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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.

Please don't forget to help keep this community clean by reporting rule violations, updooting good contributions and downdooting those of low-quality!

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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.

(if you are reading the rules to apply for modding this community, mention "Mantic Minotaur" 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.



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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Apples are a fruit with thin edible skin and firm white flesh. Oranges are a fruit with a thick inedible skin and soft pulpy flesh.

Apples can be compared to oranges.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What on earth are you talking about? You can totally eat orange peels. They're not great, but become very special if cooked properly.

Given enough processing, apples and oranges are practically the same thing.

Now try bananas and naked mole rats!

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 8 points 7 months ago

Given enough processing, bananas and naked mole rats can both be turned into mush.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Now try bananas and naked mole rats!

Never again! Not after what happened at the Brandenburger Tor!

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 3 points 7 months ago

compared to naked mole rats, i didn’t james bonded a bananana last night

[–] geissi@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

Compared to naked mole rats, bananas are more yellow.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago

In Colombia, confundir la mierda con la pomada (to confuse shit with ointment) is used

Colombia wins.

[–] Strykker@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The apples and oranges is more about someone going and eating an orange and then complaining it doesn't taste like an apple.

Like yeah it fucking doesn't it's a completely different thing.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, but in this case OP's griping that US-baked coups are "different" depending on what breed of socialism it was disrupting.

That's like complaining that braeburn apples and granny smith apples aren't the same while ignoring the locusts eating both.

It's a distraction from the actual point.