Comrade:Charhapiti

Indigenous Marxist Leninist.

I speak 3 languages: English, Spanish, P'urhepecha. I can also pronounce words from Nahuatl and Hungarian but don't know what they mean. Maybe someday I could be open to learn Russian and Mandarin?

☭ Why Marxism-Leninism? Like Dissolves Like

"The argument from Lenin is that the best way to fight against such a machine is with a machine of our own — a self-repairing, self-replicating, massive instrument of the proletariat, with the capacity to organize and carry out war, and that process and the underlying philosophy is called Marxism-Leninism."

-- Some Internet Marxist

"An economy that grants personhood to corporations but denies it to the more-than-human beings: this is a Windigo economy. ... We are not powerless against the Windigo, they say. Remember that we already have everything we need. And so—we conspire. When I get to my feet, Nanabozho has appeared beside me, with resolute eyes and a trickster grin. “You have to think like the monster to defeat him,” he says. “Like dissolves like.” He points with his eyes to a line of dense shrubs at the edge of the woods. “Give him a taste of his own medicine,” he says with a smirk. He walks into the gray thicket and laughter overtakes him as he disappears."

-- Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

"In other words: under capitalism we have the state in the proper sense of the word, that is, a special machine for the suppression of one class by another, and, what is more, of the majority by the minority. Naturally, to be successful, such an undertaking as the systematic suppression of the exploited majority by the exploiting minority calls for the utmost ferocity and savagery in the work of suppressing, it calls for seas of blood through which mankind has to wade in slavery, serfdom and wage labour.

Furthermore, during the transition from capitalism to Communism suppression is still necessary; but it is now the suppression of the exploiting minority by the exploited majority. A special apparatus, a special machine for suppression, the "state," is still necessary, but this is now a transitional state; it is no longer a state in the proper sense of the word; for the suppression of the minority of exploiters by the majority of the wage slaves of yesterday is comparatively so easy, simple and natural a task that it will entail far less bloodshed than the suppression of the risings of slaves, serfs or wage labourers, and it will cost mankind far less. And it is compatible with the extension of democracy to such an over whelming majority of the population that the need for a special machine of suppression will begin to disappear."

-- V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution, 1917.

☭ Against Settler 'Socialist' Distortion of Marxism-Leninism

Marxism-Leninism wants nothing less than for your nation and culture to be liberated from opression. However, there are some revisionists who think they can install socialism in a country while leaving the colonialism intact. This is no less ridiculous than Kibbutism.

"They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. ... All the social-chauvinists are now ‘Marxists’ (don’t laugh!)."

-- V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution, 1917.

By Marxist Leninist I mean the antiimperialist tradition coming from the October Revolution in Russia and culminating in the socialist countries we see today. Many Asian Marxists distinguish Eastern Marxism from Western Marxism (the second is a wannabe ideology). Some people use different words to say the same things, and that's valid. But I also want to stress for BIPOC readers that an idea is defined by its material effect upon the world, and the ideas of Marxist Leninism are *not* European/Eurocentric they are mainly Asian/Eastern in origin. Even Marx himself was a non-observing Jewish man, child of long line of Rabbis on both sides. Marxism-Leninism is borne of the contradictions of orientalism and colonialism, too. The whitewashing of Marxism-Leninism only serves to confuse and alienate us from a practice, international by design, that could genuinely liberate. Calling Marxism-Leninism a white thing is like calling yoga a white thing just because some clueless crackers misused it. Everybody seemingly wants to be communist but without actually being a Communist.

The Left-Right paradigm is useless for an ML anyway, that terminology comes from the Monarchists vs Bourgeoisie/Liberals of the French Revolution. Most people you think of whether they are 'left' or 'right' are liberals. And then there's the fascists... But even then, scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds.

I also call myself a dialectical materialist, mainly to distance myself from Marx as a person, but it's all the same method. Any proper application of dialectical materialism would bring someone to 'Marxist-Leninist' conclusions by any name.

Dialectical materialism is also important for cultural revitalization and preservation because it places culture in a historical materialist viewpoint which happens to be the most correct and coincides with the way history is told by many indigenous people for whom historical events are supposed to inform us about the present. It allows for us to not be frozen in time, but also preserve what is important. In addition, indigenous epistemology is dialectical materialist if correctly applied, not to be confused with mechanical materialism or idealism. Dialectical materialism reinforces indigenous epistemology or ways of knowing, and combats Christianity, hippy nonsense, and other reactionary tendencies. Language is tricky here... Our languages do not really have the same Western hegemonic meanings. All knowledge is knowledge of the universe. Ideas and matter are in a dialectical relationship. So, it's almost impossible to use english to describe indigenous knowledge and practices, through colonial terms and frameworks, without something lost in translation.

We are the halluci-nation. Our DNA is the earth and sky. The halluci-nation, the human beings, the people, see the spiritual and the natural through sense and feeling. Everything is related: all the things of earth and in the sky have 'spirit', everything is sacred. Confronted by the alien-nation, the subjects and the citizens see the material religions through trauma and numb. Nothing is related: all the things of the earth and in the sky have energy to be exploited. Even themselves. Mining their spirits into souls sold, into nothing is sacred, not even themselves. The a-LIE-nation, the alienation.

-- John Trudell, spoken word poetry, Santee Dakota nation

Thus, poetry becomes necessary, to bypass the language barrier. This underscores the need to preserve our languages to communicate unique perspectives and our own ontological frameworks. As I was saying, historical materialism is very important to transmit what we were meant to learn. The earliest written records mentioning this concept of historical materialism (though not with the same name) was in China by Liu Zongyuan (773–819) and Li Gou (1009–1059).

Fighting colonialism and imperialism certainly went on since the day Colombus set foot on Turtle Island, as people fought valiantly to liberate their individual nations but it was when imperialist *capitalism* reached a global scale of development that the world saw Lenin codify Marxist-Leninism, an anti-imperialist science that seeks to unite and liberate entire multinational/multiethnic countries through proletarian revolution against imperialism. History has shown us that the working class is the driver of unity between all groups oppressed by capitalist imperialism, especially unity within and between ethnic groups despite the contradictions between them.

For the global south, the struggle for liberation evolved dialectically towards Marxist-Leninism in response to global economic shifts caused by settler colonialism and imperialism in general. (Settler-colonialism is a branch of imperialism.)

Indigenous people in the global north need to ally with the global south instead of having our gaze fixed upon the West, or on the latest psyop. We, especially our material interests, really are not that different from the global south. Our futures are intertwined!

"The Indian Wars never ended, the United States simply fabricated new Indians -- new terrorists, new insurgents, and enemies-- to justify endless wars and expansion."

-- The Red Nation, "The Red Deal", 2020

In my opinion every sincere person who wants to fight for their people's liberation will naturally become inclined to support Marxist-Leninism. There are many global examples in the 20th century of this being so, worldwide Marxist Leninism (sometimes referred to by other names) is the political method chosen by every people fighting imperialism. Imperialism is the primary contradiction worldwide of the 20th and 21st century!

☭ Why ProleWiki

I am here because I love the support for AES, anti-imperialist countries, and democratic centralist organizing. I love the opposition to settler-colonialism and this is the reason I have chosen to merge my research into ProleWiki. No objections to the principles.

☭ LGBT, Indigeneity, and Socialism

There has always been more than two genders, worldwide. Only with imperialism, colonialism, and maybe early empires(?) was there any attack upon gender, because gender diverse bodies are inconvenient to imperialist ambitions. LGBTphobia increases when capitalism and imperialism enter. It's hard not to be Marxist if you are LGBT, look at the way gender and sexuality were colonized. It's the imperialism question again, and Marxist Leninism is the answer to that question. Dialectical materialism also proves there are more than 2 genders and people can change their gender.

I highly recommend Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg. And of course, none of this is a replacement for listening to native elders, it is an additional resource.

☭ The Tasks of Communists Towards Decolonization

Communists should be working towards the preservation and strengthening of indigenous people's political autonomy, economic prosperity, cultural education and language rights. The Red Deal book has many good ideas on specific actions you can take to support your indigenous comrades. Braiding Sweetgrass offers an indigenous perspective of science. But please also never forget to ask an oppressed nation what they need.

☭ The Dialectics of Praxis

Every revolution requires a revolutionary theory, and educating the people.

There is a lot of education that needs to happen. Of course, education and mutual aid and advocacy can all happen at the same time, and can also feed into each other. Everything weaves together through a somewhat intuitive, yet also planned or organized, process.

You can have these moments where you are educating people and then include a call to action. Education gets people invested in the cause, and a person might ask, 'How can I help?'

As you're educating people and spreading awareness, you're also making an impression on somebody and building up trust and making contacts, which are the basic requirements for carrying out mutual aid, support, solidarity, etc.

As we engage in class struggle, we also learn lessons, and that feeds back into theory.

Over time, people become more grounded, confident, ready to act and ready to take the correct actions.

That's praxis.

I'm boiling some water right now for my meal. It's like education is me applying heat to the water. The actions are the bubbles that spring up from the depths of the pot. With enough temperature and bubbles (quantitative change), it reaches a point where the water is rolling and boiling. When the water is officially boiling, that represents a fundamental qualitative change, i.e. it now has the capacity to cook my food. Revolution. Cooking: the most ancient revolution as started by homo erectus, the birth of the human brain and therefore all our species' comprehension of natural laws.

☭ Ka t'u?

If you read this far and are sapphic or gay, uandajpari!!!! 💌 Discord: @charhapiti