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First set 1. Found it while browsing Lemmygrad. Found Lemmygrad after a long process of radicalization. I like to read random articles there from time to time. I’d say – somewhat familiar. I’d like to contribute to articles about theory, history of Marxism and AES countries, current events and contemporary Marxist trends – whatever work there is. 2. Marxism-Leninism. The path that lead me towards Marxism was one of someone from an imperialized country noticing obvious inconsistencies and contradictions within current events. Being thoroughly suspicious of state media propaganda and disillusioned with the conduct, digging through literature and history I stumbled upon a model that brilliantly explains different processes and various problems of our society. It also provides concrete answers and solutions to said problems. 3. I don’t have any objections. 4. My take on it: gender is a concept of inter-playing neurobiological and social phenomena, consisting of several components – identity, expression and roles. Identity is, in a nutshell, a person’s brain inner processes producing a specific understanding of their self. This is interconnected with expression, in which a certain set of behaviors and other patterns (like wearing specific clothes) is presented outwards. Gender roles are socially constructed expectations of a particular gender, based primarily on the specific type of society in question (including its mode of production). 5. Mostly positive, albeit with a healthy dose of criticism for both. Their historical role is monumental – Stalin being one of the greatest practitioners of ML, who successfully applied its principles on many occasions, saved and defended the revolution, also - the world (from Nazism), laid the ground for further socialist transition of the USSR and provided vital assistance to Communists in China, playing a role in creation of the PRC. Mao, on the other hand, refined Marxism-Leninism further, contributed to it, and adapted the overall strategy to the material conditions of China – ideas that eventually coalesced into Mao Zedong Thought. Not to mention his role in struggle against Japan and the creation of the PRC. 6. Yes, I believe these countries are socialist. My thoughts on them are too many to express in a few sentences, suffice it to say I critically support them as AES states and look forward to their further development. Though, my knowledge of Laos and its history is very limited, requiring more research. 7. Settler colonialism, as I understand, is a type of colonialism with a specific feature of intentionally displacing the native/local population of the land by means of, included but not limited to: physical extermination (genocide), fatally exhaustive forced labor, deportation and forced assimilation. Examples of countries that fit this description: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Examples of occupation regimes posing as a legitimate state currently occupying territories of several real countries and actively engaging in settler-colonialism – “Israel”. What is to be done about them depends on the progression of their settler-project. In the case of the US – it would, I think, be impractical and unreasonable to undo the project, thus the solution I subscribe to is preserving and gradually restoring Native American culture, languages and building up infrastructure and material support. Massive land and material reparations are also overdue. That, however, will require socialism. In case of “Israel” – the answer would be to dismantle the colony entirely, no compromise to settler institutions. And, also, to repair the damage to Palestine and its people as much as possible. Former settlers must at the very least be de-Zionised and made obey Palestinian laws if they want to stay. 8. An international disaster, combining genocide, apartheid, international terrorism and military aggression coming from the Zionist entity in the name of US capitalism and Western imperialism. October 7, IMO, was an all-in operation conducted by the Resistance to prevent the settler entity from gaining more ground and to further weaken its international standing, (e.g. normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia) thus setting in motion economic and political undermining as well. As for the groups involved – it is a complicated topic, I will only say that insofar as the liberation goes I support all of them, particularly the PFLP.
Second set 1. It is a worldview that stipulates that nature is not a set of isolated or semi-isolated entities and phenomenons, but rather an interconnected totality where its parts influence each other, the nature is always in motion, and that motion, whether small- or large-scale, is driven by a unit called contradiction, or in other words – contradictory forces. In practice, it shows that change is always gradual – flowing from one into another, and the direction of that change depends on the contradictory forces driving it, the final destination point being the quantitative to qualitative shift. It also says that there are no discreet, isolated, strictly defined categories or ideas, that our ideas, concepts and categories are only approximations of infinitely complex reality that we are trying to understand. Gabriel Rockhill uses the Paradox of Theseus’ ship, I tend to subscribe to it as a useful tool to explain the concept. Dialectitians not only see objects but processes behind them – their creation, their lifetime and their destruction. On a large scale we see class struggle as one of the most striking examples of dialectical relationship. 2. “National liberation” as in “liberating the people from the yoke of imperialism/colonialism” – yes. “National liberation” as in “ethnic separatism that is playing into the interests of the bourgeoisie” – no. 4. Maybe… But the way it should be done is primarily by creating the necessary material conditions around it, so that the nuclear family starts being pressured out of existence by a material base. Some other useful stuff is fighting patriarchy, gender roles, elevating women’s rights, among others. 6. Mostly idealist thinking, or lack of materialist worldview as well their theory of change lacking or being massively underdeveloped compared to ML. 7. Imperialism is a specific type of relationship where power, whether economic, political, military or even cultural is being projected outward from the more developed core to the periphery for the purpose of squeezing the periphery for the benefit of the core, by various means, such as unequal exchange, artificial monopoly and monopsony, forceful opening of markets, privatization and cheapening of labor (up to it becoming slave labor) etc. In current capitalist realities, imperialism has been brilliantly defined by Lenin as “the highest stage of capitalism”, and it manifests itself when the system is getting to the point where expansion and forceful export of capital is required for the overall survival of said system, which then results in formation of international cartels and monopolist capitalist institutions, and gradual division (and re-division) of the world.
Optional: 2. I used to write in C++, C# and Java. Some time ago I also looked into Wiki markup. Nothing that complicated.