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On the blocking of Wisconcom

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Summary by CriticalResist

closing old (2 years+) topics

Forte (talkcontribs)

Comrades, you have been aware Wisconcom was blocked recently. Many already understand why this decision was made, but I think this should be further detailed.

Wisconcom entered ProleWiki on 10 June 2022 and almost immediately displayed commitment through his constant editing. He made quality edits and has displayed an interest in the project as a whole. However, since he entered our Discord server, we immediately came into contact with his views on certain subjects. He has denied the Nazi character of the Ukrainian state, has denounced the war between Ukraine and Russia as an inter-imperialist conflict, declared that the People's Republic of China is a "capitalist state" and that even during the governance of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party of China was a "social-fascist revisionist party". Some of these views can be read in the talk page of Socialist market economy article.

Even though Wisconcom was in explicit opposition to our principles, we allowed his presence in the project, just dealing with a few problems here and then. He began engaging with others in the ProleWiki community in Lemmygrad, and his interactions can be seen here. He basically was an anti-China militant in his Lemmygrad presence, and eventually created a Hoxhaism community dedicated almost exclusively to promote anti-China propaganda. This behavior would eventually render him a ban in Lemmygrad. Still, even though we have a close relationship with the Lemmygrad community and administration, we decided not to ban Wisconcom inside ProleWiki, provided that he improves his behavior.

Wisconcom in fact improved his behavior over time, and his commitment to the project would render him a position as a member of ProleWiki's agitprop commission. However, we would still notice small conflicts here and there, but they would be resolved in a short time. Until in 16 October, Wisconcom deleted a massive portion of the article on the Shining Path without consultation, claiming the article was anti-communist in tone because the Shining Path was described as terrorists, but terrorism in this context is merely a description of a tactic, such as discussed by Lenin here. It appears Wisconcom showed sympathy to the Shining Path merely because they were anti-China, because they were also fiercely anti-Albanian, and this did not bother Wisconcom at all. Besides that, he routinely deleted his own messages, which made communication and accountability very difficult.

After being criticized both inside the Discord server and in his private messages after engaging personally with me, Wisconcom decided to leave ProleWiki on his own, and added a "RETIRED" in his profile on ProleWiki. Even though Wisconcom was difficult to work with, the editors lamented this decision, but we eventually accepted it. Since he left, he temporarily changed his social media profile to display he was a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, and even changed his profile picture to the Shining Path hammer and sickle. for reasons unknown. A few days later, Wisconcom reached to my talk page demanding that we give him positions inside the wiki, and that we allow so-called "anti-revisionists" inside the wiki. His demands were denied, and since then we immediately ended our relationship with him, and decided to block him on ProleWiki. We have been extremely permissive with Wisconcom, and they showed they are not to be trusted, mainly because of his unstable and suspicious behavior.

He could be reinstated in the future, if agreed by other editors, but considering his Twitter profile, he doesn't seem much interested in having a dialogue with any of us.