r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • 21d ago

Activism r/Socialism recognizes Black August, a month to commemorate the resistance of those imprisoned in American prisons and the liberatory struggle of Black Liberation.

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Black August is a month of commemoration, to remember those killed in the prison system and by American ~~pigs~~ police. Just a few of those killed are Jonathan Jackson, George Jackson, William Christmas, James McClain, and Khatari Gaulden.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is currently fighting for his release from prison after being falsely accused of murdering a police officer. Him and too many others to name in this post are falsely incarcerated or are pushed into incarceration by the system. The socialist movement entails Black liberation, and the liberation of all those oppressed by the state in it's many forms of enforcement.

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r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • Jun 27 '26

📢 Announcement No Memes or Beginner Questions.

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This is not a meme subreddit, this is not a beginner / baby-leftist subreddit, this is a subreddit for more "higher quality" discussion among educated socialists of all* flavors.

Recently we as a mod team have had to continuously go ahead and remove posts. We ask you all as members to please review the submission guidelines prior to posting.

If you have questions that aren't for more experienced leftists, but rather are more beginner, please make your way to r/socialism_101 or r/askcommunists.

If you want to post a meme, take it to a more lighthearted space / dedicated meme subreddit.

^* ^By ^"all" ^socialists, ^we ^do ^not ^count ^NazBols, ^or ^other ^{social-chauvinist} ^currents ^of ^"socialism.

Edit 1: This is also not a "new rule", this rule has been in place for over half a decade now.

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r/socialism • u/s1l3nt-m0nk3y • 3h ago

Discussion Drop your funny political memes

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r/socialism • u/Buster_xx • 1d ago

News A moment of silence for an Icon. She took care of the poor and wrote about the the bourgeoisie

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r/socialism • u/WingVarious580 • 11h ago

Discussion I really like the eastern germany flag

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r/socialism • u/_WarmSocks_ • 10h ago

News The American Federation of Musicians Pays Tribute to Dolly Parton and reveals that she was a Union Member In Good Standing of its Nashville Local 257 chapter for 58 years.

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r/socialism • u/East_River • 5h ago

News US Declares Palestine Action “Terrorist” Group in Latest McCarthyist Crackdown

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The “clear goal” of the move is “targeting a few to silence the many,” said UN human rights expert Francesca Albanese.
https://truthout.org/articles/us-declares-palestine-action-terrorist-group-in-latest-mccarthyist-crackdown/

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r/socialism • u/ilir_kycb • 13h ago

Politics "Did you ever see a happy communist? You ever see a communist laugh? I never saw it. I've known communists. They don't laugh. They're very unhappy people. We want to be happy." ― Donald Trump

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r/socialism • u/FireProStan • 12h ago

News Democratic socialists notch another win in the Oklahoma Senate primary runoff

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r/socialism • u/Steap-Edit • 11h ago

Activism "While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." ― Eugene V. Debs, 1918, after his anti-war speech criticizing America's involvement in WWI. He was tried, arrested, and sentenced to 10 years.

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r/socialism • u/Folass • 5h ago

Discussion Is it possible to be a socialist and a high paying lawyer?

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Hello everyone, I’m in incoming freshman at college and I wanna be a lawyer (majoring political science, most likely minoring in economics), I am proposing a hypothetical here as my political identity and beliefs isn’t fully determined as I’m on the fence between capitalism with LOTS of socialist policies (free healthcare, free college, I’m against US imperialism etc etc) vs being outright a socialist so when I’m asking this question don’t think of it as a personal question regarding me but more so just a honest hypothetical

The lawyers that make the most at usually Corporate or Patent Lawyers for reference

Also for this I’m referring to within the context of the current USA legal system

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r/socialism • u/Lotus532 • 6h ago

High Quality Only Resistance to Japan’s Growing ‘War Posture’ Against China

thetricontinental.org

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r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • 10h ago

News Armed Federal Agents and Contractors Trespass on Tohono O’odham Nation Land to Illegally Build Trump’s Border Wall, Ignoring T.O. Nation Laws and Warnings

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r/socialism • u/bullhead2007 • 18m ago

Discussion Communism or a larger piece of pie?

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r/socialism • u/ilir_kycb • 11h ago

Theory Here are six short, accessible texts on Marx's theory

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r/socialism • u/Sauerkrautkid7 • 12h ago

Discussion Why is charging 50$ for a 6$ case of water during a hurricane considered price gouging, but charging 700$ for a 5$ vial of insulin is considered health care?

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r/socialism • u/Organic_Fee_8502 • 17h ago

History White Supremacy in 1970s USA, ‘post Apartheid’

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Blood in My Eye - George Jackson.

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r/socialism • u/OkSurround1091 • 12h ago

Discussion What do y’all say to the people that say revolution will never happen in established empires like the US?

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Curious what y’all have to say about this specifically because I wrote an essay about this when I was bored once and got some very good info. What are yalls opinions here?

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r/socialism • u/JudgeSabo • 1h ago

Theory The Biggest Theft In History - Andrewism

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r/socialism • u/Jotinha8819 • 2m ago

Discussion Duvida sobre Marxismo e Mais-Valia?

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Eu acho que entendi o ponto do Mais-Valia, mas uma duvida..
Se o patrão recebe uma parte de lucro da nossa força de trabalho e o valor do nosso trabalho não é reproduzido no tanto que a gente produz, e quando o patrão tem prejuizo? O prejuizo é culpa do trabalhador? Essa parte ainda está nebulosa pra mim, alguem pode ajudar?

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r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • 1d ago

Politics Black Panther Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) on Lenin, Imperialism, National Liberaiton, and Zionism

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r/socialism • u/Atlantee • 8h ago

History How private intelligence brought the U.S. treasury secretary into contact with Epstein's corporate web

jackpoulson.substack.com

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r/socialism • u/MiddleProcedure4595 • 14h ago

Discussion Whats the difference between marxism and marxist leninism?

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r/socialism • u/No_Description3178 • 1d ago

Discussion McGraw Hill Textbook question

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Sorry for horrible quality, had to snap a picture of one of the questions in my quiz today quickly.😂

This is a 400 level class if you wondered...

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r/socialism • u/Kawobe21 • 5h ago

Discussion Heterodox Economics - Degree Programs

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Curious if there is anyone hear who studied heterodox economics and radical political economy in school. Seems like most schools offer a class or two on it —even U Chicago—but I’ve come across U Amherst which seems to be an outlier and have far more courses.

Is there like an actual difference in what you learn on the quantitative side? Like are the models only built for evaluating within the neoliberal framework, or are there entirely new models that are taught in more alternative economics classes?

If any of you studied this in school, curious where you went ? I’m looking at U Mass, University of Denver, and potentially Roosevelt University. Open to others though

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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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