It is generally leftist. Unfortunately you are probably imagining leftist economics but they want “leftist” authoritarianism. They despise capitalism. They love state capitalism. They will excuse any atrocities and human rights violations that occur as long as the country is extremely authoritarian and pretending to be economically left.
They are historical revisionists as well. Admins are extremely fragile. They will ban you from every community for writing historically accurate facts. If you find this screenshot appalling you should preemptively switch to a different instance before they catch you doing wrongthink and ban you.
Source: I had a lemmy.ml account for the same reasons as you.
I’ve really tried, but discuss.tchncs.de ghosted me, world kinda sucks, and lemm.ee is incredibly slow and semi broken for me, idk what else to use, I’m worried about. Ca because I’m in the old world so far away
It is basically all left, the question is: are they sane left or historical revisionist “left” denying any wrongdoing from the state capitalist nations they worship?
I’m only here temporarily though, once I’m back home in Egypt I’ll be able to join, but then again I’m here pretty often, I’d have to keep the .ml account for use when I’m here
Yeah, I am too attached to my account because it’s several years old and was made when there were next to no instances running. But I can only shake my head at the amount of Marxist-Leninist nonsense that is at times pushed there, that unironically elevates what was a development of “Marxism” out of the material conditions of the Eastern Bloc as an imperialist sphere bent on market expansion and accumulation of national capital, into a religion-like orthodoxy.
No, ideology that is nominally Marxist, and having an educated caste of decision-makers highly trained in your interpretation of it at the top won’t prevent capitalist dynamics and bring about communism, only the material base and changing it will, and your ideology will follow what your material base demands. And that had been expansion of national capital for the Eastern sphere since the revolution failed to link up with any industrialised nations in the 1920s. The elevation of Marxism into a basically teleological ideology, claiming that with subservience to the interests of national capital, there will be communism at the end (a promise broken over and over again), is completely understandable by looking at the Soviet and Chinese spheres of influence from a Marxist perspective.
And even the structures put into place by Lenin were explicitly designed as for his own time and the conditions within the Russian Empire, not as an infallible orthodoxy, and things like Democratic Centralism explicitly contained open and free discussion before unity of action, which was just completely pushed away. Urgh, it’s sad to me, because I think a new, invigorated and organised communist movement is needed more than ever, but by redirecting it to the national interest of states like China (and even Russia, which isn’t even nominally communist, and just opposes western imperialism to impose its own imperialism - like choosing Germany over France in WWI, the exact shit Lenin fought against) instead of the international proletariat, just weakens it overall.
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As someone who just joined and picked .ml because it seemed generally leftist
What the fuck?
It is generally leftist. Unfortunately you are probably imagining leftist economics but they want “leftist” authoritarianism. They despise capitalism. They love state capitalism. They will excuse any atrocities and human rights violations that occur as long as the country is extremely authoritarian and pretending to be economically left.
They are historical revisionists as well. Admins are extremely fragile. They will ban you from every community for writing historically accurate facts. If you find this screenshot appalling you should preemptively switch to a different instance before they catch you doing wrongthink and ban you.
Source: I had a lemmy.ml account for the same reasons as you.
they will ban you for writing “cunt” lol
It’s easy to make a new account.
I’ve really tried, but discuss.tchncs.de ghosted me, world kinda sucks, and lemm.ee is incredibly slow and semi broken for me, idk what else to use, I’m worried about. Ca because I’m in the old world so far away
Other leftist instances you might consider:
Slrpnk.net seems perfect, I’ll make an account on there as soon as I can
Welcome!
I hath found success!
Welcome home! (Well its my second home, but I super love the vibes here and more and more it might become my true home)
🎉🥳🎊🍾
Didn’t beehaw cut themselves off from, uh, everyone?
From LW, yeah. They still federate with us though. And honestly, I get it.
Oooo Midwest social is left leaning??? This makes my rust belt ass happy
It’s Lemmy, most of the instances are left leaning, the question is usually how far left they go.
It is basically all left, the question is: are they sane left or historical revisionist “left” denying any wrongdoing from the state capitalist nations they worship?
Indeed
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Yeah the admin is from Ohio. He’s definitely a leftist but that doesn’t really mean much on the day to day running of the instance.
Feddit.UK isn’t necessarily leftist, just “don’t be a jerk”
Man. Says everything you need to know about non-leftwinf politics, doesn’t it?
Blahaj.zone would be a good fit for you as it is hosted in Finland and ran by trans folks
Censored in the country I’m currently in :(
I’m only here temporarily though, once I’m back home in Egypt I’ll be able to join, but then again I’m here pretty often, I’d have to keep the .ml account for use when I’m here
I’m surprised Lemmy servers are being censored already. How about sopuli.xyz?
Funnily enough Lemmy.ml is censored in China.
That seems perfect, I’ll be using that and slrpnk.net and seeing which one fits me more I guess
It’s also hosted in Finland.
No, we (slrpnk.net) are hosted in Portugal. But I guess you meant sopuli.xyz ?
Strange, I’m in Europe too and it works quite well
sh.itjust.works is easy to make an account on and is sane.
Lemmy.zip is nice
Pretty sure ML stands for Marxist Leninist, doesn’t it?
Marxist Leninists aren’t usually transphobic
Shout out to Leslie Feinberg. Everyone go read Transgender Warriors.
It stands for Mali (the country the domain is registered to) but I think Marxist-Leninist was a happy coincidence for them.
Yeah, I am too attached to my account because it’s several years old and was made when there were next to no instances running. But I can only shake my head at the amount of Marxist-Leninist nonsense that is at times pushed there, that unironically elevates what was a development of “Marxism” out of the material conditions of the Eastern Bloc as an imperialist sphere bent on market expansion and accumulation of national capital, into a religion-like orthodoxy.
No, ideology that is nominally Marxist, and having an educated caste of decision-makers highly trained in your interpretation of it at the top won’t prevent capitalist dynamics and bring about communism, only the material base and changing it will, and your ideology will follow what your material base demands. And that had been expansion of national capital for the Eastern sphere since the revolution failed to link up with any industrialised nations in the 1920s. The elevation of Marxism into a basically teleological ideology, claiming that with subservience to the interests of national capital, there will be communism at the end (a promise broken over and over again), is completely understandable by looking at the Soviet and Chinese spheres of influence from a Marxist perspective.
And even the structures put into place by Lenin were explicitly designed as for his own time and the conditions within the Russian Empire, not as an infallible orthodoxy, and things like Democratic Centralism explicitly contained open and free discussion before unity of action, which was just completely pushed away. Urgh, it’s sad to me, because I think a new, invigorated and organised communist movement is needed more than ever, but by redirecting it to the national interest of states like China (and even Russia, which isn’t even nominally communist, and just opposes western imperialism to impose its own imperialism - like choosing Germany over France in WWI, the exact shit Lenin fought against) instead of the international proletariat, just weakens it overall.
Leftism doesn’t require trans activism. It happens there mostly due to tribalism, not because the ideology somehow makes it necessary.