-wing responses to current events.
- Left-wing perspectives on social and economic problems.
- Political, social, cultural, and economic problems and their solutions according to the political left.
- Leftist intersectionality with movements aimed at alleviating the suffering of oppressed minority groups such as the LGBT+ community, oppressed racial minority groups, and more.
- The problems facing particular left-wing movements or the political left in general, and how to resolve them.
Poll History:”What kind of Leftist are you?”Total Votes: 2121 (Recorded 28/11/2016)
- Centrist/Moderate/Third wayer - 279 (13%)
- Social Liberal - 259 (12%)
- Social Democrat - 338 (16%)
- Green Progressive - 188 (9%)
- Democratic Socialist - 433 (20%)
- Marxist Communist - 246 (12%)
- Anarchist Communist - 202 (10%)
- Other (please state) - 176 (8%)
”What type of leftist are you?”Total Votes: 418 (Recorded 26/12/2016)
- Left-leaning Centrist - 50 (12%)
- Social Liberal - 57 (14%)
- Social Democrat - 62 (15%)
- Democratic Socialist - 80 (19%)
- Marxist Communist - 59 (14%)
- Anarchist Communist - 41 (10%)
- Collectivist Anarchist - 9 (2%)
- Individualist Anarchist - 10 (2%)
- Revolutionary Syndicalist - 22 (5%)
- Other (Please State) - 28 (7%)
”What type of leftist are you?”Total Votes: 436 (Recorded 05/02/2017)
- Left-leaning Centrist - 57 (13%)
- Left/Social Liberal - 51 (12%)
- Social Democrat - 73 (17%)
- Democratic Socialist - 78 (18%)
- Libertarian Marxist - 22 (5%)
- Other Marxist - 43 (10%)
- Social Anarchist - 31 (7%)
- Individualist Anarchist - 13 (3%)
- Revolutionary Syndicalist - 21 (5%)
- Other (Please State) - 47 (11%)
”Favourite Left-Wing Thinker?”Total Votes: 150 (Recorded 19/02/2017)
- John Rawls - 11 (7%)
- John Stuart Mill - 12 (8%)
- Karl Marx - 44 (29%)
- Max Stirner - 11 (7%)
- Simone de Beauvoir - 1 (1%)
- Noam Chomsky - 13 (9%)
- Peter Kropotkin - 30 (20%)
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - 6 (4%)
- Slavoj Žižek - 7 (5%)
- Other (Please State) - 15 (10%)
”Favourite Left-Wing Politician?”Total Votes: 151 (Recorded 14/03/2017)
- Bernie Sanders - 25 (17%)
- Clement Attlee - 9 (6%)
- Eugene V. Debs - 19 (13%)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt - 37 (25%)
- François Mitterand - 1 (1%)
- Nikita Krushchev - 4 (3%)
- Nelson Mandela - 21 (14%)
- Salvador Allende - 8 (5%)
- Tony Benn - 4 (3%)
- Other (Please State) - 23 (15%)
”Favourite Left-Wing Social Movement/Revolution?”Total Votes: 421 (Recorded 29/7/2017)
- French Revolution, 1789 (France) - 61 (14%)
- Spring Of Nations, 1848 (Europe) - 34 (8%)
- October Revolution, 1917 (Russia) - 60 (14%)
- Spanish Revolution, 1936 (Spain) - 57 (14%)
- Chinese Communist Revolution, 1946 (China) - 14 (3%)
- Resistance To Apartheid, 1950 (South Africa) - 24 (6%)
- Cuban Revolution, 1953 (Cuba) - 19 (5%)
- Civil Rights Movement, 1954 (USA) - 123 (29%)
- Occupy Movement, 2011 (International) - 10 (2%)
- Other (Please State) - 19 (5%)
”Preferred economic system?”Total Votes: 400 (Recorded 05/11/2017)
- Welfare Capitalism 92 (23%)
- Market Socialism 62 (16%)
- Mutualism 10 (3%)
- Syndicalism 40 (10%)
- Communalism 13 (3%)
- State Planning 36 (9%)
- Decentralised Planning 27 (7%)
- Higher Phase Communism 38 (10%)
- Left-wing Market Anarchism 15 (4%)
- Other 67 (17%)
Left-leaning Centrist
105 13%
Left/Social Liberal
74 9%
Social Democrat
115 14%
Democratic Socialist
139 17%
Marxist Communist
139 17%
Social Anarchist
50 6%
Individualist Anarchist
38 5%
Revolutionary Syndicalist
39 5%
Communalist
27 3%
Other (Please Post)
71 9%
Total votes : 797 (6/3/18)Was Trotsky Polyamorous?
Yes 141 58%
Yes 103 42%Who are the greatest threat to the Revolution?
Class traitors 9 5%
Social Democratic Fascists 17 9%
Bourgeois Homosexuals 30 16%
Kulaks 7 4%
Trotskyite Conspirator Saboteurs 16 9%
Actual Capitalists and Fascists 103 57%
Total votes : 182Poll 1: Bread poll! Which Bread Anarchism is the best? (65 votes total)
- Bread Santa, of course! - 3 (5%)
- Bread Santa but more red. - 3 (5%)
- Seriously? THIS is a poll? - 4 (6%)
- Yes. - 3 (5%)
- The Conquest of Bread. - 3 (5%)
- I knead to get out of this thread. - 5 (8%)
- Can you not be OP anymore? - 5 (8%)
- No. - 13 (20%)
- Fully Automated Luxury Hella Queer Space Anarchy forever! - 11 (17%) ( ;~; )
- Torra, are you okay? Are you inbread? Because these poll options suck. - 15 (23%)
Poll 2: Roughly where do you sit on the left-wing of the political spectrum?
- Yes. - 6 (17%)
- Center-left, authoritarian. - 1 (3%)
- Center-left, libertarian. - 3 (9%)
- Center-left, centrist. - 4 (11%)
- Mid-left, authoritarian. - 1 (3%)
- Mid-left, libertarian. - 4 (11%)
- Mid-left, centrist. - 3 (9%)
- Far-left, authoritarian. - 1 (3%)
- Far-left, libertarian. - 10 (29%)
- Far-left, centrist. - 2 (6%)
Poll 3: Title Time! Which Title Should We Have?
- Keep it as it is. - 4 (11%)
- Yes. - 6 (17%)
- Bread Dead Redemption. - 18 (50%)
- Makhno Mistake, The Left is The Best! - 4 (11%)
- The Right Can't Fight! - 4 (11%)
Poll 1: What do you think is currently the most successful existing example of a leftist movement globally?Poll 2: Which Book on Leftist Ideology is Your Preferred Book?
- Rojava, Northern Syria (2,000,000 people, acting as a governing body since 2014 and autonomous since 2016; Semi-Direct Democratic Libertarian Socialism) - 57 (40%)
- The Zapatista Autonomous Communities, Chiapas, Mexico (364,000 people, autonomous since 1994; Direct Democratic Libertarian Socialism) - 37 (26%)
- The DSA, USA (60,000 members as of 2019, founded in 1982; Democratic Socialist/Social Democratic, depending on region or person) - 11 (8%)
- The International Workers' Association (17 member groups across the world, founded in 1922; Anarcho-Syndicalism) - 10 (7%)
- The Committee for a Workers' Internationale (41 member groups globally, founded in 1974; Trotskyist) - 7 (5%)
- Movement for Socialism, Bolivia (88/130 Deputies and 25/36 Senators, has democratically held power since 2006; Socialism of the 21st Century) - 20 (14%)
- Other (Please Explain) - 32 (25%)
- The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) - 23 (18%)
- The Conquest of Bread (Peter Kropotkin) - 24 (19%)
- Das Kapital (Karl Marx) - 21 (16%)
- What is Property? (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon) - 2 (2%)
- Guerilla Warfare (Che Guevara) - 8 (6%)
- Mutual Aid (Peter Kropotkin) - 2 (2%)
- Profit Over People (Noam Chomsky) - 4 (3%)
- The Ego and Its Own (Max Stirner) - 8 (6%)
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber) - 5 (4%)
Poll 1: Who is your favorite breadtuber?
- ContraPoints - 44 (26%)
- Hbomberguy - 21 (12%)
- Shaun and Jen - 6 (3%)
- Innuendo Studios - 8 (5%)
- Philosophy Tube - 22 (13%)
- Peter Coffin - 2 (1%)
- Three Arrows - 12 (7%)
- BadMouseProductions - 21 (12%)
- Thought Slime - 5 (3%)
- Other - 31 (18%)
Under which leaders (if any) was the Soviet Union socialist?
Lenin (1918-1924) 404 34%
Stalin (1924-1953) 219 19%
Khrushchev (1953-1964) 147 12%
Brezhnev (1964-1982) 122 10%
Gorbachev (1985-1991) 122 10%
Never 164 14%
- Socialism (Sylvia Pankhurst)
- The Soul of Man under Socialism (Oscar Wilde)
- Public Ownership and Common Ownership (Anton Pannekoek)
- Capitalist Property (Paul Lafargue)
- The Principles Of Communism (Friedrich Engels)
- The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels)
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Friedrich Engels)
- Wage, Labour, and Capital (Karl Marx)
- Value, Price, and Profit (Karl Marx)
- Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (Karl Marx)
- Critique of the Gotha Programme (Karl Marx)
- Synopsis of Capital (Friedrich Engels)
- Reform or Revolution (Rosa Luxemburg)
- The State and Revolution (Vladimir Lenin)
- An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory (Ernest Mandel)
- Anarchism: From Theory to Practice (Daniel Guérin)
- Anarchism and Other Essays (Emma Goldman)
- What Is Communist Anarchism? (Alexander Berkman)
- Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Peter Kropotkin)
- The Conquest of Bread (Peter Kropotkin)
- The Unique and Its Property (Max Stirner)
- The Right To Be Greedy (For Ourselves)
- Social Ecology and Communalism (Murray Bookchin)
Videos
- Vox: How wealth inequality is dangerous for America (2:35)
- 8-Bit Philosophy: Is Capitalism Bad For You? (3:39)
- Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: What is Social Democracy? (3:48)
- 8-Bit Philosophy: What is Marxism? (Karl Marx + Super Mario Bros.) (3:51)
- The Next System Project: What is Economic Democracy? (3:52)
- The Next System Project: The Pluralist Commonwealth (4:18)
- The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine (4:46)
- Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris (6:47)
- Intro to Anarchy: Power & Violence (7:53)
- The history of Anarchism in 8 minutes (8:27)
- The School of Life: Political Theory – Karl Marx (9:27)
- RSA ANIMATE: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (10:56)
- Karl Marx & Conflict Theory: Crash Course Sociology #6 (11:19)
- TED Talks: How economic inequality harms societies (16:47)
- The RSA: David Harvey on The Contradictions of Capitalism (18:47)
- Marxism lecture by Prof. Raymond Geuss 1/8 (32:41)
- Socialism Has Never Worked? (43:26)
- The Society of the Spectacle (1:14:40)
YouTube Playlists
- Philosophy Tube's Series on Marx
- Reading Marx's Capital Vol 1 with David Harvey
- Reading Marx's Capital Vol 2 with David Harvey
- Law of Value (the labor theory of value) (Kapitalism 101)
- Libertarian Socialism 101 (Libertarian Socialist Rants)
YouTube Channels
- ContraPoints
- Anarchopac
- Mexie
- ProSocialism
- BadMouseProductions
- Xexizy
- Kwame Genov
- Herbal HRT Garden
- Socialism Explained
- What is Anarchism?
- Zero Books
- Libertarian Socialist Rants
- AnarchistCollective
- LeftSphere
- Ex Worker
- ComradeBun
- Audible Socialism
- Shaun and Jen
- Red Vanguard Radio
- TheFinnishBolshevik
- Endymion
- azureScapegoat
- Red Star Videos
- Flea Market Socialist
- /leftypol/ Videos
- leftypol
- Garrett
- Socialism Or Barbarism!
- Bat'ko the Manarchist
- Chomsky's Philosophy
- Zizekian Studies
- Slavoj Zizek Videos
Lots of free leftist literature is available at:
Free leftist audiobooks are also available at:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/AudioSocialism/
- https://www.marxists.org/audiobooks/index.htm
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvfeZJmLFo2o90A0v3ce2_Q/videos
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaO1QA8QL99_eb0XhJI2Fyw/videos
Other useful resources:
by Rojava Free State » Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:53 am
Las Islas de Metanoia wrote:Rojava Free State wrote:
Feeling's mutual. Knew a girl from your country who cheated on her boyfriend with a Romanian guy and then said to me "I'm a good christian, I love my husband." The art of being fake, being a hypocrite and living double lives must be something people in the Philippines learned from America, since we're experts at that kind of stuff.
Nah, more than anything Americans are deeply honest, I think being honest about your intentions and emotions is a sign of strength at least from a position of power since you can be more honest about yourself when can control everyone but you have to shut up about your intentions if you're a powerless slave. That's why I really admire honest labor class people, especially if they go against you despite their weakness.
Maybe my mom hid things from me because she had a "Metanoia" moment, when she was pregnant with my sister with dictator's soldiers who spared her life because she was raped instead, she then had an about turn; she said that, she has kids to take care now, she was very willing to throw away her life for the cause but now that she has another kid to take care, she had to work within the system.
That's why she kept drumming in me "humility! humility!" the meek and kind will inherit the earth. And she wanted to keep her communist episodes a secret for our own safety. Had I gone on with my genetic predisposition of our soldier and knightly lineage of always looking for honor in war, she would probably be a poor insurgent until now instead of a judge and a prospect of the Philippine Supreme Court.
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by Cisairse » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:03 am
Albrenia wrote:So in ye olde Communism, who owns a business where the production is done by self-maintaining robots?
by Cisairse » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:04 am
Greater Miami Shores wrote:The leftists and the right wingers just have very different, economic, political, social and cultural views, it does not mean the right wingers are bad and evil and the leftists are good. It does not mean the leftists are bad and evil and the right wingers are good. We have very different ways of thinking.
by Cekoviu » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:06 am
Cisairse wrote:So in ye olde Communism, who owns a business where the production is done by self-maintaining robots?
by Cisairse » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:06 am
Rojava Free State wrote:Las Islas de Metanoia wrote:
Nah, more than anything Americans are deeply honest, I think being honest about your intentions and emotions is a sign of strength at least from a position of power since you can be more honest about yourself when can control everyone but you have to shut up about your intentions if you're a powerless slave. That's why I really admire honest labor class people, especially if they go against you despite their weakness.
Maybe my mom hid things from me because she had a "Metanoia" moment, when she was pregnant with my sister with dictator's soldiers who spared her life because she was raped instead, she then had an about turn; she said that, she has kids to take care now, she was very willing to throw away her life for the cause but now that she has another kid to take care, she had to work within the system.
That's why she kept drumming in me "humility! humility!" the meek and kind will inherit the earth. And she wanted to keep her communist episodes a secret for our own safety. Had I gone on with my genetic predisposition of our soldier and knightly lineage of always looking for honor in war, she would probably be a poor insurgent until now instead of a judge and a prospect of the Philippine Supreme Court.
My mom is basically a political normie, being a Biden supporter, and my dad is a borderline fascist so that's...uncomfortable. Nothing in their political past that's weird.
And I dont know if Americans are honest. I think we were very honest recently when we elected Trump, since we were finally admitting to the world:
•We don't value freedom.
•We don't value human life.
•We accept feelings over facts.
•We have alot of racists in our country.
•We love reality TV and all its obnoxious and vulgar behavior.
Trump is the president we definitely didn't need, but we absolutely deserved as a people.
by Rojava Free State » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:09 am
Cisairse wrote:Rojava Free State wrote:
My mom is basically a political normie, being a Biden supporter, and my dad is a borderline fascist so that's...uncomfortable. Nothing in their political past that's weird.
And I dont know if Americans are honest. I think we were very honest recently when we elected Trump, since we were finally admitting to the world:
•We don't value freedom.
•We don't value human life.
•We accept feelings over facts.
•We have alot of racists in our country.
•We love reality TV and all its obnoxious and vulgar behavior.
Trump is the president we definitely didn't need, but we absolutely deserved as a people.
Hey, don't attribute the views of radical right-wing religious fundamentalists to all of America. Remember, a majority of American voters voted against Trump.
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by Cisairse » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:12 am
Rojava Free State wrote:Cisairse wrote:
Hey, don't attribute the views of radical right-wing religious fundamentalists to all of America. Remember, a majority of American voters voted against Trump.
Yes, about 48% didnt vote for trump, compared to his 45%, but clearly we need to do a better job fighting these ideologies.
Speaking of that, sounds like my dad is ranting about martial law and loss of freedoms cause of COVID again.
by Rojava Free State » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:16 am
Cisairse wrote:Rojava Free State wrote:
Yes, about 48% didnt vote for trump, compared to his 45%, but clearly we need to do a better job fighting these ideologies.
Speaking of that, sounds like my dad is ranting about martial law and loss of freedoms cause of COVID again.
That's not how numbers work. 53.9% of voters voted against Trump. That's an even higher number than voted against Romney in '12.
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by LiberNovusAmericae » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:18 am
Las Islas de Metanoia wrote:The New California Republic wrote:
Hi folks! Welcome to the 9th iteration of the Left Wing Discussion Thread. As always please follow the forum rules when posting here. Take a break if you start feeling angry, instead of that anger determining the content of your posts here.
Relevant subjects for discussion include:
- The politics, philosophies, and ideologies of the political left.
- Left-wing perspectives on economics and political economy.
- News and history relevant to the political left.
- Left-wing responses to current events.
- Left-wing perspectives on social and economic problems.
- Political, social, cultural, and economic problems and their solutions according to the political left.
- Leftist intersectionality with movements aimed at alleviating the suffering of oppressed minority groups such as the LGBT+ community, oppressed racial minority groups, and more.
- The problems facing particular left-wing movements or the political left in general, and how to resolve them.
Poll History:”What kind of Leftist are you?”Total Votes: 2121 (Recorded 28/11/2016)
- Centrist/Moderate/Third wayer - 279 (13%)
- Social Liberal - 259 (12%)
- Social Democrat - 338 (16%)
- Green Progressive - 188 (9%)
- Democratic Socialist - 433 (20%)
- Marxist Communist - 246 (12%)
- Anarchist Communist - 202 (10%)
- Other (please state) - 176 (8%)
”What type of leftist are you?”Total Votes: 418 (Recorded 26/12/2016)
- Left-leaning Centrist - 50 (12%)
- Social Liberal - 57 (14%)
- Social Democrat - 62 (15%)
- Democratic Socialist - 80 (19%)
- Marxist Communist - 59 (14%)
- Anarchist Communist - 41 (10%)
- Collectivist Anarchist - 9 (2%)
- Individualist Anarchist - 10 (2%)
- Revolutionary Syndicalist - 22 (5%)
- Other (Please State) - 28 (7%)
”What type of leftist are you?”Total Votes: 436 (Recorded 05/02/2017)
- Left-leaning Centrist - 57 (13%)
- Left/Social Liberal - 51 (12%)
- Social Democrat - 73 (17%)
- Democratic Socialist - 78 (18%)
- Libertarian Marxist - 22 (5%)
- Other Marxist - 43 (10%)
- Social Anarchist - 31 (7%)
- Individualist Anarchist - 13 (3%)
- Revolutionary Syndicalist - 21 (5%)
- Other (Please State) - 47 (11%)
”Favourite Left-Wing Thinker?”Total Votes: 150 (Recorded 19/02/2017)
- John Rawls - 11 (7%)
- John Stuart Mill - 12 (8%)
- Karl Marx - 44 (29%)
- Max Stirner - 11 (7%)
- Simone de Beauvoir - 1 (1%)
- Noam Chomsky - 13 (9%)
- Peter Kropotkin - 30 (20%)
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - 6 (4%)
- Slavoj Žižek - 7 (5%)
- Other (Please State) - 15 (10%)
”Favourite Left-Wing Politician?”Total Votes: 151 (Recorded 14/03/2017)
- Bernie Sanders - 25 (17%)
- Clement Attlee - 9 (6%)
- Eugene V. Debs - 19 (13%)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt - 37 (25%)
- François Mitterand - 1 (1%)
- Nikita Krushchev - 4 (3%)
- Nelson Mandela - 21 (14%)
- Salvador Allende - 8 (5%)
- Tony Benn - 4 (3%)
- Other (Please State) - 23 (15%)
”Favourite Left-Wing Social Movement/Revolution?”Total Votes: 421 (Recorded 29/7/2017)
- French Revolution, 1789 (France) - 61 (14%)
- Spring Of Nations, 1848 (Europe) - 34 (8%)
- October Revolution, 1917 (Russia) - 60 (14%)
- Spanish Revolution, 1936 (Spain) - 57 (14%)
- Chinese Communist Revolution, 1946 (China) - 14 (3%)
- Resistance To Apartheid, 1950 (South Africa) - 24 (6%)
- Cuban Revolution, 1953 (Cuba) - 19 (5%)
- Civil Rights Movement, 1954 (USA) - 123 (29%)
- Occupy Movement, 2011 (International) - 10 (2%)
- Other (Please State) - 19 (5%)
”Preferred economic system?”Total Votes: 400 (Recorded 05/11/2017)
- Welfare Capitalism 92 (23%)
- Market Socialism 62 (16%)
- Mutualism 10 (3%)
- Syndicalism 40 (10%)
- Communalism 13 (3%)
- State Planning 36 (9%)
- Decentralised Planning 27 (7%)
- Higher Phase Communism 38 (10%)
- Left-wing Market Anarchism 15 (4%)
- Other 67 (17%)
Left-leaning Centrist
105 13%
Left/Social Liberal
74 9%
Social Democrat
115 14%
Democratic Socialist
139 17%
Marxist Communist
139 17%
Social Anarchist
50 6%
Individualist Anarchist
38 5%
Revolutionary Syndicalist
39 5%
Communalist
27 3%
Other (Please Post)
71 9%
Total votes : 797 (6/3/18)Was Trotsky Polyamorous?
Yes 141 58%
Yes 103 42%Who are the greatest threat to the Revolution?
Class traitors 9 5%
Social Democratic Fascists 17 9%
Bourgeois Homosexuals 30 16%
Kulaks 7 4%
Trotskyite Conspirator Saboteurs 16 9%
Actual Capitalists and Fascists 103 57%
Total votes : 182Poll 1: Bread poll! Which Bread Anarchism is the best? (65 votes total)
- Bread Santa, of course! - 3 (5%)
- Bread Santa but more red. - 3 (5%)
- Seriously? THIS is a poll? - 4 (6%)
- Yes. - 3 (5%)
- The Conquest of Bread. - 3 (5%)
- I knead to get out of this thread. - 5 (8%)
- Can you not be OP anymore? - 5 (8%)
- No. - 13 (20%)
- Fully Automated Luxury Hella Queer Space Anarchy forever! - 11 (17%) ( ;~; )
- Torra, are you okay? Are you inbread? Because these poll options suck. - 15 (23%)
Poll 2: Roughly where do you sit on the left-wing of the political spectrum?
- Yes. - 6 (17%)
- Center-left, authoritarian. - 1 (3%)
- Center-left, libertarian. - 3 (9%)
- Center-left, centrist. - 4 (11%)
- Mid-left, authoritarian. - 1 (3%)
- Mid-left, libertarian. - 4 (11%)
- Mid-left, centrist. - 3 (9%)
- Far-left, authoritarian. - 1 (3%)
- Far-left, libertarian. - 10 (29%)
- Far-left, centrist. - 2 (6%)
Poll 3: Title Time! Which Title Should We Have?
- Keep it as it is. - 4 (11%)
- Yes. - 6 (17%)
- Bread Dead Redemption. - 18 (50%)
- Makhno Mistake, The Left is The Best! - 4 (11%)
- The Right Can't Fight! - 4 (11%)
Poll 1: What do you think is currently the most successful existing example of a leftist movement globally?Poll 2: Which Book on Leftist Ideology is Your Preferred Book?
- Rojava, Northern Syria (2,000,000 people, acting as a governing body since 2014 and autonomous since 2016; Semi-Direct Democratic Libertarian Socialism) - 57 (40%)
- The Zapatista Autonomous Communities, Chiapas, Mexico (364,000 people, autonomous since 1994; Direct Democratic Libertarian Socialism) - 37 (26%)
- The DSA, USA (60,000 members as of 2019, founded in 1982; Democratic Socialist/Social Democratic, depending on region or person) - 11 (8%)
- The International Workers' Association (17 member groups across the world, founded in 1922; Anarcho-Syndicalism) - 10 (7%)
- The Committee for a Workers' Internationale (41 member groups globally, founded in 1974; Trotskyist) - 7 (5%)
- Movement for Socialism, Bolivia (88/130 Deputies and 25/36 Senators, has democratically held power since 2006; Socialism of the 21st Century) - 20 (14%)
- Other (Please Explain) - 32 (25%)
- The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) - 23 (18%)
- The Conquest of Bread (Peter Kropotkin) - 24 (19%)
- Das Kapital (Karl Marx) - 21 (16%)
- What is Property? (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon) - 2 (2%)
- Guerilla Warfare (Che Guevara) - 8 (6%)
- Mutual Aid (Peter Kropotkin) - 2 (2%)
- Profit Over People (Noam Chomsky) - 4 (3%)
- The Ego and Its Own (Max Stirner) - 8 (6%)
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber) - 5 (4%)
Poll 1: Who is your favorite breadtuber?
- ContraPoints - 44 (26%)
- Hbomberguy - 21 (12%)
- Shaun and Jen - 6 (3%)
- Innuendo Studios - 8 (5%)
- Philosophy Tube - 22 (13%)
- Peter Coffin - 2 (1%)
- Three Arrows - 12 (7%)
- BadMouseProductions - 21 (12%)
- Thought Slime - 5 (3%)
- Other - 31 (18%)
Under which leaders (if any) was the Soviet Union socialist?
Lenin (1918-1924) 404 34%
Stalin (1924-1953) 219 19%
Khrushchev (1953-1964) 147 12%
Brezhnev (1964-1982) 122 10%
Gorbachev (1985-1991) 122 10%
Never 164 14%
- Socialism (Sylvia Pankhurst)
- The Soul of Man under Socialism (Oscar Wilde)
- Public Ownership and Common Ownership (Anton Pannekoek)
- Capitalist Property (Paul Lafargue)
- The Principles Of Communism (Friedrich Engels)
- The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels)
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Friedrich Engels)
- Wage, Labour, and Capital (Karl Marx)
- Value, Price, and Profit (Karl Marx)
- Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (Karl Marx)
- Critique of the Gotha Programme (Karl Marx)
- Synopsis of Capital (Friedrich Engels)
- Reform or Revolution (Rosa Luxemburg)
- The State and Revolution (Vladimir Lenin)
- An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory (Ernest Mandel)
- Anarchism: From Theory to Practice (Daniel Guérin)
- Anarchism and Other Essays (Emma Goldman)
- What Is Communist Anarchism? (Alexander Berkman)
- Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Peter Kropotkin)
- The Conquest of Bread (Peter Kropotkin)
- The Unique and Its Property (Max Stirner)
- The Right To Be Greedy (For Ourselves)
- Social Ecology and Communalism (Murray Bookchin)
Videos
- Vox: How wealth inequality is dangerous for America (2:35)
- 8-Bit Philosophy: Is Capitalism Bad For You? (3:39)
- Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: What is Social Democracy? (3:48)
- 8-Bit Philosophy: What is Marxism? (Karl Marx + Super Mario Bros.) (3:51)
- The Next System Project: What is Economic Democracy? (3:52)
- The Next System Project: The Pluralist Commonwealth (4:18)
- The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine (4:46)
- Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris (6:47)
- Intro to Anarchy: Power & Violence (7:53)
- The history of Anarchism in 8 minutes (8:27)
- The School of Life: Political Theory – Karl Marx (9:27)
- RSA ANIMATE: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (10:56)
- Karl Marx & Conflict Theory: Crash Course Sociology #6 (11:19)
- TED Talks: How economic inequality harms societies (16:47)
- The RSA: David Harvey on The Contradictions of Capitalism (18:47)
- Marxism lecture by Prof. Raymond Geuss 1/8 (32:41)
- Socialism Has Never Worked? (43:26)
- The Society of the Spectacle (1:14:40)
YouTube Playlists
- Philosophy Tube's Series on Marx
- Reading Marx's Capital Vol 1 with David Harvey
- Reading Marx's Capital Vol 2 with David Harvey
- Law of Value (the labor theory of value) (Kapitalism 101)
- Libertarian Socialism 101 (Libertarian Socialist Rants)
YouTube Channels
- ContraPoints
- Anarchopac
- Mexie
- ProSocialism
- BadMouseProductions
- Xexizy
- Kwame Genov
- Herbal HRT Garden
- Socialism Explained
- What is Anarchism?
- Zero Books
- Libertarian Socialist Rants
- AnarchistCollective
- LeftSphere
- Ex Worker
- ComradeBun
- Audible Socialism
- Shaun and Jen
- Red Vanguard Radio
- TheFinnishBolshevik
- Endymion
- azureScapegoat
- Red Star Videos
- Flea Market Socialist
- /leftypol/ Videos
- leftypol
- Garrett
- Socialism Or Barbarism!
- Bat'ko the Manarchist
- Chomsky's Philosophy
- Zizekian Studies
- Slavoj Zizek Videos
Lots of free leftist literature is available at:
Free leftist audiobooks are also available at:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/AudioSocialism/
- https://www.marxists.org/audiobooks/index.htm
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvfeZJmLFo2o90A0v3ce2_Q/videos
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaO1QA8QL99_eb0XhJI2Fyw/videos
Other useful resources:
Hey there Mr. Reporter who got me temp banned even when I explicitly said I won't report you for the insults you hurled at me first. I will never forget your ingrate and callous nature.
by Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:28 am
Greater Miami Shores wrote:The leftists and the right wingers just have very different, economic, political, social and cultural views, it does not mean the right wingers are bad and evil and the leftists are good. It does not mean the leftists are bad and evil and the right wingers are good. We have very different ways of thinking.
by Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:32 am
LiberNovusAmericae wrote:Las Islas de Metanoia wrote:
Hey there Mr. Reporter who got me temp banned even when I explicitly said I won't report you for the insults you hurled at me first. I will never forget your ingrate and callous nature.
Right wingers should stop hesitating when thinking about reporting commies for rule violations. Stop taking the high ground.
by LiberNovusAmericae » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:42 am
Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:Jesus, what’s the low ground?
by The New California Republic » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:43 am
Cekoviu wrote:poll please
by Cisairse » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:45 am
by Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:46 am
by LiberNovusAmericae » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:48 am
by The New California Republic » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:50 am
Cisairse wrote:I'm answering the poll with the following assumptions:
- I can return to my present life at the precise moment I left upon the conclusion of the revolution
- When you die in the Russian Revolution, you don't die in real life
by Cisairse » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:58 am
LiberNovusAmericae wrote:How many of you here view the Russian Revolution favorably?
by Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:59 am
LiberNovusAmericae wrote:How many of you here view the Russian Revolution favorably?
by Kowani » Wed Apr 01, 2020 9:06 am
LiberNovusAmericae wrote:How many of you here view the Russian Revolution favorably?
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