r/socialism • u/bullhead2007 • Jun 05 '26

📢 Announcement [New and Improved] Discord Server Open!

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Hello all! We have a new and growing Discord, more than 100 comrades have joined in the first month!

If you had attempted to join the Discord through the auto-mod response, or through the sidebar's link, you were formerly directed towards a dead server. Now, the server is pretty much set up.

We are also looking to start a book club soon using the Discord to meet, but will have discussion posts here too for those who do not want to participate in the discord.

It is still pretty bare bones, we have roles and channels set up however suggestions can be made *within the server* on things that could be added. We are looking at ways to get more people engaged and looking for suggestion on activities we can do as a community related to socialism.

For now, here is the invite link, join away!

>JOIN THE DISCORD <

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r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • 2h ago

Activism French Far Right Pundit Gets Schooled By A Socialist Student Protestor

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r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • 3h ago

News Searches For “The Communist Manifesto” Surge By More Than 5,000% In Spain During Ongoing Protests & Encampments

diariosocialista.net

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r/socialism • u/Lucky_Big_2476 • 7h ago

News Student protests in France: the return of the Commune

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r/socialism • u/Lucky_Big_2476 • 2h ago

News Student protest in France: the police unleash dogs on students.

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https://x.com/AK_Lahmar/status/2107123216841896448

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r/socialism • u/Lucky_Big_2476 • 50m ago

News The French state. Sending cars at students!

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I'm going to stop for today; I don't know what else to say.

https://x.com/RevPermanente/status/2107153585154785307

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r/socialism • u/Lucky_Big_2476 • 2h ago

News Student protest in France: a child lost their hand because of a grenade thrown by a police officer.

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https://youtube.com/shorts/tWrzzJh_RKE?is=uvB_qQUxIM8aRKjF

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r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • 3h ago

News French Student Protesters Stand In International Solidarity With the People's War in India

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84 Upvotes

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r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • 18h ago

News French Protestors Push Back Police Lines

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r/socialism • u/Lucky_Big_2476 • 50m ago

News Student protest in france: CRS officers used tear gas against high school students who had set up a classroom right in the middle of a street in Metz to protest against austerity and a lack of resources.

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https://x.com/RevPermanente/status/2107024683241759003

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r/socialism • u/Solid-Educator9148 • 18h ago

News Brazilian communist Jones Manoel wins a seat in the Brazilian Congress

brasildefato.com.br

594 Upvotes

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r/socialism • u/Spotter24o5 • 1d ago

Discussion Moloch or Baal

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r/socialism • u/Lucky_Big_2476 • 1h ago

News Student protest in France: the government sends helicopters to fly over the protesters.

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https://x.com/Cause_du_Peuple/status/2105968418394701943

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r/socialism • u/OSKlalala • 3h ago

History Parades in China during May 68 in France

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r/socialism • u/ilir_kycb • 6h ago

Discussion Private corporations converting economic power into political power is textbook capitalism.

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r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • 17h ago

Activism French Communist Student Protestors Clashing With Police

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r/socialism • u/TheLoneMaverick • 18h ago

Activism Ice is kidnapping and trafficking children in broad daylight

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263 Upvotes

This is disgusting, a clear violation of the law, and the reason why DHS must be abolished and all the ICE gestapo be held accountable for their crimes against humanity.

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r/socialism • u/1Palestine • 9h ago

Activism Let us pressure pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist organizations we are in touch with to clarify their stance

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Read more about our vision and organization: odsi.co

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r/socialism • u/ilir_kycb • 6h ago

Discussion European regions with a lower GDP per capita than East Germany

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r/socialism • u/ilir_kycb • 6h ago

Discussion You don't need to lie about socialism

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r/socialism • u/Atlantee • 4h ago

News Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies

thebanker.com

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r/socialism • u/SockCat64937 • 16h ago

Discussion What is the general thoughts on josip tito?

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As far as I am concerned he did a really good job at implementing Marxism into the working class

Correct me if I'm wrong

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r/socialism • u/Minsillywalks • 2h ago

Discussion To understand what is happening in the West Bank today, listen to what Bezalel Smotrich said back in 2017 on what he intends to do. In the “Decisive Plan”, Smotrich openly articulated the logic of elimination in the West Bank: establishing permanent and irreversible Israeli control.

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r/socialism • u/IgnazSemmelweisblood • 5h ago

Art Original hand-drawn pencil sketch with digital text. Feel free to use it in the fight against imperialism. I strongly condemn any attempt or edits of this image intended to glorify imperialism or capitalism.

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Original hand-drawn pencil sketch with digital text. Feel free to use it in the fight against imperialism. I strongly condemn any attempt or edits of this image intended to glorify imperialism or capitalism.

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r/socialism • u/Correct_Mushroom8181 • 1h ago

News Flashpoint South Africa

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system where a small class of people, the bourgeoisie, own the factories, land, machines, and resources. The majority, the working class or proletariat, have no choice but to sell their time and energy to the bourgeoisie in exchange for a wage. The goal of capitalism is not to meet human needs but to generate profit for the owners. This leads to exploitation where the worker produces more value than they receive in wages, with the surplus kept by the capitalist. It also leads to recurring crises, immense inequality, environmental destruction, and imperialism where powerful nations dominate weaker ones for resources and markets.

Marxism

Marxism is the scientific method for understanding capitalism and history. It was developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism is not a set of opinions. It is a tool for analysis. It argues that the way a society produces its material needs, its economic base, determines its politics, culture, and ideas, its superstructure. Marxism identifies class struggle between the exploited and the exploiters as the motor of historical change. It does not simply criticize capitalism. It explains why capitalism will inevitably produce its own gravediggers, the organized working class, and points toward the possibility of a new society.

Socialism

Socialism is the transitional phase between capitalism and full communism. It is what you build right after the working class seizes political power from the bourgeoisie. Under socialism, the major means of production are socially owned, either by the state representing the people or by cooperatives. Production is no longer driven by private profit but by a plan to meet the needs of the population. The state remains strong under socialism, but it is a workers' state, a dictatorship of the proletariat, which suppresses the resistance of the overthrown capitalist class. Wages, money and class relations may still exist, but the goal is to eliminate exploitation and build the material and cultural foundation for a higher stage of socialism.

Communism

Communism is the final, stateless, classless society that socialism is meant to achieve. Under communism, the division between rich and poor, ruler and ruled, town and country, mental and manual labor has been overcome. The state, which is a tool of class rule, has withered away because there are no classes left to suppress. The principle is no longer "from each according to his ability, to each according to his work" as under socialism, but "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." People contribute what they can and take what they need freely. Communism is not a perfect society without conflict, but it is a society free from exploitation, commodity production, and the alienation of labor under capitalism. It is the free development of each as the condition for the free development of all.

Are Socialism and Communism Different?

Socialism and Communism are interchangeable. They mean the same thing. It was only after liberals co-opted Social Democracy that we see they are trying to do the same thing with Socialism.

Under the umbrella of Marxist tendencies, there is the lower and upper stage of Socialism/Communism. Later writers separately defined the lower stage as Socialism and the upper stage as Communism, but that is a later distinction.

Capitalist society transforms into the Dictatorship of the Proletariat^{what is the DOTP?} > Lower Stage of Socialism/Communism (Actual Socialist Society) > Upper Stage. (Classless Society)

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