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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.

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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every accusation is an admission.

Stop deflecting by pretending that there's no greater issue than just the extremists. The rot's just gonna come back if we don't stop it at the source after we deal with the cancer in front of us.

Or are you incapable of thinking about what happens after the extremists are dealt with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AFTER is the key word here. Stop trying to find someone else to blame and look directly at the people who are to blame

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where did I ever say otherwise? No need to be so defensive. The extremists are obviously the priority, and anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant or a patsy, but we can't forget those who spread their message. The cultists today, the enablers tomorrow. Gotta keep the big picture in mind so we don't lose momentum or get complacent after the short-term victories.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you think that's what you said you really need to communicate better because that is not what you said

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or maybe you should stop jumping to wild conclusions and making accusations.

It's not hard to not be an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're the one forgiving fascists for being fascists so you can blame someone else. Maybe you need to stop spouting utter bollocks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I literally never said anything even remotely close to that??? I said fuck the fascists and fuck those who help spread their propaganda. But if you wanna ignore those who keep spawning more fascists, that's your perogative. I'll be out here putting them both against the wall. You can line up next to the rest of the collaborators if you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh fuck off. We both know you're lying in the above comment

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stop deflecting. Why you wanna go up to bat for those who enable the extremists I'll never know, but at least admit it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought I told you to fuck off

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Stop

Deflecting