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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] 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Please let this actually happen

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I wish but it's actually Trump...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

I'm surprised they didn't choose that healthcare CEO guy for his stellar work quietly and legally murdering people.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol I know. Isn’t that fucking wild? Really shows how the media operates. Blatant as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So I thought the same thing, but it's apparently always the president-elect. so while you're right, i don't think this is a good example.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Well it was gonna be Osama in 2001, but people didn't actually get that it's not a positive award.

Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999)[1] is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oh. I did not know this.

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

When the role is purchaseable, the title is a flair and the true name is the target painted on the skull.

The true title's applicability applies to those who truely earned it based on every fucking thing other than money. I think everyone has already spoken. The only people who disagree are using money to disagree.

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

It was too late in the year. He's got a good chance at 2025, though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anyone know of any Luigi community on Lemmy yet? I tried, but can‘t really find one, it would be nice to have since they‘re all getting banned off Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What exactly would we need a community for?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sharing news on the case and memes like this one, so just wondering if anything is on here. Guess it‘s a no?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can make one if you feel motivated enough to do the mod work. However, I think the subject fits very well in any existing news or politics community. I would prefer the topic stay mainstream and not get relegated to a niche.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I think the mods there disagree with you. Or they will when they discover this notion exists and will be right here to support it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

How is it not Taylor Swift? /s