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

I get what you mean but it's not because the terrorists don't care if you kill the hostages that you can kill them

[–] glimse 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seeing as how Israel isn't letting civilians leave the war zone, there's plenty more human shields to choose from!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Israel has made it pretty clear they consider everyone in Gaza to be their military enemy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Agreed. Hamas has explicitly said the same for all of Israel, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just to bound my mind to yours

Israel has made it pretty clear they consider everyone in Gaza, Palestine, and not agree with them, to be their ~~military~~ enemy.

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

how Israel isn't letting civilians leave the war zone

Neither is Hamas.

[–] glimse 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, Israel is doing the same as a terrorist group. That must mean that Israel are the good guys.

Great argument!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hamas could let their people South and no one gets hurt. If Israel lets Palestinians across the border into Israel, Hamas will sneak in with them and kill lots of Israelis. Can you not see the difference?