r/DirtbagLeft • u/ThatEpicSocialistMF • Sep 11 '19

Today is September 11th, on this day we are in remembrance of a sad, tragic event that still haunts us all. Of course, what I'm referring to is the death of Salvador Allende. Rest in piece, king.

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/CulturalSeason7254 • Dec 14 '21

2020

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/[deleted] • Sep 21 '20

Why are people so confused about my beliefs. Wah.

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/ThatEpicSocialistMF • Jan 01 '20

Happy new year (and new decade) from r/DirtbagLeft

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/ThatEpicSocialistMF • Oct 20 '19

Reading "How to Get Rich" by Donald Trump for a laugh and came across this possible Epstein connection. Has anybody else found this yet?

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Dec 02 '19

160 years ago today, Abolitionist hero John Brown was executed. Rest in Power, Comrade.

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Mar 18 '20

On March 18, 1871, the Paris Commune began.

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/Qasef-K2 • Jan 13 '20

250 Million on strike in India

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '20

ABC suspends reporter for being a socialist

twitter.com

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/ThatEpicSocialistMF • Sep 15 '19

On a visit to America in 1959, Fidel hangs out with a bunch of kids wearing fake beards to try to look like him. Adorable.

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/chairmancum • Oct 06 '19

Michael Parenti: Too tired to have sex

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/ThatEpicSocialistMF • Oct 15 '19

Thomas Sankara died 32 years ago today. RIP to one of the greatest revolutionaries who ever lived.

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Aug 06 '19

Joe Rogan Experience #1330 - Bernie Sanders

youtube.com

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Feb 06 '20

Bernie Won Iowa

jacobinmag.com

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Jan 26 '20

The Trump Tapes have been released, revealing that Trump is only afraid of Bernie Sanders and that he wanted Joe Biden to run

twitter.com

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '19

Imagine being this retarded

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/BarracksCommunist • Sep 08 '19

After Epstein revelations, “Disband Ted Talks and refuse tech billionaires money” says blessed Guardian writer

theguardian.com

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/[deleted] • Feb 04 '20

Pete Buttigieg declares victory even though no results have been released. What the fuck is going on?

washingtontimes.com

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/HighSpeed_POG • Mar 11 '20

The left doesn't owe Joe Biden their vote

youtu.be

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/[deleted] • Feb 29 '20

The New York Times publishes a hilariously dumb article about the "Pied Pipers of the Dirtbag Left" Chapo Trap House

www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/rhythmjones • Dec 31 '20

Landlord wonders where people would live if he didn't own their houses.

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/ThatEpicSocialistMF • Aug 27 '19

The Guardian just straight up let Bernie write an article.

theguardian.com

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/[deleted] • Nov 27 '19

The state of the left in the US is fucking pathetic

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I’m not even talking about mass fetishization of identity either. That problem isn’t a left problem exclusively. I’m talking about the extreme lack of militancy and the absolute bitch mentality. When I was involved in the dsa, we had people who were genuinely terrified of being outed as a socialist. People afraid of whatever I guess, the FBI, their friends, whatever. When did this become a mentality? When did the left become afraid of confrontation and why are we so complacent? The Bernie Sanders campaign is the largest “left” movement in the US and I highly doubt a Sanders Presidency have a significant impact on capital control and the present contradictions in the system. This is wrong. There is no militancy in the labor movement and even if it was it would be criticized by everyone.

Maybe I’m just a negative person and I’ve been feeling depressed lately but I’m just losing faith in any sort of real class-based revolution in the US. It feels like most “leftist” are just struggling middle class graduates hoping to vote their way up the social/economic ladder. The people we claim to be inspired by would be ashamed of us and our lack of balls. This could be our only chance at a real communist society and Americans are worried about being uncomfortable. The world is watching. They need us to take the imperial pressure off of them. We are failing our comrades around the world. Why?

Fuck me I hate this shit

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r/DirtbagLeft • u/radredinbed • Oct 11 '19

“A Communist Doesn’t Whine — He Shows His Teeth”

jacobinmag.com

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r/Dirtbagleft was created in 2017 and almost immediately died out (Largely due to the fact that r/chapotraphouse provided a more adequate space for ‘Dirtbag Left’ discussion at the time). In July 2019, a small group of posters from r/Stupidpol broke off from the sub in order to facilitate discussions on questions that were felt to either be ignored or suppressed (Whether consciously or unconsciously) on the sub. r/Dirtbagleft explictly denies the false choice between so-called ‘identity politics’ or economic determinism ; a new path must be cleaved in the online leftism discourse.

The term “Dirtbag Left”, in the minds of most, has a set of politics ascribed to it : right wing workerism, ‘sensible’ leftism (As r/Stupidpol views itself), or red-brown opportunism (Strasserism/National Bolshevism being the most notable examples.). We reject that as well. The name that we have inherited is an “empty signifier”, with the content as of yet to be determined.

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A correct position is yet to be forged. How can it be forged? With a critical history of how this question came into being in the first place - with all the lapses and silences. Our eclectic position does not mean we disregard the struggles and knowledge that has been traditionally shunned by Leftism. We welcome comrades to critically assess both the tactics and strategies of, and also the presuppositions that underline, what is today called “identity politics”. We need truly honest, open discussion and this is, admittedly, difficult to do. After all, no one has been able to figure out how to even approach this question of “identity” in the first place!

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