An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of "ML" (read: Dengist) influence. 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, discussion and agitprop/stuff that's better fit for a poster than a meme 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. Please post agitprop here)
0.5 [Provisional Rule] Use alt text or image descriptions to allow greater accessibility
(Please take a look at our wiki page for the guidelines on how to actually write alternative text!)
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.
0.5.1 Style tip about abbreviations and short forms
When writing stuff like "lol" and "iirc", it's a good idea to try and replace those with their all caps counterpart
Why? Because otherwise (AFAIK), screen readers will try to read them out as actually words instead of spelling them
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" (read: Dengists) (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 irrationally 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.
From the The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission:
As if individual countries would be more "free". It's would be more like russia stepping on the individual European countries lol
This is a very important point.
Maduro was just kidnapped and the US in open war with Venezuela, these countries do not give a fuck about "international law" they serve the American empire. They serve as little more than yes men, anyone who thinks a united Europe would stand against it is willfully ignorant.
Obligatory reminder that the €U is a union of financial capital and a (neo-)imperialist/colonialist fortress first and foremost, always has been
Fortress? Badass.
/s? Frontex is killing thousands each year and the unequal trade and resource contracts say something else...
The term fortress is just badass.
Hey look it's American propaganda
Please elaborate what you mean by this
The Republikkkans are Anti-EU because the EU is, in their eyes, the greatest threat to their hegemonic power in the western empire as the three imperial cores exploit the global south. They've been pushing shit like this all year. That said, it's a little sensationalist as the EU mostly stands aside and lets corporations fuck around in the global south so long as EU citizens themselves aren't interfered with, up to and including that when the US kidnapped a foreign leader in the global south the EU took the official position of "It's got nothing to do with us"
Ultimately, I think any coagulation of human power that is not held accountable by the people is ultimately a problem. The EU is an economic alliance first and foremost, to allow member states to not be bullied by the great imperial powers of our era. The problem is those imperial powers and the lack of agency and autonomy possessed by the global south. I'm not sure dissolving the EU will help anyone but America and Russia. Dissolving America, Russia, and China on the other hand? Now we're going somewhere
Amazing.
