Essays and articles written by ProleWiki editors about current events, Marxism, socialist countries and more.
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- Essay:The True History of Islamic Extremism in West Asia
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by Alaki123
Published: (last update: 2024-04-28)
5-15 minutes
There is a narrative common in the West that claims that West Asia (often incorrectly referred to as the “Middle East”) is somehow inherently violent. That its people have been at war for thousands of years and just cannot be peaceful. It also promotes an Orientalist view of West Asia, claiming that the root of instability in the region is religious differences going back thousands of years. This is then contrasted with the “modern” and “civilized” Europe, which has been at peace for a long time and presumably would remain at peace forever if only those Muslims would leave them alone!All of these claims are false.
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- Essay:Wiki SEO guide
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2024-03-16 (last update: 2024-04-28)
15-25 minutes
- Essay:Why ProleWiki is strictly ML and takes its principles seriously
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2024-03-02 (last update: 2024-04-28)
10-20 minutes
An essay explaining ProleWiki's relationship to Marxism-Leninism, its principles, and criticism. ProleWiki has evolved to accept only Marxist-Leninists in its membership, and this essay explains the reasoning and context that lead to this decision.
- Essay:On the Communist Party of Greece and its ideology
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by ComradeSyntrofos
Published: 2024-02-06 (last update: 2024-04-28)
35-60 minutes
- Essay:Zionism is antisemitism, and Palestine
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2023-10-20 (last update: 2024-04-28)
25-40 minutes
More and more people are saying the situation in Palestine is "complicated". That we have to deplore the amount of deaths on "both sides". That Hamas is "illegitimate" or "terrorists". Even worse, they are now compared to ISIS! What an insult.Starting from the origins of Zionism through the colonisation of Palestine to the recent Flood of Al-Aqsa operation in October 2023, we aim to set the record straight and debunk Zionist propaganda that aims to retain its cushy privilege in Palestine by any means necessary -- including psychological warfare against the world population.
Read more - Essay:Design considerations for our new library
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2023-10-01 (last update: 2024-04-28)
20-35 minutes
On a day like any other of July 2023, ProleWiki archived its old library to make way for a new one, redesigned from the ground up.In this essay, I want to go into the considerations and challenges surrounding the redesign of our library, and compare it to a very well-known library in marxist circles, the Marxists Internet Archive.
I hope it will provide comrades with valuable insight into how to conduct projects from a design perspective, whether for their party, agitprop work, or even their personal hobbies.
Read more - Essay:The LGBT Question, Answered
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by Annamarx
Published: 2023-10-01 (last update: 2024-04-28)
35-55 minutes
The LGBT Question involves answering many aspects. This includes sex, sexuality, and gender. Many Marxists and so-called 'Marxists' have tried to answer this question utilising the tools of science. However the correct application to the scientific method requires a concrete understanding of Materialist Dialectics. This essay serves not only to understand LGBT people from a dialectical perspective, but also serves as a critique to the 'marxists' (in other words: revisionists, reactionaries) who claim the LGBT people are either idealist, or do not align with the dialectical framework.
- Essay:Design thinking applied towards communism
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2023-09-19 (last update: 2024-04-28)
5-15 minutes
If we hold that Marxism-Leninism is a wide, all-encompassing framework, then it follows that we will see it in action in some fields (at times more in some than in others), and that there is something to be learned from these fields to apply them to Marxism.In other words, we can further our understanding and practice of Marxism by integrating things -- which may not seem Marxist at first -- into it.
Design thinking has gone through its own dialectics and what was once a very niche term privy to only a select few has gone through its pop science phase through relatable 21st century bourgeois like Steve Jobs to finally become, in its current incarnation, a very rational process.
Read more - Essay:ProleWiki's new Essays feed!
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by ProleWiki
Published: 2023-09-18 (last update: 2024-04-28)
1-5 minutes
ProleWiki is proud to present its brand new Essays feed!With this new page, which is immediately replacing our legacy page, we hope to develop a more robust presence as essay/article writers and potentially even collaborate with other writers and authors!
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- Essay:The "State" Can be Revolutionary
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by Robinn
Published: 2023-09-13 (last update: 2024-04-28)
15-25 minutes
Anark has no understanding of the class character of the state, does not even mean to address it, this “class” has no features other than its oppression, so that we may arrive at Bakunin’s nonsense of a “new proletariat” suppressed by the DOTP. The state is an apparatus for the suppression of one class by another, of, in orthodox, the suppression of the majority by the minority, for the reconciliation of irreconcilable contradictions, although in the national sense the proletarian state (which Lenin clarifies in this sense is no longer a state proper) may through the masses suppress the bourgeoisie whose power is supported internationally, as seen from the counterrevolutionary movement against the Bolsheviks supported by the imperialist powers.
- Essay:Free Press (and Speech)
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by Robinn
Published: 2023-09-13 (last update: 2024-04-28)
5-15 minutes
The vestiges of the feudalist press and suppression were replaced with free press, free speech, and free expression. These phrases obscured the real essence of capitalism; where the press became an economic institution (the bourgeoisie possessing the masses of capital), it had at once reformed itself into a direct expression of class interest to which the proletariat were excluded on the very basis of their essence as a class.
- Essay:The Motive Force Behind Nuclear Development and Isolation in the DPRK
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by Robinn
Published: 2023-09-13 (last update: 2024-04-28)
1-10 minutes
We have heard of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s “self-imposed isolation” and the nation has been incessantly referred to as a “hermit kingdom”, but what is the root of this idea? What we have in reality is a state that has, in the course of its history, attempted to form peaceful relations, to establish travel, and to usher in the signing of a new peace treaty for the cause of reunification. On the other hand, the United States, the world’s paramount military aggressor, and its front group the “United” Nations has rebuffed these overtures, introducing limitations on travel for the purposes of producing a skewed image of a “hostile rogue state” incapable of negotiations, while at the same time escalating tensions.