For those who don’t know, Reddit announced they would start asking outrageous prices for API access, which will essentially kill off all third party apps.
We’ve received quite a few new account requests after this announcement, and expect to receive more, so this post is aimed at you, prospective lemmygrad member!
We’ll go through each account application with due diligence, but we would like you to know before you request an account that Lemmygrad is a Marxist instance, principally Marxist-Leninist. We like Stalin and we uphold the DPRK’s sovereignty and legitimacy over the whole of Korea. We love China’s Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
You can always request an account but you will likely be disappointed in your browsing experience if we approve you and you find yourself surrounded by MLs if you are not one.
Up to a few seconds ago, our tagline said “leftist communities” instead of “marxist communities” on join-lemmy, and I’m guessing that’s why many non-marxist socialists wanted to join us.
You might prefer lemmy.ml or hexbear.net, although hexbear is not federated with anyone yet.
I’ve found that there are a surprising amount of Marxist academics who are leftcoms or Khrushchevites or related. Even from nonwestern ones, in Karl Marx’s ecosocialism Kohei Saito randomly disses “Stalinism” a few times and he’s from Japan. I’m currently reading the Dialectical Biologist and it also randomly denounces Stalin despite being otherwise good. The authors of that book are from India.
Academics are rarely anything but pets of the bourgeoisie so of course they must adopt non-threatening tendencies if they’re open about it. The number of (open) Parenti’s was never going to be more than you could count on a few fingers. Not to say there aren’t many sincere, principled ML’s in academia, they just don’t write about it or hide it.
Something about the ivory tower and the desire for respectability also bullies these people into accepting the (CIA) consensus so of course it’s unacceptable to go against historians, writers, people in other disciplines who allege atrocities. Of course it’s impossible for them to give the middle finger to ‘academics’ from Poland, etc who sob about the oppression of the Soviet Union. They cling to a false respectability instead, one of either reform (revisionism) or similar. Arrive at similar thoughts to their liberal peers through other means and are thus accepted.