1. Hexbear sticky post 2. I'm a PSL member who aligns generally with the party's "Marxist and Leninist" position. Though for most practical purposes that's just MLism, it does make a point to deemphasize the conflict between and personal importance of Trotsky and Stalin, instead focusing on the structures and analytical approaches that have made AES states successful (or not, as the case may be). 3. Looks good! 4. 100%, gender liberation is a necessary immediate political goal, and I think a communist society would naturally trend towards something resembling gender abolition. --- 1. I recognize all of these countries as on the path to socialism, with varying stages, struggles, and approaches. I admit to very little knowledge about Laos. China's current system may heavily integrate capitalism, but the capitalist class is restrained to their economic sphere, politically neutered, and ultimately answers to the CPC. The CPC is a genuine, though imperfect, vehicle for proletarian democracy. Cuba has something that is in practice more democratic and more communal, but due to both its size and the blockade, does not have the resources on its own to develop a true socialism. The DPRK is in some ways a problematic state that has been forced by a over a century of imperialist aggression to enter a permanent defensive stance, comparable to war communism. Unfortunately, that severely limits what the DPRK is able to achieve on the path to socialism. I fully support the reunification of the Korean peninsula under a socialist government with its roots in the DPRK, though conditions would demand a new state - not just an expansion of the DPRK. I'll note that my criticisms of the DPRK, though more significant than other AES states, are not based on cartoonish and racist western propaganda, but a recognition of the deleterious conditions the DPRK has been subject to due to US imperialism and unjust, undemocratic partition of the country by imperialist powers. Vietnam is cool, but tbh I don't know a ton about it either - I support them by default.
4. I'd just like to be a minor contributor and editor cleaning up articles and adding information about parties, struggles, and movements I'm either personally familiar with or have a significant hobbyist, educational, or historical interest in. I do not think I would write many whole articles.
7. Land back now. As a citizen of the USA, I'll focus on that. The violation of native sovereignty and theft of native land is the very literal basis of the US. The US exists in opposition to the native people of this land, and a program of native sovereignty over that land must be immediately implemented under an eventual workers' state here.
9. Abolishing the necessity of the nuclear family, absolutely. I would not say I'm at all for total family abolition. I take a position similar to Cuba's new constitution - a family is a group of people who identify as such and carry out the responsibilities that entails. There's great value in family, and under a liberated society, the harmful, abusive elements of family would be resolved.
10. Organizing in a vanguard party that has legitimacy among the working class and is ideologically rigorous and structurally sound. For me, that's the PSL, and the growing legitimacy of the party is because we are on the ground in ongoing struggles. We show up when no one else does. We are a democratic centralist party that emphasizes and carries out both democracy and centralism. We hold an extremely firm anti-imperialist, pro-AES line. I don't think PSL is the only possible vehicle for good work by communists in the US, and there's value in organizations that are more narrowly focused. However, a party, and the discipline it entails, enables more effective, impactful organizing. If we are successful, then when conditions allow, we will be a core part of the working class revolutionary movement.