view the rest of the comments
Lefty Memes
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
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.
- Absolutely no posts or comments meant to relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend:
- Racism
- Sexism
- Queerphobia
- Ableism
- Classism
- Rape or assault
- Genocide/ethnic cleansing or (mass) deportations
- Fascism
- (National) chauvinism
- Orientalism
- Colonialism or Imperialism (and their neo- counterparts)
- Zionism
- Religious fundamentalism of any kind
Hi OP, concerns have been raised that you are are posting in the community to advertise stickers that you sell, rather than posting memes. If you want to make an argument for us allowing these posts, please do so below so we can make an informed moderation decision. Thanks.
hey! i totally understand, i make alot of designs that are leftist and this community seems to enjoy. Im happy to keep my posts to a limit so it doesnt seem spammy but im also happy to refrain entirely. I do get alot of people who enjoy the designs here so thats why ive continued to post! let me know whats best
Hi again OP, I've discussed with @alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com and we have concluded that the main issue we have here is that, while we like and appreciate your designs, the stickers don't really qualify as memes in our opinions. So unless you start making meme stickers, then it simply isn't appropriate content for the community.
Having said that, if you do make stickers out of existing lefty memes, or want to make new lefty memes, we would be ok with you posting them here. Maybe just double check with one of the mods here first is there is any doubt as to what qualifies as a meme, since it's not always 100% black and white and we would like to make sure we're all on the same page.
Also FYI @caesaravgvstvs@feddit.org.
All the best, Unruffled.
Thanks for the reply and for being so accommodating. I like the designs, but I'm a bit undecided about it and kind of leaning on the side of not allowing the advertising or selling of products. But how about if we just ask the community whether they want to allow these lefty sticker posts here or not? I'm happy to go with the majority opinion.
Simple poll: Please upvote this comment for "Allow" or downvote for "Do not allow"
If you vote to allow, please comment what you think is a reasonable frequency of these types of posts.
I'm gonna be that annoying user that proposes a third solution:
We could allow the picture or graphic, but disallow the link.
Then if someone is curious they can go to the ops profile and find more info there.
I love this graphic, I'd be sad if we lost things like these