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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!

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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.



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[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I bet I could waste funds by getting hired and then doing absolutely nothing

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thats what I was thinking, join and do nothing

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Y'all do realize that this exact same line of thinking prefaced a non-zero amount of "I'm just here for the experience" corpses in any war, ever. I can only imagine how many poor bastards thought they could game the system with a quick in-out like a flash, back home before you could spit. Every. Single. Fucking time.

No one makes it out alive, man. Every day counts. Don't "meh" this one.

Good point. This needs to be said more.

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 5 points 2 days ago

Don't do nothing. If you can't crack a comp, take pics of all their physical data.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Great opportunity for sabotage

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Flooding hr with fake apps isn't a bad idea, but working for them is.

[–] Lemmynated@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Taking the job and not doing the work isn’t.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago

Quiet Quitting Freezes ICE ActivityNew Hires Slack Attack As Payback

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Or doing it but snitching on them every attempt they make. Cracking their hardware and feeding backdoors all the way so when you leave, you don't have to "leave."

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 21 points 2 days ago

Ah shucks guys, I really didn’t mean to drop all of those tables, I thought it was test