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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.

(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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[–] MrSnowy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (9 children)

This isn't capitalism, this is corporatism

[–] jack@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago

Go ahead and define those terms

[–] SovietyWoomy@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You'd have to be dense to think this is capitalism. The corporations are clearly communist

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This isn't communism, this is clearly monarchism.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

clearly we are cavemen in primative democracy

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Actually we're just primordial bacteria in a puddle of mud, this proves that anarcho-capitalism is correct

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, this is actually existing capitalism. The utopian fantasies of capitalist theorists like Adam Smith and Keynes simply do not work or exist in reality.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

In terms of Smith writing about his present conditions, I think it was accurate enough for mercantile society. The problem (besides his not-always-reasonable history) is that because he often failed to distinguish first principles from idiosyncracies, the logic of his observations shatters in any other context (e.g. global capitalism).

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This isn't capitalism, this is corporatism

Which is capitalism

[–] flan@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Corporatism is fascism and not "corporations misbehaving according to my ideals", which is just capitalism. I'm not making any statement about capitalism degenerating to fascism here.

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

theres no such thing as corporatism, liberal

Death to America

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

they are the same thing.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Funny how capitalism seems to evolve into "corporatism" every time. Almost like there's a well-documented cycle, or something

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago