GenZedong

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.

The man, the legend, the running gag of Lemmygrad, Wisconcom.

first article, near the top I made the mistake to read this shit

It is important to note that the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc, with the exception of Albania, beyond the year 1956 will not be accounted for, as that period contained the abandonment of the construction of Socialism, de-Stalinization, and other economic, political, and ideological deviations.

(https://wisconcom.substack.com/p/totalitarianism-truth-or-propaganda)

All I can say is

lets just ignore one of the most sucsesfull era of soviet communism (space, showing american hegemony can be challenged, eliminating the gender pay gap, rent being 2-3% of a workers wage etc)

Ah, sounds like he just went back to doing what he loves...

For what its worth, the leftypedia staff have just removed the discord server from their site, as being "no longer affiliated with Leftypedia users". I'm not sure what to make of that since I stay away from discord like plague.

What sense of "Maoist" do you mean here? Like Shining Path or just anti-Deng?

I've noticed that, too. I think it's thanks to the mods and us having an actual line, like a direction that is consistent, coherent and adjusts itself as events unfold. Because we're not dogmatic. What is that line? What Comrade, darkcalling mentioned down here, the unity of Marxists. We're clear on what we think, and new people either come in already clearheaded or they slowly see what we're like, and join in. We have good people, and I mean that. I come here to learn and laugh everyday. I guess we're just that cool, that we don't start beefs with each other or with our Hexbear friends.

I think it is many factors:

1. The actually existing project(s) that a community latches onto affect the community culture. Imagine us trying to be sectarian with each other when our supported factions are constantly making the news for making alliances between completely opposed ideologies. This also affects the liberals, which is why even they aren't too sectarian.
2. Any real project will be full of imperfections, and no faction will appeal to you 100%. If you can already tolerate this for the projects that actually impact the world, you can tolerate it for the random internet users.
3. Ultras and Anarchists are united/defined mostly on the basis of hating AES and revisionists. This does not build any strong community unity, or even sensible theory. Instead, it builds the mentality of accusing the other members of being too much like their boogeymen.

i think its mainly dogmatism contrasted to pragmatism.

No, not with "leftists" we're not.

Indeed. For me "left" is just a relative term. It doesn't make sense using it as an absolute, as in "The Left™". But certain groups or tendencies can and do have left, center and right wings.