We’re doing something a bit different and holding a Q&A Session on Lemmygrad with ProleWiki!
Any question you have for ProleWiki, ask it here – nothing is off limits. What we do, how we work, our content, who we are… you can ask anything you want.
I know Lemmygrad is like our biggest stronghold (lol) but we’re doing this on Mastodon and Twitter soon so why not extend to the grad as well.
It will most likely be me answering. No time limit though, ask at any time!
Thanks for the thorough reply.
Having put some thought to it, I reckon what I really need to do is to sit down and pour the contents of my brain out into the written word and then chase down the relevant sources rather than having a head full of facts and trying to make sense of all of it in my mind.
I think what I might do as a start is to create a specific community and drop posts with citations into there and then I will either look at learning the ropes with ProleWiki or I’ll start shaping those disparate posts into a document. If I don’t manage to get that far, at least with the posts that I’ll draft with relevant citations will be fair game if a ProleWiki editor wants to take my work and incorporate it into entries there.
I think by the time I’m done it will be worthwhile having dedicated entry on Makhnovia because, although the historical scholarship is pretty sparse (and there’s a few primary sources that are in Russian or Ukrainian which haven’t been translated, making them inaccessible to me), I think that there’s a lot of important detail that needs to be covered from a materialist angle. Tbh there’s probably enough material that would warrant the Makhnovist secret police having their own separate entry.