Socialism
An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the "ML" influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic and constructive discussion from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.
A certain knowledge of socialism is expected, if you are new to/interested in socialism, please visit c/Socialism101 before participating here. Socialism101 will gladly help you by answering questions, providing resources etc.
Memes go in c/Lefty Memes
Please don't forget to help keep this community clean by reporting rule violations, upvoting good contributions and downvoting those of low-quality!
Rules
1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith discussion is enforced here.
Try to keep an open mind, other schools of thought may offer points of view and analyses you haven't considered yet. Also: This is not a place for the Idealism vs. Materialism or rather Anarchism vs. Marxism debate(s), for that please visit c/AnarchismVsMarxism
2. Anti-Imperialism means recognizing capitalist states like Russia and China as such,
as well as condemning (their) imperialism, even if it is of the "anti-USA" flavour.
3. No liberalism, (right-wing) revisionism or reactionaries.
That includes so called: Social Democracy, Democratic Socialism, Dengism, Market Socialism, Patriotic Socialism, National Bolshevism, Anarcho-Capitalism etc. . Anti-Socialist people and content have no place here, as well as the variety of "Marxist"-"Leninists" seen on lemmygrad and more specifically GenZedong (actual ML's are welcome as long as they agree to the rules and don't just copy paste/larp about stuff from a hundred years ago).
4. No Bigotry.
The only dangerous minority is the rich.
5. Don't demonize previous and current socialist experiments or (leading) individuals.
We must constructively learn from their mistakes, while acknowledging their achievements and recognizing when they have strayed away from socialist principles.
(if you are reading the rules to apply for modding this community, mention "Xenial Xerus" when answering question 2)
6. Don't idolize/glorify previous and current socialist experiments or (leading) individuals.
Notable achievements in all spheres of society were made by various socialist/people's/democratic republics around the world. Mistakes, however, were made as well: bureaucratic castes of parasitic elites - as well as reactionary cults of personality - were established, many things were mismanaged and prejudice and bigotry sometimes replaced internationalism and progressiveness.
7. Absolutely no posts or comments meant to relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend:
- Racism
- Sexism
- Queerphobia
- Ableism
- Classism
- Rape or assault
- Genocide/ethnic cleansing or (mass) deportations
- Fascism
- (National) chauvinism
- Orientalism
- Colonialism or Imperialism (and their neo- counterparts)
- Zionism
- Religious fundamentalism of any kind
(This is not a definitive list, the spirit of the other rules still counts! Eventual duplicates with other rules are for emphasis.)
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No, it's bizarre that you seem to care about upvotes and downvotes so much that you think it's strange that others do not. You need to get out more, friend.
Hours?! How long do you think it takes to post an article? Have you ever posted one? dude, it's cut and paste a title. Then the link. Takes 5 seconds. And replying to trolls takes even less time.
I mean, maybe YOU spend hours doing that kind of stuff, but not me.
I don't owe you any explanation at all. I say what I feel like saying, when I feel like saying it. I am under no obligation to do anything for you. The duopoly really has you under their thumb I guess. Not me. I know what freedom is.
Oh and by the way, I posted another couple of articles, so update the stats you keep about me. lmao
Lol way to dodge again. You talk about downvotes as if the hundreds of negative comments are meaningless. Neither are, for a mentally healthy person, hate is hate.
You have spent a fuck load of time, stop pretending. Dozens of comments an hour, many posts a day. No one is fooled.
I just plainly said you only owe an explanation if you want your motivation to make sense. Apparently your wish is for everyone to assume you're up to something sinister.
This is going to shock you, but copying and pasting text from a web page is not the same thing as keeping a diary about disingenuous terminally online trolls who suddenly post even more after the presidential debate.
They are to me. But seems like you put lots of weight into online opinions. Ok, have fun with that. lol
Apparently you are fooled. Because I don't spend that much time. How much do you think it takes to post an article? I laid it out for you. Is it that hard to understand for you? You know what? Maybe it would take you hours and hours to do it, I guess.
I don't owe you an explanation for anything. I can do what I want and post what I want.
What?! You keep a fucking diary about me?! Ewwwww. Dude! That's gross. Seek help. Yuck.
Amen bruther! When 99.99% of people hate you, that makes you RITE. Awoooo!