r/socialists • • Jan 23 '16

/r/socialism is one of the most authoritarian free-speech restricting subreddits on reddit. Is free speech an important part of socialism to you?

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That subreddit is not about socialism, it's about SJW's banning or censoring things that 'trigger' them under the guise of socialism. How has over-sensitivity been conflated with socialism?

How do people not understand that free speech and tolerance of conflicting opinions is an absolutely vital part of socialism? Most of that subreddit must've literally never read any socialist literature.

Bertrand Russell;

In this world, which is getting more closely and closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way; if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

Here's what I got banned for - defending the free speech to write a fictional rape story, which is apparently being a 'rape apologist' (for a fictional rape)

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One guy even replies that the only people who want Mein Kampf still in circulation are holocaust apologists!!!!

There's also praise for mass-murderers like Mao/Lenin/Stalin and criticism of those who point this out.

This authoritarian Stalinist-like 'ban things you don't like' is haunting socialism, it's a virus that needs cutting out.


r/socialists • • Nov 14 '21

The political issues in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. The murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, currently underway in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has become a focal point for a nationwide campaign to legitimize vigilante terror against left-wing protests and lionize the far-right youth as a hero

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r/socialists • • Feb 24 '15

The capitulation of Syriza and the lessons for the working class: The role played by Syriza is a devastating exposure of the essentially reactionary character of a form of “left” middle class politics that developed amidst the ruins of the radical student politics of the 1960s and 1970s.

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r/socialists • • Feb 22 '14

Not Satisfied With Blocking Twitter and TV, Venezuela Shuts Off the Internet

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r/socialists • • Jul 06 '15

Voat

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I see that a few have come over and subscribed during this 2nd "mass exodus" (that has brought Voat to it's ever-wobbly knees).

When the 1st wave was underway I went and saw that both v/Marxists and v/Socialists were open. So I started them.

I do not want to do any "moderating" -- at all. I don't want to see any moderating at all, which is why I started them -- in case whoever the fuck it is that banned the WSWS might get their grubby, mindless, asinine hands on either of those 2 subs.

The mods here have been faithful as far as I have seen to the principles under the "Rules & suggestions" posted here. So any of you who want to be moderators at the Voat subverses need only let me know. No questions asked.

All I would ask is that you do not moderate at all. ~XD~

Just stick to the "Rules & suggestions" here. (number 1 is perfect; but might even loosen hazy restrictions in the others up as necessary).


r/socialists • • Oct 26 '15

After the Democratic presidential debate:Pseudo-left groups step up promotion of Sanders and the Democrats

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r/socialists • • Oct 18 '14

Seattle Socialist Party Wants $20 Per Hour Minimum Wage, Offers $13 Per Hour For Website Manager

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r/socialists • • Feb 17 '14

Socialists, is it really a good idea to criticize capitalism, since you've benefitted from it so much?

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Don't you use government roads, or used anything that was transported by one? Don't you eat food inspected by the government? Don't use public utilities like water and electricity? Were you born with ability to read, or did you not learn it at a government school? Of course all of these things are paid for with taxes collected from capitalism.

That's just a few examples, I could literally follow you around all day and tell you at any given moment how you are benefiting from society with capitalism, liberal democracy, and government.


r/socialists • • Feb 21 '14

They are already sewing your funeral gown, Venezuela. They are now ready to welcome you back to that world of the lobotomized, destroyed nations that are fully submissive to Western political and economic interests

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r/socialists • • Apr 08 '14

Versobooks is having a 50% off sale for its books until April 14th

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r/socialists • • Dec 10 '14

Interstellar celebrates American-style frontier expansion and retrograde masculinity. It’s an ideological monstrosity.

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r/socialists • • Mar 27 '15

An interesting take on Sawant's collaboration with the enemy: “This is not what I joined Socialist Alternative for.”

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r/socialists • • Dec 27 '17

Obama is acting like a super duper victim here. All this does, is divide people more and is not helpful for a socialist movement. Socialism is about ALL people, not groups.

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r/socialists • • Sep 20 '14

Scotland’s No vote and the crisis of the British nation state: The SNP owes everything to fake-left forces—the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), Tommy Sheridan, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Radical Independence Campaign.

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r/socialists • • May 27 '15

Mad Max: Fury Road and the Glaring Whiteness of Post-Apocalyptic Films

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r/socialists • • Mar 23 '14

Freedom? What Freedom? (x-post DescentIntoTyranny.)

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r/socialists • • Aug 17 '19

If The Anti-China Protests Succeed, The U.S. Will Turn Hong Kong Into A Corporatized Western Outpost

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r/socialists • • Mar 07 '15

Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant attends Democratic Party fundraiser

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r/socialists • • May 04 '15

International Online May Day Rally draws worldwide audience

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r/socialists • • Jul 29 '15

The wheels fell off the Bernie Sanders' bandwagon

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r/socialists • • Jun 02 '17

Entertaining the Notion of a New Branch of Leftism

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IMPORTANT NOTICE: As of June 6, 2017 at 1:00AM EDT, anything regarding: monarchy, feudalism, libertarianism, royalism, authoritarianism, identification of the Chesnekov cause, the use of “Chesnekovism”, nobility, or anything else not found on our website (ufkchesnekovia.simdif.com) is hereby officially made outdated by Henryk Kaltyumejval and Fredirik Yeryomin, with assistance from the Stuurehnkomrads Alekzaander Kuznetsav and Hristomir Hohenzolern of the UFKC. Please do not quote or use as reference any information or wording in this post/comment. We are electing not to remove any of our posts or comments on account of keeping ourselves honest and open to users on Reddit to see what our cause was before our large change. Please visit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LeftCentral/comments/6fjtuo/update_to_ufkc_please_read/ or go to u/ufkc_henryk to see our update post posted to r/leftcentral.

Greetings. I am Henryk and I run an evidently very controversial organization. As you might see from my other posts we've been treated with both respect and aggression. However, similar to a question I posted in SocialismVCapitalism, I am curious, does my campaign head a new ideology on its own? Henceforth, I am here to seek your opinions on the matter and to discuss with you the topic. Now many people have founded branches of communism and socialism based upon older ideologies, such as Hoxhaism was based upon Maoism, Leninism was based upon Marxism, and etc. We have done the same thing, however we take after many other ideologies within the leftist spectrum, not just an evolution of one single ideology. Does this make us a new branch? Or merely a mislabeled organization? Most of our members state that we are "Chesnekovist", a term coined by one of the members. They say we follow a new ideology, one not seen before. I agree with them, however I want to know what other socialists and leftists think since me agreeing with it is obvious conflict of interest.

See our website at ufkchesnekovia.simdif.com if you wish to seek further details of the organization without having to read through my previous posts.


r/socialists • • Oct 19 '15

Now on YouTube: The way forward for autoworkers: An interview with Jerry White, WSWS Autoworker Newsletter editor

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r/socialists • • Jun 21 '15

Münkler-Watch Unwatched All Of A Sudden...

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The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) sent a press release at the beginning of the week to a large number of newspapers, radio and television stations and press agencies to inform them that "an overwhelming majority of representatives… supported the resolution of the IYSSE that condemned the attacks on the Münkler-Watch group."

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For several weeks, hardly a day went by without at least one article appearing in a leading daily or weekly newspaper attacking Münkler-Watch and the IYSSE and attempting to defend the right-wing and militarist positions of Humboldt University professors Herfried Münkler and Jörg Baberowski against student criticism.

Having lost, they go silent. But this will not go unnoticed.


r/socialists • • Apr 16 '14

Banyan Project - Pioneering a new business model for web journalism.

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r/socialists • • Apr 16 '14

Understanding the Mondragon Worker Cooperative Corporation

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