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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

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,

as well as 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.

7. Absolutely no posts or comments meant to relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend:

(This is not a definitive list, the spirit of the other rules still counts! Eventual duplicates with other rules are for emphasis.)

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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...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

hopefully, but that's not what the post is about -3-

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They deconstructed that faulty argument in that post well enough, no need to keep bringing it up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why don’t you change the subject a third time? I’ve been told it’s “the charm”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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