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"the blue trolley would have ground up people more humanely!"
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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.
Agitprop (I.E. everything that would be more fitting on a poster than a meme) goes here.
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. Please post agitprop here)
0.5 [Provisional Rule] Use alt text or image descriptions to allow greater accessibility
(Please take a look at our wiki page for the guidelines on how to actually write alternative text!)
We require alternative text (from now referred to as "alt text") to be added to all posts/comments containing media, such as images, animated GIFs, videos, audio files, and custom emojis.
EDIT: For files you share in the comments, a simple summary should be enough if they’re too complex.
We are committed to social equity and to reducing barriers of entry, including (digital) communication and culture. It takes each of us only a few moments to make a whole world of content (more) accessible to a bunch of folks.
When alt text is absent, a reminder will be issued. If you don't add the missing alt text within 48 hours, the post will be removed. No hard feelings.
0.5.1 Style tip about abbreviations and short forms
When writing stuff like "lol" and "iirc", it's a good idea to try and replace those with their all caps counterpart
- ofc => OFC
- af = AF
- ok => OK
- lol => LOL
- bc => BC
- bs => BS
- iirc => IIRC
- cia => CIA
- nato => Nato (you don't spell it when talking, right?)
- usa => USA
- prc => PRC
- etc.
Why? Because otherwise (AFAIK), screen readers will try to read them out as actually words instead of spelling them
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).
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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 irrationally 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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- Queerphobia
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- Genocide/ethnic cleansing or (mass) deportations
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- (National) chauvinism
- Orientalism
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- Zionism
- Religious fundamentalism of any kind
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Big King Shit of Toilet Town telling me I'm nobody here lmfao
Do a revolution, don't do a revolution, I don't care at this point. No amount of ban hammering is going to change the fact that online arguments against other people on the left are entirely politically ineffectual. You can internalize that statement and decide to make some change in the real world, or you can keep grasping at what little facsimile of authority you can in tiny little online communities that you make yourself. But you're not even a mod here; we're equals in this community. If you don't like me speaking truth to your non-power, then block me already.
And if I'm wrong, and you are actually organizing in your community, and you do actually use your votes strategically, good. Ignore me. I'm some random on the internet, I should not be able to get under your skin this easily
ETA: What bugs me the most about this argument is that we agree on more than we don't. This just comes down to anti-electoralism. It's fine to be anti-electoralist, but if you limit your political efforts to just arguing with other leftists online, you're doing nothing. I'm not going to vote third party in '28 unless there's a damn good chance they beat Trump. If it's a repeat of the last 24 elections, then it's a race between The Party That Wants Smallpox Back and The Party That Doesn't Want Smallpox Back, and allowing the former to win just because you don't like all of the policies of the latter is a fantastic way to die of fucking smallpox.
get under my skin? you misunderstand, we're having a good time making fun of you idiots in matrix. this comm ain't for you, here you're just fucking fodder for our amusement until you get pissy enough you run to MeanwhileonGrad and whine about how we're horrible tankies or whatever. like all the other idiots that have earned a ban in the past day or so, you're here as long as you keep entertaining us.
when you're not funny anymore, you'll know. I have that feeling.
Maybe you should spend less time in your little secret clubhouse making fun of other leftists, and start actually making political progress. Like, Mamdani isn't gonna win NYC by having a bunch of fans secretly get together and make fun of everyone who votes for him
Although it would actually make my day if you told me that Mamdani is just as bad as Adams or Cuomo