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What's the ML perspective on Uyghurs? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml
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My partner is Lebanese and one issue that has consistently come up with any discussion of Marxism (and honestly the online left as a whole) is Uyghur genocide denial. Essentially, they see it as proof of (white) western leftists being hypocrites and having a glaring Islamophobia problem. I'm inclined to defer to them, but at the same time, I've found myself often politically aligning with MLs on other issues, and I know very little about Chinese internal politics or the Uyghurs myself, so I would greatly appreciate being able to get an understanding of what the ML perspective is.

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

OP seems to have disengaged but I think this topic, is Russia fascist and other FAQ pages could go into Prolewiki.How can I help? I won't say it will be consistent or fast, I'm in the middle of hurricane season, have aging parents whose health is top secret until things happen and I may be moving, but I'll do what I can when I can.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You can either request an account or make anonymous edits, in which case your IP gets leaked (but you can use a vpn). Note all claims must have a reference attached.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Thanks for that. Perfectly tailored for sketchy availability!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Let me know if you have any questions, but the editing process itself should be self-explanatory. As for pages you can add stuff to existing pages e.g. Russian Federation.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Thank you. I'm a little nervous I won't be up to par and I'll get better, assuming any consistency. Maybe I can cut my teeth on minor edits or offer proofreading? I'm wondering if we shouldn't open and pin other threads to collect information before adding entries since I'm still new and learning to sort good information from propaganda?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you make anonymous edits, we judge them individually. It's better to make a bunch of smaller edits instead of one big one because we only have one button to accept or reject the proposed edit, so if it's a bigger one and there's just one thing we reject it for, it's basically all lost. Otherwise you can make all sorts of edits and editors will look at them as they enter a moderation queue. There's not really any limits as to what type of edits you can make, as long as everything is accompanied with a reference. And of course since we write from an ML perspective there's no need to try and be "unbiased" like wikipedia - I say that because we've had to reject some edits that were trying to be too both sidesy. There's a short guide to anon edits: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:How_to_make_anonymous_edits

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  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] [B] 2 points 1 year ago*

    You're viewing this issue + China through the lens of morality. The issue is the imperial core countries depriving the rest of the world of technology, resources, labor hours, good health and environment.

    The process of achieving independence from the neocolonial system is called delinking. Its study is dependency theory. I would be unsurprised if no western leftist mentioned this to you at any point.

    Delinking cannot be achieved by establishing autarky or pseudo-autarky across a wider alliance. Delinking is achieved through crosslinking, mutual development between peripheral countries. Russia is a semiperipheral country that does not engage in subimperialism (enabling neocolonialism) to the degree which states like India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, South Africa, and even Brazil do. The way everyone analyzes this is harebrained because it deliberately omits the scientific advancements of global south Marxists

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