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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.

(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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[โ€“] ChilledPeppers 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The freedoms in question: Owning wage slaves.

I think that 99% of people will have greater freedom under socialism, where they will recieve a good wage, and not have to work.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Y'all can afford guns?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Oof. This one hurt.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yaaayyy gunnnnsss! Freedom!

/s

[โ€“] ZILtoid1991 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And will soon take our freedom, because:

  • we need to stand up against "far-left ideology" (liberalism),
  • some incels were dreaming of women, who will be so subservient they could be even beaten into a bloody pulp,
  • some billionaires need more workforce to compete for the same amount of minimum wage jobs,
  • one billionaire really likes his AI generated slops and hates artists.
[โ€“] WaxedWookie 1 points 1 month ago

From what I see, you'll get this in the next GOP term. It might take a year, it might take 10, but if you fuckers can't convince or bully the liberals into recognising and preventing the naked fascists from taking power... well, I hope you're fighting like your lives depend on it.

[โ€“] SpaceNoodle 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

except guns it applies pretty much the same to Germany as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago

Patriarchy has been around a lot longer than capitalism.