Lefty Memes
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
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.
- Absolutely no posts or comments meant to relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend:
- Racism
- Sexism
- Queerphobia
- Ableism
- Classism
- Rape or assault
- Genocide/ethnic cleansing or (mass) deportations
- Fascism
- (National) chauvinism
- Orientalism
- Colonialism or Imperialism (and their neo- counterparts)
- Zionism
- Religious fundamentalism of any kind
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CGP Grey is awesome
Is he, though?
Abolish the monarchy! - A response to CGP Grey
Yesyes Explainy-internet-guy is bad because he made error (or possibly just interprets history in a different way), which got corrected by other Explainy-internet-guy.
Explainy-internet-guy is bad because he has principles and doesnt let anyone post garbage below their videos, which would be impossible if everyone could just post, but they turned on "paying subscribers only."
Explainy-internet-guy is bad, because they havent uploaded a real video in over a year.
Explainy-internet-guy is bad, because they dont agree with my every minute detail of every single piece of every opinion I may have. (or the even worse version: some of my opinions, pressed onto me by white-faceless-internet-essayists, contradict some other of my opinions, which means one of then is wrong (and bad(and a monster (and literally Hitler( and should be banned(and be executed for being a monarch))))))
wow. six nested parentheses! a personal record!
by the way: /omegasarcasm
As someone who loves parentbeticals (and ellipses, asides, and similar) holy crap that hurt to read hahah
(gestures toward @[email protected])
I'll have what they're having.
I'm gonna have to look that up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthesis_(rhetoric)
Aha. I'm sorry, I was not aware of these suggestions, and am in the future probably still unable to use these in a coherent and/or consistant manner. Partly because in german the rules are just similar and just different enough for it to become excessively confusing very fast. Still fun to learn about a new thing.
That can't be true.
looks
Oh yeah the Rock Paper Scissors thing was well over a year ago. Just another leap in the direction of "podcaster" being first on the wiki.
Well somethymes it is less sad, when I think less. so I'm just not thinking about CGP until it is solved. :)