This is a learning subreddit, meaning you must be prepared to provide evidence, scientific or historical, to back up your claims. When answering questions, keep in mind that you may be asked to cite your sources. Refrain from making spurious or unverifiable claims. People come to Socialism_101 looking for answers from socialists, not capitalists. Non-socialist answers will be removed, and repeated offenses lead to banning.
If you’re not a socialist, don’t answer questions. Don't derail pre-existing threads with non-sequiturs. Non-socialists may piggy-back on pre-existing threads to ask follow-up questions.
There’s no such thing as a silly question, so don’t self-deprecate in your own thread by calling yourself, or your question, foolish. (Bad Question: “It’s been proven that socialism doesn’t work, why do you support it?” – Good Question: “What lead you to support socialism?”)īe confident when asking your question. Check those at the door, and don’t include them as part of your question unless your question cannot be addressed without them. We understand that knowledge is primarily made-up of background assumptions and preconceived notions that are part-and-parcel of Liberal ideology. Similarly, polemic or trolling questions meant to start antagonistic arguments, provoke, or escalate disagreements to the level of insults will not be tolerated.ĭon’t ask Loaded/Leading Questions - Don’t front-load a question with baseless assertions. But unless otherwise stated, your questions are assumed to be directed toward all socialists.ĭon’t Soapbox - You may expand upon your question, and ask follow-up questions in response to any answer you receive, but don’t use the forum as a platform to spread anti-communism. Questions may be targeted toward a specific group, such as Anarchists, Marxist-Leninists, Mutualists, etc. Questions can be expanded upon in the text portion of the thread. State questions clearly in the title both socialists and non-socialists may ask questions. This is not a place for debate, but for learning.