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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)


0.5 [Provisional Rule] Use alt text or image descriptions to allow greater accessibility


We require alternative text (from now referred to as "alt text") to be added to all posts/comments containing media, such as images, animated GIFs, videos, audio files, and custom emojis.
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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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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Often people like OP will suggest that liberals and conservatives differ in no way that matters. Which makes sense if you're an ignorant moron with no idea what views or actions the two sides actually hold and take.

But..but corporate money!

Yeah okay fine there's a corrupt system and a lot of Democrats aren't great. Which btw is a huge leap to "they're all the same". Also politicians are not the same as regular citizens.

No one who is actually aligned with "liberal" ideas would've ever said anything like "it's great the police beat you to a fine red paste for protesting"

Disingenuous bullshit like this post is incredibly counterproductive and even if it weren't, it is spreading lies. Fuck this piece of shit post.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I see someone is not familiar with the act of rhetorical exaggeration...

[–] pissedatyall 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I see someone is not familiar with the act of rhetorical exaggeration...

…and I see someone trolling.

They’re right - this is disingenuous bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So you're not familiar with "trolling" either. Hint someone being sarcastic towards you is not it.

And I know they're right. The libs are indeed full of disingenuous bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I love how the other person responding to you just assumes you're conservative because you're criticizing libs lol. Common binary brain L, smh

[–] pissedatyall 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I love conservatives. It’s always a race to the bottom with you people.

Conservatives wait until a system is rich and then dive in like locusts. I’m old enough to have watched over half a century of their global bullshit - I’ll stay and stick with liberals any day over a world of conservative rule.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes the famous conservative strain of anarchism /s

[–] pissedatyall 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes - and they’re called Libertarians.

And what about MAGA? How’s that for anarchists?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm afraid there's nothing more to do here as you have a terminal case of too many too many burgers in your brain

[–] pissedatyall 1 points 11 months ago

Sarcasm is notoriously difficult to determine in text, as you well may know, hence the popular use of /s to denote that.

Then again, either you completely forget that this is the world wide web, not AOL-Online, and not everyone understanding and use of speech is the same, or you’re fully aware of that and are going in for a double-dip, for shits and giggles.

You tell me. /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Okay maybe you exaggerated, let's grant you that. Still, which "liberals" exactly are saying "these protesters got what they deserve"? I'll wait.