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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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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago

No! I’ll win at gambling everything I have 25 consecutive times to make enough money to be able to exploit people and crush lives until I’m a billionaire.

Then, I’ll keep hurting untold numbers of people for my personal profit because I have no soul. That’s the dream!

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

they call it long pork

but allegedly it cooks, smells, and tastes more like lamb.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

how many suhi size bites could we make? is there enough for everyone?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's that fish that just releases hella mucous when threatened? I bet they taste like that goop.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you think about the numbers involved there's actually little chance in realizing that dream too. We outnumber them by sooooooo much the chance of even getting a tiny morsel is astronomically small.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I mean, you could take the initiative and kill one first.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I don't wanna be one of them

[–] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is all hypothetical, isn't it, Tom? All academic?

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Sure, why not.

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