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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
Do you have a version with less pixels please? I can almost read it
I hope you can read this
Waging should not be the concern of children in a first world country.
Waging should not be the concern of children.
Fact.
Children NOT being used for labor is a very recent phenomenon. It has nothing to do with the economic system of the country as the kids of rice farmers in Vietnam are harvesting rice just like the kids of rice farmers in North Carolina, USA are. Children not being used for labor is the results of automation and industrialization.
In the US it was actually the great depression that got a child labor law passed. there had been attempts to get something passed before, even attempts rooted in racism, but it wasn't until everyone was out of work that everyone could agree maybe only adults should be working
Your username is amazing. Never doubt your greatness.
Child labor is definitely not historically unique to capitalism, even in the modern era.
Stalin famously conscripted people into the labor reserve starting at 14 and the gulag system has plenty of history of child labor. And so on.
What's the difference between prison and a gulag? The same difference between an oligarch and a billionaire
Edit: holy shit it's like arguing with Colin Robinson don't bother
Im not really sure how that has anything to do with my comment. You can't dunk on capitalism for child labor and then be like "it's ok if Stalin does it because capitalism does it." That invalidates the original dunk, no?
I don't know where you think I'm defending Stalin, I'm just pointing out, america uses juvenile detention centers for child labor as well. Gulags=prisons
You are the one who made a meme about capitalism and child labor?
“Children should be free to earn their own money if they want to”
Liberals
Weird since it was liberals who pushed child labor laws in the first place. No one thinks this is new to capitalism.
This is the dumbest take I've seen in a while.
You seriously think liberals and capitalism are the only things that used child labor? Lol
Please consider this:
"lemonade stands" don't occur in other countries.
they do though, but lemonade stands aren’t really child labour
They are usually for fun and no one makes them do it and they are not doing it to put food on the table. It's like playing grownup for them.
for fun
Yeah. Even the adults are playing. (Please give adults and easy way to dump the lemonade. Often, we don't actually want to drink it.)
I always thought they were actually cringey.