Update: they have ascertained that Parabola was Wisconcom lmao. In that light, if correct, it's more of a wrecker doing what he does than the project failing. We still don't have a lot of info though. They've written about it here: https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Leftypedia:Community_hub

Earlier today, the new rendition of Leftypedia finally imploded. Going off the block list, it's a real mess.

Leftypedia was brought back from its last incarnation in early 2023. If you remember (or not), it had issues with Wisconcom then who latched onto it. The problem is because they had no active admins and couldn't find them, they couldn't ban him indefinitely.

Eventually, they did find new admins who kicked the project back into gear, or at least they tried to.

Earlier today though, it seems there has been a split and one of the admins (Parabola) basically banned all the others as well as several other users. Where it gets weird is that another admin (Aussig) then banned Parabola, but didn't undo the bans Parabola issued. Aussig also banned me and Forte's account, which we used back when Wisconcom was on there, for "ideological deviations", but Aussig calls themselves a Marxist-Leninist on their user page.

From what I understand there was a split between the different tendencies. So anyway that's how the "left unity" wiki is going lol sorry but this is funny.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Wisconcom

    This guy again, or rather still? pika-pickaxe

    I wonder why he stopped posting to his Substack; maybe to focus on wrecking other people’s sites.

    Edit to add that it looks like he’s active on Blogger: https://wisconsincommunist.blogspot.com/

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      I added an update, it seems Parabola was a Wisconcom alt -- at least that's what the leftypedia staff believes. I tried to warn them over a year ago about him but they didn't seem to care, so to be honest I don't really feel bad. But this is of course only my personal impression.

      This however also shows two things:

      1. Wisconcom has made it clear his problem is not with ProleWiki specifically, he just has a weird fixation on hoxhaism, and has shown himself to be a wrecker to marxism and an enemy of marxists once and for all,
      2. He didn't go away and will likely never go away, he just pivoted from ProleWiki and Lemmygrad to Leftypedia. We can never let our guard down around him, not as long as "Wisconcom" exists.
    • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      first article, near the top I made the mistake to read this shit

      It is important to note that the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc, with the exception of Albania, beyond the year 1956 will not be accounted for, as that period contained the abandonment of the construction of Socialism, de-Stalinization, and other economic, political, and ideological deviations.

      (https://wisconcom.substack.com/p/totalitarianism-truth-or-propaganda)

      All I can say is

      Show

      lets just ignore one of the most sucsesfull era of soviet communism (space, showing american hegemony can be challenged, eliminating the gender pay gap, rent being 2-3% of a workers wage etc)