From a58df3f35d32d7e428c908dc27af7f0b2d0a09c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TinyBoop <110549708+TinyBoop@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 17:31:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fixing dead link (#132) The google doc (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XiHrkJ_zudQZP1hBIBCgJKKAfAILxEG0cmQGrNH8pIU/mobilebasic) is no longer accessible. Replaced the dead link with an archived version. --- socialism_faq.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/socialism_faq.md b/socialism_faq.md index f891fea..e4b1cdf 100644 --- a/socialism_faq.md +++ b/socialism_faq.md @@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ - [The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz](https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/) - [World Bank Statement on Review of Project in Xinjiang, China](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2019/11/11/world-bank-statement-on-review-of-project-in-xinjiang-china) - [Breaking down another 2022 BBC "leak" of Uyghur oppression.](https://mobile.twitter.com/Cinqscories/status/1529035490032340993) -- [More sources debunking this here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XiHrkJ_zudQZP1hBIBCgJKKAfAILxEG0cmQGrNH8pIU/mobilebasic). +- [More sources debunking this here](https://web.archive.org/web/20200724104637/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XiHrkJ_zudQZP1hBIBCgJKKAfAILxEG0cmQGrNH8pIU/mobilebasic). ### What about the Falun Gong? From 657f8a6ba889093edb8e6d6fc506af5761a6e8f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richie Zhang <12566991+StaticallyTypedRice@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:45:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Replace now dead link with archive.org link: "USSR had a more nutritious diet than the US, according to the CIA" (#134) --- capitalism_doesnt_work.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/capitalism_doesnt_work.md b/capitalism_doesnt_work.md index 62bc320..8097a27 100644 --- a/capitalism_doesnt_work.md +++ b/capitalism_doesnt_work.md @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Capitalist hegemony has short-circuited people into buying wildly illogical and Examples from [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/86tqdd/but_socialism_doesnt_work_s/dw7qco0/) by /u/bayarea415, [Stephen Gowans - Do publicly owned, planned economies work](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/), [Ian Goodrum - Socialism vs Capitalism and quality of life](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1136693839526223872.html), and [yogthos's USSR acheivements post](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8636) about the USSR specifically: -- [USSR had a more nutritious diet than the US, according to the CIA](https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5.pdf). [Calories consumed surpassed the US](https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/compar1.png?w=640). [source](https://artir.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/the-soviet-union-food/). [Ended famines.](https://artir.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/the-soviet-series-from-farm-to-factory-stalins-industrial-revolution/) +- [USSR had a more nutritious diet than the US, according to the CIA](https://web.archive.org/web/20200120213518/https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5.pdf). [Calories consumed surpassed the US](https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/compar1.png?w=640). [source](https://artir.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/the-soviet-union-food/). [Ended famines.](https://artir.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/the-soviet-series-from-farm-to-factory-stalins-industrial-revolution/) - Productive forces were not organized for capital gain and private enrichment; public ownership of the means of production supplanted private ownership. It was illegal to hire others and accumulate personal wealth from their labor. - Had the [2nd fastest growing economy of the 20th century after Japan.](https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/captura-de-pantalla-de-2016-05-26-10-15-23.png) The USSR started out at the same level of economic development and population as Brazil in 1920, which makes comparisons to the US, an already industrialized country by the 1920s, even more spectacular. - [Free Universal Health care, and most doctors per capita in the world.]( https://www.marxists.org/archive/newsholme/1933/red-medicine/index.htm ) [42 doctors per 10k population, vs 24 in Denmark and Sweden, 19 in US.](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0735675784900482)