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Lefty Memes

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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.

Please don't forget to help keep this community clean by reporting rule violations, updooting good contributions and downdooting those of low-quality!

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)


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.



  1. Absolutely no posts or comments meant to relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend:

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

Or you can just not have an opinion on a subject. It's ok to not have an opinion sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's not okay to not have an opinion on the bombs you're paying for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Sure it is. There are many things my taxes are paying for that I don't have an opinion on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"You can't be neutral on a moving train."

You can choose to not have an opinion, but that just means you're siding with the genocide. There's no neutral option.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's just your opinion. You can't actually prove that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I can prove that you are supporting genocide. You pay your taxes, right? Then you're supporting genocide.

Unless you're too young to pay taxes? In that case I could give you a pass - it's not like you know any better anyway.

But this is something we all have to reconcile - we're all complicit. You don't get to wash your hands of this.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Again, you've proved nothing. This is just a conclusion/opinion. Just stop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

You're literally paying for it! Do you not feel anything for the direct consequences of your actions?

The fact that you refuse to accept responsibility for your own actions doesn't change the fact that you are complicit. You have to grow up and learn to take responsibility for what is being done in your name with your tax dollars, or they're just going to keep killing in your name using your tax dollars. It's really that simple.

You want me to stop because I'm giving voice to your own guilt, because you know I'm right.