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Since June 2024, we have been building a communist encyclopedia, Revolupedia, to provide easily-understood explanations to Marxist theory and allow for further study.

Overtime, our project and community has expanded to maintain hundreds of articles, a library of texts from Marxist thinkers, and detailed quotations.

We welcome all communists to join our effort to build a revolutionary compendium, whether anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist or Maoist!

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Just contribute to prolewiki instead of splitting our efforts
- There line is bourgeois, Revolupedia's line is proletarian. We are not working for the same goals.
  
  Huh?

Wisconcom, is that you?
- I know Comrade Wenger personally. He is my best friend and an excellent comrade. Revolupedia would be nothing without him.
  
  lol

Why this and not prolewiki?
- ProleWiki is a dysfunctional project which holds a large number of issues not only with there ideological line, but with their history as well, being directly involved in harassment campaigns and doxxing. They explicitly support modern Chinese social-imperialism and revisionism in addition to Russian imperialism.
  Revolupedia, on the contrary, has internal democracy and is grounded in Marxist theory, which ProleWiki is not. Revolupedia stands firm in rejecting all forms of imperialism and thus is a true anti-imperialist project.

That's great. Can you explain why you - sorry, I meant Wisconcom, who is obviously not you - have been a self-proclaimed hoxhaist for years, then when your defunct red spectre thing said that hoxha was actually a revisionist you followed along and edited his page to reflect that, but as soon as red spectre went defunct you undid Philip's whatever-his-fake-name-is edit?
User and perhaps known content creator The Statesian Bolshevik was banned from revolupedia for, as per his own claim, not following along with repudiating hoxha - perhaps that is why you obeyed the order, so that you wouldn't get banned from the red spectre? Only rehabilitating hoxha when it became safe to do so, after the red spectre had disbanded and you gained complete control over revolupedia, not tied to any organization anymore.
Following the dissolution of red spectre you also banned all of its membersfrom revolupedia with no reason attached in the log. Can people expect this kind of treatment if they join revolupedia too? The block list names can be compared to the red spectre constitutional document for verification.
Now you call yourself a maoist, flip-flopping between positions never quite picking one to stand on as for years prior you called yourself a hoxhaist, until you decided some time ago that it wasn't actually the right term (despite using it yourself, and insisting that you were always an anti-revisionist marxist-leninist instead).
Just wondering. since you say revolupedia has internal democracy and is grounded in marxist theory you probably won't mind answering these questions. People deserve to know if they can expect this kind of opportunism and ideology shopping to be going on if they join, and what kind of 'internal democracy', as per your other comment, you managed to build on that shaky foundation, because you have not given any examples.
- 15 hours old account made expressly to respond to this topic that was once deleted and has been undeleted by the author
  hmm
- Hi, one of the former members of Red Spectre here.
  There was a roughly 50/50 split over some interpersonal drama in the group that led to the creation of CLO, which lasted for all of 2 seconds before also dissolving. (We did keep control of all the social media accounts and Revolupedia though) In the short time we did exist as CLO, we revisited several topics, including the topic of Hoxha, and overall came to the conclusion that we had taken an ultraleft position and were attempting to correct it. Wenger then, was acting on behalf of CLO, not independently when the changes to the page on Hoxha were made. Most of the bans were people who were on the other half of the split. Nothing anymore complicated than that. As far as Statesian Bolshevik being banned, I'm sorry that it happened.
  RS/CLO membership was very young, most of the membership was 17 or 18 when I joined the discord last year (some were even younger than that). They had next to no actual organizing experience. Despite this, they all wanted to try and create something around an ideology that they felt was right, and I thought some of their writing was impressive all things considered, so I stuck around and tried to help the best I could. Ultimately I think given the age of membership, a bit of "ideology shopping" as you put it is to be expected.
  Wenger has always been the #1 contributor to Revolupedia, and so when CLO dissolved we voted and unanimously thought he should have it. As for the recent shift to a more Maoist perspective, well, I'm not entirely sure about it myself. It did feel somewhat sudden, but all the power to him and the rest of the site if they feel that is the best theoretical line to hold.
  I won't sit here and say that I think Revolupedia is mature, consistent, or even all that reliable of a project in its current state, but I do think it has all the potential in the world to grow into one over the next several years as its editors find their footing. There are already many parts of it that show the potential, it just needs time in the oven and more contributors.
  Also yes this account is somewhat new, I'm in the progress of migrating from a lemm.ee account under the same name.

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