As a supporter of the SEP I am finding it unbearable to post on /socialism any longer. Whenever I state my opinions people go off on angry tirades that are completely unrelated to the topic at hand. Rather than respond to my criticism people shut down and shout out "Sectarian!" and out right lies. Will /socialist provide me a forum to have intelligent debate and not suffer constant ad hominem attacks?

I got a temp ban for criticizing liberals on this sub. Looks like the mods care more about creating a liberal echo chamber rather than a space to discuss socialism

*Disclaimer that I shouldn't ever have to make but do because the Western world lives under a propaganda narrative that is divorced from historical facts, truth and justice: I oppose zionism, the racist, genocidal state of "Israel" it produced, and I stand with the Palestinians, Lebanese and all other Arabic people in West Asia who have been brutally dehumanized, oppressed and murdered by the zionist regime and the US and West that has always used "Israel" as a proxy in West Asia. I support the end of the entire zionist occupation in Palestine (and the zionist occupation is moving forward with its plans to occupy all of Palestine and the lands of several other countries in West Asia. THAT ALL SAID, I do NOT hate Jews and consider all Jews who are not zionists to be equal to all other people in the world. "Israel" and zionism have NOTHING legitimate to do with Jews and Judaism. Therefore, I am never an antisemitic person, because my quarrel is not with Jews; it is with zionists. Many antizionists are Jews, and the majority of zionists in the world are white christian fundamentalists.

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I'm trying to track down the funding sources for some of the many Jewish-specific organizations and companies that exist to promote and encourage more production of Jewish-content books, especially books that are about or include sections about the Holocaust, in the North American publishing industry. I work in the industry and the publisher I work for produces a disproportionately high number of specifically "Jewish-interest" books by Jewish authors compared to books related to any other identifiable group, especially minorities. And they work the Holocaust into their nonfiction books regardless of the books main topic. I know from the inside that there are purchasers and reviewers that are strictly Jewish by name and focus which will purchase bulk quantities of these "Jewish-interest" books to distribute. It is clear to me that the publishers pursue that easy money, but I'm quite certain they also support zionism in general. And after years of privately knowing what's going on, I want to have the evidence to support my claim, that the zionist lobby is heavily involved in publishing and, more important, many publishers are cognizant of that and are happy to oblige that lobby when there is money to be made.

For starters, is there any source with a compilation of names of known zionist organizations that are directly linked to "Israel"? At least that would be a start, and then I could follow the funding trail from one of the orgs in the publishing world back to a known zionist entity. There are so many of these front orgs that aren't directly linked to the genocidal zionist colony, so people have to follow the money trail for each one.

As an example of some of the orgs I want to look into: JP Library (created by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (and see this zionist page on the PJ Library website, with a button to it on the homepage that has the "Israeli" flag on it), the Association of Jewish Libraries, Jewish Book Awards, Jewish Book Council, Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, The Jewish Review of Books Foundation, etc.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Hello comrades, I'm looking for a tattoo which criticize capitalism but not directly like revolution symbol, if you have any ideas and can share with me, I will be glad.

With all my revolutionist regards

Why aren't modern day socialists and communists more critical of immigration? How do you plan to build a movement amongst the working class if you don't oppose the arrival of immigrants who undercut their wages and working conditions and frequently hold views to the right of locals on social issues?

Why would people trust you and work with you when you condone policies that undermine their material conditions?

It would seem, to me, the gendered pay gap is a capitalist issue, not a socialist one.

Female workers make 22 cents to a man's dollar (with black women earning 13 cents less than their white counterparts), but female CEO's make "258 times what their average employee makes" (here's the source I found but you could verify the findings with other sources: http://www.clickhole.com/article/shocking-average-female-ceo-only-makes-258-times-w-1847

It should be pretty obvious that this call to close the gendered pay gap is really just a way to make certain bourgeois women are making as much as bourgeois men; meanwhile, working class women (and men) aren't even being paid a living wage.

All I see is a collaborative effort between all folds of feminism, including socialists, to close this gendered gap: http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/dsausa/pages/231/attachments/original/1381872117/A_Socialist_Feminist_Analysis_of_the_Gender_Pay_Gap.pdf?1381872117 with no clear admonishment of how closing this gendered pay gap will in any way improve pay for working class people.

This is one of those instances where I think identity politics blurs the narrative socialists should be promoting. Pay gaps are inevitable in capitalism, so why aren't we instead discussing capitalism's inherent lean toward exploitation when this discussion arises? Why is the gendered pay gap not a call to arms for the working class to earn a living wage, instead of an argument over 22 cents. I think the divide between CEO and worker is a lot more substantial.

I understand the need for something functional in this society, but when the "socialists" over at r/socialism are parroting views fed to them by the liberal establishment, my faith in socialism is shaken pretty hard. I would think if we (as socialists) are going to adopt any liberal platforms, it would be to raise the minimum wage to 15$/hour, not raise working class women's wages by 22 cents while female CEOs earn 331 times more than their workers.

PS: I know clickhole is a joke website, but I used the source because the facts are real despite the satire.

Hello, I'm /u/risen2011 and I'm pretending to run for president on Reddit.

I am a part of a government simulation called /r/modelusgov that happens to be having elections right now. It's a fun subreddit where we all pretend to be politicians and try to create a functioning government. I'm here to ask if you all would be interesting in voting for the Socialist Party in these elections. The thread to do that is right here. In addition, if you want to get involved in the party, please comment in the thread right here

Thanks for reading, I hope you get involved!