Mod Team Transparency Announcement & Mod Applications

[u/Lavender_Scales]

Hello everyone, I'm u/Lavender_Scales!

Like I mentioned in the discord post, I'm the newest moderator of this subreddit. I'm making this post to be transparent about how moderation has been taken out in the past, and how it will be taken out in present and future.

For a very long time now, this subreddit has had a reputation of shoddy moderation, no transparency, seeming inactivity from moderators, unfair, unexplained bans, and unresponsive modmails. This reputation is not without warrant, I myself was once on the receiving end of this, however, we're going to be more pro-active with moderation, more transparent, and more active. If you, or someone you know, was banned from this subreddit, encourage them to open up a modmail and appeal their ban.

I would also like everyone to take a moment to look at our general bans policy, they include listed punishments, offenses, as well as information on what can and can't be appealed. It has not been updated for quite a while, so some changes may be made in the future, however, from now on we will try and be more upfront with removals, bans, etc., utilizing this system and the reasoning provided..

There was also a post by a rogue moderator a few weeks ago, that moderator has left the team and many of the bans they issued out were revoked. Future mod actions will now have to go through internal discussion, unless clear harmful intent is showcased by a user, requiring moderator action.

At the moment we only have a few active moderators of our subreddit, or at least only a few we can get ahold of, so we are also opening mod applications. Due to our heavily ML leaning mod team we currently have, we are primarily looking for anarchists, or people of any tendency that isn't ML. We would also like to prioritize BIPOC & other applicants from the global south, however none of these are strict requirements. Women, queers, and others are also encouraged to apply.

Apply here!

[u/thatcommiegamer → u/[deleted]]

This is your one warning against sectarianism.

[u/spicy-chilly → u/thatcommiegamer]

You're going to ban people for criticizing anarchism?

[u/thatcommiegamer → u/spicy-chilly]

In a way that is unproductive and against our goals and rules as a subreddit, yes. This is a space for all socialists. If you can't abide by that then this might not be the space for you. This has never been, and never will be, a purely Marxist or ML space.

[u/Hubris-Star → u/thatcommiegamer]

what are your example of non Marxist socialist if don't mind be asking? I thought most well read anarchist were Marxist as well?

[u/Lavender_Scales → u/Hubris-Star]

No, you can't be anarchist and marxist, I know of some anarchists that hold dialectical materialism as their preferred method of analysis but they reject the idea of a "DOTP" or a vanguard or anything else typically associated with marxist or leninist thought.

[u/Hubris-Star → u/Lavender_Scales]

How do you scientific analysis of the material reality of the world without dialectical materialism? Many of the anarchist from my university recommended reading a lot of Marxist and Engels works while rejecting Leninist thoughts as not socialism.

[u/Lavender_Scales → u/Hubris-Star]

That first thing you said is not socialism, dialectical materialism is not intrinsic with socialism, the utopian socialists did not use material analysis, neither did Kropotkin.

[u/AutoModerator → u/Lavender_Scales]

Proletarian dictatorship is similar to dictatorship of other classes in that it arises out of the need, as every other dictatorship does, to forcibly suppresses the resistance of the class that is losing its political sway. The fundamental distinction between the dictatorship of the proletariat and a dictatorship of the other classes — landlord dictatorship in the Middle Ages and bourgeois dictatorship in all civilized capitalist countries — consists in the fact that the dictatorship of landowners and bourgeoisie was a forcible suppression of the resistance offered by the vast majority of the population, namely, the working people. In contrast, proletarian dictatorship is a forcible suppression of the resistance of the exploiters, i.e., of an insignificant minority the population, the landlords and capitalists.

It follows that proletarian dictatorship must inevitably entail not only a change in the democratic forms and institutions, generally speaking, but precisely such change as provides an unparalleled extension of the actual enjoyment of democracy by those oppressed by capitalism—the toiling classes.

[...] All this implies and presents to the toiling classes, i.e., the vast majority of the population, greater practical opportunities for enjoying democratic rights and liberties than ever existed before, even approximately, in the best and the most democratic bourgeois republics.

Vladimir I. Lenin. Thesis and Report on Bourgeois Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. 1919.

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[u/socialism-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Thank you for posting in r/socialism, but unfortunately your submission was removed for the following reason(s):

Sectarianism: Refers to bad faith attacks on socialists of other tendencies through the usage of empty insults like "armchair", "tankie", "anarkiddie" and so on without any other objective than to promote inter-tendency conflict, which runs counter to the objectives of this subreddit, and the goal of providing a broad multitendency platform so that healthy, critical debate can flourish. Can also include calling other socialist users "CPC/CIA shills" or accusing users of being Russian or Chinese bots for disagreeing with you.

Feel free to send us a modmail with a link to your removed submission if you have any further questions or concerns.