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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.

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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.
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1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith interactions is enforced here


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That means condemning (their) imperialism, even if it is of the "anti-USA" flavor.


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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).


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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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[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

No. We are not both that way. I read plenty by anarchist and demsocs and even MLs I disagree with. Because I understand that we all share fundamentals that are good and can be learned from each other. Especially when it comes to defending successful revolutions and defending the working class.

You, on the contrary are (by your own admission) treating this like some religion or some team sport. To the extent that you thought an analogy of leftist to white supremacist actually made sense in your head. Wow. Absolutely zero material analysis.

To be clear, it's ok to make extreme analogies. That's not the issue. It's that your analogy is entirely based on "bad group I disagree with" and literally nothing more.

You basically sound like a liberal that calls themselves an anarchist. It's pretty embarrassing.

God, I wish anarchist actually had a successful revolution to point to so us MLs could pick apart every little failure of its post revolution society too. But, alas, they have never lasted long enough to actually be able to defend themselves. So you get to sit on your hill of "purity" while MLs actually get shit done.

[–] PirateFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

God, I wish anarchist actually had a successful revolution to point to so us MLs could pick apart every little failure of its post revolution society too. But, alas, they have never lasted long enough to actually be able to defend themselves.

I actually mentioned in my long comment you didn't want to read there were no successful Anarchist revolutions due to ML's betraying them each and every time to quash any chance of them succeeding.

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Just more ahistorical garbage from someone that admittedly doesn't read anything that might not agree with their existing beliefs. You're embarrassing yourself with every reply mate. Now I'm just entertained.

"Each and every time". Cope more mate. You just generalized so much history into a single sentence it's embarrassing.

Yeah it's just the damn MLs getting in the way. You really are just a lib. Or I'm being very generous you fall for liberal talking points.

No respectable anarchist outside of the western world would ever agree with you. You're just repeating garbage liberal filled anarchist without any real ideas.

[–] PirateFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago

from someone that admittedly doesn’t read anything that might not agree with their existing beliefs.

As I mentioned before, I did read them, and I concluded that further research into ML will not be fruitful.

You just generalized so much history into a single sentence it’s embarrassing.

I only generalize due to longer comments being undesirable (more detail in the long previous comment, if you like).

Either way, further discussion will only result in needless conflict. I genuinely wish you the best. Farewell.