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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!

Rules

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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.



  1. Absolutely no posts or comments meant to relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend:

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[–] Clent@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I've never drank the stuff.

As far as I can tell, you're all addicts in collective denial.

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

I'm not in denial. I'm well aware that I'm chemically dependent on caffeine and will have withdrawal symptoms, including headaches, if I cut back or stop drinking coffee.

I also really like coffee. I drink half-caff just so I can drink more without getting the jitters.

But the rest of them are totally in denial. 100%

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 months ago

I used to never drink coffee because I didn't want to become dependent on it. It also helped that all the coffee I ever tried tasted terrible.

Then one day, my husband was raving about switching to french press and how good it was. To humor him, I took a sip and... it was so delicious! My fate was sealed, and I regret nothing.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I can straight up forget coffee exists sometimes. I don't have any coffee related urges, but I do have an "I need to wake up, maybe coffee will do it."

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

I went off it when I started my ADHD medication, it was difficult and I had a few days to recover. It put coffee in a whole new light for me.

Course the medication is also stimulants, but it makes me think good and remember things so I'll take it.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I can actually stop anytime and often do. I would miss tea though, but tea is different.