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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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[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I got banned from /c/news for "advocating" violence after making a joke about not being able to identify the suspect in the UnitedHealth CEO thread.

Edit: Remember violence is reserved for the government to oppress people. You are supposed to just sit there and take it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a reason most of us have .world instance blocked.

I'm sure there's some poor mod on there in a community that just unfortunately was started on there, but genuinely it's a better lemmy experience without.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The people talking in this particular thread, and OP, kind of seem like they don’t realize Lemmy isn’t just Lemmy.world.

Like does OP realize that this community is on db0 and isn’t subject to the rules on the .world instance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That was my first thought too. db0 has way less reddit-like mods than .world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The fediverse is a complicated subject, even amongst those smart enough, or just clever enough, to find lemmy. Many users do think whatever instance they joined is the main one, still others believe .world or .ml as the "main" instance ruling over all others.

It's weird thinking of a service being this disparate, even if you try to use discord or other similar platform as an analogy, it still fails to acknowledge there is not central server or ruleset (beyond the software license itself).

Bluesky further fucked things up by claiming to be decentralized and federated, and then getting popular.

In short yes, many so think replying here means .world mods will ban their unrelated lemmy account from all of lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Well hopefully some people who thought that see these comments and learn that’s not the case.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I got banned for the same thing as well idgaf. /c/News and /c/worldnews are liberal hell holes anyway

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

News mods are the most thin skinned mods I see on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Same. Joked about starting a gofundme for the shooter. I thought better of Lemmy. Ah well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Not all lemmy is the same. The beauty is that you can definitelly find comms which won't ban you for that

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Just like reddit it's all about who's the mods/admins.