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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.

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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


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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.


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

More like "tried to follow procedure, but the establishment broke it over and over to stop them until nobody had any faith in the system left". "Storm before the storm" by Duncan is a great book covering it.

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

yeah it's been a while since I listened to the part about the Republic lol

I'm currently at episode 34 of "The History of Byzantium"

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

It's a pity he didn't carry on into Byzantine history. Though his Revolutions is also superb.

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

ye I actually listened to the Oktober revolution part of that podcast before switching to "The History of Rome"

also the host of "The History of Byzantium" is doing quite a good job too, would recommend

though I do understand Duncan for setting the cut-off point where he did instead of the early 15th century 💀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Heh, the "Mike becomes a commie" series is his masterwork.

Pierson also does great work, I was some 200 in myself when I trailed off.