Fixing up crash course and glossary

crash_course_socialism.md

@@ -63,16 +63,6 @@ Unlike workers, Capitalists make their living, not by clocking in and being paid
 
 For example, a Copper mine owner neither physically mines the copper, and (living thousands of miles away) likely delegates day-to-day operations to a hired manager. Yet, **because they have a piece of paper that says they own it, they get a large cut of everything that was mined**: the ultimate free lunch.
 
-Let's say that a garment factory owner spends $90k to buy a facility, machines, and all the other startup costs, as well as $10k per year on operating costs, such as yarn ( called constant capital ). They hire 10 workers, all of whom are paid $20k / year in wages ( called variable capital, or the price of labor power ). They do $400k / year in sales, meaning the owner makes $10k / worker / year ( surplus value ). After 1 year, ( 10 workers * $10k = $100k ), the owner has made up their initial investment. 
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-`Surplus value = Product sales - Constant Capital - Variable capital`
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-`100k = 400k - 100k - 200k` total, or
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-`10k = 40k - 10k - 20k` per worker. 
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-From that year onward, the owner pockets $100k / year, even after fully paying off their initial investment. They've fully paid off their initial investment, yet are "rewarded" indefinitely.
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 A 1983 report by England national income and expenditures found that on average, **26 minutes of every hour worked** (or 43% of labor value added) by English workers across a wide range of industries went to various exploiting or unproductive groups, with workers receiving only *57% of their pre-tax productive output as wages*<sup>[1](http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf)</sup>. In other words, at least **40% of the work you do every day is stolen by Capitalists.** 
 
 Capitalists use the surplus to [push out competitors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices) and gain market share, leading to the destruction of most small businesses, with [just a few companies](http://imgur.com/a/xgnEp) controlling our food, media, [news](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6U2Un5kEdI), energy, transportation, and finances.
@@ -149,7 +139,7 @@ Markets likewise were rare, since communities tended to be self-sufficient. Ritu
 
 In the modern day, there is the **communism of the family**, in which family members share freely with one another. There are community welfare organizations, food banks, as well as thousands of undocumented and unpublicized acts of kindness which show that cooperation endures even in spite of the individualism of the current dominant economic system. Popular phrases like, "Money is the root of all evil", hint at our societal dislike of selfishness, and persist alongside the capitalist myths of the "self-made man", and, "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps" (which shows the power of capitalist indoctrination: in a nonsensical world, *the impossible becomes possible*). 
 
-Capitalism evolved historically out of [feudalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism) and [slave societies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery), all three being dependent on a dominant [ruling class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruling_class) receiving the surplus of a subordinate class.
+Capitalism evolved historically out of [feudalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism) and [slave societies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery), all three being examples of *class society*, with a dominant [ruling class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruling_class) receiving the surplus of a subordinate class.
 
 Socialism as a diverse philosophy arose out of a criticism after the French revolution, in which a capitalist class (the [bourgeoisie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie)) seemed to merely replace [feudal lords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism) to become the new ruling class. At the same time, the exploited serfs were moved off the land ([enclosure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure)) and forced into the cities to become wage-workers. 
 
@@ -157,13 +147,15 @@ Marxism is a socialist tradition, which places emphasis on the means of producti
 
 ## Value
 
-Economic systems, such as Capitalism, don't invent, *create* or *build* anything. Workers do (See [Soviet Space Program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program)). The "isms" just determine who gets compensated. Nor does [capitalism spur innovation](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9c9qj6/in_a_communist_society_what_are_people_motivated/); the pursuit of new ideas is fundamental to humanity, and takes place regardless of the economic system in place. Inventions like rocketry, the internet, space travel, GPS, mobile phones, vaccines, [were all developed under public funding](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/). 
+Economic systems, such as Capitalism, don't invent, *create* or *build* anything. Workers do (See [Soviet Space Program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program)). The "isms" only determine who gets compensated. 
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+Nor does [capitalism spur innovation](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9c9qj6/in_a_communist_society_what_are_people_motivated/); the pursuit of new ideas is fundamental to humanity, and takes place regardless of the economic system in place. Inventions like rocketry, the internet, space travel, GPS, mobile phones, vaccines, [were all developed under public funding](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/). 
 
 [The labor theory of value (LTV)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value) recognizes that our most valuable resource is time, specifically **socially useful/necessary** labor time. There is after all only a **finite number of hours of work humanity can perform in a given day**; and at least half of that value is going to a few absentee owners. 
 
 The labor theory was commonly accepted in the 19th century ( especially by Smith and Ricardo ), but fell out of favor as capitalist states began to cement economics as a discipline to justify the new status quo. 
 
-Most capitalist economists treat value like magic fairy dust: it can be created and destroyed with a thought. [Many modern economists and mainstream economics professors serve a role akin to the priests during feudalism](https://truthout.org/articles/economic-theorists-the-high-priests-of-capitalism/): treating value and rewards in idealist terms, rather than as scientific concepts, justifying capitalism's immense inequality ( whilst often getting paid to promote it ), and demonizing other theories ( such as LTV ) as heresy. 
+Most capitalist economists treat value like magic fairy dust: it can be created and destroyed with a thought. [Many modern economists and economics professors serve a role akin to the priests during feudalism](https://truthout.org/articles/economic-theorists-the-high-priests-of-capitalism/): treating value and rewards in idealist terms, rather than as scientific concepts, justifying capitalism's immense inequality ( whilst often getting paid to promote it ), and demonizing other theories ( such as LTV ) as heresy. 
 
 Coming down to reality from idealist and subjective experience, value, like any other scientific concept, such as energy, **is preserved** in a closed system.
 
@@ -187,18 +179,17 @@ The socialist argument is not that individual passive investors should still bea
 
 ## Conformity
 
-[Socialism has nothing to do with conformity](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/mar/11.htm), restriction of artistic expression, or equality in abilities. It instead proposes *economic and political equality* through the abolition of classes, placing all citizens on an equal footing *with regard to the means of production*. It is Capitalism, with its inherent authoritarian hierarchies, that imposes conformity on society through [vapid consumerism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism), and through the authoritarian nature of capitalist firms themselves. A [chain of command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_hierarchy) ensures that orders from capitalists drop like a rock, to dominate the actions of every worker.
+[Socialism has nothing to do with conformity](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/mar/11.htm), restriction of artistic expression, or equality in abilities. It instead proposes *economic and political equality* through the abolition of classes, placing all citizens on an equal footing *with regard to the means of production*. It is Capitalism, with its inherent class hierarchies, that imposes conformity on society through [vapid consumerism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism), and through the authoritarian nature of capitalist firms themselves. A [chain of command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_hierarchy) ensures that orders from capitalists drop like a rock, to dominate the actions of every worker.
 
 ## Democracy
 
 Socialists view democracy under capitalism to be an unrealistic utopia, better labeled as [Bourgeois Democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Marxism), or democracy for the rich, which socialists contrast with proletarian democracy. Under capitalism, political parties, representatives, infrastructure, and the media **are controlled by capitalists**, who place restrictions on the choices given to workers, limit their representative options to vetted capitalist puppets, and limit the [scope of public debate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window) to pro-capitalist views. 
 
-[Bourgeois democracies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy#Dictatorship_of_the_bourgeoisie) are in reality [Capitalist Dictatorships](https://i.imgur.com/8vDYw17.jpg), resulting in legislation favorable to the wealthy, regardless of the population's actual preferences. [The Princeton Study, conducted in the US in 2014](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig), found that the preferences of the average citizen exert a near-zero influence on legislation, making the US system of elections and campaigning little more than political theater. Parliamentary / representative democracy has proven to be the safest shell for capitalist rule, regardless of voting methods or differing political structures, for countries as diverse as Australia, Japan, Sweden, or Brazil.
+[Bourgeois democracies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy#Dictatorship_of_the_bourgeoisie) are in reality [Capitalist Dictatorships](https://i.imgur.com/8vDYw17.jpg), resulting in legislation favorable to the wealthy, regardless of the population's actual preferences. [The Princeton Study, conducted in the US in 2014](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig), found that the preferences of the average US citizen exert a near-zero influence on legislation, making the US system of elections and campaigning little more than political theater. **Multi-party, Parliamentary / representative democracy has proven to be the safest shell for capitalist rule**, regardless of voting methods or differing political structures, for countries as diverse as Australia, Japan, Sweden, the UK, the US, South Korea, or Brazil.
 
 Examples of restrictions include a [media and news monopoly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership), the [First Past the Post](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo) voting system (which enforces capitalist two party domination), [gerrymandering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering), long term limits with no way to recall unpopular representatives, restrictions crafted to disenfranchise poor and minority voters, bills directly crafted by lobbyists and bourgeois lawmakers, voter suppression, electoral fraud, unverifiable closed source electronic voting systems, capitalist campaign financing, low voter to representative ratios, inconvenient voting locations and times, and most pervasive, *candidate stacking*. **Most elections are performed before we ever get to the polling booth**. In short, political democracy can't exist without economic democracy.
 
-The impossibility of Capitalist democracy to make a transition to working-class democracy is best shown by the phrase: Capitalists **will not allow** you to vote away their wealth. Pacifism, and elections have [never been an effective means of disenfranchising the ruling class.](https://theredphoenixapl.org/2011/08/11/pacifism-how-to-do-the-enemys-job-for-them/) Multi-party, representative parliamentary democracies, such as exist in Australia, the UK, South Korea, and
+The impossibility of Capitalist democracy to make a transition to working-class democracy is best shown by the phrase: **Capitalists will not allow you to vote away their wealth.** Pacifism, and elections have [never been an effective means of disenfranchising the ruling class.](https://theredphoenixapl.org/2011/08/11/pacifism-how-to-do-the-enemys-job-for-them/) 
-the United States, have proved to be the safest shell for Capitalist rule.
 
 Communists propose building alternatives alongside of bourgeois democracy, with the goal of to replacing it with **Proletarian democracy**. Measures might include:
 
@@ -224,7 +215,7 @@ In the southern US, **African slavery was used to solve the labor shortage**, an
 
 Since the 1960s, there has been a [labor surplus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Productivity_and_Real_Median_Family_Income_Growth_in_the_United_States.png), due to a decreased demand for workers due to computers and automation, and an increased supply of workers (women, and low-paid manufacturing and agriculture in less-developed countries). The extra, unemployed workers make up a [reserve army of labor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour), keeping wages low, and desperation high. Increased worker productivity (due to computers and automation) mean that the surplus (the difference between worker productivity and wage paid), is historically higher than ever. This trend will only continue, and workers will naturally become more class conscious, as they see their exploitation increase, and their livelihood decrease.
 
-Since workers have less money to survive, let alone buy what their employers are selling, there is a [tendency for the rate of profit to fall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall), and capitalists fight and wage wars over the decreasing surplus. [Late stage capitalism](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/top/) refers to the extreme polarization of the two classes, the increasingly absurd and cruel ways our society copes and justifies such stark inequality, and the horrible things capitalism forces people to do to survive.
+Since workers have less money to survive, there is a [tendency for the rate of profit to fall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall), and capitalists fight and wage wars over the decreasing surplus. [Late stage capitalism](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/top/) refers to the extreme polarization of the two classes, the increasingly absurd and cruel ways our society copes and justifies such stark inequality, and the horrible things capitalism forces people to do to survive.
 
 As the supply of labor outstrips the demand, it becomes cheaper to employ workers rather than to sink startup costs into innovative technology. Soon, **the technological growth rate grinds to a halt** ([as of 2018 technological growth in Europe has slowed to ~1-2% per year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTl4b0w6mpk)), just as in ancient Rome, inexpensive slave labor lead to stagnant technological progress. 
 
@@ -254,7 +245,7 @@ Socialism as an economic system is distinct from [neoliberalism](https://en.wiki
 
 ## The Communist Legacy
 
-Some Marxists say the regimes typically called socialist are more correctly defined as [State Capitalist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism), since production was controlled by state bureaucracies who also distributed the surplus, rather than through the democratic input of workers. Other Marxists call them *siege socialist*, contrasting it with *pure socialism*, stating that siege socialism is a natural reaction to the external pressures of capitalist encirclement, and that *pure socialism* is an ideal which is [ahistorical and nonfalsifiable.](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/23/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/) The US for example, has been involved in [militarily crushing nearly every socialist attempt](us_atrocities.md) for the last 80 years, and installing right-wing fascist dictatorships (friendly to US interests) in their place. Needless to say, **capitalist encirclement has a profoundly distorting affect** on the building of socialism; very few attempts have survived US interventionism. [This talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7WmYEoNtPY&feature=youtu.be) by Micheal Parenti is a good reflection and criticism on the soviet experiment. 
+Some Marxists say the regimes typically called socialist are more correctly defined as [State Capitalist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism), since production was controlled by state bureaucracies who also distributed the surplus, rather than through the democratic input of workers. Other Marxists call them *siege socialist*, contrasting it with *pure socialism*, stating that siege socialism is a natural reaction to the external pressures of capitalist encirclement, and that *pure socialism* is an ideal which is [ahistorical and nonfalsifiable.](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/23/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/) The US for example, has been involved in [militarily crushing nearly every socialist attempt](us_atrocities.md) for the last 80 years, and installing right-wing fascist dictatorships (friendly to US interests) in their place. Needless to say, **capitalist encirclement has a profoundly distorting affect** on the building of socialism; very few attempts have survived US interventionism. [This talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7WmYEoNtPY&feature=youtu.be) by Micheal Parenti is a good reflection on the soviet experiment. 
 
 The early stages of the [1917 Russian Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution) were far more progressive than is typically portrayed; Divorce was legalized, **Homosexuality was decriminalized**, land was distributed to the peasantry, banks were nationalized, control of factories was given to worker's councils, **the workday was shortened**, wages were fixed at a higher rate, all elected officials could now be immediately recalled; it created mass literacy drives, free nurseries, communal kitchens, and laundries. 14 Western nations (including the US) [sent troops to Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War) to fight against the gains of the revolution.
 
@@ -264,7 +255,7 @@ These achievements were possible due to efficient use of resources resulting fro
 
 The famines and economic hardship typically associated with communism in Russia and China, were partially a result of the painful process of [industrialization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialisation), and the transition from agriculture to industry. It would be the case whether capitalists, communists, or enlightened rulers were in power. During England's rapid industrialization, life expectancy in some cities was less than 30 years. This is the case with every country in the process of industrialization. [Lysenkoism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism), and [a period of droughts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine) made the problem worse. The scale of famines were also exaggerated by capitalist historians, whose brinkmanship in quoting higher death counts is contradicted by the **massive population growth** of those countries. Even in spite of this, a look at a [drastic increase in the life expectancy in the USSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union#Life_expectancy_and_infant_mortality) should put to rest the notion of socialism as contributing to starvation. 
 
-Exaggerated death counts blamed on *communism* and usually attributed to Stalin or Mao are often due to Western historians attributing **all deaths** to the economic system. This would be the equivalent of attributing deaths from the [Dust Bowl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl) to FDR. Yet [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.](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)
+Exaggerated death counts blamed on *communism* and usually attributed to Stalin or Mao are often due to Western historians attributing **all deaths** to the economic system (One stark example, is the US-state-run organization "victims of communism", which counts German WW2 casualties as communist victims). This would be the equivalent of attributing deaths from the [Dust Bowl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl) to FDR. Yet [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.](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)
 
 Even if we were to fully accept the Western propaganda that socialist regimes have killed 100 million people, then within 10 years, **capitalism kills more children under the age of 5 than socialism did in 150 years**.
 
@@ -272,9 +263,9 @@ Even if we were to fully accept the Western propaganda that socialist regimes ha
 
 Communism is the highest developed stage of socialism wherein there is no state, no money, no class system. The means of production are owned by all and provide for everyone's needs. There are also presumably high levels of automation so [most do not have to work](http://imgur.com/yQpzb).
 
-Many socialists point to [directly democratic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy) [worker’s councils](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers'_council) as an ideal way to organize production, with [gift economies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy) for abundant goods, and [labor voucher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_voucher) economies for scarce/luxury goods. Here is an example of a [moneyless, Cyber-Communist system](/paul_cockshott_cyber_communism.md), [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI01-5zhwdA).
+Many socialists point to [directly democratic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy) [worker’s councils](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers'_council) as an ideal way to organize production, with [gift economies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy) for abundant goods, and [labor voucher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_voucher) economies for scarce/luxury goods. Here is an example of a [moneyless, Cyber-Communist system](paul_cockshott_cyber_communism.md), [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI01-5zhwdA).
 
-Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Catalonia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Catalonia), [Anarchist Aragon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_Aragon), Shinmin Province in Korea/Manchuria, The [Bavarian Soviet Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Soviet_Republic), The [Paris Commune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_commune), The Zapatista controlled areas of Chiapas (current day), [Magonista Baja California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magonista_rebellion_of_1911), [Shanghai People's Commune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_People%27s_Commune), [Rojava](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava) (current day), [Communist Marinaleda](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/marinaleda-spanish-communist-village-utopia), [Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia), [USSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union), [People's Republic of China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China), [Socialist Republic of Vietnam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam), [Cuba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba). 
+Past and present socialist societies include - The [Paris Commune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_commune), [Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia), [USSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union), [People's Republic of China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China), [Socialist Republic of Vietnam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam), [Laos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos), [Belarussian SSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic), [Peoples socialist republic of Albania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Socialist_Republic_of_Albania), [Peoples republic of Bulgaria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Bulgaria), the [GDR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Democratic_Republic), [Hungary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_People%27s_Republic), the [Democratic people's republic of Korea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_People%27s_Republic_of_Korea), [Mongolian people's republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Republic), and [Cuba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba). 
 
 [Revolutionary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_socialism) vs [Evolutionary (Reformist)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformism) socialism, [Economic planning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy) with [labor vouchers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_voucher) vs. [Market socialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism), are a few debated topics within socialism.
 
@@ -308,6 +299,8 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni
 
 ## Literature
 
+[Dessalines Marxism Study Plan](dessalines_marxism_study_plan.md)
+
 ### Modern introductory books
 
   - [Introductory books](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6980fde654f217ec9c81b30eab1ca3a13bbbca1e&dn=Socialist+books+starter+pack)
@@ -366,7 +359,6 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni
 ### Fiction
 
 - Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars / Mars Trilogy
-- Ursula K LeGuin - The Dispossessed
 
 ## Audiobooks
 
@@ -427,17 +419,18 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni
 
 ## Podcasts
 
-- [Proles of the round table](https://prolespod.libsyn.com/)
-- [Eyes Left](https://soundcloud.com/eyesleft)
 - [Revolutionary Left Radio](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/)
-- [Red Menace](https://redmenace.libsyn.com/)
 - [Citations needed](https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded)
+- [Probably Canceled Podcast](https://www.audible.com/pd/Podcast/B08JJN7MHK)
 - [David Harvey's anti-capitalist chronicles](https://www.democracyatwork.info/acc)
 - [Economic Update with Richard Wolff](https://economicupdate.libsyn.com/)
+- [Eyes Left](https://soundcloud.com/eyesleft)
+- [Red Menace](https://redmenace.libsyn.com/)
+- [Proles of the round table](https://prolespod.libsyn.com/)
 
 ## Channels
 
-- [Anticonqustia](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl1bDSVi34xE65YzreytVxQ)
+- [Anticonquista](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl1bDSVi34xE65YzreytVxQ)
 - [Empire Files](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG29FnXZm4F5U8xpqs1cs1Q)
 - [Paul Cockshott](https://youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
 - [Richard Wolff - Democracy at Work](https://www.democracyatwork.info/)
@@ -449,23 +442,20 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni
 
 ## Parties / Groups
 
-- [List of Anticapitalist Organizations](anticapitalist_orgs.md#organizations)
-
 ## Online Communities
 
-- [Marxist.space - A collection of resources](https://marxist.space/)
 - [/r/capitalism_in_decay](https://www.reddit.com/r/capitalism_in_decay/)
-- [/r/socialism](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/)
+
-- [/r/communism](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/)
-- [/r/anarchism](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/)
 - [/r/socialistRA](https://reddit.com/r/socialistRA)
-- [/r/redneckrevolt](https://www.reddit.com/r/redneckrevolt/)
+
 - [/r/socialistprogrammers](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialistprogrammers/)
-- [/r/militant](https://www.reddit.com/r/militant/)
+
 - 101s
+  - [/r/GenZhou](https://www.reddit.com/r/genzhou/)
+  - [/r/asktankies](https://www.reddit.com/r/asktankies/)
   - [/r/communism101](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/)
-  - [/r/socialism_101](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/)
 - Memes
+  - [/r/GenZedong](https://www.reddit.com/r/genzedong/)
   - [/r/FULLCOMMUNISM](https://www.reddit.com/r/FULLCOMMUNISM/)
   - [/r/ShitLiberalsSay](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/)
 

glossary_of_socialist_terms.md

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 | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
 | [Capitalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism)       | A system that allows private individuals to own the means of production, with the goal of extracting a profit from the sale of commodities produced by wage workers. |
 | [Profit / Surplus Value](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value) | The difference between the value a worker adds, and the value that they receive (such as a wage) and are able to use for themselves. This surplus value goes to another leeching party that controls production (capitalists, slavemaster, etc). <br>`Surplus Value = Worker Value Added - Wage Paid`.<br>Synonymous with unpaid labor, profit, exploitation, and wage theft. |
-| [Communism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism)         | A stateless, moneyless, and classless system where the means of production are democratically owned and controlled by the community, for the benefit of all. Wage labor is non-existent, and production is planned for human needs, rather than private profit. It can also refer to the movement towards communism.  |
+| [Communism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism)         | A stateless, moneyless, and classless system where the means of production are democratically owned and controlled by the community, for the benefit of all. Production is planned for human needs, rather than private profit. It can also refer to the movement towards communism. |
 | [Socialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism)         | A range of social and economic systems characterized by social ownership of the means of production. It can also mean the transitional stage between capitalism and communism, sometimes referred to as the dictatorship of the proletariat. |
-| [Anarchism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism)         | A political philosophy that critiques hierarchical organization, and emphasizes free assocation. The main two branches are social anarchism, and individualist anarchism. |
+| [Anarchism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism)         | A political philosophy that critiques hierarchical organization, and emphasizes free association. The main two branches are social anarchism, and individualist anarchism. |
-| [Social Democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy) | Originally synonymous with socialism, then evolutionary socialism, then restricted capitalism. Social democracy is an ideology that supports economic interventionism to promote social justice whilst retaining a capitalist economy. It is often seen by socialists as supporting "welfare-state" band-aids to capitalism. |
+| [Social Democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy) | Originally synonymous with socialism, then evolutionary socialism, then restricted capitalism. Social democracy is an ideology that supports economic interventionism to promote social justice whilst retaining capitalist control over the economy. It is often seen by socialists as supporting "welfare-state" band-aids to capitalism. |
 | [Welfare State](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state) | A state that provides social services on behalf of the well-being of its citizens, while retaining capitalism. It often refers to Germany, the UK, and the Nordic countries, but can refer to any state with social services. |
-| [State Capitalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism) | An economic system where some means of production are owned by the state, surplus labor is still extracted, and wage labor still exists. The state decides how to distribute the surplus. Engels argued that the state form would be the final stage of capitalism. State Capitalism could also refer to a capitalist class controlling, or rising above, political power and decision-making. |
+| [State Capitalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism) | An economic system where some means of production are owned by the state, surplus labor is still extracted, and capitalists still hold state power. The state decides how to distribute the surplus. Engels argued that the state form would be the final stage of capitalism. State Capitalism could also refer to a capitalist class controlling, or rising above, political power and decision-making. |
 | [State Socialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_state) | A state governed or administered by a single party, with wide participation, integrating various state-sponsored organizations, such as labor unions, trade unions, youth organizations, women's organizations, associations of teachers, writers, consumer cooperatives, and housing cooperatives. All land and productive facilities are controlled by the party. The party may allow limited private ownership, often offering leases in specialized zones, but will not allow a capitalist class to rise above the level of state power or decision-making, as in multi-party bourgeois democracies. |
-| [Liberalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism)       | A political ideology that emerged in the 19th century that justifies capitalism, free markets, representative democracy, freedom of the press, free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to own property. It conceptualizes rights as individual-being, rather than species-being or as collective human rights. |
+| [Liberalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism)       | A political ideology that emerged in the 19th century that justifies capitalism, free markets, representative democracy, freedom of the press, free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to own property. It views rights as individual, rather than collective.. |
 | [Slavery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery)             | A system that allows individuals to own other human beings, in order to extract a surplus from their labor. |
 | [Feudalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism)         | An arrangement predominating in the middle ages, where a local lord would allow serfs to live and sustain themselves on his land, as long as they provided him labor and military support. |
 | [Fascism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism)             | A multi-definition term generally characterized by hyper-nationalism, racial supremacy, a cult of personality around a "strong" leader as superior to democracy, crushing of labor unions and organizations, and an alliance between big and small capitalists. |
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 | [Bourgeoisie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie)     | The social class that came to own the means of production during modern industrialization and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital, to ensure the perpetuation of their economic supremacy in society. |
 | [Class Struggle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_conflict) | A tension that exists between competing classes, caused by contradictory interests, that can only be resolved through violent confrontation. The competing classes are determined by the economic mode of society: In Slavery, the master and slave. In Feudalism, the lord and serf. In Capitalism, the capitalist and wage worker. |
 | [Class Consciousness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_consciousness) | A state of awareness of the class system and membership to a class, as well as understanding the true collective interests of each class. |
-| [Petit Bourgeoisie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petite_bourgeoisie) | The lower subset of the bourgeoisie made up of small-scale capitalists such as shop-keepers and workers who manage the production, distribution, and/or exchange of commodities and/or services owned by their bourgeois employers. It often refers to "small business owners", and is contrasted with the haute bourgeoisie, or the big capitalists. |
+| [Petite Bourgeoisie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petite_bourgeoisie) | The lower subset of the bourgeoisie made up of small-scale capitalists such as shop-keepers and workers who manage the production, distribution, and/or exchange of commodities and/or services owned by their bourgeois employers. It often refers to "small business owners", and is contrasted with the haute bourgeoisie, or the big capitalists. |
-| [Bourgeois Democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Marxism) | The name that socialists use to refer to modern representative liberal democracies, criticized as being democracies for the rich only, since representatives and the media in capitalist countries are often the puppets of the capitalists themselves. |
+| [Labor Aristocracy](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/zak_cope_divided_favorites.md) | The section of the international working class whose privileged position in lucrative job markets opened up by imperialism guarantees its receipt of wages approaching or exceeding the per capita value created by the working class as a whole. The class interests of the labor aristocracy are bound up with those of the capitalist class, such that if the latter is unable to accumulate superprofits then the super-wages of the labor aristocracy must be reduced. |
+| [Bourgeois Democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Marxism) | The name that socialists use to refer to modern representative liberal democracies, criticized as being democracies for the rich only, since representatives and the media in capitalist countries are the puppets controlled by capitalists. |
 | [Reformism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformism)         | A position that advocates gradually transforming a capitalist economy into a qualitatively different socialist system through political and economic reform, in contrast to revolutionary socialism. Synonymous with evolutionary socialism. |
 | [Revisionism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionism_(Marxism)) | A pejorative term used by Marxists to refer to the common practice of "watering down", or blunting the revolutionary spirit of historical figures and theories, in order to make their ideas more *acceptable* to the ruling class. It often refers to bourgeois scholars transforming revolutionary icons into pacifists, or to socialist societies that have abandoned progress towards communism. |
 | [Cultural Hegemony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony) | The domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society—the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores—so that their imposed, ruling-class worldview becomes the accepted cultural norm; the universally valid dominant ideology, which justifies the social, political, and economic status quo as natural and inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for everyone, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class. |
-| [The State](https://theimmortalscience.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/) | In Leninism, the state is a *special organization of force* used for the suppression of one class by another. Under capitalist society, the state upholds capitalism and wields force to suppress the working class. In general terms, a state is any politically organized community under a single government. |
+| [The State](https://theimmortalscience.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/) | In Leninism, the state is a *special organization of force* used for the suppression of one class by another. Under capitalist society, the state upholds capitalism and wields force to suppress the working class. In socialism, state power is held by workers and uses force to suppress the capitalist class. In general terms, a state is any politically organized community under a single government. |
 | [Imperialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism)     | The domination of a weaker country by a stronger one; referring primarily to the conquering and exploitation of the land, labor, and natural resources of the weaker country. In Leninism, imperialism is the final stage of capitalism, where finance capital is exported to undeveloped economies, resulting in the colonization and division of the world amongst capitalist monopolies. Geopolitical conflict ensues over this economic exploitation, and the resulting super-profits permit businessmen to bribe native politicians and labor leaders, and intervene militarily to suppress worker revolts. |
 | [Nationalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism)     | An ideology which emphasizes nations (and often specific races living in those nations), self-governance, national identity, and patriotism over internationalism. Communists want working-class internationalism, but also defend the right of nations to be free from imperialism. |
 | [Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution)       | A fundamental change in political power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time when the population rises up in revolt against the current authorities. In Marxism, a revolution is expropriation and smashing of existing property relations, with the proletariat being the only truly revolutionary class that can enact this social transformation. |
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 | [Dictatorship of the Proletariat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat) | A transitional state of affairs, between capitalism and communism, in which the working class holds political power, and is in the process of changing the means of production from private, to social ownership. Dictatorship doesn't refer to an autocracy, but rather that the working class now dictates what happens in society. |
 | [Dialectical Materialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism) | The evolution of the natural world and the emergence of new qualities of being at new stages of evolution. It also recognizes that the mode of production is the main motive force of history, and contains contradictions (such as class struggle), whose resolution results in the development of new modes of production and social organization. |
 | [Labor theory of value](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value) | A theory of value that argues that the economic value of a good or service is determined by the total amount of average socially necessary labor required to produce it, rather than by the use or pleasure its owner gets from it. |
-| [Socialism in one country](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_One_Country) | A theory by Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Bukharin, that given the failure of the European revolutions of the early 1900s (except in Russia), that the Soviet Union should strengthen itself internally, and postpone world-revolution. Also called siege socialism. |
+| [Socialism in one country](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_One_Country) | A theory by Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Bukharin, that given the failure of the European revolutions of the early 1900s (except in Russia), that the Soviet Union should strengthen itself internally, and postpone exporting world-revolution. Also called siege socialism. |
 | [Permanent Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_revolution) | In Marxism, the strategy of a revolutionary class to continue to pursue its class interests independently and without compromise, despite overtures for political alliances, and despite the political dominance of opposing sections of society. In Trotskyism, PR holds that the only way to achieve world communism is to allow the revolution to spread unimpeded from nation to nation, the theory that a revolution in one nation would ignite revolutionary fervor worldwide, and that full scale working class revolution must be allowed to germinate. |
 | [Right of nations to self-determination](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninism#National_self-determination) | In Lenin's words: "The bourgeois nationalism of any oppressed nation has a general democratic content that is directed against oppression, and it is this content that we unconditionally support. At the same time, we strictly distinguish it from the tendency towards national exclusiveness." In short, its much easier to fight a one front war against local capitalists, than a two front war against much more powerful imperialists. |
-| [Democratic Centralism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_centralism) | A tenet of Leninism, described by him as, *diversity in discussion, unity in action.* After decisions are reached, they are followed by the group. |
+| [Democratic Centralism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_centralism) | A tenet of Leninism, described as, *diversity in discussion, unity in action.* After decisions are reached, they are followed by the group. |
 | [Vanguardism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguardism)     | A strategy whereby the most class-conscious and politically advanced sections of the working class form organizations in order to draw larger sections of the workers towards revolutionary politics and serve as manifestations of proletarian political power against its class enemies. |
 | [Two Stage Theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-stage_theory) | Argues that underdeveloped countries, such as Tsarist Russia, must first pass through a stage of capitalism before moving to a socialist stage. |
-| [Mass Line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_line)         | In Maoism, a method of growing class consciousness and communism, where communists consult the masses, interpret their ideas and suggestions within the framework of Marxism-Leninism, decide how to best solve those problems through collective action, and then enforce those resulting policies. |
+| [Mass Line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_line)         | In Mao-Zedong-thought, a method of growing class consciousness and communism, where communists consult the masses, interpret their ideas and suggestions within the framework of Marxism-Leninism, decide how to best solve those problems through collective action, and then enforce those resulting policies. |
 | [Mass Strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_strike)  | A strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labor force in a city, region, or country participates, spreading class consciousness, and forcing capitalist concessions. Rosa Luxemburg identified it as one of the most powerful tactics available to workers. |
 | [Alienation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation) | A term used by Marx to denote the estrangement of workers under capitalism from the products of their labor, and themselves; the worker loses the ability to determine life and destiny, when deprived of the right to think of themselves as the director of their own actions; to determine the character of said actions; to define their relationships with other people; and to own the things produced by their own labor. Although the worker is an autonomous, self-realized human being, as an economic entity, this worker is directed by the bourgeoisie, who own the means of production with which they must work to survive. |
-| [Cultural Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution) | In Maoism, the idea that capitalist values do constantly re-appear within the communist party, although not uniformly. It is up to the people, who are the real motive force in world history, to call out and denounce capitalist values and corrupt people in positions of authority, and "bombard the headquarters", to ensure the elimination of bourgeois values and cement proletarian power. In short, "it is always right to rebel." |
+| [Cultural Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution) | In Mao-Zedong-thought, the idea that capitalist values do constantly re-appear within the communist party, although not uniformly. It is up to the people, who are the real motive force in world history, to call out and denounce capitalist values and corrupt people in positions of authority, and "bombard the headquarters", to ensure the elimination of bourgeois values and cement proletarian power. In short, "it is always right to rebel." |
 | [United Front](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_front)   | In Trotskyism, an initiative whereby communists propose to join with all workers belonging to other parties and groups and all unaligned workers in a common struggle to defend the immediate, basic interests of the working class against the bourgeoisie. Through united struggle, many workers can be won over to revolutionary socialism. |
 | [Transitional Demand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_demand) | In Trotskyism, an agitational demand made by a socialist organization with the aim of linking the current situation to progress towards their goal of a socialist society. Transitional demands differ from calls for reform in that they call for things that governments and corporations are unwilling or unable to offer, and therefore, any progress towards obtaining a transitional demand is likely to weaken capitalism and strengthen the hand of the working class. Examples of transitional demands would be "Employment for all" or "Housing for all"; demands that sound reasonable to the average citizen, but are practically impossible for capitalism to deliver on. |
 | [Dual Power](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_power_(Russian_Revolution)) | A tenet of Leninism, in which two powers, one proletarian (workers' councils / direct democratic organizations) and one capitalist (the official state apparatus) coexist and compete for legitimacy, during the transition away from capitalism. |
-| [Protracted Peoples War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism%E2%80%93Maoism#People.27s_War) | In Maoism, a strategy for achieving communism that includes winning the support of the locals (usually the peasantry) in areas away from capitalist strongholds, and waging unconventional guerrilla warfare, while building institutions of dual power to replace capitalist ones. |
+| [Protracted Peoples War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism%E2%80%93Maoism#People.27s_War) | In Mao-Zedong-thought, a strategy for achieving communism that includes winning the support of the locals (usually the peasantry) in areas away from capitalist strongholds, waging unconventional guerrilla warfare, and building institutions of dual power to replace capitalist ones. |
 | Workers Militia                                              | An important focus of Trotskyism, where local, self-organized working-class militias, fighting for their class interests, are the primary vehicle to achieve socialism. |
-| [Accelerationism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism) | The support for increasing the oppression of capitalism in the hope that class contradictions will reach a point that revolution will become more likely. A metaphor might be that accelerationists see our current situation as boiling a frog in water slowly, while a stark uptick in oppression will cause workers to revolt. Few communists or anarchists support it, because it harms working people, and historically increased oppression hasn't lead to increased chance of revolt. What leads to revolution is actually socialist organization efforts, and a growth in class conciousness. |
+| [Accelerationism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism) | The support for increasing the oppression of capitalism in the hope that class contradictions will reach a point that revolution will become more likely. Accelerationists might view our current situation as boiling a frog in water slowly, while a stark uptick in oppression will cause workers to revolt. Few communists support it, because it harms working people, and historically increased oppression hasn't lead to increased chance of revolt. What leads to revolution is actually socialist organization efforts, and a growth in class conciousness. |
 | [Intersectionality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality) | A term that signifies that the various forms of social stratification, such as class, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, disability and gender, do not exist separately from each other but are interwoven together, and must be attacked equally without neglecting any one axis. |
 
 ## Branches
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 | [Marxism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism)             | A socialist tradition created by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, that places emphasis on the means of production, your relation to them, and the inherent class struggle involved between those who control production, and those who don't. |
 | [Leninism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninism)           | A branch of Marxism developed by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks drawn from their experiences in early 20th century Russia. Important concepts include vanguardism, dictatorship of the proletariat (and how to transition to communism), dual power, the right of nations to self-determination, imperialism, and democratic centralism. The goal of Leninism is the development of a worker state capable of withstanding capitalist encirclement (often called siege socialism), in order to protect and continue the transition to communism, as well as aid other anti-imperialist nations. |
 | [Marxism-Leninism (ML)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism) | A term created by Joseph Stalin to refer to the ideology of the USSR, generally synonymous with Leninism. |
-| [Maoism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism)               | A Marxist tendency developed by Mao Zedong. Important concepts include protracted people's war, new democracy, the mass line, cultural revolution, contradiction, and agrarian socialism. |
+| [Mao-Zedong-thought](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism)   | A Marxist tendency developed by Mao Zedong and other early leaders of the Chinese revolution. Important concepts include protracted people's war, new democracy, the mass line, cultural revolution, contradiction, and agrarian socialism. |
-| [Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism%E2%80%93Maoism) | A resurgent tendency of Maoism formalized by the [Revolutionary Internationalist Movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Internationalist_Movement) in 1993, generally synonymous with Maoism. |
+| [Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism%E2%80%93Maoism) | A resurgent tendency of Maoism formalized by the [Revolutionary Internationalist Movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Internationalist_Movement) in 1993, primarily by Abimael Guzman, emphasizing the universal applicability of people's war, and a rejection of the USSR, modern China, Cuba, and Vietnam as "revisionist". Distinct from Mao-Zedong-thought. |
-| [Anarcho-communism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-communism) | A theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, wage labour, and private property (while retaining respect for personal property), and in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy, and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding principle: "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need". Primarily based on the ideas of Kropotkin. |
+| [Anarcho-communism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-communism) | A theory of anarchism which advocates the immediate abolition of the state, capitalism, wage labour, and private property (while retaining respect for personal property), and in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy, and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding principle: "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need". Primarily based on the ideas of Kropotkin. |
-| [Egoist Anarchism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoist_anarchism) | An individualist school of anarchist thought that originated in the philosophy of Max Stirner, defining an egoist as one who has no political calling, but rather "lives themselves out" without regard to "how well or ill humanity may fare thereby". Stirner held that the only limitation on the rights of the individual is his power to obtain what he desires. |
+| [Egoist Anarchism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoist_anarchism) | An individualist school of anarchist thought that originated in the philosophy of Max Stirner, defining an egoist as one who has no political calling, but rather "lives themselves out" without regard to "how well or ill humanity may fare thereby". Stirner held that the only limitation on the rights of the individual should be his power to obtain what he desires. |
-| [Trotskyism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism)       | A branch of Leninism created by Leon Trotsky, a leading bolshevik. Important concepts include permanent revolution, world revolution, the transitional programme, transitional demands, the united front, workers militias, and criticism of the soviet union under Stalin as a deformed workers state. |
+| [Trotskyism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism)       | A branch of Leninism created by Leon Trotsky, a leading Bolshevik. Important concepts include permanent revolution, world revolution, the transitional programme, transitional demands, the united front, workers militias, and criticism of the soviet union under Stalin as a deformed workers state. |
 | [Luxemburgism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxemburgism)   | A branch of Marxism created by Rosa Luxemburg, a leading figure in the German revolution of 1919. Important concepts include Revolutionary Spontanaeity, emphasis on low-level democracy, the mass-strike, opposition to reformism, and criticism of bolshevism. |
 | [Left-Communism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_communism) | A range of communist viewpoints held by the communist left, which criticizes the political ideas and practices espoused by Bolsheviks, Marxist-Leninists, Anarchists, and social democrats. Proponents of left communism include Amadeo Bordiga (Italian tradition), Herman Gorter, Anton Pannekoek (Dutch tradition). Left communists assert positions which they regard as more authentically Marxist and proletarian than other traditions. |
 | [Syndicalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicalism)     | A proposed economic system, that suggests that workers, industries, and organizations be systematized into confederations or syndicates. It can also refer to the tactic of using general strikes to build trade unions. |

socialism_faq.md

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 - [Witchcraft - Class struggle and women's liberation in the middle ages.](https://www.cvltnation.com/rebellion-of-the-damned-witchcraft-as-social-revolt-in-early-modern-france/) [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoYf68CgjTOc88IDu1mvI4_L)
 - [Interviews with Women in the USSR.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/e30gjm/ussr_and_women_rights/f90d0r8/)
 - [What's wrong with "more women CEO" / imperial feminism?](https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1207061598680027137?s=20)
+- [Esperanza  - A Socialist, Feminist, and Transgender Analysis of “Sex Work”](https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/a-socialist-feminist-and-transgender-analysis-of-sex-work-b08aaf1ee4ab) .
+- [Esperanza - The problem with sex-trade expansionary Feminism.](https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/the-problem-with-sex-trade-expansionary-feminism-a-response-to-kate-zen-e8ee7f8ae99a)
+- [RevLeft Radio interview with Comrade Brigid and Esperanza -  Proletarian Feminism, Women's Liberation, and the Sex Trade.](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/prolefem)
 
 ## On Race and Class
 
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 * [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)
+* [A lecture on MZT, and the thought of the first generation leaders of the PRC. Also on the origins of the term, "Maoism".](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3VW9wzl1g)
 * [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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 - [After Evo Morales was overthrown in a US-backed coup, she retracts her pro-Morales statements, meets with a coup-supporting group in Washington, and tweets in support of the viciously anti-indigenous government of Jean Anez.](https://i.imgur.com/mYdPxcG.jpg) [2](https://orinocotribune.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-meets-with-bolivian-coup-organizers/),  [3](https://rainershea.com/f/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-meets-with-bolivian-coup-organizers)
 - [In the July 2021 protests in Cuba, she called Cuban president Diaz-Canal's "anti-democratic actions."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6YIBtMXIAE2dLt?format=jpg&name=large), [2](https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/5G4TQQ1qLqzTXDlSeNDXM5noh6Xcp_ZNLrbxreyxrWc/https/pbs.twimg.com/media/E6YCaZKWQAAfrs4.jpg%3Alarge) She condemned the socialist government’s [“suppression of the media, speech and protest.”](https://twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1415825886981545992)
 - [She supports Israel, and its genocide of Palestineans.](https://i.imgur.com/K6QsYZo.jpg)
+- [When asked about her vote of "present", rather than no, that allocates an extras $1B USD to Israel, she defends it by saying it was a "micro"-decision that creates "a window that brings all folks to the table".](https://twitter.com/queeralamode/status/1445508646956269582?s=20)
 - After an anti-war activist posted a video of AOC waffling on a question about Palestine, [he's interrogated by California highway patrol who claimed he issued a death threat against AOC](https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/09/anti-war-activist-police-aoc-video/). In reality, his tweet said: "her response was underwhelming to say the least." Its unknown whether AOC initiated the interrogation.
 - [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)