Lefty Memes
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!
Rules
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
- ofc => OFC
- af = AF
- ok => OK
- lol => LOL
- bc => BC
- bs => BS
- iirc => IIRC
- cia => CIA
- nato => Nato (you don't spell it when talking, right?)
- usa => USA
- prc => PRC
- etc.
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.
- Absolutely no posts or comments meant to relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend:
- Racism
- Sexism
- Queerphobia
- Ableism
- Classism
- Sexual assault
- Genocide/ethnic cleansing or (mass) deportations
- Fascism
- (National) chauvinism
- Orientalism
- Colonialism or Imperialism (and their neo- counterparts)
- Zionism
- Religious fundamentalism of any kind
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Ukraine has two options.
Get killer or raped, or both by putin's imerialistic regime, or fight for their country.
So saying that EU somehow behind dead Ukrainians, it's like saying that woman is responsible for rape because she should not fight back and just agree to aggression.
i think you're both striking on part of the truth. Ukraine is the victim of an imperialist aggressor disrespecting their sovereignty and humanity. the western powers have also proved themselves unwilling to provide real support for Ukraine and will continue giving Ukraine not enough support to win, but just to continue to survive in this current manner. since 2023, Ukraine's main ask in their aid requests has been glass. instead they recieve only missiles. and not the kinds of missiles they ask for, or in the quantities they're asking for. so now they've developed some of the most advanced cruise missiles and attack drones, and suddenly the western powers are trying to acquire those and are negotiating with Ukraine like a real countly.
the horrying thing is who's asking Ukraine for 2.5 ton delivery mechanisms, the USA. so far Ukraine has shown zero interest in selling these missiles to the US and continues offering the US shahed defense measures at increasingly higher prices the further America gets into a war with Iran and finding over and over that Israel is not a valuable intelligence partner. the art of the deal president may eventually buy those shahed defense measures, but he will pay a HIGH price for them, a much higher price indeed than when they were offered before invading Iran.
And what should they give to Ukraine? Only thing that we can do, is to fight russia, and wait until the economy collapsed. It's not like you can send 10000000000 solders and somehow whole russia will stop the war, and putin will be hunt down and killed, and everything will be great again.
You're talking about usa, that right now is in the hands of right wing nutjobs, that are not that far from putins regime.
USA asked a lot of countries about that. Because as everyone said, you cannot win a war in Iran. Country is too big, military is ready, and they can continue the war for many years, disturbing world economy.
USA and especially Israel are imperialistic states, and we can see what are the results.
the main thing i was thinking about this morning is that Ukraine's requests for humanitarian aid are consistently ignored entirely, and their requests for military aid are usually met with a small portion of what was requested.
and overall here in your comment i'm in full agreement with you