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.
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Just checked your bsky account, great comics lol. i missed smugideologyman on reddit, i hope you make a community on lemmy for your posts
Thanks a lot, I appreciate this!
I actually do plan to make a c/smugideologyman on lemmy.
Give me a week or two, I have other things to sort first, then I'll get to it. Already have the okay from the subreddit's mod team!
Do you think there'd be a point to making a separate c/community just for my comics/content?
Imo i don't think so, specific artists of a niche haven't ever really been popular here; it's better to make one big community full of everyone who wants to be there, so all posts would get more traction (fyi some lemmy clients support basic tagging of posts by adding [insert tag here] so you could mark your posts with [Bad] if you'd like :)
Example:
Yeah that's what I thought too, thanks for confirmation!
🦀🦀🦀 Marine Le Pen is going to jail 🦀🦀🦀
…now imagine if the USA had done the same for Trump between 2020 and 2024
Wohooo!
Way too lax on rich-people crime****
Justice is too lax on crime in the sense that serious crimes (ones that intend to hurt actual people either by hurting them, or taking away their autonomy or life) are punished by using a method shown not to work: incarceration.
Most other 'crimes' aren't really crimes.
Most other 'crimes' aren't really crimes.
White collar crimes are absolutely crimes, and not punished severely enough. They often create larger amounts of indirect hurt than a typical robbery, with less penalty.
incarceration
Incarceration is a necessary step, even for rehabilitation based systems, in the case of violent crimes. You need to remove the people from the situations that caused them to be like that, and prevent them from hurting others in the process of rehabilitation.
Not everyone is capable of going through rehabilitation either, and you need some method to keep them removed from society.