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USian comrade seeking to become a citizen of New Turtle Island. I was a Bernie supporter in 2016 and came to radical politics during the pandemic closures. I was stuck at home and found myself going through a pipeline from progressivism to anarcho-communism, then maoism, then Marxism-Leninism. The more theory I read, the more Leninist I got.
The PCC in Cuba, the CPC in China, the CPV in Vietnam, the WPK in Korea, and the LPRP in Laos are the correct representatives of the world vanguard. No single one of them epitomizes "fully developed communism," as such is not a possibility until a coalition of such forces experience what the USA experienced in 1991. I critically support anti-imperialist governments throughout the NATO and dollar-opposed bloc.
Gender is a social construct arising from productive/reproductive relations. Bioessentialism must be rejected without reservation, there is no "essential truth" to how gender "should" be experienced or presented except that any comrade with any gender should be comfortable presenting any gender they already experience. Let comrades be themselves, and make protection of gender non-conforming people one of your primary goals for any revolutionary project. No oppression on any grounds of identity should be tolerated. Fascists to the pits.
Stalin and Mao are more nuanced figures than they are presented, both in the western anti-communist presentations of "history" and in the unreservedly supportive accounts of their lives. These were mere men, pushed to the forefront by correctly organized vanguard parties unto successful revolutions. USians, or any citizen of those nations aligned with the Washington-aligned bloc, have zero right to criticize those setups while we remain powerless in the belly of Democrat-Republican beasts.
I align pretty closely with the modern CPC line on Mao... maybe with a bit more consideration for the subjectivity of rural workers who to this day have tons of nostalgia for the Mao era. I'm sure 1966-1967 China offers many instances where the CPC perhaps inappropriately erred on the side of ultra-leftism. Still, this was mainly a problem for the easily-politicized, not the vast rural population in a majority agricultural society. The experience of most of China was a first-time encounter with experts, technicians, "educated city folk." Barefoot doctors, youth literacy volunteers, the types of folk who might include those "holding their noses," and also types who dedicate unreserved service, build the best irrigation systems they know how, to bring dignity to long-neglected masses. Parity between "town and country" will take a while. But compare this with the overly-urbanized USian proletariat (which btw, are trending only towards MORE urbanization, unto a contradictory cliff).
Stalin and Mao were capable captains of their respective socialist projects, but of course I wouldn't say they "did nothing wrong" (except maybe as a meme to meet the dominant Red Scare narratives).
SECONDARY VERIFICATION QUESTIONS (answer only 5 of them):
First off, nothing exists except matter and motion (Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism). This is the materialist worldview, wherein all phenomena are explained from physically observable objects and forces. Secondly, everything is constantly in motion and infinitely interconnected. Various interconnections between forces/objects are the driving factors in their changes over time (for example, the internal relations of an embryo and endosperm, combined with external factors like temperature, drive the change in an egg over the course of its development into a baby chick). To say this more simply: everything we sense really exists, even if we can't sense literally everything about those things. Closer observations with more refined tools can expand our knowledge about material reality. Practical activity is both experiment with and proof of material reality. In practical activity, subject (a collectively/communally agreed human experience in the form of an international "scientific advancement") recognizes both object (the subject of its study, that is, principally anything that can get more use/exchange value out of the soil, subsoil, and cosmos) and itself in the object's origins (that is, a prehistory of development from rocks and and water and chemicals and rays/fields of energy).
A recognition of material reality and forces is the prerequisite for conditioning material toward human use (i.e., an idealist epistemology cannot account for industry, development, or really anything useful). Everything has a relationship with Everything Else, and those relationships preempt and define the changes that constantly occur within/between Every Thing.
National liberation is still an important process in the context of 21st century imperialism. The injustices of settler-colonialism on the "western" continents, and the global maldevelopment resulting from neoliberalism, must be addressed and redressed to the best of our revolutionary abilities. National liberation takes precedence even over the development of socialism (although, as Fanon notes in Wretched of the Earth, a decolonial project without socialist orientation is vulnerable to neocolonial extraction and continued maldevelopment). The land must be given to the colonized, and the colonized must be in the leadership of any revolutionary project on this land.
In terms of proletarian gender studies. Revolutionary socialism is the only way to redress gender/sexual oppression, but a revolutionary project must also make such priorities explicit and at the forefront of their organizing. Gender and sexual "minorities" (really the vast majority of humans when taken together and stripped of all the bullshit, especially if femmes are somehow classified as a "minority" in the first place) must be pushed to the forefront of any 21st century socialist project. This is not just a matter of "identity politics" or "representation," this is a practical goal in advancing the struggle against any worldview that empowers a minority class over the interests of the majority. Femmes are the majority of the earth, thus the earth they shall inherit.
In the United States, I would say the primary objectives for a revolutionary movement would be stringing together all our various struggles around the common class-basis they all share. Any "devaluing" of any single identity is a material and political reality, from status to sexuality to skin color to "sex-assigned-at-birth." It all serves the pool-shark game of Capital. It draws all these identities against each other in order to maintain its shaky position at the top. We must seek to protect our marginalized comrades. We must call actions in their name if we perceive attacks on their existence. I believe and commit fully to national liberation for the colonized, and anti-imperialism to counter US global hegemony. This is the base of my entire actionable existence.
From the river to the sea, Palestine MUST be free.