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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,

as well as 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.

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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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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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[–] UFODivebomb 50 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Everybody should have access to clean water. I mean everybody. If I was the President I'd happily enforce that with all powers available.

Then I'd start working my way up the hierarchy of needs...

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Oh yummy! Confusion.

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

Wow, I did not know that. He could definitely drop the percentage he takes from Indy developers. I always thought his 30%, was scummy. Now moreso.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

From all developers honestly but just from indies would be great considering they already have it in their contract that the % goes down after X$ of sales (which benefits larger devs).

Valve makes enough money to pay their employees more than the competition while also having surplus to have tons of side projects that will lead to nothing and making the boss a billionaire... I don't mind the first two, but that last bit means money coming out of our pockets and going towards buying yachts...

(Disclaimer: I hate all billionaires, this applies to all platforms, we overpay for games [and most other things] in general because there's billionaires at the top of the creation/distribution chain)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

People can have mega yachts precisely because others don’t get 3 meals a day. That’s how the system is designed to work.

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

Not because the capital spared from denied meals (or production thereof) are going directly towards yachts, but because the capitalist mode of production requires the threat of starvation to force us into unfavourable compensation for our labour.

Really, we could easily do both at this point (and more), but since greed knows no limits, there is also no limit to what pain the capitalist class will impose on us in order to extract surplus value.

We already produce enough food for a billion more people than what exists, but still around a billion live in starvation to deter the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Clean water and a freaking shitter too!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And shelter.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It does make total sense.

Bezos needed to de-construct a bridge in the Netherlands because his new build yacht wouldn't go through. Fokker paid for it too, probably a fraction of that floating monstrosity. We did not like it one bit but the city of Rotterdam pulled their pants down and bended over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Did he pay for it to be rebuilt taller or is there just not a bridge now?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

All I can find is articles about how they did NOT tear down the bridge because the locals were obviously outraged. The city would have done it.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Don't forget healthcare as well!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Money hoarding is obscene. And worshipping money hoarders is gross.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So long as I can still choose to skip breakfast when I want.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Did they fucking stutter? Now chow down that breakfast

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

But what about second breakfast?

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

As someone who frequently skips meals i plore you to ask.

“Why am i skipping these meals?”

If you woke up, not by technological but by biological clock and had no rush to get things done or go anywhere…

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Cooking Mama has an ideal outcome - Great

Cooking Mama's idea of getting there was whatever the fuck the USSR was doing... - Not Great

Just Tax the rich while maintaining a strong democracy, it's not hard.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you don’t get to communism through “social democracy” XD

any concessions given by the rich in bourgeois “democracies” are funded by outsourcing some of the exploitation to the imperial periphery/global south

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

You definitely don't get to a public owned means of production and redistribution of goods through Autocracy for vwry obvious reasons.

The rich need not make concessions when the poor can help write the laws.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

grabs guillotine

MAMA WILL FIX IT. 😡🔥

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

More than just a place to sleep; a place to call your own. And every place I've rented did not feel like my own; most corporate rental contracts make it very clear that this is their property, don't you dare make it feel like home, you only get to temporarily reside there by the grace of their good will (and by paying out your nose, ears, eyes, and ass for the privilege).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I eat my breakfast from a bowl. Checkmate yachters!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you're working 40 hours a week and you STILL can't afford basics like food, shelter and healthcare, then your economy (and your employer) sucks.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Is this true even if a person on an island spends their whole life building a wooden mega yacht for themself?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If someone can manage to build themselves a mega yacht from scratch they can keep it

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