1. I found it through Lemmygrad.
2. I consider myself as an ML. I started my journey as a leftist by watching Second Thought when he was still a weird science curiosities channel. Then, he started making political videos during the pandemic and I agreed a lot with him. I started looking throught lots of webpages, forums, Youtube videos, etc. About socialist history, ML theory, etc. and then I started calling myself an ML.
3. I do agree with all the principles, except with the support for Laos and Vietnam. But I do not disagree with the support for them, I just can't agree because I don't know much about those countries. (I need to read about them)
4. Gender to me kinda exists but also doesn't. I mean, it arises from something that exists, which are the biological differences between males and females, and then it extrapolates to a whole other level. What I mean by extrapolating is that having a bulge in your pants does not mean that you will be, or need to be, aggressive, greedy, an asshole, etc. Nor does not having a bulge in your pants mean that you will be, or need to be, submissive, passive, weak, etc. Those are just things that humans made up for some reason (I need to read Engels' The Origin of Family, the State and Private Property) and used as a way to oppress other people (including themselves). Gender, as such, is kinda weird. Biology is weird as well. Also, the LGBT+ community has my full support. They are people, just like me, and as such they deserve the same rights and opportunities as me.
(also, why do reactionaries care so much about other people's lives? shouldn't they be taking care of their own lives instead of criticizing other people for nothing?)
5. Joseph Stalin: He was a great revolutionary who helped not just create the first worker's state that lasted for more than a few months, but he also led that worker's state, representing the proletariat, to defeat the same Nazis who steamrolled western Europe. I think that his greatest mistake was letting the fifth column grow to become so big that the "Great Purge" became necessary, and then not doing enough purges to stop revisionists and opportunists like Khruschev to rise to power. I do not know if he had enough influence to actually pull this off, but I think it would have been nice if he did a mass political education campaign within the Party and throughout the whole country after WW2 so that the Party could replenish its ranks after so many devoted (I don't know the right word in english to say that they were pretty serious in being communists) communists died in the war. Mao Zedong: To be honest, I would not dare to comment too much on Mao because I did not read enough on him to actually do a serious critique of him. However, I do know that he almost doubled the life expectancy of China, which is a pretty good thing. His government had some problems, like the Great Leap Forward, but I think that it isn't right to expect a government led by the masses in a technologically and educationally backwards country like 1950's China to be very competent. And, remember, China still made incredible advancements in fighting hunger, misery and poverty, even though it didn't have a full century of being industrialized.
6. China: Once the Socialist Bloc was destroyed, China was basically alone in the fight against imperialism, and it was a losing fight. As such, China chose to make some concessions to the international bourgeoisie, called market reforms. Now that China is fully developed and is kicking yankee ass, China will soon have an opportunity to undo those concessions and have a fully worker-controlled economy.
Vietnam, Laos: I do not know much about them yet.
Cuba: Literally survived, and is still surviving, an illegal (as if "illegal" means anything these days) blockade and not just that, they are being able to provide a basic standard of living for everyone and even export doctors to other countries.
DPRK: Survived being bombed back to the stone age by the USA and learned from the mistakes of other anti-imperialist countries by not disarming. The korean people have proven again and again that they will not give up.
optionals:
1. Dialectical Materialism is both dialectical, in which it recognizes the struggle between opposing forces, which drives change in the world, and materialist, in which it recognizes that the material conditions have the most influence over people. As such, history is moved not by great men or by ideas, but by the struggle between opposing forces (mainly class struggle), which influence the material conditions of life, which then influence th struggle between opposing forces, and so on.
2. I'd like to read a lot of theory and then create pages about those books. I'd also like to improve existing pages and translate them to portuguese.
6. I think that communists in Brazil are too focused on Lula, and that they should be looking for a new leader, prefferably outside the PT (Workers' Party). I know that Lula is not the communists' leader, but lots of communists really look like they will support Lula uncritically even when he does stuff that isn't on the workers' interest. Also, I think we should be more focused on fighting fascism, which is on the rise since the Lava-Jato (criminal investigations mainly against PT politicians which became a shitshow of constitution violations on part of the investigators).
7. Marxism two essential things that other anti-capitalist movements do not have both at the same time. First, marxism has a plausible, non-utopian endgoal, which is communism. Second, marxism has a clear way of reaching it, which is the dictatorship of the proletariat. Anarchism has the first thing, but not the second. It focuses too much on communism and forgets that to reach communism you need to overthrow capitalism, and that when overthrown, capitalism will fight back.
8. Israel is a settler-colony created by the british to get an ally in the near-east. Israel is literally committing warcrimes in UN-recognized palestinian land (Palestine goes from the river to the sea, but the UN only recognizes about half of it as palestinian). To be honest, I do not know how to solve the situation on Israel and Palestine, but I do know that if the palestinian people require that every zionist israeli gets deported, I will support their decision. However I do think that israelis that agree to live together with palestinians on a one-state solution, where there is equality and no discrimination between the two peoples, should not get deported.