Comrade:DanielPuenteNovo

17 editsJoined 25 May 2023

FIRST VERIFICATION QUESTIONS (please answer all 6 of them):

1. Where did you find ProleWiki? It is on Prole Wiki website.

2. What current of Marxist thought do you uphold? Describe as thoroughly as needed your path towards your current political perspective. I would describe myself as an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist when it is understood in its correctly applicable sense which is the fact of the anti-Marxist revisions that Nikita Khrushchev took at the 20th Party Congress, meaning not the dogmatic position of some so-called Marxist-Leninists when they denounce socialist countries such as China, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba and the People's Democratic Republic of Korea with their creative application.

3. Have you read our principles? Comment your agreements or objections to our principles Yes i have read it, i agree with its principles. I can only comment that im surprised that works based on democratic socialism.

4. What is your understanding of gender? Should Marxists support the LGBT community? I checked that i omitted the gender part in the discord questions and i apologies. I understand the gender as a social construct and of course Marxists should support LGBT people, because how would we make a revolution without people, that is, what purpose does it have to make a revolution if it is not for the people we aspire to help, a sexual divergence is not an anti-revolutionary attitude it is simply a free expression of the sexual desire of an individual, the ultimate purpose of communism is as Marx says the end of history but not because it is the end of history itself, it means that it is the end of prehistory and the beginning of true history, where people regardless of creeds, sexualities, race, language, or any superficial differences can self-actualize.

5. What is your position on Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong? How would you describe their historical role? Share any comments or critiques you have regarding them. Well I have always been a great defender of Stalin and Mao, but not with that you can deny that they have had mistakes like any person, which like me or the one who is reading this, I would say that they devoted themselves and their entire lives for a struggle that they could have lost perfectly but fortunately for us and for history their struggle was one of success, We must imitate their examples and avoid their mistakes in order to build that world to which we aspire so much.

6. What are your thoughts on China, Vietnam, Cuba, DPRK and Laos? Do you believe any of these countries is socialist? Why or why not? Well about the socialist countries that remain they have all my empathy, my solidarity and my affection. I myself lived in Cuba for many years and I still have many friends and family who live there, despite not having been born in Cuba but in Panama I feel deeply rooted in Cuba and its history. Continuing with the socialist countries it is our duty as Marxist-Leninists to defend tooth and nail against the propaganda of imperialism and the useful lackeys who are these self-styled "anti-revisionists" who do nothing but the dirty work of imperialism.

1. In your own words, how would you describe dialectical materialism?

Well I would describe dialectical materialism, as the application of dialectics to materialism since previously what existed was a crude mechanistic materialism and a rampant absurd idealism applied to dialectics, well what does the latter mean, that previously the dialectic of Hegel or Plato differs a lot from the one that Marx and Engels would later apply,  among them three fundamental laws of dialectics; the law of negation of negation, the law of unity and struggle of opposites and the law of quantitative change or qualitative change.

2. What subjects or topics you would like to contribute to ProleWiki? Well a lot, including translating into Spanish a lot of content as I am a native speaker of Spanish, helping Marxist philosophers like Frei de Betos, or Gustavo Bueno to be known in the English-speaking world, by translating some of their articles and posting them on this page, also creating a lot of content in English and Spanish at the same time regarding the processes in Latin America, how many parties are constituted, the Latin American idiosyncrasy regarding the vision they have on concepts such as liberation theology, Marxism-Leninism, the democratic processes that exist in Cuba, how the CDR works and different things.

3. What feature do you think ProleWiki is currently missing? Spanish Content.

4. What is a page that you would like to change, and what would you like to change on it? Well seeing like this, I would like to change for example the page of EcuRed what is the Cuban enciclopedia because it has a lot of outdated content. https://www.ecured.cu/EcuRed:Enciclopedia_cubana

5. What are your thoughts on national liberation and the concept of land back? There is no place in Marxism for the idea that certain people need to be governed because they are regarded as socially or racially inferior. In fact, from Marx's earliest writings onwards, Marxism has always understood human freedom as a universal goal. Slavery and the degradation of human beings in wage slavery aroused in Marx a prophetic indignation. In one of Marx's major statements to the First International in 1865, he demanded that all citizens of the United States "be declared free and equal, without reservation" and warned them that if they did not decisively address the dark legacy of slavery they could "stain their country with the blood of their people." Moreover, in the colonies, the structure of capitalist accumulation and theft determined that these regions did not see their productive forces developed by the capitalist system. The social development of their means of production (including machinery and infrastructure) and their human capacity would be forced to privilege the lands of their colonial rulers. This stagnation of social development posed challenges to Marxists in the colonized regions, where their tasks expanded and proved confusingly difficult: they had to end colonial rule, develop the productive forces in an adverse context, and advance social relations towards socialism. These simultaneous processes had to develop during a sustained attack by imperialist forces that included open warfare (as Vietnam experienced for decades), but also the technique of hybrid warfare (including sanctions and blockades).