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| Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Look at how they Balkanized my country! Damn Westerners and the nationalists (Chetniks, Ustashas, and Islamists)! | |
| Born | Yugoslavia (now ex-YU) |
| Nationality | Yugoslav |
| Political orientation | Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism |
Hi. I am an autistic Yugoslav Marxist-Leninist from the ex-YU region. I support people such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. I support only some of Tito's policies such as Brotherhood and Unity and workplace democracy but I reject any form of revisionist practice Tito was doing such as IMF loans and too much decentralization.
My aim is to contribute to Yugoslav history from the Marxist-Leninist perspective.
My Admission Sheet[edit | edit source]
CHAPTER 1 - FIRST SET
1. I found out about ProleWiki from the Internet. I am willing to contribute more about the topic of Yugoslavia as it is greatly underrated in ProleWiki.
2. I am a Marxist-Leninist. My journey began in 2022, I was a Titoist for two years but in 2024, I matured and found myself disagreeing with what Tito did post-WW2 to Yugoslavia. Despite his self-management policies, Tito was acquiring IMF loans and practicing market socialism. My current position on Yugoslavia from a Marxist-Leninist viewpoint is that the ex-YU states are a product of imperialist meddling with Yugoslav harmony and fuelling separatist movements just like how it was in WW2 (The Western Allies funding Chetniks, the Nazis puppeting Ustashas, etc.). I am a proponent of workers' self-determination, vanguard revolution, democratic centralism, five-year plans, class war, and so on.
3. Yes. I agree with the transparency and self-criticism. I believe that we must not be dogmatic.
4. LGBT are part of the proletariat and should be supported by Marxist-Leninists as such. Because the bourgeois state engages in active anti-LGBT rhetoric, we must let these people know that in socialism, they are welcome to freely live without fear of oppression. The LGBT must understand that their struggle is part of the broad class struggle against capitalism because capitalism historically is known to oppress LGBT people.
5. Iosif Stalin was the hero of USSR who defeated fascism and had his Red Army conquer Berlin from the fascists in 1945. He industrialized the USSR because he knew that if he didn't, it would have been crushed easily by the capitalist enemies. Mao Zedong is prominent for his protracted war and Long March which helped sustain his communist army which would later defeat the nationalists (KMT) in 1949 after they defeated Japanese imperialists. Stalin and Mao's friendship was the pinnacle of collective effort of the communists but revisionists like Khrushchov sought to stir division which helped capitalism destabilize communism in the 1989 counterrevolutions and destroy communism in Europe by 1991.
6. De jure, all five AES states are socialist. China's economic growth under Deng Xiaoping did create concerns from Maoists who believed that it was going to lead to state capitalism. However, Xi Jinping has made effort to root out corruption and lift over 800 million Chinese people from poverty, something that capitalists have never done and yet they boldly claim that "capitalism lifted people out of poverty". He has also re-collectivized agriculture, thus relaxing the concern regarding China's socialism. DPRK is little known about due to its isolationism but DPRK is long-standing mainly because of the fact that it is isolated, thus the Korean proletariat of DPRK knows nothing of the bourgeois world outside and cannot fall for any bourgeois propaganda which is why North Korea was able to stand strong for so long. Cuban socialism is facing a long-term problem of US imperialist sanctions instilled since the 1960s, causing brain drain, and damaging the universal healthcare for Cuba which is a crime attributed to US imperialism indeed.
7. Settler colonialism is a system of oppression based on genocide and colonialism , that aims to displace a population of a nation (oftentimes indigenous people) and replace it with a new settler population. The prime historical examples are the United States (genocide of Native Americans) and Israel (genocide in Gaza).
8. There must be support for Palestine! The invasion and genocide which began on October 7th, 2023 by the Zionist IDF has resulted in over 50,000 deaths within over a year. Most of these deaths are civilian (most of whom are women and children) and the international community can't do much about it because they serve Western liberal imperialism of the US which is barring the international court from arresting Israeli war criminals committing a genocide on the basis of culture and religion.
CHAPTER 2 - SECOND SET
3. Was first introduced to it from Engels' 1884 book, "Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State". My position on women's rights is that women are exploited through capitalism and the individual ownership of private property. Women's liberation can only be achieved by dismantling the capitalist systems in which they contend much of women's labor is uncompensated. The problem is that bourgeois feminists and masculinists will instead blame each other for their pitfalls instead of capitalism which purports the division of labor based on sex.
5. The most pressing issue for communists in my country is separatism and nationalism. The US Dayton agreement created a separatist entity which wishes nothing but harm to non-Serb Yugoslavs. Bosnia is a de facto colony of Western imperialism ever since the OHR was implemented. It saddens me that there is little to no information about Bosnia or Yugoslavia in general in this wiki.
6. The difference is that Marxism is a movement for class struggle and communism, as well as anti-imperialism. The main issue with the non-Marxist anti-capitalism is that most of these "anti-capitalists" are either social democrats or outright fascists pretending to be against capitalism. Social democrats do not oppose capitalism but only the "free-market capitalism". Fascism is capitalism in decay.
7. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Lenin argued that capitalism has progressed from a competitive stage to a monopolistic stage, where a few large corporations dominate the market. This concentration of production leads to monopolies, which in turn, leads to the rise of finance capital. The IMF lends money to member countries faced with balance of payments problems. In return for "financial assistance" from the IMF, borrower countries must implement a set of economic reforms (such as privatization and cutting down social services). The agenda of the World Bank is to subordinate the public and private spheres of all human societies to the capitalist imperative of seeking maximum profit which results in stagnation and deterioration of the living conditions of a great majority of the world’s population, concurrently with greater and greater concentration of wealth, as well as contributing to the deterioration of the natural environment.
8. Yes, I have read works from Marxists (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao). My favorite contributions to the Marxist thought are from Lenin and Stalin. Lenin expanded on Marx's concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat with a vanguard rule by the proletariat. This is because in order to achieve such revolution, you need to have a vanguard of revolutionary intellectuals who will help teach the working class and spread revolutionary consciousness so as to build way for a revolution. Stalin's contribution here is that he coined the term "Marxism-Leninism", combining ultimately the Marxist theory and Leninist praxis. Stalin, finding himself surrounded by capitalist countries, had to pursue for socialism in one country and five-year plans so that he could have a powerful socialist economy and maintain a powerful army against the capitalist forces, especially the Nazis who were threatening to destroy the USSR and communism.