Please forgive me if I make poor assumptions or expectations; I am only wanting to learn and get input from others here.

Don't worry about it, there's no fault, we're not obliged to know everything. Not knowing is the natural human state as soon as we're born, and we'll carry this ignorance on virtually everything until the end of our lives. By definition, our ignorance is limitless, because we can't know everything...

Anyways, I appreciate questions like these too, they are very important indeed so newcomers, lurkers and those interested in Marxism-Leninism can get to know a bit about our thinking on these subjects. Plus, it's an exercise for Marxist-Leninists too, so we can articulate our thoughts. So yeah, great post, and you articulated your questions in a very polite manner, there's no complaint to be made.