obligatory questions
1. I found ProleWiki through Lemmygrad. I have been watching your work for a few months now
2. I am a Marxist-Leninist, I was a liberal for a long time until 1 year ago I read the communist manifesto, and realized communism was a different thing from what i expected
3. Yes, I've read them, they are very thorough and I agree with them fully!
4. Gender is a historical and social expression which changes over time and is not related to genitalia. Marxists should definitely support the LGBT as they are an oppressed section of the working class, plus the fact that they are constantly attacked by conservatives mean they have tendencies to be revolutionary
optional questions
2. I think Joseph Stalin was a great revolutionary leader whose political leadership elevated the working class from poverty and inequality to great standards of living. His leadership in the great patriotic war in the Soviet Union was extremely important and ended up winning against the Nazis
3. Dialectical materialism is a method of analyzing reality and philosophical outlook which takes into consideration how the natural and social phenomena of the world is interconnected and is in constant motion and change, a change which is directed by the internal contradictions of the said phenomenon
8. I've read some works by Silvia Federici on women's oppression and I agree with her view that Marx's works overlook domestic work. She builds her work based on a Marxist framework and complements Marxist theory where Engels left off in his origin of family, private property and the state
10. in my country Peru we are fighting for constitutional reforms. The current constitution is a product of Fujimori's government and it was recently used to coup Pedro Castillo from government. there have been massive protests since then
11. Marxism takes into consideration class struggle, and other currents of thought are usually either idealist or institutional, focusing on the legal struggles inside the state apparatus in the case of liberals or making useless activism which does not change anything in the case of anarchists and similar