1) I'm not sure where I first saw it, but editors from Prolewiki often post in Hexbear, where I often hangout.
2) I'm an ML, but I'm not really into tendency battles. MLMs, anarchists, and usually Trots are my comrades.
3) Yep. I have no time for "leftists" taking a Western line on AES.
4) Gender is partly cultural and someone based on biological sex. Transphobes are reactionary. LGBT people are an oppressed minority and deserve protection. Also they're some of the best communists nowadays.
5) Men that led the liberating revolution in their countries. I get that some people like to bash Stalin for the purges, but there was an active movement to invade and sabotage the revolution from the beginning. And WW2 did happen and nearly wipe out the USSR. Personally I don't focus on individuals, but I defend them from liberal propaganda.
6) I mean, all of them with the exception of maybe the DPRK have had to liberalize to cope with the fall of the USSR. Whatever their issues, there's still a vangaurd party of workers in control of the state. If anything, with capitalism on the brink of collapse, these countries are better positioned to survive the future upcoming dark ages.
1) LOL, I've never done this well. It's that our philosophy is based upon analysis of material conditions (like who controls the means of production, the availability of land, the amount of healthy workers, the amount of water, who holds the guns, etc etc). This is opposed to idealism, which is that ideas and opinions can change society. The dialectic is that contradictory things exist in the world, such as the overwhelming success of capitalism in the US yet it's a capitalist hellhole which isn't liveable. Our role as communists is to analyze and use those contradictions?? Sorry this is hard.
2) Science stuff if possible. I have an MS. I'm into medical stuff. No I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm not as great with USSR things as other comrades, but I'm happy to help.
3) Fighting settler colonial countries is one of our main goals, right? I'd happily boot out much of the white people from the US, Israel, and S. Africa. Dunno, we can give them New England maybe.
4) bell hooks was super rad, but it seems like she hides her Marxist super powers. I've also read Françoise Vergès recently, and she critiqued lots of stuff with white feminism that I don't feel comfortable repeating as I'm a white dude, but it was enlightening. I saw heaps of Harriet Fraad's videos and she's rad.
5) I literally have no opinion on this. Maybe I should read more.
6) Skipping for doxxing reasons.
7) A focus on the exploited worker and a call to centralization and organization.
8) Israel is a settle colonial entity enforcing a Eurocentric apartheid system. They're tied to the US imperial machine. Jewish friends that know more than me argue for a one-state solution, where Palestine gets full electorial rights in the new country, and land can be given back to those that lost their land from evictions.
Hey, I've been a Wikipedia editor for years. I've been getting frustrated with the system their for years. I can prove my editorship if you like. Like, I can say "I'm going to edit this", then do it/