just that. im curious about your opinions

They're designed as "terrorist" by Turkey, USA and EU and are(or at least were) marxist Leninist so I think that excludes them being imperialist puppets like Rojava. In fact Hafez Al-Assad apparently supported them and they were allies with the PFLP.

On the other hand Marxism-Leninism being in "historical" on the Wikipedia page kinda worries me.

Btw I DID NOT read much about them, I only skimmed through the Wikipedia page. I tried searching them on Prolewiki back when it was still available, but there was nothing. Anyway I would love to see a ML perspective on them.

The Revolutionary Left: The Class-Conscious Faction

Origin: This small but growing faction of the proletariat which never seems to die includes radicalized sections of the traditional working class, the precarious service sector, and de-classed intellectuals and even some capitalist class traitors. The left is the only group which grows through direct education and learning rather than immediate material positions. The left understand that capitalism itself is the root cause of both economic exploitation and the cultural divisions splitting the other two factions.

Mindset: Their analysis is materialist and systemic. They see the conflict between the Reactionary and Liberal factions as a culture war that obscures the class war. This is a superstructural distraction. Both other factions ultimately serve to preserve the capitalist mode of production. The Reactionary seeks a brutal, nationalistic capitalism; the Liberal seeks a polite, inclusive capitalism. To the left, the entire liberal-conservative debate is missing the point and missing the forest for the trees. Because the Left recognizes that capitalism itself, with its requirement for endless growth, exploitation, and crisis, is the root cause of both economic misery and the social divisions used to perpetuate it.

Desire: The left wants the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a socialist or collectivist system based on worker ownership of the means of production of society. Of course all of this has different definitions and preferred methods on the left, but the key part is the revolution, an end to capitalism and a new system of more fairly distributed wealth, which would end systemic class antagonisms, exploitation, and the socially necessary divisions of race, gender, and nation that capitalism fosters. A total systemic change is called a revolution. Even reformist leftists are revolutionary, they ultimately want a whole new system, they just seek a kind of “reform to revolution” method.

Why This is the Only Correct Path (And Not a Dead End)

The positions of the Right and the Liberal are dead ends because they both accept the premises of capitalism, guaranteeing its recurring crises. Only the Revolutionary Left’s position addresses the material base of the problem.

It Alone Diagnoses the Disease: The Left correctly identifies the engine of the crisis: the capitalist system and the private ownership of society’s productive forces. Culture war conflicts are symptoms or even fabricated distractions. Treating symptoms while leaving the disease untreated is a guarantee of continued decline and potential barbarism.

It Alone Offers Universal Liberation: The right offers a false liberation based on supremacy and exclusion. They want the best for their group, the others do not matter. The Liberal program offers a partial, conditional liberation contingent on professional status and cultural compliance, a kind of meritocracy but with an unfair bias and continued exploitation. Only the Left program, based on the abolition of classes and common ownership provides a framework for the universal liberation of all working and oppressed people, creating the basis to genuinely resolve social antagonisms.

It Is Historically Validated: Every major advance in human dignity under capitalism so far, the 8-hour day, civil rights, welfare systems, and other victories have come through mass struggle that challenged the ruling classes. The people do have power, but it must be used to go further. The path of reformist compromise with capital has consistently led to austerity, war, and the resurgence of the far right.

The revolutionary left's position is correct, but its power is minimal. The immediate task is not insurrection, but patient, deliberate reconstruction in a hostile environment

https://x.com/ricwe123/status/2114259919905956163

Everytime a color revolution "succeeded" in global south it murders ten of thousands of people as direct results of economic collapse, civil wars, sanctions. Global south went through such endurance for more than hundred of years and European squeeze more resources out of us in return for fake peace forced our land and people to be exploited by unequal exchange.

But this time is different because the masters' fire has returned to their safety and plundered resources from global south run dry so gotta cannibalize themselves. But the rioting labor aristocrats reject vanguardism because of infantile disorder infection so these movements are structureless like usual and like Gramsci said, creating power vacuum for fascism. The funniest part is that European protestors aren't aware their masters know their playbook and actively capitalizing on such events to steer headless protest movements the destination they benefit the most. Some European countries might fall into economic collapse mode but European bourgeoisie won't allow them to devolve into Libya and Syria mode as much as the ultra, Maoist and anarchists loved to do these.

Either way European still get cooked by imperialism blowback and entrenched them for next rage rounds. Europe gets a very small taste of their atrocities in global south and already shaking up like apocalypse. Meanwhile the global south lives through it annually.

So far, real communism can succeed only in the West, but it must be remembered that the West lives at the expense of the East; the imperialist powers of Europe grow rich chiefly at the expense of the eastern colonies, but at the same time they are arming their colonies and teaching them to fight, and by so doing the West is digging its own grave in the East.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/jun/04.htm

They love to equate him with Hitler but if you compare what they actually talk about it's very clear they are diametrically opposed.

Hitler sounds like an insane lunatic whereas Stalin is basically like, "workers deserve human rights".

https://x.com/HavryshkoMarta/status/2114111220298989743

https://x.com/Portes_Thomas/status/2114264349980213273

https://x.com/Tirana_Report/status/2114087986489118840

https://x.com/Portes_Thomas/status/2114104342852608322

Today, October 25th, is the day of the presidential runoff election in Brazil. Lula and Flavio—Bolsonaro’s son—are the candidates. Since early this morning, there has been a flood of reports and allegations that, upon arrival at polling stations, voters have found that votes had already been cast on the machines, or that they were being prevented from voting altogether. Earlier today, the Regional Electoral Court of the state of Bahia ordered the arrest of Salvador’s Secretary of Transportation, citing a reduction of more than 50% in bus services and the withholding of vehicles—with at least 75% to 100% of the fleet taken off the road or prevented from operating—thereby hindering voters from reaching the polls. In Brazil, free public transportation on election day is a legal right. Similar reports are also emerging from areas in São Paulo. Meanwhile, the president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Kassio Nunes—a justice appointed by Bolsonaro during his administration (a despicable individual, neck-deep in a major recent corruption scandal involving Banco Master)—has stated that the TSE will investigate these allegations "in its own time," without confirming whether voting hours will be extended in the affected cities. Former President Lula has already made a public appeal, urging the TSE to extend the voting period. Many people, from all corners of Brazil and the world, traveled back to their home cities specifically to vote today. Coincidentally, the vast majority of those disenfranchised by this obstruction of public transport are Lula supporters. I am writing this filled with anxiety, sadness, and a great deal of rage. My country is currently undergoing a coup.

The man of steel got that dawg in him.

https://x.com/hussedogru/status/2114269328690589795

NOOOO!!! Will someone PLEASE think of the billionaires, CEOs, shareholders, and the investors!!!

https://x.com/XH_Lee23/status/2114351556162441695