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!
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.
You know what's shitty? I bought a townhouse to avoid this shit and it's a shitty enough building in a shitty enough part of town that the previous owners felt no one in their right mind wouldn't be renting it out. They did the cheapest fixes, the soulless paint, the locked thermostat, the whole landlord treatment. I imagine they rented out the place and hence their bullshit, but that paint was fresh and ugly.
We're slowly undoing it, but fuck those people.
Yep.
Lot of slumlord shit done in the townhouse I bought.
I was gonna only be here a few years but Iβm paying like 2% so I might be buried here lol
Yuuup. You and me both. At least renovations come.... Slowly.
One time I asked for my landlord's permission to repaint in a color I liked, and while prepping the surfaces, I discovered that there was a baseball sized hole which they had just put painters tape and a layer of paint over.
Ah, so the full Deluxo Package? Lucky! I bet that βimprovementβ alone bumped your rent up by $10/week.
This job feels like there was an argument about not having enough tape to cover things up and a worker who had their last days involved.
Who tapes an outlet? You just pull the cover.
Yeah, you wanna get as much paint as possible inside the electrical box.
Like most social media snips, this would be better without the response.
I was recently behind a woman in the queue at a hardware shop, asking for advice because her landlord had painted white gloss on the inside of her bath
And tape the outlet anyway because the painters are hooligans -electrician
"Soulless" white? It's boring and inoffensive, and also I hate color.
The only room I've ever painted was grey. I particularly like the RGB c2c2c2. Fight me.
(My door is sage green though)
The only room I've ever painted was grey.
Millennial
Is there something about us that makes us hate color?
parasites at "work"