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1. Someone I follow retweeted the Twitter account
2. Marxism-Leninism. Growing up Maaori in capitalist New Zealand, I've always sympathised with anticolonial, antiimperialist, and, by proximity, anticapitalist movement everywhere. Reading about historical Maaori resistance, especially that of the Polynesian Panther Party and Ngaa Tamatoa, the anticapitalist, and sometimes explicitly communist, tendencies rubbed off on me as well. Started reading theory via Lenin after that, and I became most radicalised in my first year of University (studying media studies) where I fell in love with revolutionary / art cinema, which comes in large part from "Soviet Montage" and filmmakers like Andrei Tarkovsky, Mikhail Kalatozov, and other leftist filmmakers
3. I agree with the principles. The imperialism coordinated by NATO, the EU, and affiliated bribery in the UN is the primary barrier to the international proletariat, and any action more against it than for it, is a historically progressive one. That said, it's important to remember that imperialism isn't run by countries, but by capital; countries and their respective states are merely arms the imperialist bourgeoisie can use to see their intrerests through. Therefore, capital, even that of imperialised or typically antiimperialist countries, can sometimes cooperate with, or be generally complicit in, imperialism, which should be criticised
4. China maintains the proletarian state and party, and encourages capital outside of it in order to build the productive forces of the country. It's like a really long NEP, and something that's never been tried long-term like this before. If we define socialism as the whole period after capitalism and before communism, they are socialist, regardless of their liberalisation since the GPCR
5. I love Stalin a lot!!! Likely contended only by Mao as the most historically progressive leader in history
6. Gender, like sexism and misogyny, is a social construct resulting from the division of labour in the family. Communism should aim to abolish it. LGBT people are incredibly progressive and, in many cases, revolutionary in their position to oppose the reactionary gender binary and family model. Maaori society pre-contact (1769) also had very few distinctions between genders and sexuality, and it was colonisation that brought institutional sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.