diff --git a/audiobooks.md b/audiobooks.md index 9dc3acd..fccd05c 100644 --- a/audiobooks.md +++ b/audiobooks.md @@ -42,3 +42,4 @@ - [Fidel Castro - My Life](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ef3e4f927248fc05e6f7834f7d473532de9c07b8&dn=Fidel%20Castro%20-%20My%20Life) - [Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of persuasion](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:cf297031c653f986999ca7a978b8e2f55a792ef1&dn=Influence%20The%20Psychology%20of%20Persuasion) - [Walter Rodney - How Europe underdeveloped Africa](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C8EA24A6B93F427D17585CBDE9F31EE2F5ACF2EB&dn=Walter+Rodney+-+How+Europe+Underdeveloped+Africa+%5Baudiobook%5D+audible) +- [Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An indigenous peoples history of the US. ](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1ae24bda86bd23da6edad32568ad5ff574663f88&dn=Roxanne%20Dunbar-Ortiz%20-%20An%20Indigenous%20Peoples'%20History%20of%20the%20United%20States.mp3) diff --git a/capitalism_doesnt_work.md b/capitalism_doesnt_work.md index 3f78fc7..7ada48b 100644 --- a/capitalism_doesnt_work.md +++ b/capitalism_doesnt_work.md @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Lets unpack the idea that "Capitalism works". In the US, the most developed Capi - Suicide rates have leaped more than [33% in the last 20 years.](https://politsturm.com/american-suicide-rate-up-33/) [2](https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/health/suicide-report-cdc/index.html), [3](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/06/07/u-s-suicide-rates-rise-sharply-across-the-country-new-report-shows/?utm_term=.18c1060e6b2f) [Teen suicides are on the rise and outpacing all other age groups.](http://archive.is/Ips7C) - A [Drug overdose epidemic, and suicides](https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-11-26/life-expectancy-decline-deaths-of-despair) are fueling a decrease in life expectancy. - [Committed countless atrocities](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md), killing millions directly and indirectly across the globe. Currently maintains an [imperialist network](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df4R-xdKvpM) of over [800 military bases in 70 countries.](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321) (For comparison, all the other countries combined have only 30 bases) +- The US has always been in a state of perpetual war; [as of 2021, it has been at war 225 / 243 years of its existence.](https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/595752-the-us-has-been-at-war-225-out-of-243-years-since-1776) - [Most prisoners per capita AND by total](https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/). Makes sense, since prison is Capitalism's boarding house. - [Runs at least 54 agricultural slave labor camps.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_farm#In_the_United_States_.28partial_list.29). - [34,000 *undesirables* imprisoned in over 500 immigrant prison camps.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement#Detention_centers) diff --git a/socialism_faq.md b/socialism_faq.md index 28aebe1..c30b79e 100644 --- a/socialism_faq.md +++ b/socialism_faq.md @@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ * [The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/08/20/the-myth-of-chinese-capitalism-2/) * [Do capitalists control the communist party? No](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub), [pic](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2087/1*A-SuzTx-HlyvrIPKaOTOHA.jpeg) * [What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC\)?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff_ZkwJmfWQ) +* [Domenico Losurdo - is China state capitalist?](https://redsails.org/flight-from-history/#the-peoples-republic-of-china-and-the-historical-analysis-of-socialism) * [Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison?](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/why-do-chinese-billionaires-keep-ending-up-in-prison/272633/) [Why are many billionaires and CEOs going missing?](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/china-billionaires-ceo-disappearing-missing-station-sanctioned-abductions-beijing-security-agencies-a7564896.html) [China sentences Ex-Chairman of a major bank, guilty of embezzling ~$100M USD, to death in 2019.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-27/china-sentences-ex-chairman-of-troubled-hengfeng-bank-to-death) * [How the State runs business in China.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business-xi-jinping-communist-party-state-private-enterprise-huawei) * [50% of the economy is in the socialist public sector and directly follows the plan (40% if you ignore the agricultural sector). 20 to 30% is inside the state capitalist sector, which is the sector partially or totally owned by domestic capitalists but run by the CPC or by local workers councils. The rest is made up of the small bourgeois ownership like in the NEP.](https://chinareporting.blogspot.com/2009/11/class-nature-of-chinese-state-critique_26.html) @@ -633,6 +634,7 @@ - [Wiki on the Turkestan Islamic Party (has a full list of terrorist attacks committed by east turkestan separatists)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party) - [About the TiP (Turkestan Islamic Party)](https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/05/china-s-uyghur-problem-the-unmentioned-part/) - [The TiP militants fighting in Syria.](https://apnews.com/article/591f9b238c84477b87cfac68bfe169fc) +- [Alan Macleod - In 2018 the US Was at War With Uyghur Terrorists. Now It Claims They Don’t Even Exist.](https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-was-at-war-uyghur-terrorists-now-claims-etim-doesnt-exist/276916/) - [China’s Xinjiang Problem – Made in USA](https://journal-neo.org/2015/11/10/chinas-xinjiang-problem-made-in-usa/). - [Numeves: US Col Wilkerson - Why the US is in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in 2 minutes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N385vKhXYQ) - [US Col Lawrence Wilkerson admits to USA involvement in fomenting civil unrest in Xinjiang China using Uighurs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Cvx0R8iDo) @@ -1253,7 +1255,7 @@ Much credit to [David Kinder's current affairs article, the rise of the Ruth Bad - [Omar](https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/ilhan-omar-backs-israel-lobby-campaign-against-iran) [2](https://twitter.com/hansalexrazo/status/1258473006419959808?s=20), [3](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ilhan-omar-says-her-political-role-model-is-inspirationally-bold-margaret-thatcher), [4](https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1362154968883503106?s=20) - [Bordiga](https://libcom.org/forums/history/bordiga-leninist-who-put-his-hopes-axis-27122017) - CPUSA [1](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/bidens-crisis-presidency-and-potential-for-transformative-change/), [2](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/biden-and-sanders-establish-task-force-to-unite-party-on-progressive-agenda/), [3](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/a-clear-shot-shows-diversity-on-police-forces-a-good-thing/) -- [Ziq](https://web.archive.org/web/20180405002453/https://raddle.me/f/lobby/28422/i-m-stepping-down-as-admin-because-of-some-shit-i-did-emma) +- [Ziq](https://web.archive.org/web/20180405002453/https://raddle.me/f/lobby/28422/i-m-stepping-down-as-admin-because-of-some-shit-i-did-emma) [2](https://archive.is/THMIk) - [Robert Evans](https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1288116233133424648) [2](https://communism.lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/XwBw0R0M59.jpg) - Paul Morrin - [China is imperialist](https://twitter.com/LurkerUntamed/status/1372732445146165251?s=20), [Cuba, China, the DPRK, and the USSR are "social imperialist".](https://twitter.com/ANTICONQUISTA/status/1375213633186193413) - [Blackredguard](https://twitter.com/BlackRedGuard1/status/1383849476863844359?s=20) diff --git a/us_atrocities.md b/us_atrocities.md index 28bc086..cdb8a1c 100644 --- a/us_atrocities.md +++ b/us_atrocities.md @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Notes : ## Imperialism - The US empire currently maintains an [imperialist network](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df4R-xdKvpM) of over [800 military bases in 70 countries.](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321) (For comparison, all other countries combined have only 30 bases) +- The US has always been in a state of perpetual war; [as of 2021, it has been at war 225 / 243 years of its existence.](https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/595752-the-us-has-been-at-war-225-out-of-243-years-since-1776) ### Middle East