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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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Today's "Left" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

If anyone has a better way of using alts on mobile lemmy or just tips on doing/writing them in general, please share

ALT:

Top panel:

MAGA person saying: "Socialism failure!!! Look at Vuvuzuela, Indonesia, France, and California!"
Bernie person saying: "Actually, socialism is when police, military, free college and healthcare. Look at Scandinavia"
"I love Xi" person saying: "You're both wrong. China is the best example of 21st century socialism. Their billionaires are helping the working class"

Bottom panel:

distraught person with a red bleeding head and red shirt

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bro you went full anti-china, you can't do that here (spoiler alert care-bears, your government is a dictatorship and has nothing to do with socialism)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

luckily this isn't HexBear but a de-revisionized socialist zone (read: actually socialist Lemmy community)
(I don't care about their downdoots btw)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Scandinavia logic is: Social Democracy for my people and Imperialism for the global south . Visit Scandinavia before Scandinavia visits your country to spread "love and neo liberalism"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

作为一个中国人,也作为一个马克思主义者,我认为图片里的讽刺太到位了。很多资本主义国家的媒体经常把修正主义当作社会主义,就连本国老百姓都看不清真相。