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/dirtycommie2000 • 12h ago

History it's at least in the trillions

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r/socialism • u/DiggyJunior • 10h ago

Politics Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum: “Lula’s victory is a breath of fresh air for Latin America.”

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916 Upvotes

https://x.com/jacobin/status/2114797963499262106

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r/socialism • u/DiggyJunior • 11h ago

Politics Lula: referring mostly to Meta (Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram) who tried to sabotage his campaign: “This election was one in which we had to overcome interference coming from outside through digital platforms. We are going to have to regulate them.”

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669 Upvotes

https://x.com/unbiasednewsuk/status/2114792837795508310

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r/socialism • u/Facelesssausage • 5h ago

Activism Leftist demonstration in Florianópolis, capital of one of the most right-wing states in Brazil, one day before the elections.

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140 Upvotes

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r/socialism • u/CindySoLoud • 1d ago

Discussion Do not panic, organize.

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r/socialism • u/TopNo2548 • 14h ago

History Fidel Castro on Ecology and Capitalism

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336 Upvotes

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r/socialism • u/Corisco1917 • 8h ago

Art An insanely badass video of Lula

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93 Upvotes

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r/socialism • u/Spotter24o5 • 18h ago

Discussion Moloch vs Baal

461 Upvotes

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r/socialism • u/Electrical_Tap6684 • 16h ago

News Lula has won the hearts of brazil and ofc the right wing brazilians are claiming it’s rigged

288 Upvotes

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r/socialism • u/bullhead2007 • 14h ago

News Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a three-year, $750,500 no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte

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192 Upvotes

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2114563575951839361

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r/socialism • u/21Kuranashi • 21h ago

Activism Such an important win for Terra

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506 Upvotes

OC https://www.instagram.com/reel/De8AuqzINoK/

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r/socialism • u/tomsccp • 1d ago

News People celebrate Lula's win in São Paulo

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893 Upvotes

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r/socialism • u/21Kuranashi • 4h ago

Art Whimsy Solarpunk 💕 : @earthliberationstudio

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OC : https://www.instagram.com/p/De9_52kP64l/

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r/socialism • u/jisbetterrr • 8h ago

Discussion DID I PASS

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41 Upvotes

I DID 12 AXIS TEST

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r/socialism • u/m1nndz • 1d ago

News WE WON

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Fascism can’t win!

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r/socialism • u/Solid-Educator9148 • 1d ago

News Lula wins the Brazilian election

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r/socialism • u/dirtycommie2000 • 11h ago

Discussion edit, i meant to say billions lol

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r/socialism • u/TwoCatsOneBox • 14h ago

High Quality Only I’m so embarrassed to be a socialist…

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67 Upvotes

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r/socialism • u/WingVarious580 • 1d ago

News Left wing candidate Lula has won Brazil elections and is now on his 4th term

997 Upvotes

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r/socialism • u/TwoCatsOneBox • 15h ago

High Quality Only Burkina Faso training with Chinese-supplied artillery

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60 Upvotes

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r/socialism • u/ASillyBoyFromSillia • 12h ago

Art From American Labor to Brazilian Labor - Congratulations!

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r/socialism • u/DiggyJunior • 13h ago

News Macron's never accepts responsibility himself. Scapegoats for riots in previous years were: video games, parental neglect, Russian disinformation, far-left and far-right extremists, opposition politicians, external political commentary. This time the scapegoat is "social media"

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https://x.com/clashreport/status/2114734182769275345

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r/socialism • u/1Palestine • 11h ago

Discussion The fundamental issue with working within an inherently illegitimate, racist system is that it conflates the "status quo" with what is actually "possible"—namely, the dismantling of the structures of the settler-colonial regime

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"I am fundamentally opposed to participating in the Israeli Knesset elections; our Palestinian people should neither run as candidates nor cast a vote. This "parliament" embodies, on one hand, the abhorrent racism of Zionist ideology, and on the other, serves as a fig leaf concealing the true nature of the genocidal settler-colonial regime in historic Palestine.

The fundamental issue with working within an inherently illegitimate, racist system is that it conflates the "status quo" with what is actually "possible"—namely, the dismantling of the structures of the settler-colonial regime."

"On Palestinian participation in the elections of the genocidal Israeli parliament", an article by Haidar Eid on the Palestine Chronicle:

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/on-palestinian-participation-in-the-elections-of-the-genocidal-israeli-parliament/

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r/socialism • u/Winter_Ad9598 • 1d ago

News LULA WON IN BRASIL, THANK YOU R/SOCIALISM

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THAT'S IT. YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!!!!! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE HERE WHO GAVE SOMEONE A THUMBS UP OR ANYTHING. WHEREVER YOU FROM, YOU ARE A PART OF THIS! THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!

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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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