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The Decolonial Indigenous and Proletarian Study Group is an anti-imperialist Discord server closely affiliated with ProleWiki. Originally conceived as a server for educating Southern Statesian socialists, it broadened in scope to focus on decolonial Marxist education after the influence of non-Southern and non-Statesian members. Thus, it underwent transformation from "the South", to the "Global South"; the joke goes that a People's War was waged. It is currently owned by Charhapiti and run by several others, most especially LocalEldritchComrade. Char inherited ownership after befriending members of the old group under a former name, that were sympathetic to Char's rants about the situation of Marxism and indigenous liberation struggles, and the message of worldwide indigenous unity.
Origins
DIPSG's evolution reflects the evolution of its owners. The befriended Black, Indigenous, and Global South members remained active after a campaign to purge white chauvinism and establish a non-eurocentric space for consciousness raising. In studying Marxism together with the aim of decolonization, they collectively decided to uphold the standard Marxism-Leninism as reflected in the AES countries and restructured into the multipolar space it is today. They identified a correlation between Gonzaloism, mestizo chauvinism, the petite bourgeoisie, and white saviorism, and accordingly tightened against ultraleftism and especially against defense of Gonzalo.
After finding no other Indigenous Marxist-Leninist server or platform, they decided to name themselves as the DIPSG in 2023. Formerly known as the People's Land of Learning project since around the time of the Great Purge/People's War, they merged their library into ProleWiki. DIPSG's intentionally indigenous focus finds expression in the Turtle Island Study Group organized by Charhapiti. The server continues on from historical activity as a typical Marxist study group with regular beginner-level book clubs and documentary streaming. DIPSG is a global space open to everyone sympathetic to indigenous causes, due to its history as the unity of Asian and Turtle Island comrades, and also African decolonial theoretical contributions. In an anglophone world that only seems to associate "native" and "indigenous" with Turtle Island, DIPSG recognizes indigeneity in an internationalist and not-exceptionalist way, applied to peoples in the multifaceted global context. DIPSG studies decolonization around the world.
DIPSG's Views on Indigeneity
- Every individual is originally native to some place through their lineage, and their membership to a Community is defined by a complex and nuanced interaction of lineage from that Community and their actual productive activity, their work. "Ethnicity" or "tribe" is sometimes used, or even worse, "race", but these terms have limited or at times counterproductive results. Capital-C Community should be clearly differentiated from the liberal, ahistorical, ephemeral sense of "community" as "gamer community", "women's community", "disabled community", etc, which are not communities in the material and stable sense.
- Ethnicity or tribe is the natural inviolable reality in which nativeness is grounded, whereas nation is sometimes used more broadly or abstractly. Stalin's description is suitable: "A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture." ... And also: "A nation is primarily a community, a definite community of people."
- Identity is not defined by borders or location of birth. Diaspora status, adoption, foster care, attempted assimilation, or other displacement does not cancel ethnicity. Likewise, simply living in or being born in a place while being born somewhere else (e.g. a settler who was born in a settler colony) does not make that person native to that land.
- Genetic drift, "race", "mixedness", etc, also do not cancel ethnicity. Also, having the genes or "racial characteristics" does not automatically confer the ethnicity.
- Regardless, all people of all classes fall on one side or the other in the contradiction between oppressing and oppressed nations.
- There is the contradiction between nations whose territory is occupied, versus nations who are the settler-colonizers.
- There is the contradiction between the nations who retain their country, but who are colonized from afar by imperialist nations.
- There is the contradiction between the whole of the global south, and the whole of the global north.
- Some global south countries are settler-colonizers (e.g. Mexico).
Library Merge into ProleWiki
DIPSG intended to form their own website similar to ProleWiki, but upon learning of ProleWiki and interacting with the project, and finding it suitable for indigenous people of present-day occupied territories, decided to fully merge their library into ProleWiki.