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1.I found ProleWiki whilst in search of high-quality information and actual truth about many Marxist-Leninist countries, such as the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea(DPRK). I am interested in translating and creating articles in Serbo-Croatian.
2.The current Marxist thought I uphold is that of Marxism-Leninism. I believe that Marxism is the only scientific "tool" which can properly analize our history, economics and socio-economic relations.
3.Yes, I have read the principles of ProleWiki. I currently have no objections about the rules.
4.Gender, at least in my personal understanding, includes social, psychological and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman or being a part of the LGBT+ community.I believe every Marxist and Marxist-Leninist should support LBGT+ people and help them in their liberation from Bourgeoisie tyrants who oppress them.
5.Both Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were great socialist leaders who greatly contributed to the theory of Marxism-Leninism and the development of socialism. Both of them share enormous historical value and importance, for Joseph Stalin it is the industrialization of the USSR and the destruction of Naziism in Europe. For Mao Zedong it is the liberation of the Chinese proletariat from Imperialism and the appliance of Marxism-Leninism in mainland China (Maoism) to realize a socialist revolution in an underdeveloped, agrarian society.
6.China, Vietnam, Cuba, DPRK and Laos are all countries which are building socialism even under the immense pressure of the Bourgeoisie, the imperialists and capitalists. To think said nations are capitalist would be silly for a plethora of different reasons.
7.In short, settler colonialism is when when colonizers invade and occupy territory to permanently replace the existing society with the society of the colonizers. Modern-day examples would be the Boers in South Africa and Jews in Palestine. There are 2 solutions, the first would be to calm the ethnic hatred between the 2 groups and to teach them how to live together in peace. The second, more radical option would be to expel the colonizers from the land they stole, giving them some form of compensation based on the value of property they held. Since, I am from Serbia, the liberation and uplifting of the Roma (Gypsy) and Vlach population would be of most importance. The said groups are essentially left out by the state, who either outright refuses to even acknowledge them or simply decides to ignore them, their needs and what is to be done.
8. I'll be honest, I haven't really followed the actions that have been going on in Palestine that much due to school and work. At this current moment I feel not educated enough to tell you the full story and a well written analysis, however I can say the blatantly obvious, that is that the colonizer-state of Israel and the IDF are committing a genocide against the Palestinians. The Hamas, whilst controversial, is the only organization that serves and fights for the interests of Palestinians.
Second set: 1.Dialectical materialism is a materialist theory forged together by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has widespread applications in a number of philosophical disciplines. It emphasizes the importance of real-world conditions and the presence of functional contradictions, the contradictions that occur in social class, labour economics, and socioeconomic interactions. Dialectical materialism recognises the evolution of the natural world, and with it the emergence of new qualities of being human and of human existence.
7.Imperialism, as described by Lenin, is the highest stage of capitalism, and insitutions forementioned in the question serve it by destroying the Global South. Drowning poor, developing countries with debt created by unfair loans, deals and treaties. They will not hesitate to destroy socialist experiments around the globe.
8. I have, I read the Communist Manifesto and as of now just started reading "The State and Revolution" by Vladimir Lenin. Planning on a lot more Marxist literature in the future. The said 2 pieces of communist literature greatly improved my understanding of both capitalism, socialism and the ideology of marxism-leninism
6.The main difference is that Marxists focus on the realistic history of our world, understanding the social, material, economic phenomena, the conflict between the classes. They are not "blinded" so to say by idealism. Scientific Socialism does many things better than (for example) Utopian Socialism. It (also for example) isn't naive as Democratic Socialism, which believes that that the ruling class will peacefully give their power and control of society to the proletariat if they were to participate in Bourgeoisie democracy.
5.In my country (Serbia), the biggest problem with communists and generally speaking communist parties is the lack of unity. This is primarily due to the fact that they first of all can't even get registered as legal political parties due to the red tape and the horrendous bureaucracy that we have here. Secondly, the biggest "socialist party" we have is not even socialist. It calls itself that, but it is straight up capitalist. It has been in every government my country had since 1990. It constantly works with the neoliberal, big-tent parties which are keeping our country poor and essentially slaves to the western multinational corporations which are using our cheap labour force for extra profit.