Don't forget, muscles are great but stamina has more use in resistance movements!
Lefty Memes
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.
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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
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The only dangerous minority is the rich.
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So you recommend resistance training?
If literature is too dense for you, I personally like to put on Dropkick Murphy’s Woodie Guthrie albums, Sixteen Tons, Rage Against the Machine, Question, Union Dixie, etc… If anyone has more leftist workout song suggestions, I’m all ears!
Come out ye Black and Tans (particularly the cover by Colm R. McGuinness)
Depending on how you choose workout songs, the Song of The United Front could work too. To me, pretty much any left song, from certain Dropkick Murphys ones to The Internationale, will do the trick. xD
Edit: Forgot about the Chemical Workers' Song. How could I.
We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die...
I want to join this gym.
Same lol And happy cake day!
🥰 thank you. I had no idea.
A dedicated communist gym? Billion dollar idea right there! Wait...
I've considered doing literally this. I listen to audiobooks and podcasts while running, and there's a bunch of leftist writing I want to read... but I'm pretty sure that Marx and Kropotkin are a bit too dense for this to be a good idea.
Nah Conquest of Bread is not really that technical haha, and also rage inducing so should be a good combo 😂
Good to know, I'll have to find an audiobook of that then.
If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow
Are those (adapted) lines from a song? It sounds familiar, but I'm a music noob sometimes.
Revolution 1 by the Beatles