An international (English speaking) communist Lemmy community free of "ML" (read: Dengist) influence. This is a place for undogmatic and constructive discussion from a Marxist perspective, regardless of specific current (as long as it is progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist).
A certain knowledge of theory is expected, if you are new to/interested in communist ideas, please visit c/Communism101 before participating here. Communism101 will gladly help you by answering questions, providing resources etc.
Memes go in c/Commie Memes
Please don't forget to help keep this community clean by reporting rule violations, upvoting good contributions and downvoting those of low-quality!
Try to keep an open mind, other schools of thought may offer points of view and analyses you haven't considered yet. Critiques of other currents, as well as anarchism, are welcome as long as they stay constructive and civil.
For specific Idealism vs. Materialism or rather Anarchism vs. Marxism debate(s), there is c/AnarchismVsMarxism
as well as condemning (their) imperialism, even if it is of the "anti-USA" flavour.
That includes so called: Social Democracy, Democratic Socialism, Dengism, Market Socialism, Patriotic Socialism, National Bolshevism, Anarcho-Capitalism etc. . Anti-Communist people and content have no place here, as well as the variety of "Marxist"-"Leninists" (read: Dengist) (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).
The only dangerous minority is the rich.
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 "Trusty Tahr" when answering question 2)
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.
(This is not a definitive list, the spirit of the other rules still counts! Eventual duplicates with other rules are for emphasis.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-homeless-encampment-sweeps/
Will leftists finally get the message that you can't vote socialism in given the purpose of capitalist state, its material conditions and interests and that any idealistic campaign promises will be broken immediately upon contact with real world, or will the democratic belief in miracles prevail?
so is this like this all over lemmy. I cuss and that is just the way it is so... I am not talking about violence or anything like that but I am gonna cuss. I really never liked social media. I have no tech bro accounts anywhere and for at least fuh kah its been at least a decade even more. No weapons contractor gmail...nuttin... It was just everybody else used this excrement but I care about free speech so I became interested in lemmy. I am like if your are gonna use something use this. But if this is like this everywhere... it just might not be for me. Honestly the content on here I can find elsewhere so If they want users I would think they would not be so lame. People are people and I know I am not the only one. Like if you are gonna "make" a better world your gonna have different types. To me this is kinda of a audit.
You could always join an instance that doesn't filter profanity for new users?
If you join another instance, you wont be subject to our filter. It is meant to prevent abuse, we have issues with new accounts abusing other users, and this is our only way to prevent it.
I have been manually undeleting the messages as I get to them, but it is a human process, so it takes time.