r/theredleft

There is an attempt to organize a general strike on May 1st across various left wing parties and organization. Please spread the word.

I know that various Marxist organizations and I believe General Strike US are among them.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be the first politician in a generation with a real chance to turn a scattered left insurgency into a national project. An AOC presidential run has the potential to completely reshape the terrain of American politics, on socialist lines. In his latest, Nik M. argues that 2028 isn’t a guaranteed victory nor a looming failure—but a rare political opportunity.

Ending taxpayer funding for genocide is the literal ground floor bare minimum not a “purity test”

I have zero interest in defending any democrat that supports genocide I don’t care if every single democrat who funded genocide and accepted pro Israel PAC money gets replaced by their Republican challengers in congress whatsoever

Liberals complain about the demand to stop funding genocide being a “purity test” but multiple Republican primary challengers have literally pledged to reject pro Israel PAC money and cut off all taxpayer funding to the Israeli government

Multiple republican primary challengers are able to meet this so-called purity test just fine

All these people complaining about Gaza being the reason Kamala Harris lost the election failed to consider that bombing and starving children is a red line we refuse to cross and we don’t care about Republicans winning elections because we enforced that red line

title says everything, i wanted to know how yall feel about space travel

think about it, they’re one of the most successful franchises of all time, have had some of the best, and richest basketball players of all time (shaq, Lebron james, lonzo ball). would i be a better socialist if i supported a team that’s always been bad like the wizards or the magic?

I’m not informed on this but the other day i was having an argument about Israel, the other person being Kurdish and arguing in defence of Israel, claiming that the majority of Kurdish people support Israel. Is this accurate? Is there truth to that? I don’t want to believe so.

So after some talking on this sub I was recommended this book on how communism might work, but I’m having some issues with the paradoxical nature and was wondering what opinions or analysis anyone else had?

He basically states that the state has a civilian (bourgeoisie) element and a military element, and that the proletariat has to replace the bourgeoisie so that the military arm is answerable to the proletariat to suppress the bourgeoisie, but there’s no power except the numbers for the proletariat so how do they keep the military arm of the state in check? They don’t so it becomes dictatorships.

Like I’m on the tail end of chapter 2 but he basically wants a fantasy proletariat government that doesn’t uses capital as a lever of control on the military, thus leaving no levers of control on them. Idk I’ll keep reading for an answer but it ain’t looking good