/r/SocialismAndVeganism
A subreddit for vegan socialists and socialist vegans who are against exploitation and oppression.
ABOUT
Socialism is a sociopolitical movement dedicated to the critique and dismantling of exploitative structures, including economic, gendered, ethnic oppression.
Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose and is therefore closely connected to socialism.
Posts in all languages are welcome on the subreddit. Socialism is an internationalist movement whose aim it is to counter language imperialism and as such seeks to embrace all languages.
POSTING GUIDELINES
No:
- Racism
- Sexism
- Ableism
- Homo- Trans- or Aphobia
- Religious Bigotry
- Fascists
- Rape Apology
- Reactionaries
- Trump Supporters
- Police Apology
- Slurs
- Supporting Neoliberalism
- Advocating violence against groups or individuals
- Promoting non-veganism.
Furthermore, do not make:
- Gulag jokes
- Kronstadt jokes
- Icepick jokes
Please avoid making low-effort comparisons between animal oppression to human oppression, as it diminishes the experience and seriousness of both.
Telling other people that they are practicing veganism wrong serves no purpose, so please refrain from that.
FLAIR
When posting a link or discussion thread please remember to assign a topic flair. The flair can be assigned by clicking on flair directly underneath your post.
OTHER SUBREDDITS
CHAT
MAIN CHAT
ASSOCIATED LEARNING SERVER
Note that, if you are new to socialism, you should join the Socialism101 server first, since Socialism101 is a learning server.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
28th of September, 2018
The subreddit is growing! Feel free to contribute with articles, discussions, news and more.
Posts in all languages are welcome! Remember to assign flairs when you post. Do you have a flair suggestion let us know by messaging the mods.
The mods of S&V wish you a revolutionary day!
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Forcing, Eh?
18:55 UTC
Found this gem while scrolling through Twitter
09:55 UTC
Vote for labor activist Lewis to defeat the fascist La Follette, who is an ally of Charles Lindbergh in this timeline! Socialists such as Norman Thomas support Lewis!
15:07 UTC
Towards An Atheist Spirituality: Atheist Sacred Series
01:09 UTC
In Celebration of Struggle: Writers Reading Their Work
21:23 UTC
What is the best way to achieve socialism in your opinion?
05:49 UTC
Yugopnik makes a great point about veganism.
23:49 UTC
Listen to wait Comrade Edward Said said about Palestine
16:44 UTC
Ilan Pappé: Israel, a Settler Colonial State
16:20 UTC
Palestine Solidarity Megathread: Share information about rallies here
12:52 UTC
A debate on Veganism (and abortion). At 38:20, nonvegan bites the bullet on killing all of humanity if 51% were incapable of moral reasoning
06:29 UTC
Spread Tails OS and Tor to as many people as possible - screw the UK and USA intelligence services! Use off the record messaging in Tails OS to communicate impossible NSA/GCHQ to crack!
Spread Tor Browser and Tails OS to as many people as possible and get them donate, run relays etc. Also get people to use Linux. The UK/USA intelligence services hate Tails OS with a passion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_(operating_system)
" Der Spiegel published slides from an internal National Security Agency presentation dating to June 2012, in which the NSA deemed Tails on its own as a "major threat" to its mission and in conjunction with other privacy tools as "catastrophic"."
Snowden leaks "Tor Stinks" presentation before people claim "Tor is infiltrated by NSA!":
https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor-stinks-nsa-presentation-document
Top-secret presentation says 'We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time' but 'with manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users'
If everyone in UK + USA + other countries where Tor is legal use Tails, Tor, off the record messaging, VeraCrypt encrypt volumes, Signal all intelligence surveillance is completely pointless and its free! Use Tails OS with bridges for dissidents!
Also donate to Tor and Tails OS and if technically minded run bridge relays. Every person you spread to get them spread 3 more people and donate to Tor.
Tails - Donate to fight surveillance and censorship
Run bridge relay:
You should only run a Windows bridge if you can run it 24/7. If the operator is unable to guarantee that, a Snowflake is a better way to contribute resources:
Don't want ISP seeing what sites you browse? Tor browser browse web anonymously sends thru 3 relays layer of encryption removed each relay sites see exit relay IP Address totally legal in UK and USA Use with bridges (obsf4, meek-azure, snowflake) if in a country that censors Tor. Also access onion services only accessible via Tor aka "dark web." -
"dark web" - website list
Ricochet Refresh - chat and share files anonymously over Tor network:
https://www.ricochetrefresh.net/
Buy things off dark web use Monero - download feather monero wallet unlike bitcoin impossible to track unlike Bitcoin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero
" cryptocurrency which uses a blockchain with privacy-enhancing technologies to obfuscate transactions to achieve anonymity and fungibility. Observers cannot decipher addresses trading Monero, transaction amounts, address balances, or transaction histories"
"The transaction outputs, or notes, of users sending Monero are obfuscated through ring signatures, which groups a sender's outputs with other decoy outputs.[12] Encryption of transaction amounts began in 2017 with the implementation of ring confidential transactions (RingCTs).[6][13] Developers also implemented a zero-knowledge proof method, "Bulletproofs", which guarantee a transaction occurred without revealing its value.[14] Monero recipients are protected through "stealth addresses", addresses generated by users to receive funds, but untraceable to an owner by a network observer.[6] These privacy features are enforced on the network by default.[6]
Monero uses Dandelion++, a protocol which obscures the IP address of devices producing transactions. This is done through a method of transaction broadcast propagation; new transactions are initially passed to one node on Monero's peer-to-peer network, and a repeated probabilistic method is used to determine when the transaction should be sent to just one node or broadcast to many nodes in a process called flooding."
IF Feather monero wallet doesn't work search for a different monero wallet
For extra security use Tails OS sends all connections thru Tor only runs on a USB Stick buy a USB 16GB+ to install on. Follow instructions exactly don't use flash to USB tool of your choice:
https://tails.net/install/index.en.html
Watch these videos on Tails OS although slightly old:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f6cgUKBUXg&list=PLOZKbRUo9H_qXgyGp5UVYCoGQYo9YB5E8
Setup off the record messaging over Tor in Tails OS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsSssbs-Sso&list=PLOZKbRUo9H_qXgyGp5UVYCoGQYo9YB5E8&index=8
Checkout Tails documentation:
https://tails.net/doc/index.en.html
Use Monero on Tails will be even more untraceable send Monero over Tor:
20:37 UTC
Firebrand Meeting on 10/11
Copied and pasted from https://firebrand.red
Can progressive social change be advanced via the political parties of the capitalist class? Should we support left Democrats, like the Squad? What can we learn from the history of the socialist movement’s various approaches to voting and electoral politics?
Featured Speaker James Radek (he/him) is a founding member of the Denver Communists, Firebrand, and the Revolutionary Socialist Network.
Recommended Material “Marxists & Elections” by Paul D’Amato “Elections aren’t a path to socialism” by Daniel Taylor “Revolutionary parliamentarism? Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and the electoral arena” by Todd Chretien “The Ballot or The Streets or Both? From Marx and Engels to Lenin and the October Revolution” by Alex Snowdon
23:09 UTC
Ideas on the prototype of an auxiliary digital tool for implementing democracy directly
20:57 UTC
Allende's Last Words: The First 9/11
14:57 UTC
I made a video to raise awareness for South Asian migrant workers who are heavily exploited in Dubai. I'm surprised people never talk about it
13:11 UTC
Tom Kha (Thai Coconut Soup)
20:13 UTC
Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract! Positive Leftist News Roundup, July 2023
19:50 UTC
An animal rescue needs help.
Hi everyone. I am a long-time volunteer with Cr*zy Cat Lady Rescues. We feed, spay and neuter, and provide medical care for 250+ stray cats and dogs in Rabat, Morocco. Moreover, we house, rehabilitate, and re-home over 30 cats and kittens in our shelter.
With all these mouths to feed, our food supply goes quickly. We are doing our best to keep the bellies of all our street cats and dogs full, but our supplies for them are rapidly running thin. We urgently need help to stock up on food for both the strays and the shelter animals.
Kitten and puppy season has hit us particularly hard this year. Ideally, our focus is spay and neuter in order to get Morocco’s stray population under control. However, we cannot turn a blind eye to the countless lives that are already suffering on the streets. The emergency cases we see every day are piling up, and our available resources are already stretched so thin. The animals that we do admit into our shelter are usually those that need the most help, such as sick cats or orphaned kittens. Consequently, the veterinary bills for our rescue are quite high - and growing, as we desperately need more medication and treatment. We are doing our best to get these animals the medical care they need so that they may live to see themselves in a forever and loving home, but we are currently drowning under the weight of these bills.
We urgently need your help to stay afloat. So, I am asking you all to please share our cause or donate if you can. Your support will truly save lives, and there are many lives that need to be saved. Please.
If you want to help our animals, please visit our website. There, you can see all of the ways you can help us help them!
You can also visit our Instagram, or read this article about our founder.
Here are some photos of our animals and what we are dealing with below (TW: animal suffering):
And the story behind our most recent adoption. From a street cat with cancerous ears, to a cancer-free housecat in her forever home in France, basking in the sun and surrounded by toys<3
Thank you for listening!
12:30 UTC
A resource for finding libertarian (anti-authoritarian) socialists
Our organization is a decentralized federation build upon the principle of free association. It consists of many groups of people united around a cause of bringing down exploitative politico-economic systems. We aim to replace them with libertarian socialist systems, with the goal of creating a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world by stopping exploitation of humans and nature.
GROUPS: We organize groups for the purposes of education, advocacy, and mutual aid. Our objective is to demonstrate to people how the current politico-economic systems detrimentally impact our well-being, present them with alternative approaches, and engage in mutual aid to alleviate the challenges of living under capitalism.
PARTIES: We create political parties in order to push for reforms allowing us to easier further our goals, to move the Overton window as well as to gain popularity. However, we recognize that we cannot achieve libertarian socialism through institutions which act contrary to our goals.
COOPERATIVES: We form worker cooperatives to finance the operations of our groups and communes. Recognizing that economic power influences political power, we consider the establishment of cooperatives to be one of the initial steps towards achieving socialism.
COMMUNES: We establish communes based on libertarian socialist principles, where commune members have ownership over land, houses, and the means of production as well as make decisions using direct democracy. We are gradually expanding our socialist world, one commune at a time.
Learn more on our website: https://www.libsoc.org/
Here is also our Discord: https://discord.gg/Qk8KUk787z
We are vegan friendly. Many of us are vegans and we try to help non-vegan members to connect the dots.
09:39 UTC
“Toward A Revolutionary Party”Firebrand Meeting on Wednesday, Aug 16, 2023 at 8 pm ET
On Zoom at bit.ly/firebrandzoom
Copy and Pasted from https://firebrand.red
Marx and Engels wrote that communism is the real movement to abolish the present order of things, but the present order of things—capitalism—has the day-to-day advantage over us and uses it, forcing its ideas on working people at work, through all forms of media, and in every part of our daily lives.
To organize against capitalism, communists need to have a strategy for projecting our ideas. We also need an approach to making our ideas the basis for organized work and building organizations suited to pursuing and developing our politics.
How should communists seek to project our ideas into the world? What obstacles do we face? And which of the many approaches to anticapitalist organization provides the best path forward to defeating capitalism’s project of exploitation and oppression?
Join Firebrand for a presentation and discussion of communist perspectives and strategies for building a revolutionary party.
Featured Speaker Mark J. is a communist organizer, writer, and educator in eastern Kansas. He is a founding member of Firebrand.
03:56 UTC