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1. If I'm honest I found ProleWiki while looking up photos of Mao Zedong; I'm interested in contributing to the development of this people's resource - contributing my knowledge of material conditions and the state of socialist organisation in my home country of the United Kingdom, as well as looking to expand information on the history of Socialist China - particularly through the questionable era of the Cultural Revolution.
2. I would describe myself as a Marxist-Leninist, with a particular inclination towards Anti-Revisionism (though I do recognise all 5 current AES as Socialist) and study of Mao Zedong Thought. I spent much of my life as a utopian, regrettably, but thanks to a combination of being pushed away from liberalism from being working class and LGBT, pushed away from utopianism by the disgusting truth of Collaborator George Orwell, and pushed towards Scientific Socialism by a mix of Hakim Videos and when I read 'State and Revolution'. Therefore, I promote Anti-Revisionism as a banner to bear against Kaustkyites, Trotskyites, and Gonzaloites alike.
3. I absolutely agree that we must uphold the present Socialist states, lend critical support to powers opposing United States hegemony - both for the furthering of the goal of Multipolarity and more broadly the struggle of the working masses against Capitalism-Imperialism; and indeed, yes, we must stand against the oppressive forces of right-wing ideology. Overall, ProleWiki's striving for the advancement of class consciousness in line with the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism I find to be an excellent cause that I wish to contribute to.
4. Gender is -at most essential- a construct produced by historic need for productive labour of two kinds which would then be used to promote division through bourgeoise influence over culture - allowing for the development of Patriarchy within Feudalism; that is to say, the abolition of gender should -indeed- be a long-term goal of communists alongside abolition of class and the state. In particular, as a transgender lesbian, I feel particularly strongly that we must support LGBTQ+ people as a central part of our emancipatory and scientific cause.
5. Both Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were proletarian heroes of great note - Stalin not only playing a vital role in the Bolshevik revolutionary movement but also in his synthesis of Leninism and Marxism to produce a universal, scientific revolutionary theoretical basis for praxis; and the famed Chairman of the CPC would put forward the Mass Line -an excellent response and improvement upon the Leninist vanguard party- and would advance our understandings of the relations between the first and third worlds yet further than his predecessors, allowing us to understand the role of the Comprador and more. It is worth noting however that, from my perspective, 'Three Worlds Theory' was a deviation - though there is some evidence that the USSR performed social-imperialist activity following the Kruschevite takeover, the theory proposing alignment with the United States against the Soviet Union was dangerous posed a severe threat to socialism worldwide, as Hoxha rightfully highlighted.
6. These five states are clearly socialist in nature; in particular, the Republic of Cuba can be held up as an example of the correct response to liberation from Patriarchy as a component of Socialism; and the People's Republic of China has shown an excellent path of development - allowing the people of all areas of China except those occupied by the far-right ROC to enjoy a rise from the Feudal to being the most developed nation of the world, and completely liberating Tibet; we must also acknowledge the achievements of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in their over 60 year stand against the Fascism and Imperialism of the United States and their puppet ("South Korea"), as well as considerable achievements in liberation of women, worker co-operatives and proletarian democracy. I've not spoken about the SRV or Lao PDR as, truthfully, I know the least about them - however, from what I do know, it's clear that they're shining beacons of the socialist path.
7. Settler-Colonialism is -essentially- the process (as practised by the nazis through "Lebensraum") of occupying a territory, enslaving/performing a genocide upon the local residents, settling a population of ones own people their and then -through the process of socialisation- teaching the land has always been yours The United States is, itself, a Settler-Colonial Entity, continuing to exploit, oppress, and erase the few Native American people who weren't slaughtered during Manifest Destiny; another Settler-Colonial entity is "Israel" - slaughtering Palestinians and settling Israelis in the West Bank.
8. Well, this is merely an extension of the ongoing conflict from when Palestine was colonised by the British Empire, the people resisted colonisation and slavery then, and then The Balfour Declaration was made - allowing a takeover of the land by Zionists who began a yet more destructive version of what was already occurring - an attempt to completely remove Palestinians from the world and the history books. It is only natural to resist this, and I haven't even described the Concentration Camp-esque conditions of life as a Palestinian in the Israeli occupation. Although Hamas are not a Scientific Socialist organisation, they are one fighting against Fascism and Imperialism, therefore they have my support - especially against the pure fiction being propagated about them by the Far-Right Western Media establishment. Furthermore, Hamas only became such a large group thanks to funding form Israel in hopes to downplay the Palestinian left - primarily, the PFLP, an actual communist group.
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2. National Liberation is essential to Socialism; as Mao identified, there can be be multiple major contradictions in a society but one must generally be prioritised; in the case of China, the CPC understood that they must unify with the Bourgeois Nationalists and Feudal Warlords against invading Japan - they must firstly save China from Occupation, before then being able to save it from the horrors of Feudalism-Capitalism.
3. Feminism is an essential part of marxism, how can we be liberated in any real sense until all the Old Things are destroyed - every holdover of the Old World, Patriarchy in particular, must be smashed in favour of new proletarian ways of working and living. In terms of theory, I'm very influenced by Kollontai's work and Xenofeminist ideas on Feminism within Marxism.
4. The Nuclear Family is a stereotypical depiction of family derived from White, Western Bourgeoise and Conservative Sensibilities - it is a weapon against other cultures who's perceptions of family developed in any other way, and against LGBTQ+ who may simply form different familial relations; furthermore, it plays into fascist ideology through its emphasis on biological relation - as opposed to the much more progressive alignment of ideas such as Chosen Family. Furthermore, the Nuclear family acts as part of Feudal-Capitalist society as it is an essential tool in the transmission of Private Property and, overall, privilege. And that's without even mentioning the patriarchal roots which create a hierarchy where the odds are stacked against women and children, as Kollontai described.
5. All Major Communist Parties in the United Kingdom are Corrupted, Revisionist tools of the Bourgeoise cultural machine - the CPGB-ML is a far-right anti-trans outlet which is too obsessed with Vulgar Materialism to even be considered remotely Marxist, the CPB is a group of mostly revisionists with little understanding of any theory past that of Orwell and suffering from the common problem of siding with J.K. Rowling against the suffering trans people of the world, the CPGB has fallen from a shining star of socialist organistation during Harry Politt's day to a Party too distant from everyday working people to be taken in any way seriously, and the Workers' Party of Britain - headed up by George Galloway, another grifter who'd only see socialism realised if he could ensure women were back in the kitchen, queerness hidden from public knowledge (Thatcher-style), and trans people in the death camps - he is another branch of the Right-Wing Opportunist tendency that have so gripped Western politics. Furthermore, no major communist party supports the Self-Determination of Cornish People and generally the want for Sovereignty from the "United Kingdom" felt by people across England, Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and the Occupied Section of Ulster. Generally, the main issue Communists in the United Kingdom must address is the common current of "Social-Democrat" politics surging as the country falls lower and lower, and prices rise higher and higher; though Proletarian unity despite bourgeois ideas of "gender" is a close second, I would say.
6. The Most essential difference is Marxism is guided by a scientific method - dialectical materialism; this having brought us to such clear conclusions on 'what is to be done', as Lenin put it. Contrast this with other "Anti-Capitalist" movements, which can range anywhere from Rainbow Capitalism and "Social Democracy", all the way to Utopian but still strongly Socialist approaches such as that of Muammar Gaddafhi. The clear advantage of Marxism is the scientific nature of our approach, allowing us to define 'good' from 'bad', essentially, and providing the structure of Democratic Centralism - allowing for true, people's democracy.
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