ProleWiki
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ProleWiki is a Marxist-Leninist and pro-Deng collaborative encyclopedia/propaganda outlet founded in September 2020. It is based on the MediaWiki software.[1]
ProleWiki spans several subjects, including information on history, current events, communist parties worldwide, and countries, as well as hosting a library of texts related to Marxism. The site is greatly connected other forums and sites, such as GenZedong and Lemmygrad. ProleWiki is available in several languages, but is mainly active in English with some Portuguese articles, despite claiming to be "internationalist" and unfettered by "linguistic imperialism".
The site promotes social-imperialist and revisionist propaganda, denying the imperialist nature of both China and Russia, and generally siding ideologically with the Russo-Chinese bourgeoisie (ironically).
History
The following is a timeline of major events and developments which have taken place on ProleWiki.
Founding and early development (30 September 2020 – 24 November 2021)
ProleWiki was founded on 30 September 2020 by a user who went by the name of Felipe Forte, as well as other users of the internet forum Lemmygrad. The initial concept for ProleWiki originated as a reaction to the liberal bias found on Wikipedia. The then-sole administrator of ProleWiki, Forte, would firstly attempt to attract editors via promoting the project on Lemmygrad. He also attempt to promote his site on Wikipedia shortly. The website faced several spam bot attacks and eventually established an "account request" system (which was later used to "filter out" actual Marxists).[1]
The site was able to enjoy a spike of editors and general activity for the first few weeks of its existence, which prompted then sole administrator Forte to delegate sysop roles to several other people.[2] However, this strategy did not work out because of absenteeism and eventual lack of interest in the project from most of this first wave of editors. Eventually, the administration was restricted to those who continued to work in the project – CriticalResist and Jucheguevara.
Ideological conflicts and administrative disunity (1 August 2022 – 27 September 2022)
The internal condition of ProleWiki would remain relatively stable for most of early-to-mid 2022, with few notable conflicts within the editorship or administration, This state of internal coherence would all rapidly disintegrate in August of 2022 when the inevitable creation of the page on Patriotic Socialism happened. The page noted Patriotic Socialism (with regards to the pseudo-socialist chauvinist ideology found in the United States of America) as being opportunist and revisionist. However, certain members within ProleWiki were Patriotic Socialist, including then-administrator Jucheguevara, and a conflict would start between the Patriotic Socialist and non-Patriotic Socialist elements within ProleWiki.
This conflict would result in the non-Patriotic Socialist attaining ideological victory over the Patriotic Socialist elements, with the correct anti-Patriotic Socialist viewpoint of the article persisting and relative peace would remain in the ProleWiki community. A month after the initial conflict, in September, the aforementioned administrator with Patriotic Socialist views, Jucheguevara, would, particularly following the creation of the articles on MAGA Communism and on Infrared, which similar to the one on Patriotic Socialism, made clear that “MAGA Communism” was anti-Marxist and revisionist, and the Infrared collective were chauvinist, apparently experience escalating discontent with ProleWiki itself. Jucheguevara would conspire with the Infrared community to effectively infiltrate ProleWiki and force it to adopt Patriotic Socialist ideology, and to enforce a pro-Patriotic Socialist viewpoint onto the previously mentioned articles. Jucheguevara, would be banned on 27 September 2022 upon the discovery of his conspiracy by the other ProleWiki administrators. Jucheguevara was stripped of his powers as an administrator and his account banned from the project.[3]
The ProleWiki administrators knew Jucheguevara was a reactionary the whole time (see the talk page of this article where the administrator who concerned trolled this site admitted that fact), but did not care because "AES" and other nonsense, and also because Dengism and Patriotic Socialism are both quasi-fascist bourgeois ideologies which are based on ethnic nationalism/supremacy and class collaborationism but also hijack actually Marxian symbols and rhetoric in order to, as comrade Hoxha wisely put in, "throw sand into the eyes of the masses." (just like the Nazis did)
Banning of actual Marxists (28 September 2022 – 23 October 2022)
Wisconcom, a Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist and an actual communist who read the classics of Marxism (note, Deng Xiaoping, Xi Jinping, Ben Norton, nor BayArea415 count as the classics of Marxism, Dengists), unlike the ProleWiki administration, would join ProleWiki in June 2022 and began to protest the encyclopedia's stance on China and market socialism in August of that year.[4] Despite the fact that Wisconcom actually presented logical arguments and attempted to present his case in good faith, the administrators completely pivoted from Wisconcom's arguments (as Dengists and other pseudo-Marxist Fascists do), with the "Marxist" administrations replying to Wisconcom's arguments with such transcendental remarks as "lol" and "revisionist".
While this would permit some internal peace to develop within ProleWiki, ideological disputes would soon develop. Realizing ProleWiki was a total Dengist echo-chamber, Wisconcom would retire from ProleWiki. The administrators would, seeing this as a good time to ban him before he could react, lie about him for things he never said, claiming he was a "Maoist" (despite his militant opposition towards Maoism) and than banned him for... they never actually said what they banned him for, something about "behaviour"? But it was entirely because of the fact he is an actual Marxist.
Ideology
ProleWiki adheres to "Marxism-Leninism" (or rather Dengism). The site maintains at least "critical support" (Read: uncritical support) of "actually existing socialism" (a nonexistent concept invented by the Soviet revisionists to justify their social-imperialist actions) countries, and views China, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, and DPRK as dictatorships of the proletariat. ProleWiki has also denied the ideological advances in Marxism, with them fully rejecting Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism.[5]
Structure
Administration
In its founding in 2020, ProleWiki functioned under the leadership of its founder and current administrator, Felipe Forte, but currently is also managed by CriticalResist.
Despite claiming to be "democratic", the administration is entirely based on a plutocratic system. For instance, one user "donated" a total of 200$ to the project and "magically" got rewarded with a delegate role, despite the fact that this user can't even define what socialism is and his other edits are nothing but copy-and-pasting Parenti quotes. Also, another administrator (who started out "donating regularly") can't even stylize "ProleWiki" correctly, instead spelling it out as "Prolewiki [sic]" and otherwise does not know really any aspect of MediaWiki.
Criticism
Stance towards Maoism and Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism
ProleWiki, as a pro-AES (Actually Existing Socialism) encyclopedia, does not believe in the concept of social-imperialism,[6] which is at odds with Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism.
Disregard for the proletariat in "AES" countries
ProleWiki largely doesn't care about the exploitation of the working class in the countries they deem as actually existing socialism. Because muh AES AES AES etc., etc.,
Anti-psychiatry page
In 2021, an anti-science promoter joined the project and wrote about many topics, with much of those edits going into an anti-psychiatry page that they had made.[7] The administrator did not care at all about this abuse of their site, and only *somewhat* removed it when actually scientifically-literate people told them off.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 ProleWiki - ProleWiki
- ↑ User rights log ProleWiki
- ↑ "Jucheguevara has been removed from administrative positions", by ProleWiki administrator Forte (27 September 2022) Lemmygrad
- ↑ Topic on Talk:Market "Socialism" is Capitalism by Wisconcom (15 August 2022) ProleWiki
- ↑ Working Principles of Prolewiki
- ↑ ProleWiki - Social-imperialism
- ↑ ProleWiki - Psychiatry