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FIRST SET 1. I stumbled upon it in a comment section on r/TankieTheDeprogram. I've read quite a few articles, and came across some minor grammatical issues, spelling errors and similar mistakes. I study English language in university and would think myself to be a potentially useful asset when it comes to small errors like that.
2. I like to consider myself a marxist-leninist and a materialist feminist. Of course I'm always in the process of learning, and, especially when it comes to minorities of which I'm not a part and the imperial periphery, the labels I indentify with mean little. My actions and my willingness to learn and adapt my opinions, assumptions, and overcome my internalized convictions are the important things.
The path forward is unmistakably socialism. Humanity will always strive towards betterment, as such, it is foolish to believe that capitalism, with all its inherent contradictions, is the best system we can come up with. Socialism is simply the next stept. After that, communism. After that, who knows. That's for smarter people in the far future to decide. Until then, we need to agitate and organize, join unions, protest and go on strikes.
3. I also support AES, and critically support anti-imperialist states. Although my support for the Russian Federation is much less pronounced than the others listed. This is partly because of western propaganda, I do regnognize that I have ingrained biases towards Russia, but I don't believe that the russian national bourgeoisie's interests align with that of its proletariat. If they were aligned, Russia would perhaps be more like China; socialism with russian characteristics, if you will. Furthermore, yes, Russia fights NATO imperialism, which is good, but I don't believe that this is done with the worker's interests at the forefront. When the war ends, the US empire will puppeteer what is left of Ukraine and shock therapy it to death, also, the now-russian part of former Ukraine will just be a part of Russia. I don't see the benefit for the russian workers. However, I am open to change my viewpoint on this upon new evidence. The last sentence of the Anti-imperialism topic confuses me, though. Of course we support workers and oppressed peoples against their ruling class, in any country. I don't see why that is included in the Anti-imperialist section.
I agree with everything else stated in the principles.
4. I am trans, which was and is definitely part of my radicalization. My people are oppressed and marginalized to an insane degree, and it is obvious how my people are exploited as an easy other to rally the public against. By whom? The ruling class, of course: "No, it's not capitalism's inherent contradictions making your life miserable, it's the Queers!" I will defend my people and fight for our survival, but I also know that the role of scapegoat is a tabula rasa. After trans people, it's going to be other gays, then black and brown people, then jewish people, and ever so on. This is a trademark of fascism. It is thusly also evident that fascism is just capitalism in decay. And capitalism is just fascism with a nice façade. All this is to say: yes. Marxists are not Marxists if they don't support the LGBT community. This is what I meant in question 1.
5. I like Mao Zedong. Generally, the more a leftist is demonized by the West, the greater they are. This is the case with Mao. Stalin is more nuanced in my opinion. Stalin was a great man (although he would humbly disagree). I respect him for leading the USSR, and I very much respect him for defeating the Nazis. I critiqie him, however, for his immaterialist views on gay people. This is a betrayal of marxist ideals. This is a low-hanging fruit, though, as Stalin was also a product of his time. I also think that the deportation of Crimean Tatars was a huge overreaction to a nazi-collaborator problem. Though, due to the power of hindsight, this is an easy judgement to make.
6. Vietnam, Laos, DPRK and Cuba are socialist. China is socialist with chinese characteristics. All those countries bear the hallmarks of socialism: common management of the means of production, worker self-determination, huge strides in LGBT-rights, good healthcare, almost too many doctors, strides in science and technology, self-reliance, fast building of infrastructure, and, of course, being sanctioned by the imperial core.
7. Settler-colonialism is the process of installing your people in a foreign land and genociding the indigenous peoples away in order to extract resources for profit, and manufacture a new scapegoat population, and perpetuate an idea of new Lebensraum in order to distract from capitalist contradictions. It's a form of expansionism that replaces the military with sometimes armed civilian settlers, who become the imperialist army by settling. Today's settler colonial states and current settler territories are: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Northern Ireland (UK), Greenland (Denmark), Western Sahara (Morocco), Canary Islands (Spain), and Israel.
Decolonization should happen by granting the native peoples self determination, so they can decide what should happen with the ancestral lands that have been stolen from them. Realistically, nobody wants to remove jews from occupied Palestine, the ones who were paid by Israel to settle there should go back to Europe or America, where they overwhelmingly came from at most a decade ago, at least that's what I think, but again, as soon as the Palestenians gain self determination, it's up for them to decide. Migration into my own country is a different story. Black and brown people fleeing to western Europe from the wars we've knowingly caused is NOT colonization.
8. It's not a conflict. It is an active genocide and ethnic cleansing of the native palestinian people by the settler colonial entity of Israel. You and 2 million of your people live crammed in an open air concentration camp, isolated from the outside world, and you dare to try to escape this opression, only for them to do what they did before but a thousand times worse. I support Hamas. I support Palestininian resistance and freedom.
SECOND SET 4. Similar to religion and interpersonal bigotry, the nuclear family will naturally fade and step down from being the dominant family structure because there will be no ruling class using those concepts to perpetuate their oppression of the proletariat. There will be more multigenerational households and extended family in one home and all kinds of family structures. There is no need to legislate the nuclear family away in my opinion.
5. In former DDR, fascism is on the rise. That's the case for all of Germany, but moreso for the DDR, because capitalist contradictions are even more rampant here. Germany has the weakest left movements in Europe. There is the Antideutsch movement, which sounds good in a vacuum, but it's a zionist garbage fed organization that LARPs as anti-fascist. Also, the local socialist organizations in my city are all trotskyists, which I consider revisionist, but at least they are not zionist. Communist parties on a federal level are more respectable. There's the DKP and the MLPD. The DKP is full of old people who focus most of their media money on newspapers, but their opinions are good. The MLPD ist newer and also younger by aberage member age, but I have problems with their anti-russian stance and overly critical opinions on China. Die Linke hasn't been leftist since the undemocratic annexation of the DDR but old people here still vote for them because they are just used to voting for the former SED. If I do vote, I vote for DKP, that is if I've got some time to kill.
2. I support land back movements. If a land back movement were to become popular in my country, if I was living in a settler colonial country like the US, I would either actively fight with and among them on the front lines, or I would move back to Europe and support them indirectly through protesting for them back in Europe.
6. The main difference is that Marxism has produced a myriad of incredibly successful experiments, whereas anarchism has not.
7. Imperialism is the exploitation of foreign lands and peoples to turn profit or to consolidate power. In modern times, this happens more covertly through the perpetuation of unequal exchange. Constitutions like the IMF or the World Bank strongarm the imperial periphery into making unfavorable trade agreements, which leads to profit for the imperial core, and keeps the third world poor and weak, which keeps this neoimperialism going safely. The Belt and Road Initiative is different, though. Unlike the US, China is not going to assassinate your president and install a fascist puppet regime if you refuse to trade with them. Even of you consider China an imperialist power, it has both parties' long-scale prosperity in mind.
OPTIONAL QUESTIONS 1. Seperate text boxes would be nice, so that you don't have to scroll all the way up and down so much. Otherwise I have nothing to add, I found it enjoyable.