Comrade:Spiral

Personal Introduction

Hello, I am the individual known here as Spiral, or elsewhere as spirvl and SpiralThemself. I am firm in my adherence to Marxism-Leninism in its genuine application to the conditions of those involved in the proletarian movements around the world. This includes the application of the Marxist-Leninist frameworks in China, Vietnam, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Laos, and Cuba.

I am particularly invested in the studies of how socialism had developed to build any given socialist project's working class and their nations, expanding their economic capability and improving the livelihood of the people. I hope and work towards a day when this positive development can flourish for the workers all over the world.

I am also firm in the rights of the nationally oppressed to fight against both the national oppressors and the class enemy (capitalists and capitalism) within their own nation. This includes but is absolutely not limited to; Palestinians, Indigenous Americans, African Americans, and Chicanos. Those immigrants feel national oppression within nations must also be given equal right within their new home nation.

Outside of my political and economic studies: I enjoy agriculture/gardening, art studies including art history, design, fashion and various videogames and fictional universes. I wish and pray for the TTRPG and other communities I associate with become less reactionary through and through. I live in the northeast of the United States in a relatively "small town" community that takes a decent travel to reach the nearest large population center. I dedicate most of my time to my education and job, the remainder spent with my personal relationships and various social movements in my area. I will hopefully within the next year expand the amount of free time I have for personal relationships and organizing work, including down-time minutes in which I can contribute to this website.

Request Account Responses

1) I have been using Prolewiki for so long now that I don't even remember how I got to it in the first place. I believe it was either Twitter or Tiktok when I was doomscrolling one night.

2) I haven't described myself much further than Marxist-Leninist generally, I respect theories/policies developed by figures such as Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Joseph Stalin, Xi Jinping, the three Kim leaders, Seamus Costello, Fratnz Fanon, etc. I don't consider myself a Maoist since Maoism tends to deny the real success made by past and present socialist projects and dogmatically apply some of Mao's concepts where they very obviously should not be applied. I do find the struggle against revisionism to be a positive one however, and that is why I have never joined the CPUSA and have instead applied my attention to the PSL and FRSO. And I particularly abhor the American Communist Party (the patriotic "socialists") for their particular revision towards a sort of fascist route. I can explain my positions further if necessary.

3) I have, and I have no disagreements and agree with everything stated. The struggle against NATO Imperialism is a positive one, and the AES states are positive examples of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the possibilities of socialism in the present.

4) Marxists should absolutely support the LGBTQ+ community. This support should be based on the contradiction which spawns the desire or necessity of an alternative gender expression. This is (super simplification) the contradiction by one's own view of themselves psychologically and their physical body and/or the social role. We should actively create the necessary conditions for changing their physical body to their needed form for their psychology and the positive change of their social role to align with their psychology. This means fighting transphobia where it rears its head and fighting for the healthcare and other social conditions which allow for our LGBTQ+ comrades to flourish in society.

5) While full of possible critiques of the states they led at their time, they were positive figures in history which built socialism and maintained the USSR and PRC respectfully. Mao Zedong's cultural revolution was a failure which stunted the growth of socialism for multiple years for unique and variable reasons such as undermining faith in party organs, putting more faith in the peasantry and the strict economic planning method which some might say "socialized poverty" due to the underdeveloped state of China at the time. Stalin's "low-level" support for socialist movements shortly after WW2 may be seen as a criticism but also understandable for the USSR's position at the time. The Great Purge had many excesses and were known to at time kill or imprison good communists. And the relocation of certain ethnic groups within the USSR pre-and-during-WW2 was also (imo) excessive and also falsely ties certain ethnicities to reactionary false-consciousness.

6) As stated above I believe that all named countries are socialist and represent the politically organized proletariat in a position of overwhelming power over the enemies of socialism and the working class. They maintain a dominance of the public and state-run economy led by the proletarian vanguard party in order to improve the living conditions of their working class.

7) Settler-colonialism is the violent dispossession of a native ethnic or national group from their land and resources in favor of a different population. This means the destruction of the indigenous society and creates a violent relationship and class dynamic between the indigenous and the settler population. Off the top of my head, the United States, Israel, Canada, and Australia are all settler colonial states. Within the United States, the indigenous nations need to be given rights to their territories to separate from the US and develop its own economy and cultural institutions. I personally don't know how we would go about this, what forms it would take, etc. But I would love to learn and study that topic. All immigrants need to be respected and treated humanely, with a clear path to citizenship and amnesty.

8) The Palestinian struggle is a struggle against Zionist settler colonialism backed by American and European capitalism. The events of October 7th was a military operation by the united Palestinian resistance to fight back against Zionist aggression and oppression, to bring Zionism into crisis, and a hope to end the oppression Palestinians face.

9) [What do you think is the most pressing issue for communists in your country? What is your opinion of communist parties there?] The most pressing issue of communists in the US is to create local cadres and organizations which can unite into a vanguard. We aren't united here and it is necessary to build up the foundation for a proletarian vanguard for the communist movement in the US.

10) [What do you believe to be the main difference between Marxism and other anti-capitalist movements?] Well its based on a scientific non-metaphysical study of human and class development throughout history, unlike anarchism and "democratic socialism". Its historical achievements are also leaps and bounds ahead of either.

11) [What is Imperialism and how do institutions and programs like the IMF, Belt and Road Initiative, and the World Bank relate to it?] Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism which relies on the export of capital to the global south. This is expressed in international organizations like the IMF and World Bank which makes this process of export easier for the Imperial Core and makes governments in the Global South reliant on their loans, which then force them to put through austerity policies. One of these things is not like the other, that being BRI which has offered an alternative to the IMF and World Bank for loans made on an equal and forgiving footing for the Global South.

12) [Have you read works from Marxists, pertaining but not limited to those from historical or existing socialist states? Please note some that stood out to you and what contributions to Marxist thought that they added and why you liked them.]I really enjoy economic analysis and how state policy interacts with it, so more scientific books such as China's Great Road by John Ross and Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan grew an appreciation of socialist development and how different methods of socialist development should be used in different international situations. Similar is The East is Still Red by Carlos Martinez. I plan to expand this reading to more past and present socialist projects such as Vietnam, Laos, Korea, Cuba, the DDR, Romania, etc. (please recommend any good reads on these)

13) [What are your thoughts on national liberation or the concept of land back (either one)?] National liberation should be supported around the world in the fight against Imperialism, particularly the organizations characterized by Proletarian leadership. Land back is a positive movement. Thank you for reading my request.