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Lefty Memes

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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 shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.

Serious posts, news, and discussion go in c/Socialism.

If you are new to socialism, you can ask questions and find resources over on c/Socialism101.

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0. Only post socialist memes


That refers to funny image macros and means that generally videos and screenshots are not allowed. Exceptions include explicitly humorous and short videos, as well as (social media) screenshots depicting a funny situation, joke, or joke picture relating to socialist movements, theory, societal issues, or political opponents. Examples would be the classic case of humorous Tumblr or Twitter posts/threads. (and no, agitprop text does not count as a meme)


1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith interactions 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


That means condemning (their) imperialism, even if it is of the "anti-USA" flavor.


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.

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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.



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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Direct US intervention is only part of the puzzle. The constant extraction of resources and funding of the people who keep the populace down through less obvious means is the main thing putting down a lot of the nations who are not US and EU, particularly in the global south.

I don't think it's unrelated at all to point out that it just so happens that (most of) the rich nations have or had a colonial history, and the poor ones were colonized.

Finally, this is a meme, you're looking for too much nuance.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

On that last part we can agree. Although maybe the next good question is whether we should be pushing political ideas via memes.

We're collectively maybe a quarter of a century late to that conversation, though.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Memes can be imperfect but in the current landscape they're still very effective in agitation.

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You want agitation... without nuance? What use are you? There's enough shit sticks. Have the backbone to say you didn't think the meme through.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

to grow a tree you must first plant a seed

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

lemmy commenters when a meme post on a meme channel doesn’t have the rhetorical nuance of a three hour video essay: 😡😡😡

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Seems alright to me to discuss the memes in the comments

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 7 months ago
[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately for you, we're not here for memes but pointless internet arguments.

PS i am less mad than you

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

Lololol you use a meme as propaganda and then follow up with it's just a joke bruh.

Trump 101.