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!
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.
I came to this community after seeing the 50th Twitter screenshot on All just to see if it was ALL Twitter screenshots so it's funny to see this post here.
Glad to see you agree and I hope you stick to it. People are just reposting the top tweets from reddit, not memes. And they're OLD tweets, never referencing current events.
Question: is this community supposed to be for all things the US usually declares “left wing” such as LGBTQ+, trans rights, identity politics, and liberalism? Because while I’m all for those things, I feel like they aren’t really related to socialism. They’re just good things in general, not socialism good things in specific.
Taking a look at the sidebar should answer your question
I just saw this community and thought it was for left handed memes. Now I'm disappointed
Well, you can stay and join nonetheless!
Definitely not looking for serious discussion lol, just to drop supportive and potentially radicalising memes
Might struggle with the no quotes on fancy background though, ngl 😂
What is the line (E: don't use discord so don't get the reference), say the orange one I just posted, is that ok?
I won't retroactively remove anything, tho I don't think the quote on an orange background counts as a meme. If it were humorous or mocking, then maybe
Right, I'll try my best but I apologise in advance for when I post the wrong things because I'm not entirely sure I understand where the line is lol
I hope I'm not in rampant violation of any of this! 😬
dw, your contributions so far haven rly solid! I just wanted to raise the bar for posts a bit to increase the quality of contributions. So no contributions on the lvl of discord meme channels, like quotes on a fancy background (ik... it pains me as well, most of my meme archive is made up of those... maybe we'll have matrix community with a room for that one day)
BTW if you wanna start a discussion based on a quote, there are always the sister communities