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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as well as condemning (their) imperialism, even if it is of the "anti-USA" flavor.
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).
The only dangerous minority is the rich.
We must constructively learn from their mistakes, while acknowledging their achievements and recognizing when they have strayed away from socialist principles.
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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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Maybe the purpose of a system is what it does...
Maybe trying to lower the rate/efficiency of the baby-killing machine is the wrong approach...
Maybe you should be thinking about destroying it...
of course, ron desantis loses to david duke in a landslide because everyone stayed home again - but moreover, the elections stopped actually counting the votes ever since 2028 and they only do it for the sake of keeping up appearances by then.
It has always been a distraction. You always have only been able to choose between different representatives of capital
bourgeois "democracy" is just a distraction to legitimise the dictatorship of capital
I yearn for the good old days when being conservative meant not blowing up the deficit with stupid bullshit and lumping Nazis, religious extremists, and imperialist commies into a basket of 'people only useful for adding nitrogen and phosphorous to soil'. That was only 20 years ago
Edit: I mean, imagine an alternate universe without Reagan or the Moral Majority, and instead of Trump we had some candidate who wanted to raise corporate tax rates on large businesses to balance the budget and give small businesses a fighting chance, and holding the line at the Ukraine-Russia border at all costs. That's what I mean, pretty peachy huh
Idk where you were 2004, but the conservatives you speak of certainly weren't around. In fact, I'm quite sure they never existed, considering conservatism in the US has always been closely tied to white supremacy and Christian nationalism.
Yeah the more I think about it the more I think it was Reagan and Falwell that flipped everything around. Everyone got a sip of the tax cut and Christian values koolaid
More like Nixon with the "southern strategy" to lure the Dixiecrats into becoming Republicans.
did you just blank out all the rabid mccarthyism and thatcherism
No, I'm thinking of the good old days, not the bad days. The post-McCarthy hangover where conservatives were not entirely dissimilar to Clinton, but then Reagan showed up
imperialist
commies
Well, social imperialism was a real thing. though it's in no way comparable to the atrocities of capitalist (aka. "normal") imperialism
Yeah, that's no typo. You have regular boring communist countries that just sit there being communist. In a post-McCarthy world most people realized those countries are pretty benign. You have imperialist nations that attempt to extend their territory and influence. Then you slap it all together and you get the USSR. Or Putin's Russia. Don't let them knock over their neighbors, install puppet governments, give them any aid or comfort or intel or anything
putin specifically ran on explicitly anticommunist platform (the first time he was elected anyway)
Yeah, that’s no typo
Yeah clearly, no need to double down
Sorry, I had no clue what you were even getting at when you quoted 2 words without context
communist
countries
It's a term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_state
This article is about sovereign states governed by communist parties. For the hypothetical social stage proposed by Marxist theory, see Communist society.
And unironically using it shows every leftist that you have no idea about socialist politics 💀💀
Democrats really have been trying to peddle a final solution on a slightly longer timeline as the absolute limit of harm reduction while refusing to withhold ammunition from the occupation.
Destroying this system is the only sane response.
Exactly. The system is functioning as intended. Trying to "fix" it or "change it from the inside" is missing the point
Fat fuck will be long dead by then.
I used to be that optimistic... yesterday afternoon infact...
hopefully, but that's not what the post is about -3-
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/31001907
EDIT:
[...] The only person you should blame for Harris's loss is Kamala Harris (and maybe Joe Biden)
(post title)
They made a calculation based on the money that was coming in, not on whether or not poll respondents wanted whatever policy.
This is why we need Ranked Choice Voting and we need to get RID of privately funded campaigns.
They deconstructed that faulty argument in that post well enough, no need to keep bringing it up.
Why don’t you change the subject a third time? I’ve been told it’s “the charm”.
my sibling in Christ, it's still the same topic of Democrats having done this to themselves by catering more and more to "moderate Republicans" 💀💀
who would have thought that fucking the average working population and literally funding and arming genocide would make you unpopular with reasonable people, while the crazy ones would still vote for the more consequent carrying out of those policies
Like clockwork, once a post on here has over 50 updoots, the liberals start pouring in lol
You let it happen.
Maybe you should be thinking about destroying it...
And you did nothing about it.
