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First Set: 1. Linked from all over. Reddit, lemmygrad, referenced in youtube videos, etc. Also Google searches leading to the wiki. Been doing research on various socialist countries, trying to deprogram. Would love to contribute to that research eventually. 2.Marxist Leninist. Anti-captialism and anti-imperialism. We must liberate all workers before we can liberate all minoriites. Anything short of that is concessions provided by the owning class. 3.Yes and I agree with it all. 4. Yes, while I am trans myself, it's not a selfish reason that I agree with this. I believe we should liberate ALL groups. I can't be liberated, unless they are liberated and vis versa. Oh gosh, explain using Dia Mat, okay I'll try. Still very unpraticed with this, but I'll give it a shot. According to DiaMat the physical comes first which gives shape to thought, which has influence on the physical. Our class conditions give way to patriarchal standards and gender norms largely based within the idea of ownership of one gender over the other, and along lines of percieved sex. In reality sex is more complicated than a binary and so is gender as a result. Thanks to these class conditions I'm forced to live under gender norms and transphobia as both uphold these class relations. The same goes for orientation. In reality we (LGBTQIA+) exist in the real tangible world, not in our heads as proven by psychology, biology, and other fields of science. We know the toll it takes on people who act against their own nature (identity/orientation), as has been studied. My point being that my identity and orientation doesn't live seperately from the tangible world and thus it is not something born out of idealism. Like I said I'm still not great at this, but I hope you got what I'm getting at. 5. Both are some of my favorite writers if I'm being honest. Mao was the one that finally pulled me over. They help create a theoretical line through their own experience for the rest of the working class to follow. Not the biggest fan of Mao's later years (cultural revolution), but I recognize he is human and can make mistakes. I'd rather not get into it more than that, just because anti-communism makes it so damn hard to criticize communists and get accurate measures of them. I have the ability of foresight, I am not perfect myself, but criticism is still important. I just prefer engaging in criticism in a more conversational manner. I read and love both men for what they've contributed, but I try to stay away from idolizing or having a sort of "strong men of history" view of things, while also not trying to find any excuse to shit on them for mistakes. 6. Honestly don't really know much about Laos, but I'll take your word for it that they're socialist as the rest certainly are. They are dictatorships of the proletariat and anti-imperialist. 7. Settler collonialism is an imperialist tool to displace and/or eradicate the indigenious people and steal their land for the purpose of stealing the rich resources of said land. Israel is a prime example, as is still the USA and Canada at least. As for what is to be done, we need to give them their land back. First by dismantling capitalism. With Specifically the USA as it is my country, assuming a revolution and a dictatorship of the proletariat was established, we should immediately meet with the indigenious people's and reestablish our treaties and possibly even form new ones. Give them their land back first and foremost, and attempt to live more harmoniously with their sovereign nations. Beyond that I'd say it would depend on what's decided with the talks. What the various indigenious people's think what real justice would be. 8. Absolutely horrible tbh. Israel is committing genocide against the palestinians. It is an apartheid state committing settler colonialism. I do not condemn the liberation of the Palestinians and support Hamas, even if I may disagree with them ideologically. There is no "good" way to fight for your own liberation.
Second set: 6. Other movements work with the bourgeoisie to at most get concessions from them instead of actually trying to abolish imperialism. Soc Dems for instance, still steal from the third world. 8. Yes I read "Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?" by Bruni de la Motte and John Green (not that John Green), and Blackshirts and Reds by Parenti (rest in power comrade). Blackshirts and Reds touched on the soviets mostly and Stasi State or Socialist Paradise obviously touched on the DDR. They really compliment each other quite well as you see some of the faults that the soviets made, influencing the Germans. Largely to do with the new problems being introduced by solving the problems of capitalism that largely went unaddressed and created a "life must be better on the other side" kind of mentality. Both books ending fairly the same as well with people realizing they had a better life under socialism. Highly recommend both. Though both are quite sad and depressing books. 7. Holy shit fuck the IMF and World Bank. So, you're a developing nation ravaged by colonialism and imperialism, so you need assistance. You wish to develop your infrastructure so you apply for a loan. After 5 years you finally get it, but are forced to be bound by the dollar and be fully free trade, meaning corpos can colonize your country economically and traditionally. You eventually get your resources stolen, your economy controlled by foreign interests, and more debt than your GDP. Belt and Road from what I've seen is the opposite. They invest without getting them involved in debt schemes. The point is to prop up countries that exist outside the empire for that if the empire were to shut down trade, China could just keep on selling to their partners without much upset. It benefits the third world, and China at the same time. 5. Being in the absolute imperial core. I'm a third worldist so I believe that the revolution will come out of the third world primarily and it is the duty of imperial core leftists to support them and distrupt the empire any way we can to allow them to liberate themselves. Break as many chains in the imperial system that eventually it snaps. It can get very disheartening for leftists because it seems as if our own liberation is impossible, but we need to keep building for when the empire's chains snaps. We need to a vanguarding force for the working class NOW. PSL and FRSO are both cool, they've been very active in leading protests, strikes, etc. in my state specifically. 4. Not really sure we really need to abolish, in that it will simply disappear. Same sex couples, poly relationships, etc will show up far more. Parenting also becomes more communal when people aren't so individualized. It does require work, but that work comes around naturally as you liberate other parts of society as mentioned by Engels if I'm not mistaken.
Optional: 2. Currently learning Javascript, which would include CSS and HTML. Once I have properly gotten to a certain point, I would very much be willing to help out with various webstack stuff. Even backend if the help is needed. Just I want to be clear I'm not there yet for helping with this kind of thing. I also know a tiny bit of C++, Java, C#/.NET, etc. but I haven't used those is so damn long I doubt I'm any good at it anymore. I'm more so an IT/sysadmin type. Contributed a patch to the Linux Kernel, adept at running Linux servers regardless of OS. (Install Gentoo) 1. Seemed fine, but I would have appreciated a spellcheck system. Apologies about readability of my answers because of that.
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