Some updates.

audiobooks.md

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 - [Marx and Engels - The Communist Manifesto](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7428b83a5f9a51885e12166c0895a41f7f05396a&dn=Audiobook+The+Communist+Manifesto+by+Karl+Marx+and+Friedrich+Eng&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969)
 - [Fidel Castro - My Life](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ef3e4f927248fc05e6f7834f7d473532de9c07b8&dn=Fidel%20Castro%20-%20My%20Life&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2f9.rarbg.to%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.demonii.com%3a1337&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce)
 - [Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of persuasion](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:cf297031c653f986999ca7a978b8e2f55a792ef1&dn=Influence%20The%20Psychology%20of%20Persuasion&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Feddie4.nl%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.pirateparty.gr%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.zer0day.to%3A1337)
+- [Walter Rodney - How Europe underdeveloped Africa](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C8EA24A6B93F427D17585CBDE9F31EE2F5ACF2EB&dn=Walter+Rodney+-+How+Europe+Underdeveloped+Africa+%5Baudiobook%5D+audible&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fp4p.arenabg.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.me%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.moeking.me%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.cyberia.is%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.zer0day.to%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fcoppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce)

crash_course_socialism.md

@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni
 - [Michael Parenti on Imperialism and Film - Rambo and the Swarthy Hordes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33DKRcqvkQ)
 - [Karl Marx and Marxism - BBC documentary by Stuart Hall](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8bdndigRA8)
 - [Dr Gabor Maté - Why Capitalism Makes Us Sick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaAJQR_9Dg8)
-- [Vijay Prashad - Military power, and the American Empire in decline.](https://invidio.us/watch?v=hTb2uVIWG5Q)
+- [Vijay Prashad - Military power, and the American Empire in decline.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hTb2uVIWG5Q)
 - [The Philosophy of Antifa (Philosophy Tube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgwS_FMZ3nQ)
 - [3 minute intro to Marxism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz3eOb6Yl1s)
 - [10 minute intro to Karl Marx](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSQgCy_iIcc)
@@ -424,9 +424,9 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni
 
 - [Anticonqustia](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl1bDSVi34xE65YzreytVxQ)
 - [Empire Files](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG29FnXZm4F5U8xpqs1cs1Q)
-- [Paul Cockshott](https://invidio.us/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
+- [Paul Cockshott](https://youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
 - [Richard Wolff - Democracy at Work](https://www.democracyatwork.info/)
-- [Comrade Hakim](https://invidio.us/channel/UCPPZoYsfoSekIpLcz9plX1Q)
+- [Comrade Hakim](https://youtube.com/channel/UCPPZoYsfoSekIpLcz9plX1Q)
 - Vijay Prashad
 - Micheal Parenti
 

dessalines_marxism_study_plan.md

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ It alternates between theory, history, and psychology.
 - [Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An indigenous people's history of the US.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Indigenous_Peoples%27_History_of_the_United_States). A detailed and heart-wrenching history of the genocide, conquest, and settler colonialism perpetrated against native peoples in the US, and the theory and perfection of the US's settler colonialist strategies.
 - [Lenin - Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/) A look at imperialism, the modern stage of capitalism, and the primary contradiction. Reads like it was written yesterday.
 - [Marx - Capital](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/index.htm). Best read in short snippets, as its a hefty work, but invaluable to understanding the inner-working of capitalism. Best to follow along with youtube lectures.
-- [Huey P. Newton - Revolutionary Suicide](https://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Suicide-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0143105329) An autobiography from one of the greatest US socialists. Hundreds of lessons.
+- [Huey P. Newton - Revolutionary Suicide](https://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Suicide-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0143105329) [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoY5hw0QrK3SLRMHBE2aIpXf). An autobiography from one of the greatest US socialists. Hundreds of lessons.
 - [Joshua Bloom - Black Against Empire](https://www.amazon.com/Black-against-Empire-Politics-Foundation/dp/0520293282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485894343&sr=8-1&keywords=black+against+empire) An accompanying book about the history of the Black Panthers and their suppression by the US police state.
 - [Stalin - The foundations of Leninism.](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm) An invaluable text on what Marxism-Leninism adds to the Marxist tradition.
 - [Zak Cope - Divided world divided class.](https://www.amazon.com/Divided-World-Class-Stratification-Capitalism-ebook/dp/B00SE3V9GY) A look at the imperialist division of the world, and modern class politics of the imperial-core labor aristocracy.

socialism_faq.md

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 * [Glossary of Socialism Terms.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/glossary_of_socialist_terms.md)
 * [What are the different forms of Marxism and what are their differences?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/206xtz/what_are_the_different_forms_of_marxism_and_what/)
-* [What are the differences between Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Trotskyism, MLM, and Stalinism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchy101/comments/87apl4/differences_between_marxism_lenninism_trotskyism/dwbj3so/)
 * [Can someone give us a quick like-we're-five rundown of the distinctions between Trotskyism, Maoism, orthodox Marxism, and so on?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/132d5s/can_someone_give_us_a_quick_likewerefive_rundown/)
 * [What's the difference between anarchism and communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/576t0d/im_an_anarchocommunist_leninise_me/)
 * [What's the difference in economic structure ( production and distribution) of anarchism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, and Marxist communism?](https://old.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9ak0wo/whats_the_difference_between_communism_and/e4w0v9n/)
-* [Parenti on Anarcho-Syndicalism / Worker-Coops](https://invidio.us/watch?v=WEkyW9GwbE8&local=1&nojs=0&player_style=youtube&quality=dash).
+* [Parenti on Anarcho-Syndicalism / Worker-Coops](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WEkyW9GwbE8&local=1&nojs=0&player_style=youtube&quality=dash).
 * [TheDashRendar - Where do tanks come from? How anarchists vs marxists wage warfare.](https://medium.com/@dashthered/where-do-tanks-come-from-8723ff77d83b)
 * [Comrade Hakim - On the difference betweeen "liberatarian" and "authoritarian" socialism.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GM893c1X8s)
 * [Huey P. Newton on the faults of western anarchism.](https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/bpp/bpp161168.htm)
@@ -147,6 +146,7 @@
 * [Is the revolutionary DotP a separate material stage apart from lower phased communism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2mrkkj/is_the_revolutionary_dotp_a_separate_material/)
 * [Is socialism the lowest stage of communism or is it the transition to communism, in between capitalism and communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2rijno/is_socialism_the_lowest_stage_of_communism_or_is/)
 * [What about Left Unity? Engels letter to Bebel.](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/letters/73_06_20.htm)
+* [What about Marxism and Empiricism? Is Marxism falsifiable?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/8978hb/is_marxism_falsifiable/)
 
 ## On Ultra-leftism / Left-Communism
 
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 * [Why did Mao launch the Cultural Revolution? What was he trying to achieve as distinct from the Revolution the Chinese Communists had already won? To what extent did he succeed? Does it have any continuing impact? (x-post from /r/AskHistorians)](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/23958h/why_did_mao_launch_the_cultural_revolution_what/)
 * [What was the cultural revolution? A Documentary series on it, called How yukong moved the mountains](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLN-jRZRPrc&list=PLMt0ncvnKoz3ar_f78qBeA29-0kwrsXvT)
 * [What are Mao's contributions to Marxism? (MLM)](https://jiminykrix.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/what-maoism-has-to-offer-the-world-and-why-so-many-former-non-communists-think-its-dope/)
-* [What's the difference between MZT (Mao-Zedong-Thought) and MLM (Marxism-Leninism-Maoism)?](https://armedwithapen.com/mao-on-maoism/)
+* [What's the difference between MZT (Mao-Zedong-Thought) and MLM (Marxism-Leninism-Maoism)? How does Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (SWCC) differ from MLM? Does modern China uphold Mao? What about the cultural revolution?](http://cpcchina.chinadaily.com.cn/fastfacts/2010-10/18/content_11425373.htm) [2](https://leohezhao.medium.com/wrong-turns-on-the-revolutionary-road-ultra-leftism-and-the-cultural-revolution-2e090793dfad) [3](https://leohezhao.medium.com/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub) [3](https://leohezhao.medium.com/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub)
 * [Where should I start with Mao?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1dmxcl/where_should_i_start_with_mao/)
 * [Debastardising Mao.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ecf32/debastardising_mao/)
 * [Deng on why Mao's legacy must be upheld.](http://cpcchina.chinadaily.com.cn/fastfacts/2010-10/18/content_11425373.htm)
@@ -488,7 +488,8 @@
 * [Dalai Lama - If the next Dalai Lama is a female, her face must be attractive, otherwise its not much use... she should use makeup.](https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1345465786907774976?s=20)
 * [Did China really try to save the GDR?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/dsvsf9/newly_declassified_documents_released_by_german/)
 * [Didn't China cause the Coronavirus? A Megathread.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/fi390n/china_and_the_coronavirus/)
-* [What about China's corono-virus response? Is there really any sinophobia?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/evwls8/megathread_addressing_sinophobia_and_chinas/) [2](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/canada-chinese-community-battles-racist-backlash-amid-coronavirus-outbreak?__twitter_impression=true) [3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GasWB8s-tqs&feature=youtu.be)
+* [What about China's coronavirus response? Is there really any sinophobia?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/evwls8/megathread_addressing_sinophobia_and_chinas/) [2](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/canada-chinese-community-battles-racist-backlash-amid-coronavirus-outbreak?__twitter_impression=true) [3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GasWB8s-tqs&feature=youtu.be)
+* [The New York Times anti-China Syndrome (about the coronavirus)](https://fair.org/home/nyts-china-syndrome/)
 * [Debunking NYTimes anti-china covid-19 talking points, especially about Dr Li.](https://mronline.org/2020/03/05/yellow-caking-an-epidemic/)
 * [The US went against the CDC recommendations and evacuated 14 corona-virus infected US citizens, sparking the spread of the virus in the US](https://nypost.com/2020/02/20/coronavirus-infected-americans-flown-back-to-us-on-plane-full-of-healthy-people/).
 * [An April 2020 poll of Republicans and Democrats finds that 77% blame China for coronavirus, with 54% saying China owes reparations. ](http://archive.is/FB7KP)
@@ -549,6 +550,7 @@
 ### Is China Imperialist?
 
 - [Debunking the claim that "China is Imperialist"](https://medium.com/@rainershea612/catagorically-debunking-the-claim-that-china-is-imperialist-a9ae7b280a44)
+- [The demeanor of Chinese leaders (Xi Jinping) vs Western leaders (Nancy Pelosi) towards African nations. One of the reasons why African nations favor China instead of the West.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/kxabq5/the_demeanor_of_chinese_leaders_xi_jinping_vs/)
 - [Is China really imperialist? What's the difference between what Europe did to Africa, and what China is doing?](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/g0lp70/people_are_saying_that_china_is_colonialist_by/fnanq5x/)
 - [Yanis Varoufakis on China's foreign policy dealings with Greece and Africa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBgbYQ5QAM0).
 - [Vijay Prashad and Qiao Collective - Is China imperializing Africa?](https://www.qiaocollective.com/home/conversation-vijay-prashad)
@@ -569,10 +571,10 @@
 
 - [Megathread #1](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cpm5q1/we_need_a_serious_discussion_on_the_overwhelming/), [#2](https://bitbucket.org/TheCrypticMan/hong-kong-protests/wiki/2019%20attempted%20'Black%20Revolution')
 - The extradition bill came about when a [man from Hong Kong killed his pregnant girlfriend while in holiday in Taiwan.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/c1nxga/opinions_on_hong_kong_protests/ered9wl/) [1](https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3008099/sentence-man-who-killed-girlfriend-taiwan-sets) He fled back to Hong Kong. Taiwan asked for him to be extradited, but Hong Kong did not have an extradition treaty with Taiwan, so the administration in Hong Kong proposed a bill that would allow Taiwan, the PRC, and Macau to request extradition, which the judiciary in Hong Kong can then approve. [There were 49 crimes that were to be included in the bill that would allow extradition requests.](https://qz.com/1636663/the-37-crimes-included-in-hong-kongs-proposed-extradition-law/) Some of these were financial crimes (Hong Kong is a popular tax haven for billionaires), and the Capitalists in Hong Kong shit themselves because they are often in breach of PRC law, but protected by Hong Kong's independence as a Special Administrative Region. This bill is completely reasonable, and any fears of the PRC taking over or of the extradition of 'political' criminals is unfounded. The US is encouraging the organizers to keep protesting in order to provoke the administration in Hong Kong to crack down on them, so that they can blame China and keep up their propaganda narrative that 'CHINA BAD!' [More here.](https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3008099/sentence-man-who-killed-girlfriend-taiwan-sets)
-- [AntiConquista - the History of Hong Kong, and the nature of the protest movement, and who's funding it.](https://invidio.us/watch?v=hY8rCElJ4nQ)
-- [The Hong Kong Protests: Irrational chaos](https://invidio.us/watch?v=PCokRDKR89c).
+- [AntiConquista - the History of Hong Kong, and the nature of the protest movement, and who's funding it.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hY8rCElJ4nQ)
+- [The Hong Kong Protests: Irrational chaos](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PCokRDKR89c).
 - [Bayarea415 on The Hong Kong Protests, and color revolutions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClKkoteV1ts).
-- [Hong Kong - The Protest movement unmasked. (Also gets into the inequality and housing crisis driving the movement)](https://invidio.us/watch?v=0CUgy-Hzyfo&local=1&nojs=0&player_style=youtube&quality=dash)
+- [Hong Kong - The Protest movement unmasked. (Also gets into the inequality and housing crisis driving the movement)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0CUgy-Hzyfo&local=1&nojs=0&player_style=youtube&quality=dash)
 - [The US has admitted that it’s funding the protests](https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-now-admits-funding-occupy-central-hong-kong/5405680). [Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor and HKCTU, along with 68 other Hong Kong “democratic right” organizations earn hundreds of thousands every year from State Department funded NGOs.](https://twitter.com/redniangzijun/status/1137901349750939648)
 - [American government officials caught ON CAMERA colluding with HK protest leaders.](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/cndqwh/hk_protest_leaders_caught_meeting_with_us_chief/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app)
 - [American Government NGOs fuel Hong Kong Protests](https://www.mintpressnews.com/hong-kong-protests/259202/).
@@ -603,6 +605,7 @@
 - [Egyptian media delegates provide a detailed insight of the situation in Xinjiang](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/430738-egyptian-media-delegates-provide-a-detailed-insight-of-the-situation-in-xinjiang)
 - [A majority of Muslim countries support China's policies in XinJiang](https://i.imgur.com/Cks29xL.jpg), [and don't believe the western lies told about it.](https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/07/278860/arab-muslim-majority-countries-china-mistreatment-uighurs/). [54 Countries in total](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1168522.shtml). [2](http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/13/c_138222183.htm), [3](https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/china-thanks-37-countries-including-islamic-states-praising-its), [4](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1159357.shtml) Supporters: Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, DR Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Gabon, Kuwait, Laos, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkmenistan, UAE, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
 - [China's policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region lift 1.85 million people out of poverty from 2014-2017.](http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/24/c_137554986.htm?source=post_page---------------------------)
+- [US Col Lawrence Wilkerson admits to USA involvement in fomenting civil unrest in Xinjiang China using Uighurs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Cvx0R8iDo)
 - [US fuels terrorism in China.](https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/24/us-fueling-terrorism-in-china/) 
 - [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/)
@@ -619,6 +622,7 @@
 - [A New York Times "expose" of re-education centers in Xinjiang lied and mistranslated every claim.](https://www.quora.com/What-would-be-the-consequences-of-the-New-York-Times-expose-on-Xinjiang/answer/Jamin-Chen-1)
 - [Reddit holds an AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e9ad4n/i_am_rushan_abbas_uyghur_activist_and_survivor_of/) for an "Uyghur Activist", who turns out to be [Rushan Abbas](https://web.archive.org/web/20181207031224/https://www.isi-consultants.com/rushan-abbas/), a CIA agent who worked for Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of State, Department of Justice, and various U.S. intelligence agencies, and even worked at Guantanamo bay, the US muslim torture camp. [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/e9crzq/shit_liberals_do_claim_to_be_an_uyghur_survivor/) [2](https://medium.com/@rsahthion/a-reddit-ama-claiming-to-be-a-uiyghur-quickly-exposes-a-cia-asset-slandering-china-1d667c098b77)
 - [Reddit holds yet another AMA with Sophie Richardson, the "China director" at the US soft-power regime change agency Human Rights Watch. The comments expose her as not speaking chinese, and spreading blatant lies about China.](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hwi7ub/i_am_sophie_richardson_china_director_at_human/)
+- [Debunking an article from the intercept about Uyghurs.](https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1355383514137554944?s=20)
 - [A case study in Anti-Chinese racism.](https://medium.com/@rsahthion/a-case-study-in-racist-anti-chinese-sentiment-fuelled-by-american-bots-and-western-propaganda-f0a69978d568)
 - [RodericDay - A thread about the key sources for Uyghur Genocide (Especially Adrian Zenz).](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1287411708374454273.html)
 - [Zenz makes a claim that 500,000 tibetans (1 out of every 3 working age Tibetans) are in forced labor camps.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/ixmy9p/china_has_somehow_put_16_of_the_entire_tibetan/)
@@ -671,10 +675,6 @@
 - [*Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=69633412b4947eb197779d652ba6e331) by William Hinton
 - [*Turning Point in China: An Essay on the Cultural Revolution*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=FF14AB76713984526357FE8829DEAD3C) by William Hinton
 
-### Further reading
-
-* [Suggested reading for an aspiring MLM?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/18hgw2/suggested_reading_for_an_aspiring_mlm/c8fod6n)
-
 ## On the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
 
 - [What about the GDR?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cxwul4/masterpost_on_the_german_democratic_republic_east/)
@@ -818,10 +818,12 @@
   - [Stephen Spender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Spender)  - "Sentimental sympathiser... Tendency towards homosexuality" 
   - [Hugh MacDiarmid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_MacDiarmid), Scottish nationalist poet, and anti-imperialist. 
   - [George Padmore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Padmore), Trinidadian journalist and anti-imperialist campaigner.
-- His books Animal Farm and 1984 are used widely as anti-communist propaganda in schools in the US and UK. So much so that [his animated animal farm film was funded by the CIA](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/how-cia-brought-animal-farm-to-the-screen/).  There's a reason they teach George Orwell in schools and not Franz Fanon, Che, Huey P Newton, Malcolm X, Lenin, CLR James, etc. 
+- His books Animal Farm and 1984 are used widely as anti-communist propaganda in schools in the US and UK. So much so that [his animated animal farm film was funded by the CIA](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/how-cia-brought-animal-farm-to-the-screen/). There's a reason they teach George Orwell in schools and not Franz Fanon, Che, Huey P Newton, Malcolm X, Lenin, CLR James, etc. 
+- [Between 1952 and 1957, from three sites in West Germany, a CIA operation codenamed ‘Aedinosaur’ launched millions of ten-foot balloons carrying copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and dropped them over Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia — whose airforces were ordered to shoot the balloons down.](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/novel-explosives-of-the-cold-war). 
 - [Orwell, anti-communist: A criticism of Orwell and his Work - By Isaac Asimov.](http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm)
 - [Orwell - "I have never really disliked Hitler."](https://twitter.com/SarahTheHaider/status/1300360063845126144?s=20)
 - [He attempted to rape one of his first courtships: "Previously the young couple had kissed, but now, during a late summer walk, he had wanted more. At only five feet to his six feet and four inches, Jacintha had shouted, screamed and kicked before running home with a torn skirt and bruised hip. It was "this" rather than any gradual parting of the ways that explains why Jacintha broke off all contact with her childhood friend, never to learn that he had transformed himself into George Orwell."](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/feb/17/georgeorwell.biography)
+- [Redsails - On Orwell.](https://redsails.org/on-orwell/)
 - [Rainer Shea - Orwells 1984 - Anti-communist propaganda.](https://medium.com/@rainershea612/orwells-1984-is-a-deeply-paranoid-piece-of-anti-communist-propaganda-15a741c85d9a)
 - [Orwell worked as a British imperial cop in Burma for 5 years](http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Myanmar/sub5_5e/entry-3083.html). His short story, [Shooting an Elephant](http://www.denisedrespling.com/review-shooting-elephant-george-orwell/), uses ethnic slurs and denigrates burmese people. 
 - [A reddit thread on George Orwell](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/797lnl/as_a_communist_how_do_you_feel_the_works_of/), [Thread #2](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/7dhx99/for_those_on_the_right_who_think_orwell_wrote/dpy4zik/).
@@ -901,10 +903,12 @@
   - [In December 2020, after a proposal by comic Jimmy Dore, for house democrats to refuse support for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, unless she agrees to bring a Medicare for all bill to the house, to bring relief for US citizens who lost healthcare during the pandemic. AOC and the rest of the "squad" refused, and backed Pelosi, citing concerns that the bill would not win anyway. Dore retorted that 9 / 10 democratic voters, and even a majority of republican voters support medicare for all.](https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/jimmy-dore-calls-on-democrats-to-withhold-support-for-nancy-pelosi-unless-she-brings-single-payer-medicare-for-all-to-a-vote/)
 - [Voted for Trump's 2020 War budget, allocating $738 Billion to military spending (a 3% increase over the previous year).](http://www.idcommunism.com/2019/07/ocasio-cortez-aoc-votes-in-favor-of-trumps-war-budget.html)
 - [She supports Israel, and its genocide of Palestineans.](https://i.imgur.com/K6QsYZo.jpg)
+- [Is against pardoning Julian Assange.](https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1359550389578854406?s=20)
 - [Goes along with democrats and Republicans in backing US puppet Juan Guaido over Maduro in Venezuela.](https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1124924184629583872?s=19) 
 - [After the December 2020 Elections in Venezuala, she defends Juan Guaido, and calls Maduro an "authoritarian" yet again.](https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1336139779281457153)
 - [Believes, like other democrats, that Russia rigs US elections](https://i.imgur.com/3rmhrAf.png)
 - [After Evo Morales was overthrown in a US-backed coup, she retracts her pro-Morales statements, and meets with a coup-supporting group in Washington.](https://i.imgur.com/mYdPxcG.jpg) [1](https://rainershea.com/f/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-meets-with-bolivian-coup-organizers)
+- [Stands with Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and the right-wing pro-Trump Hong Kong rioters in their condemnation of China and its supposed "concentration camps."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Etgp3SvXEAAKNX4?format=jpg&name=large)
 - [After Trump fires John Bolton (who tried and failed at starting wars with North Korea, Venezuela, and Iran), she goes full neocon, angry that Trump isn't going to war with North Korea.](https://i.imgur.com/3rSM3oU.jpg)
 - [Believes that Trump "betrays" US values.](https://i.imgur.com/H61toBx.png)
 - [Claims that socialist theory is only for priviledged few with college educated parents, and that working class people aren't capable of understanding theory. Is unaware of the Spanish-speaking socialist tradition. ](https://medium.com/@marko_v_kobak/sharpening-the-mind-a-response-to-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-24babecac9c5?fbclid=IwAR2I8uYX9ZUvPyd5MZxKiIEeXgbgnfzulR4qjzOGF1hxK6SEX7oqkFmyBIc)
@@ -1166,6 +1170,7 @@ Much credit to [David Kinder's current affairs article, the rise of the Ruth Bad
 - [Says: "If you identify as LGBT, then you must consider North Korea your enemy", citing wapo, the geneva US mission, and CIA NK org. Ignores the DPRK's pro-lgbt stances.](https://i.redd.it/nvgx1vz4z3b51.png) [2](https://web.archive.org/web/20050806002431/http://www.korea-dpr.com/faq.htm#20)
 - He's in no leftist orgs, plays video games all day, and takes home [$1.5k / month from his subscribers by holding "debates" where he just rants at people.](https://www.patreon.com/vaush)
 - ["Marxism isn't a rejection of liberalism, it's about making it better." ](https://twitter.com/commiefr0g/status/1290343782450434049)
+- ["Marxism isn't about collectivism, its about freedom from tyranny. Collectivism is groupthink."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWsrVEyEIcI)
 - [Hakim - Vaush has no idea what he's talking about.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX9_kXYMSck)
 - [Claims that tankies only exist in "small online circles", ignoring the millions of communists in the global south.](https://twitter.com/duck_azz/status/1291635709154033664?s=20)
 - ["Tacoma wept."](https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1300197204443893760)

us_atrocities.md

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 - The U.S. installed [Syngman Rhee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngman_Rhee),a conservative Korean exile, as President of South Korea in 1948. Rhee became a dictator on an anti-communist crusade, arresting and torturing suspected communists, brutally putting down rebellions, killing 100,000 people and vowing to take over North Korea. Rhee precipitated the outbreak of the [Korean War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War) and for the allied decision to invade North Korea once South Korea had been recaptured. He was finally forced to resign by mass student protests in 1960.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngman_Rhee)
 - Between 1946 and 1958, the US [tested 23 nuclear devices at Bikini Atoll, using the native islanders and their land as guinea pigs for the effects of nuclear fallout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll). Significant fallout caused widespread radiological contamination in the area, and killed many islanders. A survivor stated, "What the Americans did was no accident. They came here and destroyed our land. They came to test the effects of a nuclear bomb on us. It was no accident." Many of the islanders exposed were brought to the US Argonne National laboratory, to study the effects. Afterwards the islands proved unsuitable to sustaining life, resulting in starvation and requiring the residents to receive ongoing aid. Virtually all of the inhabitants showed acute symptoms of radiation syndrome, many developing thyroid cancers, Leukimia, miscarriages, stillborn and "jellyfish babies" (highly deformed) along with symptoms like hair falling out, and diahrrea. A handful were brought to the US for medical research and later returned, while others were evacuated to neighboring Islands. The US under LBJ prematurely returned the majority returned 3 years later, to further test how human beings absorb radiation from their food and environment. The islanders pleaded with the US to move them away from the islands, as it became clear that their children were developing deformities and radiation sickness. Radion levels were still unacceptable. The United States later paid the islanders and their descendants 25 million in compensation for damage caused by the nuclear testing program. A 2016 investigation found radiation levels on Bikini Atoll as high as 639 mrem yr−1, well above the established safety standard threshold for habitation of 100 mrem yr−1. Similar tests occurred elsewhere in the Marshall Islands during this time period. Due to the destruction of natural wealth, Kwajalein Atoll's military installation and dislocation, the [majority of natives currently live in extreme poverty](http://hellomarshallislands.weebly.com/poverty.html), making less than 1$ a day. Those that have jobs, mostly work at the US military installation and resorts. Much of this is detailed in the documentary, [The Coming War on China (2016)](https://vimeo.com/277068625). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll),[2](http://hellomarshallislands.weebly.com/poverty.html)
 - After the Japanese surrender in 1945, Douglas MacArthur pardoned [Unit 731](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cover-up_of_Japanese_war_crimes), a Japanese biological experimentation center which performed human testing of biological agents against Chinese citizens. While a series of war tribunals and trials was organized, many of the high-ranking officials and doctors who devised and respectively performed the experiments were pardoned and never brought to justice. As many as 12,000 people, most of them Chinese, died in Unit 731 alone and many more died in other facilities, such as Unit 100 and in field experiments throughout Manchuria. One of the experimenters who killed many, microbiologist [Shiro Ishii](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Ishii), later traveled to the US to advise on its bioweapons programs. In the final days of the Pacific War and in the face of imminent defeat, Japanese troops blew up the headquarters of Unit 731 in order to destroy evidence of the research done there. As part of the cover-up, Ishii ordered 150 remaining subjects killed.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cover-up_of_Japanese_war_crimes),[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Ishii)
+- In 1945 during the month-long [Battle of Manila](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_\(1945\)), the US in deciding whether to attack Manila (then under Japanese occupation) with ground troops, decided instead to use indiscriminate carpet-bombing, howitzers, and naval bombardment, killing an estimated [100,000 people.](https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/americans-destroyed-manila-1945) The casualty figures show the US's regard for filipino civilian life: 1,010 Americans, 16,665 Japanese and 100,000 to 240,000 civilians were killed. Manila became, alongside Berlin, and Warsaw, one of the most devastated cities of WW2.
 - US Troops committed a [number of rapes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Japan) during the battle of Okinawa, and the subsequent occupation of Japan. There were 1,336 reported rapes during the first 10 days of the occupation of Kanagawa prefecture alone.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Japan) American Occupation authorities imposed wide-ranging censorship on the Japanese media, including bans on covering many sensitive social issues and serious crimes such as rape committed by members of the Occupation forces.[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Japan#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDower1999412-32)
 - From 1942 to 1945, the US military carried out a [fire-bombing campaign of Japanese cities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan), killing between 200,000 and 900,000 civilians. One nighttime fire-bombing of Tokyo took 80,000 lives. During early August 1945, the US [dropped atomic bombs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki) on [Hiroshima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima) and [Nagasaki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki), killing ~130,000 civilians, and causing radiation damage which included birth defects and a variety of genetic diseases for decades to come. The justification for the civilian bombings has largely been debunked, as the entrance of Russia into the war had already started the surrender negotiations earlier in 1945. The US was aware of this, since it had broken the Japanese code and had been intercepting messages during for most of the year. The US ended up [accepting a conditional surrender from Hirohito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan), against which was one of the stated aims of the civilian bombings. The dropping of the atomic bomb is therefore seen as a demonstration of US military supremacy, and the first major operation of the Cold War with Russia. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan),[2](http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/)
 - In 1918, the US took part in the [allied intervention in the Russian civil war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War), sending 11,000 troops to the in the Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok regions to support the anti-bolshevik, monarchist, and largely anti-semitic [White Forces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_movement).  [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War)