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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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this user is a mod of a huge .world news community btw

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Just tell us who they are. Why hide the username?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

i just dgaf tbh

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I will say he hasn't banned me for going directly against his pro isreal views yet. So that's a plus. But I'm not a fan of the erasing of any semitic people other than Jews as a justification for Genocide.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

They may not, but the other mods on that comm are more than happy to do it for any other reasons.

So many threads where the only comments left are the pro zionist ones

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Yeah. They don’t appear to be very active with their negative views, otherwise, I would be more vocal and include the accusation in the title. I believe people at least deserve to be informed, though.

Appreciate your fairness!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

"mod of a huge .world community" ahhh and slowly the ".ml is an echo chamber!!!!" posts are beginning to shape up.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If it's any consolation, I've blocked both instances.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

What's left, other than Star Trek and piracy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

I still have basically the same content, just without abusive mods and a bit less revisionionism. I'm not on here constantly, though.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 17 hours ago

As someone else in this predicament.... Not much.

Lemmy sucks.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Shit lib supports genocide, what's new? .world tends to attract neoliberal bootlickers and reactionaries who call anyone left of them a "tankie".

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