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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.

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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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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't the trolley represent the USA? The suggestion is to blow up the whole country?

[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

No, I don't think that people vote for capitalism.

In the USA, blue represents the Democratic Party, red represents the Republican Party, and green represents the Green Party.The meme is about voting.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What does the green way represent? (Dumb european here)

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like this might be it

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's what they are on paper, but Jill Stein leaves much to be desired.

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Better would be the marxists pushing the gas pedal to run over everyone on the red track, hoping that someone else will then rise up to stop the trolley

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

They will destroy the palestina, trans, gay, voting AND WOMEN!?!?!? Not my women!

[–] Hedlosa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A meme pointing out that the liberals support genocide is liberal how?

[–] bisby@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Its liberal in the sense of "we don't like Kamala's stance either, but the alternative has said he would "finish the job" in Palestine and is also anti LGBT, so if you dislike kamala purely about Palestine you should REALLY dislike the opponent and actively seek to prevent that from ever happening"

[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Every liberal keeps fascism in theyre back pocket just in case.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 month ago