With the help of our comrade Syntrofos, we have opened a Greek language ProleWiki! Of course, since we have just opened it, you shouldn’t expect to find much, except an article on Marxism-Leninism at the moment. Irrespective of that, having an open Greek wiki will allow people speaking that language to contribute with the wiki independent of the English language instance.
Our editors have done an excellent job in ProleWiki, but it’s a job that is never really finished. There will always be something to add, a fact, a specific knowledge, and it’s wonderful that we are opening up to further languages so more people from more places can know about our project and contribute to them.
All glory to the comrades at ProleWiki! Thank you comrade Syntrofos for your work!
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I am the guy he talks about, AMA
What’re your thoughts on the state of the Left in Greece today?
It’s bad. You have Syriza who is broken up as it’s current president wants to steer it to neoliberalism, akin to the Dems in the USA, who he supports, PASOK, a now-follower of the Nordic Model and New Left, which is pretty much the original Syriza, so pretty mid, but at least better than the two previous parties. You also have Course of Freedom, which is also a party which split from Syriza, back in 2015, as they disagreed with the decision of a referendum for a 3rd memorandum and instead advocated for anti-memorandum and anti-austerity politics, which were the very original Syriza’s positions. Then, oh boy, the “Communist” Party of Greece. Apparently, they completely distort Lenin’s Imperialism with the so-called “Imperialist Pyramid” which is the absurd conclusion of commodity production = imperialism, thus an anti-Marxist position. They are also anti-China, their positions on Vietnam, Laos and the DPRK are unclear but they are pro-Cuba. They spread imperialist lies about China, they also are against Russia (Papariga has said she supports Ukraine) and they support a two state solution for Palestine (pre-1967 borders). You can understand how they help imperialism by this. They are also homophobic, voting against the law for gay marriage a month ago (and they made up a completely shitty framework to justify that). A Politburo member also wrote an article with literal trumpist conspiracy theories about how LGBT is controlled by Soros, and how the capitalists want to make a Human 2.0 (a gender neutral robot controlled by them) and literal patsoc shit, wish them good collaboration with Haz of Infrared. They also have some other Revisionist positions such as some for small businesses which are, though, ambiguous. So basically, KKE is like combining patriotic socialism, dogmatism and CPUSA tier revisionism together. Mera25 which was in parliament is kinda more Decent. Varoufakis is generally pro China and has debunked the debt trap myth. He is a very good economist and has studied Marxist economy. Sad he isn’t an ML. Then there are other Maoist, Hoxhaist, left communist and revisionist parties which are also shit. There is not a single ML one though. There are few actual MLs in Greece (KKE claims to be ML but isn’t), and I’m proud to be one of them. If you want to, you can read my essay on the KKE where I debunk their positions here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Essay:On_the_Communist_Party_of_Greece_and_its_ideology
Now we need a Turkish instance for us Turks!
I thought you were United Statesian, but yeah, a Turkish instance would be dope, but currently we have no Turkish editors
I am Latino (won’t reveal which just to help keep my identity a secret) and Turkish.
Lol you wish /j
Seriously though, you can apply for an editor if you think you can
I think I may already have an account on ProleWiki.
“Iskender” or something.
BTW some things you can do if you join ProleWiki (skills or will to learn, as well as your time, permitting):
- Work on the technical PHP/JS/CSS side
- Patrol edits to make sure they have references and/or comply with our principles
- Add works to the library (I also want to move the texts we already have away from marxists.org)
- Work on social media (tweeting, making videos collaboratively, etc)
- Work on our other language instances
- There is a possibility to open new language instances but it’s very involved and based on trust, a starting point is translating English articles.
- Analyze reader data, run surveys and feedback, etc. to learn how people read ProleWiki and how we can improve their experience.
- Anywhere you have skills, we can and will use them
The account request process is a bit involved but after that it’s smooth sailing.
I know it is kind of out of the water and not really likely, but it would be cool if you guys started an Esperanto instance.
This honestly
Why Esperanto?
Other languages deserve bigger priority, I feel.
Klingon would be cool too but I think they need to focus limited resources on valuable target eyeballs.
Congrats to Syntrofos and everycomrade who worked to bring the Greek version.🥳
I’ll see what I can do to help 🫡
Nice
