As the saying goes:
Say what you will about Hitler, but at least he killed Hitler
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)
0.5 [Provisional Rule] Use alt text or image descriptions to allow greater accessibility
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.
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.
As the saying goes:
Say what you will about Hitler, but at least he killed Hitler
He also killed the guy that killed Hitler
It's like we're all on reddit again
I also choose this dead guy's führer
"Ah, the ol' Lemmy Hitleroo"
Then again, he did kill that guy too
I dunno, man, this Hitler guy seems kinda complex, how are we supposed to feel about him?!
Anybody who kills Hitler is ok in my book.
Awww “fascists” is spelled wrong 😞
In Brazil we write it like that. Different language, i guess.
I didn’t know that. Thanks!
facists? lol, never edit your own work, or you'll miss stuff like this typo.
People who hate faces I guess? Lol
I must be a faciphile, then!
Facists & rascists.
Kind of ironic since Hitler based Germany's immigration laws on USA's.
preach!
I'd say a better one is "Workers unite!"
The only reason he blew his brains out was because he got news what happened to benito mussolini didn't want his body desecrated.
That stencil is sick af.
Faces and races
...right off a cliff!
I agree, but isn't this a pretty obvious rule violation?
which rule, 0?
A bit ago I saw a phrase about not glorifying death. Could have been the rules for a specific sub, I don't have the hang of how this place works yet.
Communities on Lemmy follow the rules of the community, and the instance that hosts that community. So, this would need to follow the rules of [email protected] and dbzer0, the instance that left memes is hosted on.
Both of these can be found in the sidebar on the main page of the community, aka [email protected].
There are also some instances that will ban you for your comments/posts in other communities, but that's not common for most places that you would want to post anyway, or unless you post something very awful.
Does anyone know where I could possibly get a stencil like this? Feels like I could finally have a productive use of my time if I knew where to find something like this