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!
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.
I always wonder when you see stuff like this. Is it an email? Do they all get an email with the daily talking points? Is it a conference call? Do they go to the call, or do their assistants? Or does someone else post to all of their accounts? Like, how does this work, mechanically?
And who is doing the coordination? Seriously. I have so many questions.
You know that whole "new world order" conspiracy theory thing they keep screeching about?
Well, when folks say "it's always projection" it's 'cause it's always projection.
"The new world order exists, is evil and wants to control your life!"
"Anyway, here's our Project 2025, where we'll bring a new order to the world"
Probably an insecure Signal chat.
If I had to guess, it was pushed out by Sinclair media on their news stations, and either emailed to these representatives aides or just a press release no one reads but everyone regurgitates. This is extremely dangerous to our Democracy
They get told what to do from one of the conglomorated right wing funders. Koch brothers, Murdoch or someone else similar.
It's how they get the antisemites to play nice with Ben "Judeo Christian" Shapiro , because when you actually learn about how these religions are classified, they're called "Abrahamic religions" , but Islam is taking a bad rap until the cheque from the Saudi King clears, and they can say how great the arab countries are because they oppress women while letting them drive cars.
It's probably organized like any other corporate business.
These guys are nothing more than employees who work for larger media entities; simply talking heads who get their marching orders from their bosses, the same as any schmuck in a corporate office.
It's all just business.
I learned how people get on the news and repeat stories to slowly infiltrate people's conscience and the same people that said cigarettes were okay were on the news as experts for others over time. What's funny is I learned this from Joe Rogan who became apart of this machine.
Matt Walsh was the only one who used an aibot to rewrite the cheat sheet in "his own words". The others were too dumb to even do that.
And they like to say they’re not sheep… or cult members.
Because they are monkeys. Monkey see, monkey do.
Did you guys think the rights were actually people? Newsflash, they're all the same 3 brain cells in a trenchcoat.
How do we determine what 3rd world is?
Have we looked at our own country lately?
How do we determine what 3rd world is?
You don't speak right-wing? I'll translate - "3rd world" means anything that isn't white.
The language is intentionally ambiguous, of course
"Third-world" means Mexico to some, China to others, Africa to others. They all think this message is personalized to them. It's how Trump's coalition of the worst elements of our country holds together.
Ironically it has a meaning, and Cuba, Jamaica, Bolivia, and Venuzeula (just sticking to a handful of American examples) are not third world countries... Or weren't anyhow, the term no longer really has meaning post cold war.
First and third world countries are specific countries categorized after WWII.
Specifically third world countries were originally defined as countries neither aligned with NATO or the Soviet Union during the Cold War. So technically this would have included Austria, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland, but generally the term is only used to describe poor and under developed countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
You should look into the history of it a bit, the categories were really always kinda about the skin color
Do you think they also support no longer exploiting those countries for profit or meddling in their governments? And perhaps back pay for the previous exploitation and destabilization?
I have a solarpunk dream where we manufacture educators and experts for the third world and offer full rides for them to go back and build up their communities.
i love your dream
Essential services like healthcare, accessible information, food safety, and all the other things that help our citizens stay safe and productive?