1. SovietPasiune mentioned it in one of the RTC chat channels
2. I am a marxist who has been studying Marxism-Leninism for some time, I was formerly a social-democrat until I understood dialectical and historical materialism and found it to be an useful scientific method.
3. I have read the principles, and I find them to be an extremely good base from which to build a socialist project.
4. China, as it exists today, is the largest socialist experiment in the world. Its development of socialism has been instrumental.
5. I think that in his military and commanding role, he was instrumental in defeating fascism, I haven't read many of his works so I can't comment on his theoretical advancements.
6. Being queer myself, the marxist understanding of gender should be based around seeing gender as a social construct, meant to reinforce the division between men and women. We should obviously support the LGBTQ+ community.