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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.

Please don't forget to help keep this community clean by reporting rule violations, updooting good contributions and downdooting those of low-quality!

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)


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.



  1. Absolutely no posts or comments meant to relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend:

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3303034

wish I was better at making interesting titles

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hexbear: posts a cute meme

Infosec.pub: string of explicatives

Who is the bad guy here?

[–] xor@infosec.pub 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

hexb3r: posts never ending brigades of anti-solidarity, direct russian psyop propaganda, fake socialist exclusivity, rage bait, concern trolling, and zero moderation of obvious bad actors.

underpantsweevil: they posted a cute meme! they’re the good guys!

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While I generally agree with your sentiment about hb, I don't block them in my feed because of mod duties. And lucky for y'all, I filter out all the pig-poop-balls content on your behalf, and only crosspost the good memes :p

[–] xor@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

the constant pig poop balls is a dead giveaway that they’re disingenuous….
no way they actually think that means something to anyone… unless they’re russian

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

posts never ending brigades of anti-solidarity, direct russian psyop propaganda, fake socialist exclusivity,

Point to any of this on their frontpage.

[–] xor@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago

look for yourself

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Infosec claiming other communities are brigading is top tier meme material.

[–] xor@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

bruh, i’m not a representative of infosec in any shape or form

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does cross posting imply that the post already existed somewhere else first? I’ve submitted links independently which then showed up as a crosspost from somewhere else.

I wonder if you’re on an instance that doesn’t federate if it would still show up as a crosspost.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If you use the same URL for a link, I believe it records the parent as the first place it was listed assuming you're Federated.

Idk how images work.

dbzero is a bridge between World and Hexbear, so we occasionally see people like an image while a smaller group of anti-hexbear zealots start screaming in the comments that the site is hosted in Russia or some such nonsense.