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FIRST SET
1. I found Prolewiki searching for web pages containing mediawiki with 'site:.org mediawiki citizen socialism'. I have been lurking and learning for about a year. I am interested in joining Prolewiki because I believe it is the most qualitatively advanced collective organizer at the present time and should be a model of organization for all Marxist-Leninists in the world. The area I am most interested in contributing to is the essays section and editing articles.
2. From a very early age I began my political education by reading about the history of my country, a colony of U.S. imperialism for the past 125 years. From anti-imperialist nationalism I became a Marxist-Leninist with the book "Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism" of the former Soviet Union. From this foundation, I also learned from the Marxist-Leninist songs of Pablo Hasél, a Spanish rapper who is currently in jail, about the different figures of the communist movement worldwide.
3. I have read the principles and I agree with the Core tenets: Political line, Anti-imperialism and Anti-oppression and with the Goals of the encyclopedia. The only "objections" (if you can call it that) I have is that there is no country from Africa in the anti-imperialist section and in Anti-oppression there is no mention of white supremacy.
4. My understanding of gender is that it is a social construct, part of the superstructure of society. Marxists should help the LGBT+ community for their liberation from capitalist society and not to maintain or reinforce it. Just as there is a bourgeois and a proletarian feminist tendency, Marxists must teach this difference in the LGBT+ community.
5. My prevailing historical position on Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong is that they contributed to the progress of humanity in their victories against imperialism and Nazism in general and in the building of socialism in their respective countries in particular.
6. My position on China, Vietnam, Cuba, DPRK and Laos is that these countries uphold Marxism-Leninism as the revolutionary doctrine in the construction of a more just society, with the different particularities in their respective countries. I think that these countries are socialist and dominantly socialist.
7. Settler-colonialism is the violent and conscious process of the extinction of a nation and its people by all possible means, for the establishment of a new imperialist and fascist society. At present, it is part of the development of capitalism at its highest level. Puerto Rico and Palestine are current examples of this process, each with different forms of settler-colonialism. In general, what must be done to stop settler colonialism and help indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, and immigrant groups is national liberation against these imperialist forces and the establishment of a socialist state that will continue to build and defend the revolution.
8. My short analysis of the situation in Palestine at present is the following: the Palestinian people are in a war of liberation against the Zionist forces and their imperialist collaborators. I think that the anti-imperialist groups that at this very moment are fighting heroically are not only the vanguard of the Palestinian people, but the vanguard of the masses of the world, that is to say, they are the most advanced vanguard of humanity. This is why it is a revolutionary duty that each and every communist must study and analyze the war of liberation initiated on October 7, 2023. We must be prepared when our time comes.
SECOND SET
1. I would describe dialectical materialism as the struggle of opposing forces, the objective form of the movement of matter. One force wants to maintain the old and the other struggles for the new.
3. My perspective on Marxist feminism is that it is a fundamental pillar for the understanding of Marxist-Leninist theory, as well as being a weapon against bourgeois feminism, devoid of revolutionary theory. I believe that the role of women within the capitalist system and in the organization for their liberation is not given more importance. We must never forget that it was they who initiated and led the great protests of March 8, 1917, that led to the Russian Revolution. If women advance, everything else will follow.
5. The most important issue for communists in my country is the unity of all revolutionary forces on a collective, propagandistic and agitation organizer, which can centralize all the information of our history, past and present, from a Marxist-Leninist and anti-colonial perspective, possible only with the most qualitatively advanced collective organizer to date: Mediawiki. Our revolutionary intellectual movement and communists have always lacked the most advanced techniques for the elaboration of such an enterprise, caused mostly by the eradication of our history and the continuous persecution by the colonial state forces, which weakened the possibilities of discovering the most adequate technologies at the concrete moments. But now we know that mediawiki is the Lenin's newspaper of the 21st century.
6.The biggest difference between Marxism and other anti-capitalist ideologies is that the latter are utopian, that is, they do not base their programs on science or philosophical materialism, but on bourgeois, petty-bourgeois and anarchist ideologies, confusing even more the masses interested in their own liberation.
8. In summary, some of the revolutionary works that stood out for me were: A work by Engels on the ideology of anarchism (I don't remember the name). This helped me understand its petty-bourgeois character; Lenin's The State and Revolution. The work helped me to understand the scientific character of the concept of authoritarianism and to leave aside its vulgar and bourgeois concept; Che's Guerrilla War. It helped me to deepen in obtaining a revolutionary disciple and to know the Chinese proverb: "Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated"; Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism headed by Otto Kuusinen. I recommend every communist to read it, it opened my horizons for the conscious realization of a communist society, the only way for the salvation of the human species.
OPTIONAL QUESTIONS
2. I have read about programming languages (Python, Rust, Java, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Ruby), but unfortunately I don't have the skills yet. About mediawiki, formerly I have installed it on a VPS with LAMP, I have configured security measures and extensions following the official site, as well editing articles, so I have familiarity with mediawiki.