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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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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)


0.5 [Provisional Rule] Use alt text or image descriptions to allow greater accessibility


We require alternative text (from now referred to as "alt text") to be added to all posts/comments containing media, such as images, animated GIFs, videos, audio files, and custom emojis.
EDIT: For files you share in the comments, a simple summary should be enough if they’re too complex.

We are committed to social equity and to reducing barriers of entry, including (digital) communication and culture. It takes each of us only a few moments to make a whole world of content (more) accessible to a bunch of folks.

When alt text is absent, a reminder will be issued. If you don't add the missing alt text within 48 hours, the post will be removed. No hard feelings.


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.

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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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[–] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Revolution will be achieved through collaboration with liberal moderates (hitlerites)

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cool. Are you going to try to convert people or just sit around waiting for them to figure it out? Or try to drag the small far left to your portion of it

[–] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)
  1. The best way to 'convert' someone is for them to literally "figure it out" by themselves and start reading political theory via their own volition to grasp the world better rather than get their worldview from inconsistent, barely coherent liberal media slop. It's impossible to 'convert' purely via a singular argument, just look at linux users trying to convert entrenched windows users.

  2. The comment was a reference to how radicalized socialist workers (who'd make up military core and who had demands like worker councils, socialization of industry) would team up with liberal elements in a popular front type of way, only for this front after winning to immediately betray and sideline the worker's demands. Historical examples: French revolutions, overthrow of Fascist Italy, February revolution in Russia, etc.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Oh ok sorry, us anarchists usually are shot from the front and back by that point, so I tend to forget about that part.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wait a minute, you think the liberals ruined the February Revolution, buddy, the socialist leadership wasn't even there for it. What next? Calling the makhnovists libs?

I'm a socialist in favor of left unity, but you need to touch grass, make friends with people who disagree with you, then go back and try to figure out who betrayed Marxist ideals in November of 1917.

[–] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Holy shit why is every .worlder so aggressive? I don't know how you derived such a conclusion from my original comment, so let me explain:

Proletarians, soldiers, peasants and so on overthrew the Tsarists, and in this popular front of sorts proletariat had demands for the liberal provisional government, such as Russia's withdrawal from WW1, land and labor reforms - things of that nature. The provisional liberal government failed to meet any of that (either via stalling or evading action), and they also didn't withdraw from the war, and these reasons definitely contributed to November revolution.

Simplified to not make it too long, but that's the core point - nothing to do with Marxist ideals.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

They're aggressive because they're smug. They think neoliberalism is the only rational way of thinking.

Anything else that says otherwise, like history, economics, science, social studies, is somehow a personal attack to them. They've made neoliberalism a religion.

.world would rather have everyone here be a insufferable liberal who wants nothing but electoralism but will make no concessions to win the popular vote. Fascism brings in good money after all.