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Lefty Memes

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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

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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)


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.



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

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Credit to the OP of the "Homie's shelf" meme.

Thanks @[email protected] for sponsoring this meme with the blank shelf image.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Can someone explain this to me?

What's the baby oil about...? I'm very out of the loop lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was just thinking they were an embarrassing combination of things... and the baby oil reference was from this story: https://www.thecut.com/article/diddy-1000-bottles-baby-oil-costco.html 🙂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Fascinating... 😅

Thank you for the context!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

You’re welcome!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Kayne also asked trump to pardon diddy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can anyone explain what's wrong with syrup packets and batteries in the original?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

what if the batteries go bad and carrode the syrup ? i have no idea other than it being out of the ordinary