Some updates.

capitalism_doesnt_work.md

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ Lets unpack the idea that "Capitalism works". In the US, the most developed Capi
 - [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)
 - [US collapse scenarios by 2030.](https://www.salon.com/2010/12/06/america_collapse_2025/)
+- Despite the corona-virus killing over 30k people as of May 2020, [Far right protesters in several US states demanded that their states end lockdowns](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trump-supporters-protest-coronavirus-orders).
+- [An outline of the US's biggest human rights failings.](http://download.people.com.cn/waiwen/eight15840920921.pdf)
 - [More here.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#workers-and-the-poor)
 
 Capitalist hegemony has short-circuited people into buying wildly illogical and ridiculous propaganda like: "*Lift yourselves up by the bootstraps*" (which shows the almost religious power of capitalist propaganda, that the impossible can become possible), or "*Communism doesn't work*", when in fact **Communism did work extremely well.**

crash_course_socialism.md

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Coming down to reality from idealist and subjective experience, value, like any
 
 The labor theory of value [has been proven empirically correct in recent decades](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emnYMfjYh1Q), by comparing the amount of labor required in given industries, and the money output of of those industries. For nearly every country with sufficient economic data, **the correlation is > 95%**. 
 
-Under capitalism, [the subjective theory of value](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value) is based almost entirely on the supply and demand curve model which is unscientific since it presupposes more unknowns than knowns, and as such is useless at making any predictions. Capitalist value theories are based around [utility](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility), IE joy, which isn't quantifiable, measurable, comparable, or falsifiable, and as such is *useless* as a scientific concept. Its greatest use is to allow the mega-rich to justify owning [thousands of lifetimes](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/4wxdnb/how_many_lifetimes_of_labor_has_bill_gates_stolen/?ref=search_posts) of stolen labor.
+Under capitalism, [the subjective theory of value](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value) is based almost entirely on the [supply and demand curve model which is unscientific](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbm3u2r_Cs), [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKGYzhoYK2I) since it presupposes more unknowns than knowns, and as such is useless at making any predictions. Capitalist value theories are based around [utility](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility), IE joy, which isn't quantifiable, measurable, comparable, or falsifiable, and as such is *useless* as a scientific concept. Its greatest use is to allow the mega-rich to justify owning [thousands of lifetimes](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/4wxdnb/how_many_lifetimes_of_labor_has_bill_gates_stolen/?ref=search_posts) of stolen labor.
 
 [The planned economies](capitalism_doesnt_work.md) such as that of the USSR, while imperfect, often provided [better social outcomes](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/) than its Western equivalents. Its publicly owned, planned economy brought it from feudalism to a world superpower, with the [fastest growing economy of the 20th century](https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/captura-de-pantalla-de-2016-05-26-10-15-23.png), despite starting out at the same level of economic development as Brazil in 1920.
 

socialism_faq.md

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 - [Comrade Hakim - Why electoralism always fails.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXbaZXQAbuU)
 - [Why not just vote leftists into office: what's wrong with democratic socialism?](https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/duk2yy/the_problem_with_democratic_socialism_in_related/)
 - [Why Sanders is not a socialist - Anticonquista ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbcrJT485r8)
+- [What's wrong with the DSA / Democratic socialism?](https://struggle-sessions.com/2020/04/20/dsa-are-capitalist-pigs/)
 - [How do socialists feel about elections? What about democratic socialism?](https://isreview.org/issue/13/marxists-and-elections)
 - [Can a one-party state really be a democracy?](https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-democracy-does-the-China-have/answer/Godfree-Roberts?share=0ac8c628&srid=JMzz)
 - [Why is Chinas one party system outperforming western democracies that have abysmal approval ratings?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0YjL9rZyR0)
@@ -297,7 +298,9 @@
 - [Is it true that Socialism has killed X million people, and how many has capitalism killed?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/5q2oak/someone_dies_under_socialism_no_matter_how_its/dcvu8lg/)
 - [What's the role of the state in the revolution, and what is a state?](https://theimmortalscience.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/)
 - What about the USSR, wasn't it authoritarian? Watch this [brilliant talk by Micheal Parenti](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7WmYEoNtPY&feature=youtu.be), or read his article, [Left anticommunism, the unkindest cut](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/23/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/), [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51KSe96VCuI)
+- [What is Socialism in one country? What's the controversy around it w/ respect to Stalin and Trotsky?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/dsj2wv/was_lenin_in_favour_of_socialism_in_one_country/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/7mwac2/how_do_trotskyists_or_trotsky_himself_respond_to/) [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/774lmt/can_someone_eli5_the_differences_between_stalins/) [4](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/4yhc4y/socialism_in_one_country_please_assist_me_in_the/)
 - [What did Lenin say about socialism in one country?](https://espressostalinist.com/2012/03/11/lenin-on-socialism-in-one-country-2/)
+- [Taimur Rahman - Why I am not a Trotskyist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ9O5UPqcOE).
 - [What is Dialectical Materialism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/e6iyt3/can_someone_explain_the_concept_of_dialectical/f9r4iep/)
 - [Is Chomsky right about Marxist-Leninists being evil?](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/4394rt/how_do_you_guys_feel_about_chomskys_views_on/czgj95w/)
 
@@ -446,6 +449,7 @@
   * [Is the CPC committed to communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/c9ee36/why_do_i_see_so_many_people_on_the_communism/esxapi2/)
   * [The Long Game and Its Contradictions](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub&fbclid=IwAR1jAfUSH39nEKCkTAD7GK8ayR9YVekX6Ht6hWU7x7iKPVUK_fLdA5OlPV4).
   * [The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/8hdbib/how_is_china_communist_if_it_has_a_ton_of_private/dyj082s/) [70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned](https://chinapower.csis.org/chinese-companies-global-500/). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_Assets_Supervision_and_Administration_Commission#Central_SOEs), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Chinese_companies)
+  * [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/)
   * [Are capitalists allowed in 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)
   * [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)
@@ -489,6 +493,7 @@
 - [China writes off $36m Mozambican debt](https://furtherafrica.com/2017/10/26/china-writes-off-36m-mozambican-debt/).
 - [China writes off substantial amount of Angola debt.](https://www.angop.ao/angola/en_us/noticias/politica/2017/5/23/China-agrees-partial-write-off-Angola-debt,73246665-509c-48a2-ae40-415d3fb65b00.html)
 - [Nato's new enemy: the CPC.](https://www.rt.com/news/473935-pompeo-nato-china-communist/)
+- [The western media's China hysteria.](https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/04/20/msm-china-hysteria-gets-way-crazier-and-dumber/)
 
 ### What about the Hong Kong protests?
 
@@ -524,6 +529,7 @@
 - [US fuels terrorism in China: “1 million Uyghurs never verified”](https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/24/us-fueling-terrorism-in-china/) 
 - [China’s Xinjiang Problem – Made in USA](https://journal-neo.org/2015/11/10/chinas-xinjiang-problem-made-in-usa/).
 - [No, the UN did not report China has ‘massive internment camps’ for Uighur Muslims](https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/23/un-did-not-report-china-internment-camps-uighur-muslims/).
+- [What about Democracy now and the Intercept's claims about the Uyghur camps?](https://medium.com/@rainershea612/liberal-anti-chinese-propaganda-helped-create-the-far-right-campaign-to-blame-china-for-covid-19-7253dca6f429)
 - [Religious freedoms in China explained](https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1004884261051092993?s=21).
 - [Thousands of Muslims from the Uyghur province make Hajj Pilgrimage yearly.](https://www.app.com.pk/over-11000-chinese-muslims-from-xinjiang-proceed-to-saudi-arabia-for-hajj/) [11k Chinese Muslims travel from Xinjiang on free chartered flights to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, in 2019](https://www.arabnews.com/node/1535241/pakistan).
 - [EU rejects China offer of Xinjiang tour](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3003217/eu-rejects-chinas-offer-xinjiang-tour-says-its-open-one-later).
@@ -750,7 +756,7 @@
 - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/why-chomsky-felt-guilty-most-of-time-war-research-and-linguistics-at-mit/
 - https://libcom.org/history/chomsky-pol-pots-genocidal-regime-cambodia
 - https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/13cf816e-8e40-41c8-bb76-d453a3261d8b
-- [Endorsed Biden in the 2020 election, even after Tara Reide's rape allegations.](https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/10/noam_chomsky_trump_us_coronavirus_response)
+- [Endorsed Biden in the 2020 election, even after Tara Reide's rape allegations.](https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/10/noam_chomsky_trump_us_coronavirus_response) [2](https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1251246784048959490?s=21)
 
 ### What's wrong with Bernie Sanders?
 
@@ -824,6 +830,7 @@
 
 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seRaSRZKo2U
 - https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/joe-bidens-accuser-finally-tells-her-full-story
+- https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1251644551367925760
 
 ### Greta Thunberg
 
@@ -881,6 +888,7 @@
 - https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1193767195031068673
 - https://twitter.com/DemSocialists/status/1194298720780791810
 - https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1202641283023376384
+- https://struggle-sessions.com/2020/04/20/dsa-are-capitalist-pigs/
 
 ### Buddhism
 

us_atrocities.md

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 - Although the US economy produces more than enough food to feed those in poverty, [UNICEF](http://www.unicef.org/sowc06/pdfs/sowc06_chap1.pdf), [RESULTS](https://web.archive.org/web/20080527011602/http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=241), and [Bread for the World](http://www.bread.org/hunger/global/facts.html) estimate that **15 million** people die **each year** from preventable poverty, of whom 11 million are **children under the age of five**. In addition, The US has a comparatively terrible social support system to fight poverty and prevent deaths: "approximately 245,000 deaths in the United States in the year 2000 were attributable to low levels of education, 176,000 to racial segregation, 162,000 to low social support, 133,000 to individual-level poverty, 119,000 to income inequality, and 39,000 to area-level poverty" ([sources](https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/how-many-us-deaths-are-caused-poverty-lack-education-and-other-social-factors)). That is 2 million people every 10 years in the US alone.[1](http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/08/crimes-against-humanity-01-poverty-murder-over-400-million-people-since-1995-more-than-all-wars-in-recorded-history.html)
 - In the modern day, [20,000 to 40,000 people die every year](http://obamacarefacts.com/facts-on-deaths-due-to-lack-of-health-insurance-in-us/) because of lack of universal health care or health insurance. On average, that's 300,000 over the last decade. [1](http://obamacarefacts.com/facts-on-deaths-due-to-lack-of-health-insurance-in-us/)
 - [FBI, and local police routinely ally with racists to target left wing activists.](https://ricochet.media/en/2276/police-spies-and-white-supremacy-a-brief-history) One conference on "radical left wings gangs in america", fittingly enough is held yearly in Quebec City, home of far right groups like La Muete, whose members include knife attacks, and the Quebec city mosque shooting where a gunman killed 6 people during prayer. Federal agents performed a key role in getting Nazi and Klan formations to collaborate with police, and each other.
+- [An outline of some of the US's worst human rights offenses.](http://download.people.com.cn/waiwen/eight15840920921.pdf)
 ---
 - On December 5th, 2019, [police opened fire on a busy highway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Miramar_shootout) in Miramar Florida, while in pursuit of 2 jewel thieves who stole $3k of jewelry, killing the kidnapped UPS driver, the two thieves, and an innocent 70-year-old bystander in traffic. [The graphic video](https://twitter.com/rklueber28/status/1202722185690914817) shows complete negligence for the hostage, and surrounding drivers, all to recover some stolen jewelry. On a GoFundMe page that had raised more than $100,000 by Friday evening, Roy Ordonez wrote that his brother, the UPS driver, had been gunned “down like a criminal by the Florida police.” He asked people to share the fundraising page to “make people aware of trigger-happy police officers.”  “They could have killed many more people, could have been one of your loved ones,” Roy Ordonez wrote. “Please don’t let my brother’s death be for nothing. Police need to be held accountable.” 
 - In February 2019, an [11 year old was arrested by police after refusing to say the pledge of allegiance.](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/florida-student-arrested-pledge-of-allegiance.amp)  The teacher then asked “Why if it was so bad here he did not go to another place to live,” “They brought me here,” the boy replied. Polk County Public Schools spokesman Kyle Kennedy insisted the 11-year-old “was arrested after becoming disruptive and refusing to follow repeated instructions by school staff and law enforcement.” The sixth grader was then taken to a juvenile detention center, charged with disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence. 
@@ -510,3 +511,4 @@ Notes :
 - [ ] Skim through settlers
 - [ ] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fn1uvi/whats_the_most_fucked_up_thing_the_us_government/
 - [ ] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16754432
+- [ ] http://download.people.com.cn/waiwen/eight15840920921.pdf