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!
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.
liberals are deluded into thinking that they (democrats) are a leftist party and wouldnt do that, they are of the same mind as the republicans: More money for me, who will give me money for my vote. Its class warfare and the rich and corps own all the pieces.
It's all cosplay, liberals want to strip the skins of leftists they backstab and steal their valor.
Literally has happened too many times to count. They somehow forget all human rights abuses when their preferred person/team color enters office.
Human rights abuses are cool when your side do it, but horrid and should be stopped when the other guys are in office.
I stood next to liberals demonstrating against the border concentration camps in 2020, who immediately started making excuses once Biden took office, even after he had Mayorkas publicly bragging about how he'd imprisoned and deported even more immigrants than Trump. For four years, they didn't speak up against our treatment of immigrants, and even now they're only doing so because the villain wears a red tie. Deeply unserious people.
Why have morals when you can just trade them in every 4 years?
At least Republicans are consistent and honest in how much they hate people and don't pretend to like minorities for polling numbers unless its inconvenient.
It’s too bad the libs can’t handle the truth and you’ve been downvoted to hell.
Oppression comes from both parties but they were out to brunch the second biden got elected.