1. I found this server after finding ProleWiki from a Lemmygrad link (user @achooom) 2. I uphold Marxism-Leninism 2. (cont.) I grew up in Southern California, so my politics growing up leaned on apathy, no class consciousness, and no critical perspective towards imperialism. My turning point came specifically during the 2019 color revolution attempt in Hong Kong, leading me to seek out non-Western propagandist information (RFA, NED) from journalists such as Benjamin Norton, Danny Haiphong, etc. that exposed the USA's agitation to incite a new Cold War. This triggered me to read Lenin, Parenti, and economists such as Michael Hudson. 3. I have read and will follow all server rules 4. The PRC practices actually existing socialism. While some incorrectly claim that Deng Xiaoping's reforms led to the Chinese system "devolving into capitalism", the truth of the matter is that the CPC continues to uphold socialism, seen through poverty alleviation, development of advanced infrastructure, as well as internationalism seen through the Belt & Road initiative 5. Stalin upheld socialism in the USSR through seeking to fully plan the economy, and attempting to take existing market elements and change them to worker co-operatives. I support Stalin as he responded to the material conditions of the USSR, addressing its needs to quickly establish industrial production in order to combat Nazi Germany. 6. The concept of gender differs between cultures. The gender binary (man, woman) became enforced globally via European imperalism and the genocides of indigenous people in the global south. Societies such as Indigenous Americans recognized multiple genders, as well as gender fluidity. Marxists should definitely support the LGBT community.