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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.

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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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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This joke is old, but isn't 'leftism' is generally understood as aknowledging different and unique instead of cutting everyone to the same template?

[–] Syl@jlai.lu 4 points 9 months ago

we are currently experiencing this in France for the european election (and also the previous elections...), not funny when the far-right is at 30%.

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[–] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Next at 5: Watch tankies, democratic socialists, and anarchists engage in a full blown shit flinging contest!

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

We take the whole "You have my sword. And my axe." trope a little too literally.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago
[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Wrong. Both sides don't agree to war. You're either in one or not. With how agressive the right throws shade at the left, and confuses the waters with NewsMan gaslighting, the left IS ABSOLUTELY under attack. Mostly not from within.

The left IS ABSOLUTELY at war. Like it or not. We just need to pick up our anti-spy game a bit and realize that we need to start on some actual offense. We need more AOC's and Bernie's in Congress and far fewer R's of ANY type, let alone Russia-loving losers like the current GOP.

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[–] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm here to rescue you with an ice pick

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I understood this reference.

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