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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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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

you inadvertently put a human in the meme instead of a leech.

edit: i apologize for calling this cunt a human, i didn't know who it was

[–] IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's Fergus Wilson - frankly, I'd prefer the leech.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Holy shit what an especially hateful and bigoted societal parasite!!

[–] Arkaelus@lemmy.world -4 points 4 months ago

It's been discovered recently that leeches can jump, so it's not as inaccurate now.

[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months ago

One of my favorite Onion headlines is: "Landlord forced to increase rent because they thought of a bigger number."

[–] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On May 22, 2024, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted an unannounced raid on Cortland Management’s headquarters in Atlanta. This action was part of a criminal antitrust investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) into allegations that Cortland has been involved in a conspiracy to artificially inflate apartment rents.[

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

In a just world all the rentals that used this service should be given to the tenants living in them.

[–] Rivalarrival 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not me choosing to put you in this guillotine. It's the whole of society.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 5 points 4 months ago

I wish. Feels very much like it's just me unfortunately.