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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Am conflicted - love the sentiment, but hate Nicholson with a passion.. ๐Ÿ˜‚

So I had a look for an alternative, I think this works..

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh? any specific reason to hate him? I'm not following celebrities generally.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I don't follow celebrities either, but he's pretty well known for his violence (sexual and otherwise) towards women, and in general. Has been for decades..

[โ€“] 4lan -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Let's face it anyone with power seeks to abuse said power.

For men that usually means rape

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

anyone with power seeks to abuse said power

Which is why many abusers deliberately seek those positions of power in the first place, and why having a position of authority is never enough on its own (or shouldn't be) to deem someone trustworthy or safe (if anything, they deserve more scrutiny).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

is gen alpha or gen z