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- Essay:On the Communist Party of Greece and its ideology
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by ComradeSyntrofos
Published: 2024-02-06 (last update: 2024-06-16)
35-60 minutes
- Essay:Zionism is antisemitism, and Palestine
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2023-10-20 (last update: 2024-06-16)
25-40 minutes
More and more people are saying the situation in Palestine is "complicated". That we have to deplore the amount of deaths on "both sides". That Hamas is "illegitimate" or "terrorists". Even worse, they are now compared to ISIS! What an insult.Starting from the origins of Zionism through the colonisation of Palestine to the recent Flood of Al-Aqsa operation in October 2023, we aim to set the record straight and debunk Zionist propaganda that aims to retain its cushy privilege in Palestine by any means necessary -- including psychological warfare against the world population.
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- Essay:A nutrition and fitness guide
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2023-03-06 (last update: 2024-06-16)
80-125 minutes
This guide is not aimed towards communists specifically -- the principles apply to everyone similarly. However, arguments can be made as to why a guide on a communist encyclopedia is important and interesting:Many comrades want this information, but do not know where to get it. In this way we are bringing it to them if they happen to read ProleWiki. The fitness industry is dominated by reactionary content and personalities. With this guide, you are sure it was written by a communist and will not contain unwelcome anecdotes. And of course, fitness is important to all communists for a variety of reasons.
Read more - Essay:The Motive Force Behind Nuclear Development and Isolation in the DPRK
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by Robinn
Published: 2023-09-13 (last update: 2024-06-16)
1-10 minutes
We have heard of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s “self-imposed isolation” and the nation has been incessantly referred to as a “hermit kingdom”, but what is the root of this idea? What we have in reality is a state that has, in the course of its history, attempted to form peaceful relations, to establish travel, and to usher in the signing of a new peace treaty for the cause of reunification. On the other hand, the United States, the world’s paramount military aggressor, and its front group the “United” Nations has rebuffed these overtures, introducing limitations on travel for the purposes of producing a skewed image of a “hostile rogue state” incapable of negotiations, while at the same time escalating tensions.
- Essay:The True History of Islamic Extremism in West Asia
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by Alaki123
Published: (last update: 2024-06-16)
5-15 minutes
There is a narrative common in the West that claims that West Asia (often incorrectly referred to as the “Middle East”) is somehow inherently violent. That its people have been at war for thousands of years and just cannot be peaceful. It also promotes an Orientalist view of West Asia, claiming that the root of instability in the region is religious differences going back thousands of years. This is then contrasted with the “modern” and “civilized” Europe, which has been at peace for a long time and presumably would remain at peace forever if only those Muslims would leave them alone!All of these claims are false.
Read more - Essay:The LGBT Question, Answered
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by Annamarx
Published: 2023-10-01 (last update: 2024-06-16)
35-55 minutes
The LGBT Question involves answering many aspects. This includes sex, sexuality, and gender. Many Marxists and so-called 'Marxists' have tried to answer this question utilising the tools of science. However the correct application to the scientific method requires a concrete understanding of Materialist Dialectics. This essay serves not only to understand LGBT people from a dialectical perspective, but also serves as a critique to the 'marxists' (in other words: revisionists, reactionaries) who claim the LGBT people are either idealist, or do not align with the dialectical framework.
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- Essay:Problems with Maoism
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by Annamarx
Published: 2022-10-22 (last update: 2024-06-16)
60-95 minutes
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is a controversial ideology, to say the least. I wrote the Maoism article initially with a more 'neutral' standpoint whilst still critiquing its theory under the 'Criticism' section. This will be a more biased viewpoint of Maoism, as it describes the problems with it. Despite my bias, I will attempt to remain neutral. I will consider not only its theory, but its praxis, and seeing how it Maoism applies to the real world.
- Essay:What even is "dengism"?
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by Annamarx
Published: 2022-12-1 (last update: 2024-06-16)
10-20 minutes
I'm serious. How is 'dengism' even defined to begin with? Maoists (and other Anti-revisionists) seem to love this word, as this is a catch-all phrase for any 'revisionists' who appears to support the People's Republic of China. We could define 'dengism' to be this way, however, it also can apply to 'revisionists' who support the 4 other claimed socialist nations as well. This leads to a question. What even is 'dengism'?
- Essay:The Cleanest Farce: How "Experts" Distort the DPRK
- Essay:The "State" Can be Revolutionary
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by Robinn
Published: 2023-09-13 (last update: 2024-06-16)
15-25 minutes
Anark has no understanding of the class character of the state, does not even mean to address it, this “class” has no features other than its oppression, so that we may arrive at Bakunin’s nonsense of a “new proletariat” suppressed by the DOTP. The state is an apparatus for the suppression of one class by another, of, in orthodox, the suppression of the majority by the minority, for the reconciliation of irreconcilable contradictions, although in the national sense the proletarian state (which Lenin clarifies in this sense is no longer a state proper) may through the masses suppress the bourgeoisie whose power is supported internationally, as seen from the counterrevolutionary movement against the Bolsheviks supported by the imperialist powers.
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- Essay:Wiki SEO guide
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2024-03-16 (last update: 2024-06-16)
15-25 minutes