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1.Through the lemmygrad community.
2. Just Marxist for now. I'm still learning about the tendencies and don't want to adopt a label I don't fully understand. I've been learning gradually about communism since 2019 but my pace rapidly accelerated starting 2022.
Before that, I thought social democracy was the best humanity could achieve even though it never felt good enough. I wasn't really aware what socialism or communism was despite the first president of my country post independence being Gamal Abd El-Nasser. There's definitely anti-communism in my country but it represents itself differently here.
I have a lot of criticisms about Nasserist socialism but I'm also having to simultaneously unlearn the slander thrown at him by far-right Islamists, the Egyptian bourgeoisie, and monarchists who were angry about his policies and the removal of the royal family (those groups often overlap).
3. Yes. No complaints from me, that's a nice set of principles (especially the part about standing against class reductionism as that's unfortunately a thing I see a lot with Egyptian socialists/communists).
4. I'm not the most qualified person to talk about this but I can clearly see how proactive the PRC is about keeping capital under its control rather than the opposite and using it to improve the life of its people. Their COVID response clearly contrasts with the rest of the world as prioritizing the people above capital. I also appreciate their internationalist efforts such as BRI and the actually helpful, non-parasitic aid they provide to African countries unlike the IMF.
5. I'm still learning about him but I think he's been very unnecessarily demonized by anti-communists (on purpose of course). No person is without faults but I believe Stalin truly cared about the people of the USSR. I also no longer believe the infamous claim of him being an autocrat or being as bad as Hitler.
6. It's a very complicated topic, I could write a whole essay about gender lol. Of course they should as the majority of LGBT people are proles just as much as others. Unfortunately, I'm frequently disappointed by fellow Egyptian communists who are bigoted against them due to their religious beliefs or other claims they make. It makes it hard to find fellow communists in real life as I'm part of the LGBT community myself and I encounter enough bigotry daily from the wider society to deal with even more of it.