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- [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)
- [Autobiography of Malcolm X - as told to Alex Haley](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4e1ba39a81f987fddf7e6abf9e49e2a0c8490168&dn=Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X)

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### History books
- [Howard Zinn - A Peoples History of the United States](http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html)
- [CLR James - The Black Jacobins](http://www.ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/CLR_James_The_Black_Jacobins.pdf)
- [J. Sakai - Settlers: the Mythology of the White Proletariat](http://readsettlers.org/text-index.html), [audiobook](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZEICtu8cocz_3oRFS6L7wN)
- [John Reid - The Ten Days that Shook the World](https://www.marxists.org/archive/reed/1919/10days/10days/)
- [Huey P. Newton - Revolutionary Suicide](https://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Suicide-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0143105329)
- [Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America](https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485894404&sr=8-1&keywords=open+veins+of+latin+america)
- [Fidel Castro - My Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_(Fidel_Castro_autobiography))
- [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)
- [Howard Zinn - A Peoples History of the United States](http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html)
- [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)
- [Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds](https://www.amazon.com/Blackshirts-Reds-Rational-Overthrow-Communism/dp/0872863298)
- [Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America](https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485894404&sr=8-1&keywords=open+veins+of+latin+america)
- [Walter Rodney - How Europe underdeveloped Africa](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C8EA24A6B93F427D17585CBDE9F31EE2F5ACF2EB&dn=Walter+Rodney+-+How+Europe+Underdeveloped+Africa+%5Baudiobook%5D+audible)
- [CLR James - The Black Jacobins](http://www.ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/CLR_James_The_Black_Jacobins.pdf)
- [John Reid - The Ten Days that Shook the World](https://www.marxists.org/archive/reed/1919/10days/10days/)
- [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)
- [Huey P. Newton - Revolutionary Suicide](https://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Suicide-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0143105329)
- [Fidel Castro - My Life](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ef3e4f927248fc05e6f7834f7d473532de9c07b8&dn=Fidel%20Castro%20-%20My%20Life)
- [Autobiography of Malcolm X - as told to Alex Haley](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4e1ba39a81f987fddf7e6abf9e49e2a0c8490168&dn=Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X)
### Psychology

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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)? 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)
* [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)
* [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/)
* [Was Sun Yat Sen a communist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kvAMVX0bjE)
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* [Uninsured Chinese citizens pay an average of $5-7 to see a specialist (the majority of hospital visits ), and with insurance, its free. 95% of Chinese citizens have insurance](https://hotpot.team/new-york-times-lies/)
* [Wages themselves are forced to rise in the private sector by the CPC (+16% every years, +400% since 1980) who force the capitalists to accept the presence of CPC chapters who represent the interest of the workers, increasing workers control even in the capitalist parts of the economy. ](https://www.workers.org/2015/07/21/china-rising-wages-and-worker-militancy/#.WXOlQtPytsM)
* [Eliminated Urban Poverty. On track to eliminate all poverty within a decade.](https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/aug/19/china-poverty-inequality-development-goals)
* [CGTN documentary - China's war on poverty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuaJGPZCBYU)
* [Trade union laws of the PRC.](https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/30352/118793/F1165849917/CHN30352%202.pdf)
* [The west views China as one big sweatshop, but the actual working hours aren't much more than anywhere else. The average for a migrant worker (most vulnerable to exploitation as they are traveling from the countryside) is 8.8 hours, little under an hour more than a typical working day. Labor strikes are rarely suppressed, and usually get the support of the PRC.](https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchfree/2013/07/11/held-hostage-entrepreneurs-uneasy-over-chinese-govt-inaction/#2431f5463de4)
* [The workplace safety standards of China are better than in the capitalist countries of the West like in Australia who have an higher rate of work related death despite having a GDP per capita 3-5 times higher.](http://www.trotskyistplatform.com/workplace-safety-now-better-in-china-than-in-australia/)
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- [Redsails - The Xinjiang atrocity propaganda blitz](https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/)
- [RodericDay - A thread about the key sources for Uyghur Genocide (Especially Adrian Zenz).](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1287411708374454273.html)
- [BayArea415 - american debunks major western propaganda on Uyghurs and Xinjiang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yURIS7S9zg)
- [Dr. Asata Bair - The six basic problems of the Uyghur genocide narrative.](https://nitter.cc/i/status/1367632236007202819)
- [Nuance - The sad truth about Muslims in China.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPxZfqcKPF0)
- [The Xinjiang "Genocide" - an excerpt from the Genocide panel.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH-0l_zToN4)
- [TheCanadaFiles - Subcommittee report declaring “Uighur Genocide” dominated by researchers and groups funded by CIA cut-out, National Endowment for Democracy.](https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/subcommittee-report-declaring-uighur-genocide-dominated-by-researchers-and-groups-funded-by-cia-cut-out-national-endowment-for-democracy)
- [US fuels terrorism in China.](https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/24/us-fueling-terrorism-in-china/)
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- [Reddit holds another AMA with a grifting author, Amelia Pang](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m99tvp/im_the_author_of_made_in_china_a_prisoner_an_sos/), who wrote a NYTimes best selling book about going undercover into an Uyghur prison. It turns out that she worked for the Epoch Times for many years, and also never visited or talked with a single prisoner. Her book is based on extrapolations from a 1991 film. She leaves the AMA after leaving all the top questions unanswered.
- [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)
- [Debunking an article from the intercept about Uyghurs.](https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1355383514137554944?s=20)
- [A debunk of a buzzfeed article that used google maps as its primary source.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/nxvkx2/with_buzzfeed_winning_the_pulitzer_prize_for/h1h164l/)
- [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/)
- [Breaking down the BBC's visit to XinJiang.](https://medium.com/@sunfeiyang/breaking-down-the-bbcs-visit-to-hotan-xinjiang-e284934a7aab)
- [A rebuttal of a Guardian article by Gulbahar Haitiwaji](https://twitter.com/moghilemear13/status/1351397520358957058) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/kwew3n/contradictions_in_the_new_uighur_story_by/)
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- [Says that Kaepernick's take-a-knee protest in support of black lives matter, was a russian op. Claims that "russian bots" are targeting her.](https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1293286190892888067?s=20)
- [Laughs out loud when its suggested that she's a progressive.](https://twitter.com/colbyhall/status/1320522050902122497?s=20)
- [Voted two different times to block federal funding for abortions.](https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2019/06/06/guess-who-else-voted-against-federal-funding-for-abortion-443667?cid=su_tw_pb)
- [Wants to use solar panels and green energy... to make war. ](https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1398339644144721934?s=20)
- [Tells guatemalan immigrants: "don't come here"](https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1401980300847161349?s=20)
### Pete Buttigieg
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- [LiberationNews - On Biden taking office](https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-biden-in-office-capitalists-in-power/)
- Biden breaks nearly every campaign promise his first few weeks in office, including a promise to [raise the minimum wage, telling governors its not going to happen.](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/18/biden-governors-minimum-wage-469898)
- [Airstrikes Syria his first few days in office. It took Trump over a year to do the same.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-syria-strike/exclusive-u-s-carries-out-airstrike-against-iranian-backed-militia-target-in-syria-officials-idUSKBN2AP33D)
- [Defends excluding Puerto Ricans from disability payments](https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/557166-biden-administration-will-defend-excluding-puerto-ricans-from)
- [Biden Justice Department defends Trump in suit over rape denial](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/07/biden-justice-department-defends-trump-in-suit-over-rape-denial-492088)
### Greta Thunberg
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- [Why don't communists call trump treasonous? Aren't Putin and Trump collaborating and meddling in US elections?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/a9tgff/lsc_insulted_some_democrats/ecmcel1/)
- [Why doesn't X minority just lift themselves up by the bootstraps out of poverty? Response by MLK. ](https://streamable.com/eafqq)
- [To what extent is modern day Vietnam Socialist?](https://medium.com/@otelocarvalho/socialism-today-in-vietnam-ac22ce2edf47)
- [Gensec Nguyen Phu Trong - On Vietnam's socialist market economy, and its historical development. What were the Doi Moi reforms?](https://en.nhandan.org.vn/politics/item/9924202-some-theoretical-and-practical-issues-on-socialism-and-the-path-towards-socialism-in-vietnam.html)
- [How is socialism progressing in Bolivia?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cg2t3j/masterpost_on_the_achievements_of_socialism_in/)
- [Anti-imperialism of Evo Morales - A fight for Bolivia's resources.](https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/12/after-morales-ousted-coup-lithium-question-looms-large-bolivia)
- [How does the US and British strategy of Balkanization work?](https://youtu.be/niZsLfxNwvI?t=807)
- Caleb Maupin - [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i29kWYXlwhw), [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmQtvk5elYc), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeardTube/comments/fkwaso/the_successes_of_socialism_in_vietnam/fkwb68a/), [4](https://i.imgur.com/kbeSu33.jpg)
- Caleb Maupin - [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i29kWYXlwhw), [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmQtvk5elYc), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeardTube/comments/fkwaso/the_successes_of_socialism_in_vietnam/fkwb68a/), [4](https://i.imgur.com/kbeSu33.jpg), [5](https://i.imgur.com/u0jygQ9.png)
- Prysner - [1](https://twitter.com/Duophile/status/1256563958141591556?s=20)
- [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)
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- [Blackredguard](https://twitter.com/BlackRedGuard1/status/1383849476863844359?s=20)
- [A response to David Harvey's theories of Imperialism by John Smith.](https://urpe.wordpress.com/2018/01/11/a-critique-of-david-harvey-on-imperialism/)
- [Is signal secure? Yasha Levine](https://yasha.substack.com/p/signal-is-a-government-op-85e)
- Belarus: [1](https://np.reddit.com/r/EuropeanSocialists/comments/i8cf4z/nazi_roots_of_symbols_of_the_belarusian_opposition/), [2](https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/26/belarus-roman-protasevich-plane-nazis-ukraine/), [3](https://www.rt.com/russia/525032-protasevich-arrest-neo-nazi-links/)

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- In 1955, the CIA provided explosives, and aided KMT agents in an [assassination attempt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_Princess) against the Chinese Premier, Zhou Enlai. KMT agents placed a time-bomb on the Air India aircraft, [Kashmir Princess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_Princess), which Zhou was supposed to take on his way to the [Bandung Conference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandung_Conference), an anti-imperialist meeting of Asian and African states, but he changed his travel plans at the last minute. Henry Kissinger denied US involvement, even though remains of a US detonator were found. 16 people were killed. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_Princess)
- From 1955-1975, the US supported French colonialist interests in Vietnam, set up a puppet regime in Saigon to serve US interests, and later took part as a belligerent against North Vietnam in the [Vietnam War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War). U.S. involvement escalated further following the 1964 [Gulf of Tonkin incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident), which was later found to be staged by Lyndon Johnson. The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities (see [Vietnam War casualties](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties)). Estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from 966,000 [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#cite_note-Hirschman-30) to 3.8 million.[source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#cite_note-Obermeyer_2008-52) Some 240,000–300,000 [Cambodians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_people),[source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#cite_note-Heuveline.2C_Patrick_2001-53)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#cite_note-Banister.2C_Judith_1993-54)[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#cite_note-Sliwinski_1995_42.2C48.2Bcomment-55) 20,000–62,000 [Laotians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_people),[4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#cite_note-Obermeyer_2008-52) and 58,220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict, with a further 1,626 missing in action. Unexploded bomb [continue to kill civilians](https://www.projectcensored.org/us-weapons-still-killing-in-vietnam/) for years afterward. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War)
- In the summer of 1950 in South Korea, anticommunists aided by the US executed at least 100,000 people suspected of supporting communism, in the [Bodo League Massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre). For four decades the South Korean government concealed this massacre. Survivors were forbidden by the government from revealing it, under suspicion of being communist sympathizers. Public revelation carried with it the threat of torture and death. During the 1990s and onwards, several corpses were excavated from mass graves, resulting in public awareness of the massacre. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre)
- In 1984, documents were released showing that [Eisenhower authorized the use of atomic weapons on North Korea](https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/08/world/us-papers-tell-of-53-policy-to-use-a-bomb-in-korea.html), should the communists renew the war in 1953. The 2,000 pages released show the high level of planning and the detail of discussion on possible use of these weapons, and Mr. Eisenhower's interest in overcoming reluctance to use them.
- In the beginning of the Korean war, US Troops killed ~300 South Korean civilians in the [No Gun Ri massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre), revealing a theater-wide policy of firing on approaching refugee groups. Trapped refugees began piling up bodies as barricades and tried to dig into the ground to hide. Some managed to escape the first night, while U.S. troops turned searchlights on the tunnels and continued firing, said Chung Koo-ho, whose mother died shielding him and his sister. No apology has yet been issued. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre#Killings)
- The US intervened in the [1950-53 Korean Civil War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War), on the side of the south Koreans, in a proxy war between the US and china for supremacy in East Asia. South Korea reported some 373,599 civilian and 137,899 military deaths, the US with 34,000 killed, and China with 114,000 killed.[[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#cite_note-ROK_Web-16) Overall, the U.S. dropped 635,000 tons of bombs—including 32,557 tons of napalm—on Korea, more than they did during the whole Pacific campaign of World War II.[[305\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#cite_note-Walkom2010-307)[[306\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#cite_note-japanfocus.org-308) The US killed an estimated 1/3rd of the north Korean people during the war. The Joint Chiefs of staff issued orders for the retaliatory bombing of the People's republic of China, should south Korea be attacked. Deadly clashes have continued up to the present day. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#U.S._threat_of_atomic_warfare)
- From 1948-1949, the [Jeju uprising](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_uprising) was an insurgency taking place in the Korean province of Jeju island, followed by severe anticommunist suppression of the [South Korean Labor Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_Party_of_South_Korea) in which 14-30,000 people were killed, or ~10% of the island's population. Though atrocities were committed by both sides, the methods used by the South Korean government to suppress the rebels were especially cruel. On one occasion, American soldiers discovered the bodies of 97 people including children, killed by government forces. On another, American soldiers caught government police forces carrying out an execution of 76 villagers, including women and children. The US later entered the Korean civil war on the side of the South Koreans. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_uprising)