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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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[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THE LEFT GETS CONTROL"

picture of homeless encampment being raided by riot police in texas

picture of disaster relief area for hurricane damage

picture of food pantry with extremely long lines in literally any city

picture of literal genocide they deny is happening

Picture of...

Rinse and repeat for all new pictures with the same glaringly obvious issues that go soaring over their tiny minds

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

So much of the right wing media scare story boils down to "What if what we do to them gets done to us?!"

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Agreed, we need to be working towards a Star Trek esq society where money is meaningless. Where your station in life is purely decided by your contributions to society. If you want to have a simple life, doesn't mean you starve.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Communism: the party nomenklatura / the proletariat

[–] CyberTailor@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

The scale of inequality caused by party privileges was laughable compared to the scale of inequality caused by capitalism

[–] redbr64@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

True. Although knowing this picture, and being from this city, I am irrationally irked by the fact that the picture is mirrored (condos are on the left in the original!). Maybe it was to align political left? Lol

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It's an old meme... but holy hell it still slaps hard.