Comrade:Scemmokel

FIRST SET:

1. I discovered ProleWiki because I was tired of right-wing biased nonsense on Wikipedia. So I went to find a "communist" - or better - the proletarian version of Wikipedia.

2. I currently uphold the Marxist-Leninist thought. Although I find some contributions from Leon Trotsky and Mao Zedong as worth of importance too.

3. I've read the ProleWiki's principles and currently I agree with all of the contents within it.

4. Yes. The transgender issue, as well as the whole LGBTQIA+ issue under capitalism, is of major concern and debate for all serious Marxists and Communists. For it takes part in the class struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie. I come from a country that tops the ranks of murder of transgender people (Brazil), and the public debate about the issues transgender people face daily is thoroughly obfuscated by transphobic rhetoric and fearmongering spread by far-right politicians and advisers. This mainly happens because Brazilian dependent capitalism guides men to follow the Christian-influenced patriarchal logic of family, where they essentially must take the role of the "man of the house", while their spouses must only do house chores and take care of children. This leads to Brazilian women not only working weekly 2.3 hours longer than men but also getting more lower wages than men - even in the most remunerated and overqualified jobs. And many transgender women also fall under that logic, but they are the minority group who faces the most oppression and its rights attacked, by leading all the ranks and data on homelessness and unemployment rates, are more exposed to transphobic attacks, discrimination and violence, and lacking proper health care and supplies etc. But many local organized Communist groups in Brazil are dedicated to fighting for transgender rights as well as for the whole LGBTQIA+ rights.

5. They were very important leaders in their respective countries. Both of them paved the road to massive industrialization and national development and sovereignty, as well as granting free education, healthcare and safety to all its citizens. Also the "Stalinist" role of fighting against imperialism and pushing anti-colonial struggles all over Africa and Asia in the past century. I don't have enough reading and knowledge to discuss about the Sino-Soviet split.

6. Yes. All of them are still legimitately socialists. Even though China since Deng Xiaoping's rule had been following the policies of socialism with Chinese characteristics, as well as Vietnam following market socialism policies and DPRK had abandoned Marxism-Leninism to favor Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism policies and Juche ideology, they still are in their revolutionary process of socialist development of productive forces and at the same time pushing ahead their struggle against imperialist aggressions such as economic embargoes and sanctions by Global North countries. What really matters are material conditions and these countries are simply applying it to guarantee their existence and right to sovereignty.

7. Simply put, settler colonialism is a system of oppression based on genocide and colonization by displacing a native population from some determined land and replacing it by some settler population. It is also based on theft and exploitation of lands and its resources that belong to the indigenous. Examples of settler colonial states are (and historically were): USA, Canada, Israel, French Algeria etc. It is extremely important that in order to stop settler violence and oppression the indigenous people must be raised into class consciousness and organize themselves to overthrow the settler rule and establish a socialist one.

8. The situation of Palestine is of utmost importance for us Marxists because it is the longest ongoing process of genocide and settler colonialism from the past century that has taken proportions beyond catastrophic. The 7 October 2023 events are directly result of a 70 year long process, such as Nakba that displaced and cleansed more than 750,000 Palestinians as well as the 413,000 lives claimed during the Six-Day War. Even though Hamas opposes communism they are nonetheless the only powerful force in Gaza that is capable of resisting and striking back against the IDF's assault and terrorism over the region. As dialectical materialists and anti-imperialists, we must recognize the struggle and directly defend all the actions and methods of resistance that Hamas is organizing to halt and fight back against Zionist occupation and free Gazan people and subsequently all Palestinian people.

SECOND SET:

1. Dialectical materialism is the combination of both Hegel's dialectics with materialism in which is used by Marxists to analyse and understand our reality through material conditions and/or from within the material world. It is often used and proven to be the correct way to analyse and explain all the things and its movements outside our consciousness that surround us and our environment to oppose idealist views and conceptions about our society and its class conflicts across the history.

2. National liberation is a wide concept and in hindsight throughout history it has always taken place differently in most countries according to their material conditions. But shortly and simply put, a national liberation, let it be from imperialism, settler colonialism, monarchy etc. is always and objectively an important step for the working class in order to organize itself and fight against its national bourgeoisie that, if planned and orchestrated in the right way, can lead to a nationwide proletarian revolution capable to overthrow any given bourgeois rule and establish a full dictatorship of the proletariat.

3. I have yet to read and study Marxist feminism. But I've already heard about authors such Rosa Luxembourg, Alexandra Kollontai, Angela Davis etc.

4. In Brazil, there is still infighting among party members and ideals which always lead them to break up and to form sectarian groups. This happened to PCB (which is now sectarian) and PCdoB (reformist and social democratic). There is also the issue that many Brazilian communist parties and university movements still centre themselves around academic and theoretical debates instead of actually talking with the working masses and getting them into class consciousness. Not to mention that many centre-left, progressive and social democratic people and organizations are putting effort into defending the neoliberal policies and austerity measures of Lula's government using the excuse that Bolsonaro's fascist and liberal rule can return. This is further pushing these leftist movements into sectarian lines of those who support or oppose Lula's neoliberal bourgeois-conciliating government, an it is also drifting away even more the Brazilian working class from communist organization and class consciousness, which has been a solid ground for capitalists and the bourgeois media to push anti-Lula rhetoric and also the emerge of far-right and reactionary speech and discourse in social media. The communists in Brazil must fight against those chauvinistic reactionaries and get the working class into class consciousness and, at the same time press and criticize Lula for his conciliation policies with bankers, capitalists and businesspeople.

5. I believe Marxism is the only scientific tool that made most leftist and all communist movements so successful in regards to organizing a political struggle and effectively change a whole organization of a society. Marxism has a special characteristic that virtues and emphasises collective action of a majority group (eg. the working class) to structure itself by organising all its modes of production and laying a groundwork for eventually being able to transition to communism after a full development. This explains why the October Revolution in Russia, the Cultural Revolution in China and the Cuban Revolution - just to name a few - all succeeded because all of them were Marxist-Leninist revolutions that dealt with the material conditions and necessities that those societies faced during their epochs. But this by no means downplays the Anarchist struggle against capitalism, for example. It's all about methods. The Marxist-Leninists value collective action while Anarchists value individual action and most of them lack theoretical rigor. This eventually led to rightist deviations within the Anarchist movement. (eg. Anarchists supporting Ukraine and NATO imperialism, the whole "Anarcho"-Capitalism movement etc.). Not to mention that left-communist and ultra-leftist organization was and still is ineffective when it comes to actual mobilize workers that many of them - especially in early Tsarist Russia - resorted to terrorist acts such as bombing streets and public spaces. Their use of violence was individual one and against other workers, not a collective one and against the bourgeoisie as a whole. This is my conclusion as to why Marxism and specifically Marxism-Leninism is the only and the greatest tool that can be used to overthrow capitalism and develop socialism in order to move towards communism.