this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2026
476 points (84.1% liked)

Late Stage Capitalism

3644 readers
141 users here now

A place for for news, discussion, memes, and links criticizing capitalism and advancing viewpoints that challenge liberal capitalist ideology. That means any support for any liberal capitalist political party (like the Democrats) is strictly prohibited.

A zero-tolerance policy for bigotry of any kind. Failure to respect this will result in a ban.

RULES:

1 Understand the left starts at anti-capitalism.

2 No Trolling

3 No capitalist apologia, anti-socialism, anti-communism, or liberalism, liberalism is in direct conflict with the left. Support for capitalism or for the parties or ideologies that uphold it are not welcome or tolerated.

4 No imperialism, conservatism, reactionism or Zionism, lessor evil rhetoric. Dismissing 3rd party votes or 'wasted votes on 3rd party' is lessor evil rhetoric.

5 No bigotry, no racism, sexism, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or any type of prejudice.

6 Be civil in comments and no accusations of being a bot, 'paid by Putin,' Tankie, etc. This includes instance shaming.

Introduction to Socialism (external links)

Wiki

Marxism-Leninism Study Guide: Basic Course

Marxism-Leninism Study Guide: Advanced Course

Audiobooks Read by Dessalines

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] darkwing_duck@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago (173 children)

Incorrectomundo. I hate communism because my family was repressed by Stalin.

load more comments (173 replies)
[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don't know that it's as clean as this makes it sound.

Obviously communism was made to be the boogeyman. But it's not some panacea.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You're right, it's not some panacea. It's part of a spectrum that helps keep the overton window away from corporate oligarchy. By effectively banning communism and socialism for couple of decades Americans got left with corporate democracy and corporate oligarchy as the only choices.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm not going to find it now but couple of months ago I was visiting a typical Spanish town and saw a poster announcing party organized by the Communist Party of Spain. Just some beer and music. Normal thing. No one is scared of it here.

No one is freaking out about far right parties (except in Germany). Why would we freak out about the far left?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago

We should be freaking out about far right parties, though

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

East Germans beg to differ.

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (24 children)

I like the taste of communism, but every time it's on the menu it's slathered in political purges.

load more comments (24 replies)
[–] axus@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or heard stories from old Poles. You could replace the start with "You only love CAPITALISM"

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Read "The Brothers", about John Foster and Alan Dulles.

This has everything you need to know about why you, if you're an American, think the things you do.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›