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!
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.
EDIT: For files you share in the comments, a simple summary should be enough if they’re too complex.
We are committed to social equity and to reducing barriers of entry, including (digital) communication and culture. It takes each of us only a few moments to make a whole world of content (more) accessible to a bunch of folks.
When alt text is absent, a reminder will be issued. If you don't add the missing alt text within 48 hours, the post will be removed. No hard feelings.
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.
feel free to remove if it's too low quality. Just wanted to post somewhere nice for a change.
Lefty memes is too visible to the "VOTE" liberals of lemmy world so they downvote any such opinion or meme without a second thought.
Anyway don't worry about the votes they don't matter.
Liberals think that the only way to protect people and get change is to vote. They refuse to comprehend that there are other options, because they are too scared to do anything that actually matters. Voting is the easy way to feel like a good person and feel like you make a difference. Know that your efforts to ACTUALLY help people are recognized and appreciated. By me, other anarchists, and the people you directly impact with your actions. Don't let liberals make you feel bad for not falling for their pyramid scheme of a system
Can you define what you mean by “liberals”?
I think it's non-leftists. As that is the standard in this sub.
Can you say what you mean by “leftist” then?
The sidebar should cover that question. In case it doesn't here are some terms I think fall under that umbrella: socialist, anti-capitalist, anarchist.
Democrats, people who aren't leftist. And as another person said, leftists would be communists, revolutionary socialists, and anarchists.
I never even said to not vote. They probably thought "fuck the state" means "don't vote". And they are connected but not the same.
You're right, I was putting words in your mouth. Sorry. I do feel my comment is more or less still relevant
No you weren't. At least not in my opinion. I was just continuing the thought not refuting anything you said.
looks at +5-20 votes Is there an actual reason this comm's full of fools? Everything actually leftish in "Lefty Memes" gets downvoted. It's kindof a bad joke at this point.
Imean, for one thing there's the issue of "why are you here if the actual topic of this place disgusts you?" but then there's the fact that so many people are eager to jump on and fight over things that aren't even being said. It's like a big pack of trolls but I don't think they even know it.
This is probably a hot take (apparently my previous one was also a hot take so who cares), I blame Hasan. He is no more than a spicy liberal, basically a social democrat. But he calls himself a socialist. So people watch him, feel radical and call themselves socialist when all they really want is a welfare state.
I don't know who that is; I'm guessing some popular(ish?) streamer or YouTuber or something. Makes sense that people like that could popularize some undercooked ideas or ideologies.
Yeah, a pretty popular twitch streamer.
karmas a bitch
what did I do wrong?
people are fickle beasts who like to use votes to express their opinion rather than relevancy
This is why I would disable them. Or call them dislikes and make them add to the score. as it's still an opinion.
I think they were talking about electoral votes lol
I guess you could see it that way. Just the "opinion rather than relevancy" sounds so appropriate to the downvote topic that I assumed it was that.
It is possible I misunderstood, who knows
Low effort posts? Those sounds like shit post or circle jerk level memes.
If you want I'll remove it.
Idgaf just offering why you may have gotten down voted. I prob would have upvoted both myself.
You think the election posts were low quality? I was going more of a clean minimalist vibe instead. Got any tips?
If everywhere you go smells like shit, check your shoe.
Why?
Because human society is based on rationalisation of the unacceptable as being tolerable. If we could strip such delusions away, society would go mad.