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, upvoting good contributions and downvoting those of low-quality!
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)
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.
as well as condemning (their) imperialism, even if it is of the "anti-USA" flavor.
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).
The only dangerous minority is the rich.
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)
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.
(This is not a definitive list, the spirit of the other rules still counts! Eventual duplicates with other rules are for emphasis.)
FYI, there are "yachts" and then there are yachts. For every billionaire's mega-yacht with helicopter pads and dozens of crew and whatnot, there are thousands of decades-old, sub-40-foot sailboats that some hippie bought for $1 and spent a year fixing up at the marina in hopes of doing the nautical equivalent of #vanlife.
Unfortunately, the ones being attacked by the orcas tend to be closer to the latter.
Fuck
Yes, we need to train and arm the orcas better.
Now help me get this explosive suicide vest on the whale
Please don't use endangered species for suicide missions.
Bitch we're going to be endangered species too we're all in this problem that only we created together!
Give a whale a suicide vest and he might sink one random yacht
Teach a whale how to use power tools and he will kill billionaires for a lifetime
Your playing with powers you couldn't possibly understand
NATO needs to send the orcas better missiles
Pretty sure with enough money killer whales could be wiped out very fast.
Came here to say this. Don't give them any ideas please
We're well on our way.
I hate this but I also know it’s true. 🐋
Especially because the rich have just temporarily agreed to forget whales are worth money in the first place.
Hello there, friend!
I feel like the totem I'm carrying came to life
At least it's not a dolphin
