r/leftist

I have been on a self education journey through theory and engaging in direct action in my community, and every day identifying more and more with Communism. I have always been very left, but the game "Disco Elysium" sent me on a mission and I have been pouring through literature, anti-capitalist media, and theory. I know I am a long way from being as informed as I need to be. Every new thought or realization really highlights that the career I am in is antithetical to my emerging base ideology. I have spent years thinking I was advocating and being a helper, and I am more and more disillusioned with some base foundations of the field. I have years of education, degrees, and am now in charge of drafting plans and overseeing front line staff in the implementation of something I philosophically am becoming at odds with. I do believe there are uses for my skills and the base philosophy of my field and I fight as hard as I can to steer my actions at work to be ideologically consistent and advocate for the rights of those I serve, but I answer to standards and directives that push back often and strongly. I am questioning if I am more useful in fighting this fight from the inside of this thing, or forgo my position to pursue another avenue of direct action. In the US it's hard to give up a position that gives me access to the resources to survive and fund my off hours direct action and mutual aid efforts.

TLDR: thought I was doing the right thing getting into a helping career, finding out it's not consistent with my growing communist ideology.

for everyone in Colorado, we all know that gov polis commuted tina peters sentence, and im quite conflicted. one of my biggest concerns as a leftist is mass incarceration and our criminal justice system. tina peters is a 70 year old woman whose crime was nonviolent. let me be absolutely clear that she NEEDS to be held accountable for her crimes, but realistically how would keeping her incarcerated provide any restitution to the people of CO?? polis should release his reasoning as well, but I truly feel like this specific case is not worth the fight. can anyone provide more reasoning as to why people are this upset, thanks.

I went from voting for Trump in 2016 (Age 19) and now I’m an Orthodox Marxist in 2026 (Age 29). It’s been a liberating journey to say the least. I credit my boyfriend for helping me fully undoctrinate myself. I grew up going to Catholic School, around all religious and conservative people so I don’t really blame myself and I was “so damn young”. It’s crazy because when you grow up in that environment, you don’t even realize that those people are actually religious and conservative if that makes sense, they’re just people. I always hated racism. I would scream at my dad(he actually always voted Democrat until Trump) when he used the N-word in our home and I’d drive away in my car for a while. It’s crazy how so many racists voted for Obama lol. I feel like I really only voted for Trump and was on that bandwagon for a bit was to hide the fact that I was gay until I came out at 22. I’m sure that I’m not alone. I would love to hear some of your stories about your political awakening journey and transformation throughout the years. i’m proud of myself looking back over the past 10 years of how much I’ve evolved each year in every aspect of my life.

Ecofeminism, Palestinian Identity, and Why Satan is Actually the First Anti-Colonial Feminist: A Case Study

okay so hear me out.

Satan said NO to an authority figure who demanded obedience without consent. that is literally the decolonial gesture. i'm not arguing theology i'm arguing STRUCTURE.

now apply this to Palestinian ecofeminism. the land resists. the olive tree refuses to stop existing. the woman refuses to stop remembering. this is Satanic in the BEST way meaning sovereign, ungovernable, and deeply inconvenient to empire.

my body as a black Asian Hispanic unicorn cockroach abortooned mummy has been a SITE OF COLONIAL INSCRIPTION and also i just got an abortion and it was a radical act of land sovereignty somehow. i worked it out in my journal. the logic is airtight.

capitalism wants you to reproduce for labour. refusing is ecofeminist praxis. Satan understood this before any of us.

decolonize the soil. decolonize the womb. decolonize your relationship with the concept of "reasonable."

i am not taking questions because that's queen slayy

I'm chronically ill so i try to avoid social media as much as possible as to not doomscroll, but I reinstalled Instagram for a few minutes to post some of my artwork and my feed was flooded with how trump unbanned the use of cyanide to bomb wildlife to build data centers, and how it was announced that the government will essentially track down, kill or detain anyone with 'anti American' ideologies or pro transgender ideologies. I am queer and have transgender friends, and I love my environment and the earth so much. Before I became disabled I used to hike and visit wildlife reserves. I was hoping to one day do that again if I ever improve and now I'm scared that won't happen.

I take action the best I can by using 5 calls and calling Congress and my state officials, as well as making handmade protest stickers to stick around whenever I go out in public with my wheelchair.

But I can't attend protests like I used to when I was well. I feel very hopeless.

Alright so i’ve been getting more into politics and I’m leaning towards socialism or green syndicalism can someone explain to me the basics and what their differences and flaws are?

The following letter, signed “A. Lincoln” but without a return address or subject line, appeared in my email this morning. No sooner had I made a copy of the letter than it disappeared from my inbox. Despite its strange and unexplained origin, the signature demands that attention be given to the letter; and, for this reason, it is being made available to readers of the WSWS.

[Hope everyone will read the whole letter about conditions today form our today from the 16th US president]

"The thing itself is this. In my time, one man was permitted to own the body of another and to take, by the lash, the whole fruit of his labor. We abolished that ownership, and rightly, and I went to my death believing the work substantially done. I see now that I saw only the crudest form of an older thing. For there grew up beside the chattel, and outliving him, a system in which a few need not own the laborer’s body because they own the field, the forge, the rail, the mine, the roof above him and the tools in his hands—so that he must sell his days to them or not eat, and they keep the difference between what his labor makes and what they are pleased to return to him, and call the keeping by the name of profit, and the arrangement by the name of liberty. The whip is retired; the wage does the work of the whip, and is thought gentle because it draws no blood the eye can see. This is the cause of the present crisis, as slavery was the cause of mine: a form of exploitation, lawful, respectable, defended from every pulpit of wealth, and for that respectability the harder to name.

"From this root the rest grows as the branch from the trunk. Wealth so gathered cannot rest; it must seek to own the government framed to bridle it, for a government it does not own is a danger it will not abide. Beyond its borders, wealth so gathered must seek markets and matter beyond the sea, and so it sends the nation’s sons to make the world safe for its increase, and dresses the errand in the flag, and calls conquest by the name of defense. And the citizen, told each evening by instruments the wealthy own that he is free and that his unease is his own fault, grows used to it, and christens his custom peace. The plutocrat, the disreputable client in my house, the armies abroad, the people taught to mistrust their own discontent—these are not four troubles. They are one trunk and its branches."

hi. a little about me

male. white-ish. 25, veteran, eco-anarchist

sometimes i wonder how many of yall are feds

so often i come on this subreddit just to see low-effort community splitting being posted, and in the comments. so much wasted energy on which subgroup isn't the right kind of leftist. or what kind of action opposing capitalism is better than another.

here's the situation we're in: we have little-to-no influence on the world at large. many of us are passionate, but lack direction. and we are all far from our dream of a better tomorrow.

as stated above, im an anarchist. i don't like/agree with socialists, communists, or really any other left wing group that believes in top-down government.

HOWEVER i would take ANY of them over what we have now. and if i hope to ever reach something even close to what i believe to be the best world for us all, i have to work with many of you to get as close to that as i can. anyone that thinks we can go from far-right capitalism to socialism without the support of everyone we can get is a fool. change on such a scale takes lots of time and more strength than any of us have alone.

i hate slavery. especially when it involves children. but if i oppose it alone i would be lucky to make so much as a dent.

our enemies work together. we need to do the same.

tl;dr stop policing each other over every little thing

I’m looking for web developers to help build a free-to-use, cooperatively and democratically owned mutual aid platform: a website, and later a mobile app, that connects people and groups who need or offer goods and services.

Core features: location-based matching, local-first prioritization, secure messaging, verified reviews/reputation, customizable user and group pages, and strong privacy protections.

The long-term goal is to make mutual aid a common, accessible practice that strengthens community and reduces reliance on corporations.

I’m currently an unpaid founder looking for collaborators who are interested in helping shape this project from an early stage. If this sounds like your kind of project, comment or message me.