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Leftypedia is an aspiring online encyclopaedia dedicated to providing a coherent platform about leftist politics. We want to demystify what we believe to be one of the most misunderstood ideologies, either for people who believe left-wing theoretical texts are too dense to read or those who have strong opinions about it without having read anything by prominent leftist thinkers. We hope to provide explanations that are readily comprehensible and for our knowledge to grow as you become a part of it. In short, our aim is to let the left-wing movement do the talking, and for us to expound upon it.

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Contribute Rhetoric A place to engage in discussion and debate and provide easy access to resources. Suggestion box Ideas for improvements to the site, interesting content, or new pages you'd like to see go here. Essays The Essay namespace will make it easy for leftists to share resources, arguments, and rhetoric in one place. Work in progress! Leftypedia Matrix chatroom If you are at least fairly involved in Leftypedia, we recommend you join the Matrix server, where a lot of site decisions are made.

Categories Texts Discover a wide-range of books and other works from various authors. People A diverse set of revolutionaries, rulers, authors, and activists from different modern or historical time periods. History Learn more about past events, left-wing interpretations of them, and their relevance to modern society. Politics Information on revolutionary political thought and struggle. and more...

Praxis Organizing Community organizing, protesting, unionizing, and other activity. Protesting Tactics, advise, and goals when protesting. Argumentation Interaction, argumentation, and propagandizing to others. Operations security Online and offline software and procedures for preserving privacy. Hacktivism Practices, information, and resources for hacktivist activities. Health Diet, exercise, and other relevant information.

Featured article The word tankie is a pejorative or self-descriptive term which can have several meanings. First used within sections of the Cold War left to decry support for Soviet interventions in Warsaw Pact countries, the term was later resurrected by internet leftists and broadened in scope to include historical revisionists concerned with any socialist state. Because of their opposition to liberal historical narratives and longtime association with the Soviet Union, Marxist–Leninists were often labelled tankies; the persistent use of the term in this sense has given rise to neutral or even positive connotations, and modern leftists may use the two interchangeably. Starting in the 2010s (or possibly earlier), left-adjacent liberals such as progressives and radlibs, either by deliberate innovation or as the result of a misconception (e.g., that only a tankie could hold such positions), began to use the term against critics of Western narratives concerning the Syrian Civil War, North Korea, and the 2014 Ukraine conflict, among other topics. This usage is unequivocally negative and has achieved widespread currency online, even among centrists and rightists. The term is now a favorite of establishment media figures (including "blue-checks"), who have in recent years taken to several mainstream outlets to criticize specific ideas or figures which they believe are part of a rising tide of tankie influence. The use of the word almost always implies support for authoritarianism. other featured articles... read more...

Community Portal The Community Portal is an entry point for those who wish to contribute to Leftypedia. Here you will find information on how to get started and suggestions on things to do. Leftypedia Project: Leftypedia Matrix room Community Guidelines Leftypedia portals Editing Leftypedia Research & Sources The following websites can help you find sources. Sci-Hub Marxists Internet Archive (about) Library Genesis University of the Left bannedthought.net Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom. Russian version Мифы истории СССР: Russian-language wiki on myths about Soviet history EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia Books on libcom.org Library Genesis Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism

Things to do If you are unsure on where to contribute, try starting here: Stubs: Articles that need additional work. Short pages: The shortest articles on the wiki. Articles that need rewriting: Articles that contain issues in their content. Articles with insufficient sources: Articles that need more or better references. Articles with slanted statements: Articles that need to be rewritten in a way that's more considerate of different leftist traditions. Articles that need creation: Non-existent articles that users have suggested be created. Broken redirects: A better alternative to the Wanted Pages page. Sorted alphabetically, but clearly shows how many redirects exist for each page. Wanted pages: Non-existent articles that are being linked to most often. Currently cluttered with links due to imported data from Wikipedia. View at your own risk. Beyond this, you can: Patrol the recent changes page to find recent additions to copyedit or expand upon. Adapt entries from the Marxists Internet Archive Encyclopedia to the wiki format. If you do, please add Template:MIAE at the beginning of the references section at the bottom of the page. Be careful that the entry you're adapting is fit for Leftypedia. If there are issues that you can't immediately resolve, add a template indicating this (e.g. Template:Rewrite, Template:Slanted). Expand our lists of internet resources. Discussions General suggestions Main page discussion FAQ discussion Aims discussion Leftism discussion Marxism–Leninism discussion