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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!

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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.



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[–] Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com 57 points 1 month ago (14 children)

That's so ass backwards I refuse to believe it's real. Big, greedy corpos spreading their... socialist agenda. I'll bet you an Australian dollar (or whatever they use) they're just thinking of pride month.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have met these people. I am related to these people. Op might not be real, but for a fact there are people who genuinely believe this shit. It's so incredibly frustrating to know they are so close to understanding, but so very, very far ever believing the explanation

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago

They are saying the same thing but mean something entirely different.

This dude is saying something along the lines of "corporations wouldnt pander so much to the LGBTQ communites if they were run by regular folks like me" rather than "the C-suite of corporations are robbing us blind and we cant do anything because they have so much power that effectively organizing against them is impossible"

[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 13 points 1 month ago

Came to say this! I'm also related to people like this :-\ They say blatantly lefty stuff but insist on being on the rightist 'team' thing anyway. Gross.

[–] JustAPenguin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I too believe Australia is not real

[–] Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Woke mind virus strikes again!

(I know it doesn't make any sense, but I'm just trying to fit in)

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