this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
85 points (75.4% liked)

Asklemmy

43956 readers
994 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I've been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?

(page 9) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] pan_troglodytes@programming.dev -2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

tankies are not bastions of logical and rational thought. hexbear is way, way out there - about as divorced from reality as is humanly possible

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

there are no good Marxist instances

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Between them and all the goons over at Hexbear…. They’re basically the r/the_donald of the left.

I’m convinced that it began as a big troll/joke amongst them, and that we’re just about at the point where all the dumbasses begin to take it seriously.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Destraight@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it has grad in the name. grad= Leningrad. Leningrad= Russia. Russia= Russians. Russians= scum. Lemmygrad users are fucking scum

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] mikwee@lemmyverse.org -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Far-left echo chamber that from my experience really hates Jews.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I pretty much enjoy most of what I see from hexbear, but I have blocked a bunch of stuff from lemmygrad.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it's because they are Marxist.
In the Lemmy culture Marxism has a very bad name because almost religious overtones of its adherents.

Which is of ironically very much what Marx was warning against. But that's how it works right now.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›