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Indigenous Marxist Leninist.  
Juchari amponhaskua ka eratsikua máreksïrhénini 🪶🏳️‍🌈⚢
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Enkaksï no xenchaaka juchari iretarhu anapuechani, naenaksï uá iámentu parhakpeni anapuechani xénchani. Ji jirhinhaxaka ma nanaka enkari libristi. Uantajpari @ 💌 Discord: @charhapiti


I speak 3 languages: English, Spanish, P'urhepecha. I can also pronounce words from Nahuatl and Hungarian but don't know what they mean. Maybe someday I could be open to learn Russian and Mandarin?
I also call myself a dialectical materialist, mainly to distance myself from Marx as a person, but it's all the same method. Any proper application of dialectical materialism would bring someone to 'Marxist-Leninist' conclusions by any name.


 
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<blockquote style="size: 16px; border: solid thin grey; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 6px;">"An economy that grants personhood to corporations but denies it to the more-than-human beings: this is a Windigo economy. ... We are not powerless against the Windigo, they say. Remember that we already have everything we need. And so—we conspire. When I get to my feet, Nanabozho has appeared beside me, with resolute eyes and a trickster grin. “You have to think like the monster to defeat him,” he says. “Like dissolves like.” He points with his eyes to a line of dense shrubs at the edge of the woods. “Give him a taste of his own medicine,” he says with a smirk. He walks into the gray thicket and laughter overtakes him as he disappears."</blockquote>
 
-- Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
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"In other words: under capitalism we have the state in the proper sense of the word, that is, a special machine for the suppression of one class by another, and, what is more, of the majority by the minority. Naturally, to be successful, such an undertaking as the systematic suppression of the exploited majority by the exploiting minority calls for the utmost ferocity and savagery in the work of suppressing, it calls for seas of blood through which mankind has to wade in slavery, serfdom and wage labour.
 
Furthermore, during the transition from capitalism to Communism suppression is still necessary; but it is now the suppression of the exploiting minority by the exploited majority. A special apparatus, a special machine for suppression, the "state," is still necessary, but this is now a transitional state; it is no longer a state in the proper sense of the word; for the suppression of the minority of exploiters by the majority of the wage slaves of yesterday is comparatively so easy, simple and natural a task that it will entail far less bloodshed than the suppression of the risings of slaves, serfs or wage labourers, and it will cost mankind far less. And it is compatible with the extension of democracy to such an over whelming majority of the population that the need for a special machine of suppression will begin to disappear."
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-- V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution
 
 
<blockquote style="size: 16px; border: solid thin grey; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 6px;">"They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. ... All the social-chauvinists are now ‘Marxists’ (don’t laugh!)."</blockquote>
-- Lenin, State and Revolution, 1917.
 
By Marxist Leninist I mean the antiimperialist tradition coming from the October Revolution in Russia and culminating in the socialist countries we see today. Many Asian Marxists distinguish Eastern Marxism from Western Marxism (the second is a wannabe ideology). Some people use different words to say the same things, and that's valid. But I also want to stress for BIPOC readers that an idea is defined by its material effect upon the world, and the ideas of Marxist Leninism are *not* European/Eurocentric they are mainly Asian/Eastern in origin. Even Marx himself was a non-observing Jewish man, child of long line of Rabbis on both sides. Marxism-Leninism is borne of the contradictions of orientalism and colonialism. The whitewashing of Marxism-Leninism only serves to confuse and alienate us from a practice, international by design, that could genuinely liberate. Calling Marxism Leninism a white thing is like calling yoga a white thing just because some clueless crackers misused it. Everybody seemingly wants to be communist but without actually being a Communist.
 
The Left-Right paradigm is useless for an ML anyway, that terminology comes from the Monarchists vs Bourgeoisie/Liberals of the French Revolution. Most people you think of whether they are 'left' or 'right' are liberals. And then there's the fascists... But even then, scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds.
 
I also call myself a dialectical materialist, mainly to distance myself from Marx as a person, but it's all the same method. Any proper application of dialectical materialism would bring someone to 'Marxist Leninist' conclusions.
 
Dialectical materialism is also important for cultural revitalization and preservation because it places culture in a historical materialist viewpoint which happens to be the most correct and coincides with the way history is told by many indigenous people for whom historical events are supposed to inform us about the present. It allows for us to not be frozen in time, but also preserve what is important. In addition, indigenous epistemology is dialectical materialist if correctly applied, and allows for spirituality to exist.
 
Fighting colonialism and imperialism certainly went on since the day Colombus set foot on Turtle Island, as people fought valiantly to liberate their individual nations but it was when imperialist *capitalism* reached a global scale of development that the world saw Lenin codify Marxist-Leninism, an anti-imperialist science that seeks to liberate entire multinational/multiethnic countries through proletarian revolution. History has shown us that the working class is the driver of unity between all groups oppressed by capitalist imperialism, especially unity within and between ethnic groups despite the contradictions between them.
 
For the global south, the struggle for liberation evolved dialectically towards Marxist-Leninism in response to global economic shifts caused by settler colonialism and imperialism in general. (Settler-colonialism is a subcategory of imperialism.)
 
Indigenous people in the global north need to ally with the global south instead of the West! We really are not that different. Our futures are intertwined!
 
<blockquote style="size: 16px; border: solid thin grey; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 6px;">"The Indian Wars never ended, the United States simply fabricated new Indians -- new terrorists, new insurgents, and enemies-- to justify endless wars and expansion." </blockquote>
-- The Red Nation, "The Red Deal", 2020
 
In my opinion every sincere person who wants to fight for their people's liberation will naturally become inclined to support Marxist-Leninism. There are many global examples in the 20th century of this being so, worldwide Marxist Leninism (sometimes referred to by other names) is the political method chosen by every people fighting imperialism. Imperialism is the primary contradiction!
 
I am here because I love the support for AES, anti-imperialist countries, and democratic centralist organizing. I love the opposition to settler-colonialism and this is the reason I have chosen to merge my research into ProleWiki. No objections to the principles.
 
There has always been more than two genders, worldwide. Only with imperialism, colonialism, and maybe early empires(?) was there any attack upon gender, because gender diverse bodies are inconvenient to imperialist ambitions. LGBTphobia increases when capitalism and imperialism enter. It's hard not to be Marxist if you are LGBT, look at the way gender and sexuality were colonized. It's the imperialism question again, and Marxist Leninism is the answer to that question. Dialectical materialism also proves there are more than 2 genders and people can change their gender.
 
Communists should be working towards the preservation and strengthening of indigenous people's political autonomy, economic prosperity, cultural education and language rights. The Red Deal book has many good ideas on specific actions you can take to support your indigenous comrades. But please also never forget to ask an oppressed nation what they need.
 
If you read this far and are sapphic or gay, we should chat sometime 😏

Latest revision as of 23:05, 2 June 2024

Juchari amponhaskua ka eratsikua máreksïrhénini 🪶🏳️‍🌈⚢ 🦅🐢🌎 Enkaksï no xenchaaka juchari iretarhu anapuechani, naenaksï uá iámentu parhakpeni anapuechani xénchani. Ji jirhinhaxaka ma nanaka enkari libristi. Uantajpari @ 💌 Discord: @charhapiti

I also call myself a dialectical materialist, mainly to distance myself from Marx as a person, but it's all the same method. Any proper application of dialectical materialism would bring someone to 'Marxist-Leninist' conclusions by any name.

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