/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

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>Honeybees make decisions collectively–and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. A remarkable and richly illustrated account of scientific discovery, Honeybee Democracy brings together, for the first time, decades of Seeley's pioneering research to tell the amazing story of house hunting and democratic debate among the honeybees.

>In the late spring and early summer, as a bee colony becomes overcrowded, a third of the hive stays behind and rears a new queen, while a swarm of thousands departs with the old queen to produce a daughter colony. Seeley describes how these bees evaluate potential nest sites, advertise their discoveries to one another, engage in open deliberation, choose a final site, and navigate together–as a swirling cloud of bees–to their new home. Seeley investigates how evolution has honed the decision-making methods of honeybees over millions of years, and he considers similarities between the ways that bee swarms and primate brains process information. He concludes that what works well for bees can also work well for people: any decision-making group should consist of individuals with shared interests and mutual respect, a leader's influence should be minimized, debate should be relied upon, diverse solutions should be sought, and the majority should be counted on for a dependable resolution.

>An impressive exploration of animal behavior, Honeybee Democracy shows that decision-making groups, whether honeybee or human, can be smarter than even the smartest individuals in them.

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/leftypol/ seriously needs to step up its game in creating informative content that can be used for reusable refutations of /pol/ and other anticommunist propaganda. However, most people are not graphic designers and don't know how to make infographics that are attractive, readable, and well-organized (myself included). In order to make good graphic designs accessible to the wider /leftypol/ population, I'm calling on all artists on /leftypol/ to help contribute to a free and open source infographic tool kit and design guide. We should make it in the .xcf file format compatible with GIM, or Inkscape so that it is usable by the widest range of people for free, and doesn't phone home to Adobe.

https://www.gimp.org/

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Here is a starter file:

>>>/file/376

As well, I intend to use a custom CSS for this board. Our goals should be for it to be unobtrusive and simple, and for it to convey the same information that the default CSS does. People are welcome to suggest CSS rules for /leftypol/ to make it look better.

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FAQ:

>How can you call yourselves leftist politically incorrect?

/leftypol/ posters are allowed to voice opinions that offend liberals, SJWs, and so on. All sects on the left are allowed to post on /leftypol/, leading to plenty of fighting and shitflinging between leftists, which other forums might ban. However, this was only a minor consideration in the naming of /leftypol/. Since the concept is simply a leftist version of /pol/, the entire name of /pol/ was retained.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/index.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/index.htm

^^^Absolute beginner material^^^

More Marx and Engels:

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Various assortment of historical and biographical works.

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As any fellow britbongs here may know, Tommy Robinson, an outspoken member of the far right has been tried and inprisoned for 13 months following a lengthy livestream of him criticising Islam and its followers.

Does /leftypol/ have an opinion on this? The right is having a shitfit about it.

If you use Windows for anything related to socialism, you are a danger to yourself and your comrades. Windows is uploading everything you do to NSA servers. When the McCarthyite purges start up again, you'll be on all the lists.

SWITCH TO LINUX NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.

There's no excuse for being lazy, revolution is hard work.

Is there anything redeemable in Nick Land's (early) work?

I read Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest a few year ago, and thought it was quite interesting, but I find it a bit odd that a lot of left-theorists (like Mark Fisher and Sadie Plant) lean on his work so heavily.

Adorno really liked this Oswald Spengler's work.

Do you guys know why, I haven't been able to find a satisfying answer?

ITT: movies, anime, music, feels, e-celebs, internet drama, fetishes, shitposting, etc.

This is a voluntary thread that users can choose to post in, if… I forgot the rest of whatever the old OP was. Honestly, I just wanted to bring this old thread back.

We haven't had a thread like this in a while.

Leftist speeches, old Soviet Propaganda, memes, and anything else you can think of.

Gender is a spook not a spectrum. We should be working to oppose idpol on the basis that they are spooked not on the basis that they detract from class consciousness.

Understanding that they are arguing for collectively held social understandings of conventions rather than creating a direct material influence would convince more people to join the class struggle.

The fact that the ruling class influences and spreads the social relations between genders, races etc. This emphasises a need to focus on the material means that enables them to do so rather than the social relations themselves.

Reminder /pol/ has no rules now and you can shitpost about communism to your hearts delight because Codemonkey removed the board from the moderators control and says all "wrongthink" reports will be dismissed. Its a board for everyone now. Go let them know they have finally lost.

>De kosten van het gebruik van het spoor en treinkaartjes gaan mogelijk omhoog als ProRail bij het ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat wordt ondergebracht. Een overheidsorganisatie mag namelijk geen btw aftrekken. Als het Rijk dit besluit te compenseren, dan kan dit als ongeoorloofde staatssteun worden gezien.

Waarom zijn wetten rond staatsbedrijven en nationalisering zo kanker?

Thread for discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Disproving common western myths about North Korea.

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