Hello everyone,

the recent behavior of Reddit as a company has finally prompted me to give up the platform. While looking for alternatives, I saw the problems of leftist communities on Reddit reflected in those as well. Since you are here I don’t have to talk about the r/GenZedong crowd gathering in lemmygrad. Other communities on Lemmy have not really fit my taste in terms of actual socialist orientation either. I know that there is Hexbear.net and that it is a bit better in that regard. But it still seems to tolerate such reactionaries and is not federated with the rest of lemmy.

As such, I wanted to try setting up an alternative batch of communities created in the same spirit (including this one):

c/Socialism

For discussion between socialists

c/Communism

For discussion between communists

c/Socialism101

For the discussion and explanation of socialist principles

c/Communism101

For the discussion and explanation of communist principles

c/Commie Memes

For sharing communist Memes between communists

c/Anarchism vs. Marxism

For the constructive and good-faith discussion of the merits, differences and similarities between Anarchism and Marxism

Please feel free to discuss suggestions and your general opinion/attitude on this below.

  • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The revolutionary struggle is the very antithesis of the parliamentary[-only] struggle. In Germany, for four decades we had nothing but parliamentary “victories.” We practically walked from victory to victory. And when faced with the great historical test of August 4, 1914, the result was the devastating political and moral defeat, an outrageous debacle and rot without parallel. To date, revolutions have given us nothing but defeats. Yet these unavoidable defeats pile up guarantee upon guarantee of the future final victory.

    -Rosa Luxemburg

    So-called democratic socialism is a form of reformist liberal revisionism. The answer of reform vs revolution has been answered for more than a century, with the revolutionary side being proven right and right again by history and current societal developments. Bourgeois democracies are designed in a way that makes systemic change - especially of the economic base of society - virtually impossible (at least in the imperial core of western/northern nations) and even if a movement manages to bring relevant change through the ballot, it is either instantly reversed or faced out over the years by following legislatures but more often than not results in a (fascist) coup instigated by capitalist-imperialist powers, with the leaders getting the award which most decent folk get in the aftermath of such a situation: a bullet in the head

    If you want more information on this, I suggest you look up the following:

    • The history of Salvador Allende and the Chilean Coup of 1973

    • What happened/is happening to the implementation of the nordic model of social democracy (spoiler: it has been largely dismantled thanks to developments starting in the 90s)

    • What all the huge leftist parties of the 2nd Internationale in Europe did in prelude to WW1 (spoiler: they gave up any principles they might have had and replaced them with national chauvinism and support for their respective national bourgeoisie)

    • The history and development - or rather degeneration - of all major western but mostly european communist parties (most notably the PCI (CP of Italy) and the PCF (CP of France))

    If you want, you can also check out !actualsocialism101@lemmy.dbzer0.com for learning more about actual socialism (though it’s still under construction)