Socialism
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 and constructive discussion from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.
A certain knowledge of socialism is expected, if you are new to/interested in socialism, please visit c/Socialism101 before participating here. Socialism101 will gladly help you by answering questions, providing resources etc.
Memes go in c/Lefty Memes
Please don't forget to help keep this community clean by reporting rule violations, upvoting good contributions and downvoting those of low-quality!
Rules
1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith discussion 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,
as well as condemning (their) imperialism, even if it is of the "anti-USA" flavour.
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 "Xenial Xerus" 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.
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
(This is not a definitive list, the spirit of the other rules still counts! Eventual duplicates with other rules are for emphasis.)
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My totally creepy diary on you is located here: https://lemmy.ml/u/UniversalMonk@lemmy.world
If it took only 10 seconds to post each time, and 20 seconds to make a comment, that means you have spent:
Or, 7.44 hours, in one month. That's almost 5% the amount of time people spend working full time. Almost a full work day. And these are extremely generous estimates that assume you are very fast. I have no doubt you have spent minutes responding to some of the comments calling you out.
To calculate the number of times you submitted content per waking hour:
Or once every 20 minutes on average, assuming you sleep. But again, yeah it fully makes sense that you would work nearly an entire work day per month, getting nothing but bile in return, because you "find articles interesting". Almost every single one promoting third party candidates. Yep you've convinced me. Totally and completely not sus, at all. Not even a little bit.
Hmmm, so how do you think I would make a living then? I mean, since you know so much and all.
And dude, you admitted to keeping a diary about me. Do you realize how weird you are being?! Ewwww...
You’ve spent almost a full 8 hour work day in a month. Suddenly now that's not important. Hmmm.
So 8 hours out of a month. And you think that's a lot? I don't understand what you are saying. That's 2 hours a week. So you think that is way too much time or way too little time? I'm not sure what you mean.
But hey, doesn't really matter, because I can do whatever I want. Tho I'm not a creeper like you. I mean, dude, you keep diaries about me. That's so weird. I guess I have to keep all these posts for the FBI now?!
Three times per waking hour. Totally healthy and nothing to even notice.
You keep a diary on me. Do you think I am going to take anything you say seriously?! You are a weird obsessed stalker. LMAO You're a joke, man. Like literally a joke. And incel who keeps a diary on a person you don't even know. Do you know how weird you are?
Like seriously, I wanna know. Do you think to yourself about how weird you are, or is just the other people that tell you that? I mean, you admitted you keep a diary about me. Do you know how weird that is?! lol
This is all what a toddler would do.
Better to be a toddler than a stalker, dude. Log off and go get a girlfriend or a boyfriend or something. Cuz man, you have issues.
You are taking this online stuff WAY too seriously and getting way too worked up about it.
Dude I posted a socialist article to a socialist community. Why are even here if you are not a socialist?
Did you even realize what community you are posting in or were you too blinded by just following me around and tracking down my posts?!
And dude, don't go around stalking and doing stats on a poster on Lemmy. It's weird, man.
I don't know you. You don't know me. You have fucking zero effect on my life. I have fucking zero effect on your life.
You need to go outside and get a social life. Seriously.
Says the person posting three times every hour
Oh another statistic! Keep going. Hey I'm posting some more article. Put it in your diary!