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l. Lemmygrad. Subscribed to the prolewiki community there. Nothing to contribute yet.
2. Born in occupied Hong Kong, raised in a colonizer family. 2001 Islamophobia, 2008 financial crash, 2014 HK protests and 2019 HK riots all incrementally pushed me into looking outside the approved narratives for explanations. Typical path from Lib to ML, with an extra dose of anti-americanism from being half Filipino.
3. Agree with your principles. Not mentioned there: I specifically agree with China's foreign policy and development policy. BRICS members are not all ideal but enabling nations to press their unified interest in liberation from US Hegemony is having noticable effects, and is removing the biggest obstacle to revolution across most of the world: US 'intervention'.
4. I support the right of every community to develop (and in some cases decolonise and recover) its understanding of gender and gender equality through revolutionary movements or in concert with their revolutionary state, at their own pace and in harmony with the unique qualities of their culture: free from intervention, judgement, and the political manipulation of neoliberal agendas.
5. The Giant Spoon and the Iron Rice Bowl actually combine to form Voretron.
6. Yes to all five. People who criticize SWCC's interfacing with capitalism seem to ignore the fact that what China is doing is contributing to the other 4 flourishing (and in some cases existing at all), and also enabling the multipolar conditions for more AES states to take form.
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3. Cultural syncretism, if done by a properly representative socialist government, is better than both. However that requires a revolution first in most cases, and national liberation and land back movements can both create the conditions for that.
4. I really wish the Deprogram Podcast would get Joanna Richards (thesillyserious/blonde philosophy) on their show. Most of my understanding of Marxist feminism is from her. Just gonna use this answer to promo her.
5. Abolishing the family doesn't need to be a goal. A wider sense of familial community and disestablishment of patriarchy are natural outcomes of socialism and democratic centralism. Forcing cultural change causes blowback (see China) while cultivating natural positive change and discouraging negative change through education and media creates steady long-term progress (see contemporary China) instead of concessions that get rolled back as soon as they're no longer legally enforced (see Florida).
6. In China? National unity, national security. Maintaining cross-strait social and economic bonds with RoC to prevent US attempts to divide them.
7. 'Other' anti-capitalist movements differ in how an alternative to capitalism should look. Failing to understand that capitalism grows back if you don't eliminate it entirely (DemSocs) or naieve ideas about being able to maintain a moneyless, stateless, classless existence with the US breathing down your neck (Anarchists).
8. On principles of solidarity I stand by my government's position for an immediate ceasefire and two-state solution. Personally I don't think that's realistically achievable without Israel being completely de-militarized, its constitution being revised to prevent it from ever being an ethnostate again, and its entire incumbent government and military command structure being tried for war crimes. Any eventual Palestinian state must be a single, continuous territory that spans from the river to the sea. https://youtu.be/vlKoNtJD4rU