A community dedicated to critical left unity and the synthesis of ideas. Everyone is welcome here, but, please avoid uncritical or unproductive sectarianism.

(Please read the rest of their sidebar as well to get a feel)

We as Marxists (regardless of whether ML, trot, Maoist, etc) I believe tend to universally uphold the notion that left-unity is not Marxist. That we practice only Marxist-unity (and with plenty of criticism amongst ourselves at that for non-ML’s especially that often goes as far as exclusion for those who don’t support AES at least critically).

To put it bluntly: I do not want people who practice left-unity to get a beachhead or toehold here with a dedicated community.

There is an anarchist alternative (raddle), at least one anarchist instance to my recollections on lemmy itself and most liberal and left leaning instances on lemmy allow anarchists but explicitly ban Marxists.

In other words, this is our one, singular space which these people are now pushing into. We should not cede an inch of it to allowing non-Marxists and those who discourage vicious criticism and yes even venting and sneering and meming on of the compatible-left, the CIA-left, the synthetic-left and other such names.

I’ll note that hexbear is basically a left unity platform and will be federating with us shortly. They tolerate and allow anarchists and discussion between them and ML’s so such content would be better there.

I believe at any rate that anarchists are not disallowed from here if they’re here to ask honest questions and not just spew imperialist propaganda and anti-communist, anti-AES dogma. Thus the community serves as nothing more than an attempted safe-space for anarchists and other deviations (left, right, etc), a safe harbor from site rules and standards.

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    1 year ago

    i am new on lemmy, but i feel that, as long as they are on that sub, that is not a problem. like, it will be the little /c/ where anarchists will be allowed to talk and debate.

    if they go to other /c/ will be a problem, but as long as it is contained, it can be a good ideia.

    just put in the rules “This is the only community in the whole instance where anarchist ideology, in good faith, is allowed”

    • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Anarchists are theoreticly allowed to talk anywhere, if they ask questions in good faith we will educate them, talk with them engage with them, but this instince isn’t ment for anarchists, its a Marxist instance. This would be even more notable if hexbear federates, as they are all left unity and have the no unnecessary sectarianism, I dont personally see the need for the community here, and I agree with the original poster that it isn’t appropriate here