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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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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 12 points 9 hours ago

And all because 1950s McCarthyism incepted America with a seed that may eventually destroy it long after the USSR’s dissolution

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The only thing that pissed me off more than Trump winning, was seeing how many good Props failed, and bad ones passed.

I'm glad we made LGBT marriage part of our constitution, but jesus christ the voting base here is NIMBYs, NeoLibs, and Conservatives.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

Exactly right

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Always enjoy your posts, ozma.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Thank you. I try.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 42 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

California is the USA in a bottle. You got progressive cities, conservative suburbs, rural areas and industrial hotspots, poor folks as well as the obscenely rich. Ronald Reagan was Governor in California for 8 years before becoming the blueprint of conservative candidates for the presidency.

[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 20 points 20 hours ago

This. Larger population than all of Canada = smorgasbord of different ideologies and classes.

[–] Oxen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 20 hours ago (3 children)
[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Land of the free is misspelled. It's land of the three. Trump, Leon, RFK.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

Land of the fee,

Home of the slave.

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"Scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds." Makes you question if Californians really care for the marginalized.

[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

I mean given what I've seen of their treatment of the homeless it's very obvious many if them don't.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 18 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

I thought the bear in their logo had two heads

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago
[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The bear in the flag was over-hunted and had its habitat destroyed so it’s no longer found in California. It’s a great metaphor.

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[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

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[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Why that bear don't have 2 heads?

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago

Because it isn't 2189 yet.

Also, please use the spoiler tag.

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[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The American prison system is designed to make money. Prisons get paid based on how many people they house. Making sure people don't wind up in prison is literally the last thing the warden wants to do. Anybody thinking America is gonna change it's ways out of the goodness of its heart is fucking delusional.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 18 hours ago

It’s worth noting that California did abolish private prisons a while ago.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago

Oh it's worse than that. California voted to make more homeless people, expand the three strikes system by turning some misdemeanors into felonies, and voted itself a slave state to take advantage of all that new prison population.

All that's left is to privatize the pipeline.

But it's okay, they removed the defunct ban on same sex marriage so they're still progressive! Yay!

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