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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.

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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).


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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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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] 83 points 5 days ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

Come to New York, where there was an obvious cohesive art deco style that was completely trashed by developers because they’re fucking soulless pieces of human ganarte yeah even your developer dad or mom are trash

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago

I fell in love with it watching Batman: The Animated Series.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

The Charleston song kinda slaps too

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 days ago (3 children)

My comrade, we are nearly half way in. The Charleston is not coming back.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago

There's still time.

DANCE HARDER, DAMMIT!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Some Fortnite animator is going to hear you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't the Charleston one of the first dances in Fortnite? I've never played it, but I could have sworn I saw stuff about it being in the game a long time ago.

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

You're think of the Carlton, but at this point it's probably in there too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Dem flappers tho.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unionize fellllloooooooows

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

SWE union when?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Literally none of those things are coming back, where does the person who made this live?

Like the only thing coming back from the 20’s is the rise of fascism and the Great Depression.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

The original comics has the great depression there instead of Anarco Syndicalism

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If you're not dressing as a flapper what are you even doing with your life. Get with the times, it's never been more acceptable to be a cute little flapper regardless of gender. I will die on this hill, or by a novel strain of influenza that gets blamed on an unrelated country, either way we're going full rip-roaring 20s doll.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

People should give Kansas a LOT more shit than they do.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

https://www.gocomics.com/shen-comix/2019/11/15

It was originally posted in 2019. Joke of course being that things associated with the 1920s would be relevant again in the 2020s.

Comic then shared as a meme with the 3rd panel being replaced with other panels. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/things-were-bringing-back-in-the-2020s

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Crushing poverty and the threat of starvation

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And the resulting fascism, of course. 😮‍💨

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Charleston never went anywhere. You'll still see the step all over in other dances from breakdancing to pop singers. It's a foundational dance step like the t step. Which makes sense since it goes with many things. https://youtu.be/90TzDXjWTdo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

c/penultimatepanel

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

That flapper is way too curvy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Who says that a flapper can't be curvy?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm a stickler for historical accuracy.

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

Historically, girls will pad that booty to trick the boys.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Make her curvier!

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