An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the “ML”
influence of instances like lemmy.ml [http://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
[https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/actualsocialism]. If you are new to socialism, you
can ask questions and find resources over on c/Socialism101
[https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/actualsocialism101]. Please don’t forget to help
keep this community clean by reporting rule violations, updooting good
contributions and downdooting those of low-quality! # Rules Version without
spoilers [https://wiki.dbzer0.com/leftymemes/rules/] ::: spoiler 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) — ::: ::: spoiler 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
[https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/anarchismvsmarxism]. — ::: ::: spoiler 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. — ::: ::: spoiler 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). —
::: ::: spoiler 4. No Bigotry. — The only dangerous minority is the rich. — :::
::: spoiler 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) — ::: :::
spoiler 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. — ::: ___ 7. Absolutely no posts or comments meant to
relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend: - Racism - Sexism -
Queerphobia - Ableism - Classism - Rape or assault - Genocide/ethnic cleansing
or (mass) deportations - Fascism - (National) chauvinism - Orientalism -
Colonialism or Imperialism (and their neo- counterparts) - Zionism - Religious
fundamentalism of any kind
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