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Essays and articles written by ProleWiki editors about current events, Marxism, socialist countries and more.
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- Essay:Indigenous Principles
Essays reflect solely their author's point of view. We ask only that they respect our Principles.← Back to all essays | Author's essays Indigenous Principles
by Charhapiti
Published: September 3rd 2025, originally drafted June 9th 2024 (last update: 2023-09-23)
10-20 minutes
Furthermore, every individual is originally native to some place based on historical relationship to a Community, and their membership to a Community is defined by a complex and nuanced interaction of lineage from that Community and their actual productive activity, their work. (...) We thus conclude that the indigenous question is the national question, and the national question is the indigenous question. The national question is a question of unity and of community and of people and of collectivism. The national question is a question of love, and Communism is all about the practical expression of the highest form of non-egoic, selfless love directed towards all humanity and all life: through service to the people a Communist demonstrates the principle: we want everyone to be well fed, to thrive, to be happy. In fact, the national struggle is also the class struggle, so the indigenous struggle is too a class struggle. For after all, every national and class struggle is a struggle for control and ownership of a state. If indigenous people are to liberate themselves, they must control the state. Yet at any given time, a state is controlled only by a specific class. Therefore, it is always a dictatorship of the proletariat representing the interests of the indigenous population that Communists should be struggling for and nothing less.
- Essay:The Historical Development and Evolution of Dialectics Across Cultures
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by Charhapiti
Published: 18 February 2025 (last update: 2023-09-23)
35-55 minutes
Dialectical thinking appears in fragments across cultures. Humans observe phenomena in the universe, which leads to knowledge of dialectics, and dialectical knowledge empowers humans to exert influence over the universe. ... The question is to what degree is the knowledge of dialectics developed. The question is to evolve a system or cosmology into something fully dialectical.
- Essay:DefaultSociety
Essays reflect solely their author's point of view. We ask only that they respect our Principles.← Back to all essays | Author's essays The Myth of the Default Society
by Yogthos
Published: 2026-08-10 (last update: 2023-09-23)
15-30 minutes
You look at a picture of a busy street in a strange country, and your glance travels from person to person. It notices their dress, the surrounding architecture, the poses they assume. And you might ask yourself if you could live in this place. This is a natural, basic reflex we all have. Each of us has conceived some particular kind of life as worthy of desire, and this conception has been moulded by the customs and traditions of our youth. We take our individual conceptions and transfer them upon those who live by other standards and have different ideals from our own. We imagine that they must be unhappy because they lack the comforts and conveniences which we have come to regard as necessities, or that they cannot be free because their daily life is not governed by the same social understandings and traditions as where we happen to live. But in this moment of judgment, few people are reflective. They do not turn the question back upon themselves and inquire what is the source of their own moral and aesthetic standards.To understand what is really happening, it is necessary to strip away all ornament and look at the facts of human life without any preconceptions. Every civilization begins with the basic fact that we are animals living on a rock in space, with certain needs which are very much the same in all times and places. A certain amount of food is required for our bodies to work properly, and this is measured in terms of calories and protein. We need shelter from the weather so as not to die of cold at night. We need physical and psychological safety as we go about our lives. Above all, we need some means of production so that we can meet our fundamental needs. A society must produce food and goods that its citizens need, which, in turn, require agriculture, manufacture, mining, and all the other industries our modern world depends on. This is the material basis upon which everything else is built up. It must be secured first because nothing else can exist without it. Everything else, such as our laws, our art, and our religion, is an ornament which we have built upon this foundation.
Read more - Essay:TheToolsetOfReality
Essays reflect solely their author's point of view. We ask only that they respect our Principles.← Back to all essays | Author's essays The Toolset of Reality
by Yogthos
Published: 2026-08-10 (last update: 2023-09-23)
10-25 minutes
Many hear the term Dialectical Materialism (or “Diamat”) and think it means entering a world of arcane mysticism or obscure Germanic language. In reality it is simply an analytical toolkit used to analyze and comprehend how the world functions, a worldview which is largely the work of Karl Marx but whose name was coined by Joseph Dietzgen in his description of the method Marxists use for examining reality and connecting high philosophy with rigorous utility. This essay is an introduction to a way of thinking which sees the world as a dynamic interconnected system rather than as a collection of static discrete objects.
- Essay:The Dialectics of Domination
Essays reflect solely their author's point of view. We ask only that they respect our Principles. - Essay:On the Communist Party of Greece and its ideology
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by ComradeSyntrofos
Published: 2024-02-06 (last update: 2023-09-23)
35-60 minutes
- Essay:State Capital vs. Finance Capital: Why China is not -- and Cannot Become -- an Imperial Hegemon
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by Charhapiti
Published: 2025-11-20 (last update: 2023-09-23)
20-35 minutes
- Essay:A Statesian Marxists' Guide to Learning Mandarin
Essays reflect solely their author's point of view. We ask only that they respect our Principles. - Essay:Crisis Points and why Worse Conditions don't Magically Create Revolution
Essays reflect solely their author's point of view. We ask only that they respect our Principles.← Back to all essays | Author's essays Crisis Points and why Worse Conditions don't Magically Create Revolution
by Local Gay Communist - LGC
Published: 2026-05-07 (last update: 2023-09-23)
5-10 minutes
This essay exists to clarify the nature of crisis and to demystify them away from idealist conceptions of "natural radicalization".
- Essay:ProleWiki ultimate emulation guide
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by Open source
Published: 2026-08-10 (last update: 2023-09-23)
25-45 minutes
The ultimate guide to emulating consoles and games on your devices, updated often. No-fuss, no bs, straight to the point. How to start emulating consoles, how to get games on the internet, how to flash your consoles, etc.
- Essay:Gender Abolitionism is Inherently Transphobic
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by Annamarx
Published: 2024-08-17 (last update: 2023-09-23)
60-95 minutes
I've been noticing a trend with certain comrades, where said comrades (particularly whom are cisgender) are supportive of transgender people, yet their analysis of the woman question didn't change much from the 1960s.
- Essay:Quick privacy guide
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2026-05-22 (last update: 2023-09-23)
20-35 minutes
Yes, there are many privacy guides. But this one is mine. Meant to be quick and give you the cognitive tools to understand privacy.
- Essay:Summary and Defense of Lenin's Theory of Imperialism
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by Charhapiti
Published: 2025-11-20 (last update: 2023-09-23)
20-35 minutes
- Essay:Femboys and the structure of gender
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by Local Gay Communist - LGC
Published: 2025-10-17 (last update: 2023-09-23)
5-15 minutes
This paper discusses gender and it’s interactions, internal mechanisms and development through a dialectical-materialist lens, and is to be treated as a piece denoting a framework which must be developed upon collectively to further our understanding of gender and it’s interplay with society.
- Essay:Intellectual property in the times of AI
Essays reflect solely their author's point of view. We ask only that they respect our Principles.← Back to all essays | Author's essays Intellectual property in the times of AI
by CriticalResist
Published: 2025-11-07 (last update: 2023-09-23)
65-105 minutes
Regardless of one's feelings on the matter, we can clearly say that AI has been transformative because it never fails to provoke heated arguments. And not only that, but the arrival of commercial models, that is, models that can be run either in your browser (on a cloud service) or on your own machine (local) seems to have shifted perspectives entirely. What becomes bothersome is that self-proclaimed communists seem to have done a complete 180 on intellectual property, and this is what we want to focus on.