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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.

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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)


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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).


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.

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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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[–] gruvn@lemm.ee 107 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I just like how Americans always seem to think they have the freedom to move to any country they want.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 16 points 9 months ago

And unfortunately it feeds into the right wingers arguments here...

"SEE! They get it! Not even those socialist asshole countries allow just anyone to move in so why can't we freely murder Mexicans that jump the border!?"

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Remember learning about travel visas.

I got a valid U.S. Passport. What do you mean I can’t just give services money and go wherever I please?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

money buys freedom, obviously

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 56 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh, you try moving from your ravaged country to our haven of stability? No, you don't. Or only if you let yourself be exploited as an underpaid protoslave.

[–] Maddier1993@programming.dev 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your comment made me think: Its funny that politicians who promise more strict borders and curtail immigration from Asia also support bombing the heck out of the Middle East.

Like, you gotta stop at some point and think.. "maybe we should stop being assholes and not plunder natural resources and call people extremist for opposing us"

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not funny or strange. That's how colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism have always functioned.

[–] Icalasari@fedia.io 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hey now, Capitalism would rather beat those people into submission and turn them into slaves. Bombs cut into profit, ya know :u

[–] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

Well building bombs on the other hand is very lucrative. As long as you keep a few zones of earth as playgrounds for these bombs

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

only if you let yourself be exploited as an underpaid protoslave

We're from the U.S. Anything less than that would feel too foreign.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Leave America and move to other country

Create socialist utopia

Get invaded and bombed to rubble because socialism is not allowed.

[–] aliteral@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Literally an argument used by Mileists here. And also conservatives.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The notion that we can simply go test new ideas in a new country seems to be largely promoted by neoliberals, because it implies that liberalism is popular.

I sincerely wish we could have more tests like the Free State Project - now they just want to impose it on everyone.

[–] aliteral@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I do not see anything Milei does a new.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago

If the Death Star is so bad, why don't you move to Alderaan and see how you like it??

[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 months ago

And if not US, it's UK, France or Russia

Then China

[–] Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Saying "leave if you don't like your country's imperialism" is no different from saying "anyone who are not as racist as me should go kill themselves".

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

No you don't get it, yanks are from the shining light of the world! The US is a perfect place that every other country looks up to, and even their problems are kind of cool!!!!

God I'm so sick of hearing about it 😂

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

Wait you're not racist? Well, go away until you are!

[–] Sgarcnl@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Baldy lookin pretty dope in here