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Lefty Memes

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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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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 1 points 40 minutes ago

That flapper is way too curvy.

[–] nul9o9 46 points 18 hours ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

Come to New York, where there was an obvious cohesive art deco style that was completely trashed by developers because they’re fucking soulless pieces of human ganarte yeah even your developer dad or mom are trash

[–] disguy_ovahea 13 points 17 hours ago

I fell in love with it watching Batman: The Animated Series.

[–] Brodysseus 9 points 17 hours ago

The Charleston song kinda slaps too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Way better than art nouveau, any day.

[–] adam_y 48 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

My comrade, we are nearly half way in. The Charleston is not coming back.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 18 hours ago

There's still time.

DANCE HARDER, DAMMIT!

[–] SpruceBringsteen 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Some Fortnite animator is going to hear you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Wasn't the Charleston one of the first dances in Fortnite? I've never played it, but I could have sworn I saw stuff about it being in the game a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Literally none of those things are coming back, where does the person who made this live?

Like the only thing coming back from the 20’s is the rise of fascism and the Great Depression.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 31 minutes ago

The original comics has the great depression there instead of Anarco Syndicalism

[–] [email protected] 26 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Crushing poverty and the threat of starvation

[–] Viking_Hippie 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

And the resulting fascism, of course. 😮‍💨

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago