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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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[–] BlackRing@midwest.social 50 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You missed Vladimir Putin and Pete Buttigieg!

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Imagine putting Drake on there but "forget" Putin

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's almost like OP has a hidden agenda!

[–] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Go check their post history, they post pretty much any anti-Biden anything that they can find every day.

I've asked them several times before who they support instead, never gotten an answer.

[–] nilaus@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And Xi Jinping... And kim jong-un... And a bunch more...

[–] ArumiOrnaught@kbin.social 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, I don't think Kim has done WAR crimes.

[–] DPRK_Official@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

How could our beloved leader engage in war crimes if we do not see war as a crime?

Checkmate, Westerners.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Korean war never officially ended, so

[–] ArumiOrnaught@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought it ended in the 50's and a quick search says it ended in '53. Also Un only took power after the turn of the century.

I'm not saying he wouldn't do war crimes, he absolutely would. I'm saying he hasn't had the opportunity.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fighting stopped in 53 but there was never an official end to the war

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Aren't Russia and Japan also still technically at war?

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

Yes I believe so, they never signed a peace treaty after ww2.