I think they'll recover from the reputation damage. I hope they learn from this that you can't trust just anyone and you have to be careful about who you let in. They seem to have responded rapidly too and the vandalism and blocks have been undone. I hope now they can reorganize, because imo this is really what they were missing, especially for a project that wants to allow all/most leftist currents.

It was also unclear, in my opinion again, that Parabola was only an admin of the project since yesterday. From how active they were, you wouldn't have thought so. This is why I think they need to first develop organizational methods, to be more effective down the line.

I added an update, it seems Parabola was a Wisconcom alt -- at least that's what the leftypedia staff believes. I tried to warn them over a year ago about him but they didn't seem to care, so to be honest I don't really feel bad. But this is of course only my personal impression.

This however also shows two things:

1. Wisconcom has made it clear his problem is not with ProleWiki specifically, he just has a weird fixation on hoxhaism, and has shown himself to be a wrecker to marxism and an enemy of marxists once and for all,
2. He didn't go away and will likely never go away, he just pivoted from ProleWiki and Lemmygrad to Leftypedia. We can never let our guard down around him, not as long as "Wisconcom" exists.

We're looking at it but these things take time because they involve so many people 😵‍💫. We were looking at adopting a CC licence but it has some problems, namely the library and essays space and all the discussion around which one specifically. I'm restarting the discussion and hopefully we'll soon have something.

I would tell you of course you can copy and screenshot from ProleWiki but this'll be laid out clearly when we apply the licence anyway.

I have a couple ideas that could work out, but I'll have to shoot the idea to the editors too. In the meantime you can already request an account, it's going to be the first step anyway 😁

You're like our biggest poster on the lemmy verse lol

Thanks and congratulations on successful upgrade! What does the hide post button do?

lmao thanks 🤦‍♂️

I finally have some time to take a look at your question. There's that part like you said, that zionism supposes that no matter where Jews live they will always be alien. And also that they "need" to have their own ethnostate as they could never integrate with anyone else. In no uncertain terms, Zionism says that Jews are predisposed to committing genocide.

The first argument is exactly what Hitler and tbh many (non-Jewish) people before him believed in, he didn't come out of nowhere. The second is what eugenicists believe.

Some people don't like the comparison but it's becoming more mainstream as the world sees what 'Israel' is doing in Gaza. Zionism shares a lot of traits with fascism, to the point we could probably call zionism a form of fascism. Zionism didn't come out of nowhere either, it shares a history with the rise of proto-fascism of the late 19th century.

thanks

Yeah tbh I think you're sealioning. I sincerely can't believe you've been organizing for 10 years but have only now heard of MWM, Hinkle, Infrared etc. while at the same time being familiar enough that you can quote from their latest videos. You also say you support decol but then show you don't actually support decol because "it's not popular" which is the textbook definition of tailism, and ultimately says you don't actually support decol regardless of what you may think on the matter.

I've had my eye on you from your first comment in this thread but we always give people a chance to explain themselves first. The only reason it took this long to ban you is because I wanted to get more opinions, which I eventually did. So, you get a rule 5 ban: no patsocs.

We're aware of the problems with Discord of course, but there's not really a viable alternative especially for all the stuff we need (a chat we can separate into categories for members, editors, and trusted editors). Also consider that everything put on the wiki is public and anyone could scrape that if they wanted to -- I'm more drawing attention to the fact that it's very, very difficult to be fully private and anonymous online.

We were made aware of an open source alternative that I might check out, but getting people to switch to that one might be more difficult than just staying on Discord, with all its problems. Discord is also where people are and we've been able to recruit a lot of invested editors from our Discord members (the server is semi-public, anyone can join the members part of it after customary vetting). Switching to our own platform would close us off of that, unless we maintained both which is a whole other challenge. Basically there's unfortunately never really an easy solution, it's often about what we're able to commit to, knowing that it doesn't stop at just making the new space but also maintaining it through time.

They've always been patsocs, back in 2022 they raved about the "rise of the non-woke left" (verbatim). It's just that now it's safe enough for them to let the mask slip.

You're giving patsocs a lot of credit when their 'current' has not produced anything in the 5-6 years it's been tried beyond making a few streamers rich and putting themselves against all actual Marxists (never a good sign). They have no actual plans to make America socialist, like they claim, because any formulated plan would expose that this is a dead-end that's only good for grifting.

They had the "CPUSA 2036" slogan for a while, which was about infiltrating the CPUSA and winning the 2036 election, and they tried that, got found out and blacklisted, and now they pretend it was never about that and they've stopped talking about it.

You're assuming they are trying novel techniques, but they're just tailists. It's been tried before, and it always ends with a Hitler in power.

The people they are trying to tail are not interested in being friends with China, stopping the genocide in Palestine, or being pro-labor. What they are is by and large the petite bourgeoisie, and to teach that segment 'Marxism', they need to water it down and purposely limit it. "MAGAcommunists", who changed their name after they started hating the label 'patriotic socialist' which they picked for themselves (they also tried "Mecha tankies" for a while lol), are starting to say socialism is conservative (they don't expand on what that means) and that marxism is "pro small business".

If I "introduced" you to math by saying 2+2 can be equal to 5, and you didn't have the knowledge to disprove it, and I then continued teaching you bad math, nobody would be saying "well at least he's introducing people to math!". No. I would be teaching bad math, and I would be a terrible teacher that should be stopped before I do more damage. So why, when people teach bad theory, do we let them do it because "at least they're teaching people"? I'm not a monkey that reacts to the buzzwords, much to the dismay of patsocs. You have to actually give me a sound argument, and not just write "Based!" in the margin of a Lenin book for the instagram picture.

They've tried "reaching out" a couple times, their big plan was to send Haz to interview some MAGA protestors once or twice. He gave them softball questions like "do you think the establishment is working against the common worker?" and got ecstatic when they said yes. He might have been thinking about socialism, but I can guarantee you they were thinking about Trump. They were also small business owners and considered themselves workers, obviously. Obviously he couldn't namedrop socialism to them or he would have got his ass beat, because for all their posturing and spitting, they have not yet reached out to any MAGA. They claim they did, but they did not. All they got is 14 year olds edgelords who will grow out of it, I assume, in a few years.

They are enemies of Marxism and Marxists and it's time to proclaim it. Communists like to pass around Anarchism or Socialism from Stalin, where he says "Anarchists are the real enemies of marxists" (back in 1905 so before fascism), but then when it comes to patsocs we contort ourselves into shapes trying to justify their existence. We don't have to work with them. They have to prove they have something of value to bring, and I don't see that because they spend most of their time trying to convince real marxists that magacommunism totally works, and if you disagree, they start insulting and dogpiling you. You're either with them or against them.

Like who else is actually saying we need to "win over" the maga? If there is civil war it's gonna be communists and maybe a few others against the magas. The first thing the magas are gonna do is organize lynch mobs as soon as they get the go ahead. There was civil war in Russia, there was civil war in China, there was civil war in Vietnam, there was civil war in Korea, but these clowns think that in the heart of empire, in the number one imperial power in the world, they can avoid civil war if they wish for it hard enough.

I got bad news then, you're gonna have to pick up a rifle and shoot the magas you want to win over if there is ever a revolution. Because I can assure you magacoms would sooner join them and abandon any pretense of being marxists than raise a rifle against them lol.

Who cares about their follower count, when they are simply unable to build anything -- because that's not the point of patsocism. The point is to get a few feds into positions of legitimacy. How do you think Hinkle got to 2 million followers in less than 5 years (actually less than 1 because he was boosted up there after October 7)? The official account of the state of 'Israel' quote tweeted him. Why would the glorified US military base in West Asia do that not once but twice, garnering him tons of new followers each time? Like when any real marxist starts getting too popular, it should raise red flags, not garner amazement. He has fed written all over him and has completely stopped talking about marxism, instead now stealing tweets and reposting them on his account. That's his amount of praxis.

Midwestern Marx has always been patsoc, they're just now dropping the mask because Laroucheism is finally paying off for them. First, Edward Ligger is wrong about Lenin on the Black Hundreds. Lenin was not saying to disrupt their meetings to recruit workers there, he was saying to fucking kill them. Yes, that's what Lenin wrote black on white. Our guy was leading the revolution and civil war just a few years later and they're trying to lionize him into a peace-loving, "reaching across the aisle" type of figure. What Lenin wrote at the beginning of The state and the revolution has come full circle and against him now.

Every time this brain-damaged wrestler opens his mouth he gets clowned on and I'm not sure how you can have been following what he's been saying and start defending his position, while at the same time not having seen any of the criticism he gets, including right in the top comments of the linked tweet.

and it likely wouldn’t be relevant to non-white people who have national interests of their own to organize around

What do you think they're gonna do to non-white people if they ever get into power?

Aside from MAGA communists generally seeming like transphobes, misogynists, and potentially racists, (something all the other electoral groups in the US also are),

Yes, which is why the answer to the US Question is decolonization. There will always remain transphobia, misogyny and racism in a settler-colonial state. But patsocs are not advocating for decolonization, they don't even dare use the word. And the reason communism is such a shitshow in the US is exactly because communist parties did not want to grapple with this fact, that all communist parties will decolonize, that their prime directive is to put the Indigenous nations in power and not lead in their stead, and this goes all the way back to all the "working class stories" we've been told about the US, all the "good communist parties" there, all the "grassroots" movements, none of them advocated for decolonization because it would jeopardize their power and even livelihood. This is their contradiction, to admit to decol being necessary would be admitting to your party dissolving eventually. But regardless of the history of communism in the US, patsocs are not doing anything new. You look far enough into the CPUSA's history (which is not that far, it's around 100 years old) and you see proto-patsocs there as well.

You're correct that we shouldn't ignore patsocism. We should fight against it. I expect their movement will slowly dwindle though, but never fully go away. Laroucheism is not new (I mean, Larouche himself was active not that long ago) and Laroucheism is a fed op, so it's not going away any time soon.

Color revolution. Not all protestors are paid but the organizers are trained by the US embassy, and they tell them to use those kinds of pop culture symbols. They probably didn't tell them outright to film a video doing the salute from the hunger games specifically.

They don't necessarily even have to pay the organizers, though they probably get paid to some extent, especially when the colrev starts to wane and people go home. In that case you want to have your NGO on the ground still keeping up the agitprop, and when it's their job to do that, they'll do it no questions asked. They don't get paid directly from the state department wiring millions into their account, rather their own NGO gets paid from funds and shell companies, and then they dispose of that money as they wish locally.

The circle is complete. Hinkle gains exposure, people who were not gonna believe Assad was innocent anyway will just shake their head and reinforce their anti communist beliefs meanwhile impressionable kids are going to look him up like they did Tate instead of actually getting into Marxism.

Everyone wants to gravitate around hinkle (haz, despite making hinkle, now laps up at his bowl!) because he has the audience and he keeps getting more popular every time one of those convenient articles comes out. There's nothing unexplainable about it.

All according to the CIAs plan.

it was created by someone who was only briefly here in 2021 and never had any posts 🤷‍♂️

I think we should keep country communities, maybe even create all of them now and be done with it, but cities communities can be deleted unless they're active. I'm reminded how in the last demographics survey, we found 3 followers of Umbanda (iirc). There's space for small communities on Lemmygrad.

full circle

There's definitely improvements we could enact that we know about 😄

I am really glad that in 2024, the English world is finally able to answer this question: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:The_CIA%27s_Shining_Path:_Political_Warfare

This wouldn't have been possible before 2023.