From 6435d4652ab3d13e34003144d864285f933f9d21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dessalines Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 08:54:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Some updates. --- capitalism_doesnt_work.md | 2 +- socialism_faq.md | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/capitalism_doesnt_work.md b/capitalism_doesnt_work.md index 7ada48b..6cf7eb0 100644 --- a/capitalism_doesnt_work.md +++ b/capitalism_doesnt_work.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Lets unpack the idea that "Capitalism works". In the US, the most developed Capi 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.** -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](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1136693839526223872.html), and [yogthos's USSR acheivements post](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8636) about the USSR specifically: +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/) - 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. diff --git a/socialism_faq.md b/socialism_faq.md index 78c0cf0..a8fddc6 100644 --- a/socialism_faq.md +++ b/socialism_faq.md @@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ * [What is Stalinism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/15g4xo/what_is_stalinism/) * [What about Stalin? Didn't he kill millions? (Revleft podcast on Stalin)](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joseph-mother-fucking-stain) * [Was Stalin's USSR State Capitalist?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/383c4i/was_stalins_ussr_state_capitalist/) +* [Lenin on State Capitalism (The Tax in Kind)](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/apr/21.htm) * [What about the term tankies / stalinists? What's the meaning of the term?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/dm2mbz/on_tankies/) [What about the 1956 Hungarian revolt?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/dh6nyi/why_was_the_hungarian_uprising_crushed_by_the_ussr/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/ht4z8a/hungarian_revolution_in_1956/). [MI6 trained the hungarian opposition to fight soviets in the 1956 revolt.](http://archive.is/fMAzu [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/PartyofCommunistsUSA/comments/9kqkt5/anticommunist_and_antijewish_pogroms_of_hungarys/) [4](http://www3.sympatico.ca/thidas/Hungarian-history/Exodus.html) * [RedSails - on "Tankies"](https://redsails.org/tankies/) * [Hakim - Why the USSR was socialist - A critique of left-communism.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKggZ22izDs) @@ -922,7 +923,7 @@ ### What's wrong with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? -- [She's a social democrat, not a socialist, fronting for the Democratic party](https://blackagendareport.com/open-letter-socialists-who-might-be-fronting-democratic-party). +- [She's a social democrat, not a socialist, fronting for the Democratic party](https://blackagendareport.com/open-letter-socialists-who-might-be-fronting-democratic-party). [2](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/30/cort-m30.html) - [AOC asks all supporters to vote for democrats, including Andrew Cuomo.](https://youtu.be/iaLpyJI0ltg?t=647) - [Danny Haiphong from BlackAgendaReport - On the Obama-ification of "the squad".](https://popularresistance.org/the-obama-fication-of-the-squad-strengthens-the-right-at-the-expense-of-the-left/) - [Richard Medhurst - On the squad as a branding exercise, and AOC's support for US bombings and prison camps.](https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1376005285140123648?s=20) @@ -952,10 +953,12 @@ - [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) +- [Refused to talk with an Okinawan representative about the US military occupation there. ](https://mobile.twitter.com/robkajiwara/status/1373370618159099905) - [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) - [After Biden opens new child immigrant detention facilities in February 2021, she stops calling them "concentration camps", and names them "influx facilities".](https://i.imgur.com/oSlwtda.jpg) - [After bucking M4A during the COVID pandemic, AOC touts a FEMA funeral reimbursement program as an acheivement.](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/c7lHG9fFCI.png) +- [Despite her curated image as a New York bartender, she only bartended for 6 months, and worked primarily for a startup incubator called Brooklyn Avenue Press.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/mho3dm/aoc_was_at_a_startup_incubator_in_2011_where_she/) [2](https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-surprising-entrepreneurial-roots-run-for-congress.html) ### What's wrong with Elizabeth Warren? @@ -1221,6 +1224,7 @@ Much credit to [David Kinder's current affairs article, the rise of the Ruth Bad - ["Fuck black culture."](https://www.reddit.com/r/Enough_Vaush_Spam/comments/lv9qu8/vaush_patronizes_a_black_nationalist/) - Calls people ["Mentally ill crybabies"](https://i.imgur.com/T0RnOCC.jpg), "Woke-Scolds", and "Simps". - ["US geopolitical power is important to me personally, because I'm not ready to lose that to China"](https://twitter.com/AlMuntherO_O/status/1260679840698634242?s=20). *got removed* +- [Vaush goes full neocon - "The US shouldn't pull out of the middle east, or else chaos would ensue, and these countries would become like Cambodia [which the USA bombed and overthrew Sihanouk - Ed]. Then they'd become chinese vassal states"](https://streamable.com/kfzaxj). - [Is against decolonization.](https://twitter.com/trikstr_/status/1280053214117793792) "We're not going to fkn leave America, white people are staying... we're not gonna give something back to native Americans... the best way forward is to integrate our communities". Vaush responds to a native person talking about indigenous movements and rights by saying: ["I'll listen to the scientists."](https://twitter.com/guajirx/status/1280314035217588224?s=21) - [Vaush talks down to a Korean person, saying that he hates Korean people, and doesn't know anything about them.](https://twitter.com/aboIishamerica/status/1376891876222107653?s=20) - [Vaush calls Korea, "a festering shithole", and says the North Koreans "got dabbed on", referring to the 4-5 Million deaths the US inflicted.](https://twitter.com/NatalieRevolts/status/1377327842313265154?s=20)