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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.



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[–] Anticorp -3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Depending on the job, that can be pretty fucked up for the people you work with. Your co-workers often deserve some consideration too. If you're doing something that doesn't require knowledge transfer, then whatever, but if you have specific and complex knowledge of systems that you need to transfer to other people who will be responsible for maintaining them in your absence, it's pretty messed up to just dump that shit in their lap.

[–] ohlaph 10 points 10 months ago

That is just a sign of poor management in general. If an employee quitting causes that much disruption, there is usual a direct correlation with poor practices.

[–] grue 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your co-workers often deserve some consideration too.

If they don't like it, they should unionize.

[–] Anticorp 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unionization doesn't magically allow everyone to know everything about what happens at your place of work.

[–] grue 12 points 10 months ago

It lets them negotiate rules about not firing people without notice, and is otherwise highly correlated with being the kind of place people don't want to quit without notice.

It also gives them power to be able to make other demands, such as (for example) being given enough time to properly document processes and get cross-training and such.

[–] User8539 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like management’s problem if they didn’t require you to document your job for the next person.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

[–] Anticorp 6 points 10 months ago

Having some documents isn't the same as having a knowledge transfer session.