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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.

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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.



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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Good charts comparing why the "just world fallacy" is indeed a fallacy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Tbf I feel like a lot of them work pretty hard at mercilessly exploiting the working class. Like, Space Karen has sent over 20,000 tweets? That's a lot of ~~work~~ tweets!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can literally just make the entire second pie chart "exploiting the working class", because "birth lottery" is dependant on that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Great crime behind every great fortune, only question is whether they did the crime themselves or their parents did.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Be in the political system and trade on stocks you have insider information on.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago
  • Have enough resources available in your social network to keep making bets until you hit a 10x/100x
[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Capitalism just has a feedback loop bug. In capitalism, resources are distributed based on capital. But capital is a resource. So you get more capital for having more capital. In any business, who gets the most money that business generates? Whoever had the most money to buy into it. No work, no expertise is involved in the equation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

"Yeah, we got a 10-94 here, an Internet user has gotten too wise, send in the economics squad"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

See: Monopoly the game.

The winner is declared in the first 10 turns and it's all downhill from there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

You might or might not be referring to the fact that Monopoly was originally made to showcase exactly that; the impossibility of living under such a system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord's_Game

That's the original title.

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