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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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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ła Venexia daxà senpre gà probleme da brente, anpò con ła scaldada global i pare roba xornaliera, no so de ła sità (o stesso de ła Europa!) ma me insusto migołìn.

...sorry for the others, I couldn't help it. Anyway:

The best part of LW is that it's a gate to the Fediverse, welcoming everyone from Reddit.
And the worst part of LW is that it's a gate to the Fediverse, welcoming everyone from Reddit.

As such I can relate to the OP. There's a lot of crap coming from that instance, but also users and content worth interacting with.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gàstu scrito quéło in venesian parché chi che no parla ła lengua no lo pol tradur? Because I had a bitch of a time lol.

You make a good point!

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Gàstu scrito quéło in venesian parché chi che no parla ła lengua no lo pol tradur?

Daseno go scrito in venetan par estro. I almost never have the opportunity to use the language, might as well use it when it's relevant. If native speakers find it here, I hope that they feel at home. (Minus the flooding... or actually with the flooding, swap "Adriatic" with "Lemmy.World" and here you go.)

Because I had a bitch of a time lol.

Sorry!

Might as well translate the whole thing for the others:

  • [Me] Venice always had problems with flooding, but with the global warming they look like a daily thing, I'm not from the city (or even from Europe!) but it worries/annoys (can't translate it well) me a bit.
  • [You] Have you written it in Venetian so the ones who don't speak the language can't translate it?
  • [Me] Seriously, I wrote it in Venetian in a whim. [insert stuff already in English]