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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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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)


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.



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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

My headcannon is that the person quoting him is a capitalist trying to make him look bad 😉

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why are the i's capitalized?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Because the person quoting Marx is a capitalist trying to make him look bad? 🤷

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Those are L's.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

starts with a capital 'i'

poser

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

also why is he capitalising both his first and his surnname.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

smh fake internet leftists

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Um, acktchually, since Marx was german, his Writing would look more like this Sentence because of the Rules of the german Language and he also wouldn't have minded using capital Letters because he'd call them Bigletters. Or maybe Majuskel when he felt pretentious. So there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Grew up in a country with mandatory German classes in school, can confirm.

I didn't mind the capitalization of all nouns anywhere near as much as the unholy mess that is German grammar, though 🤷 😄

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Latin be like: "syntax? Too hard. I'll dump all complexity into the morphology."

Mandarin be like: "morphology? Too hard. I'll dump all complexity into the syntax."

German: "ICH WILL BEIDE!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My one year of German from high school translated that into "I am (Joe) Biden"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

A German media outlet had a headline in 2020 along the lines of "Wir wünschen BIDEN Kandidaten viel Glück" - "Best of luck to BOTH candidates". It's an untranslatable pun based on "Biden" and the German word for "both" being homophones (and also near homonyms).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

No, you dummy! It's "I will Biden!". It's saying your vote intentions, you know?

(It's "I want both", but I actually fucked it up, that -n shouldn't be there. Fixed now.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Capitalizing nouns is an extremely simple rule with no exceptions that tells you what kind of word you are looking at at a glance. Compared to whatever the fuck the remainder of German grammar is, that rule is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

That is an Insult for the glorious Language of my Forebears and a Freshness that i me not listen to will. A beautiful Day wish i You, the Sir/the Dame.

Tap for spoilerkill me lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

KAAAAARL, THAT KILLS PEOPLE!

"no you fuck, it doesn't. capitalism does it."