Some updates.

socialism_faq.md

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 * [What is Luxemburgism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/bzl9iu/luxemburgism/eqtbcxe/)
 * [Is the revolutionary DotP a separate material stage apart from lower phased communism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2mrkkj/is_the_revolutionary_dotp_a_separate_material/)
 * [Is socialism the lowest stage of communism or is it the transition to communism, in between capitalism and communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2rijno/is_socialism_the_lowest_stage_of_communism_or_is/)
-* [What about Left Unity? Engels letter to Bebel.](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/letters/73_06_20.htm)
+* [What about Left Unity? Engels letter to Bebel.](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/letters/73_06_20.htm) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/sendinthetanks/comments/prbh1i/build_a_unired_front/hdhq26s/)
 * [What about Marxism and Empiricism? Is Marxism falsifiable?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/8978hb/is_marxism_falsifiable/)
 * [Hakim - On Capitalism and Corporatism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luB9VUsXRs8)
 
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 * [Lenin - "Left-Wing" Communism: An infantile disorder.](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/) [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjob1T8DTNDG7EQaN18eSJ97m)
 * [Western Marxism's martyrdom / purity complex.](https://blackagendareport.com/western-marxism-loves-purity-and-martyrdom-not-real-revolution) [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoaZIsNaAcjt87etb0A_0FWB)
 - [The CIA reads french postmodernist theory: how the CIA pushed "post-Marxist" theory to build support for imperialism.](https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-reads-french-theory-on-the-intellectual-labor-of-dismantling-the-cultural-left/)
+- [On MLM / Gonzalo, and the shining path.](https://www.reddit.com/r/asktankies/comments/po4vo1/what_is_your_view_of_chairman_gonzalo/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pmmjni/who_was_gonzalo_and_why_is_he_so_hated/hcj7p2s/), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pmipvn/on_gonzalos_babyboiling/hcj2cgm/), [4](https://socialistfight.com/2017/02/22/the-lucanamarca-massacre/)
 
 ## Did economic planning work?
 
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 - [Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy's job for them](https://theredphoenixapl.org/2011/08/11/pacifism-how-to-do-the-enemys-job-for-them/). [Youtube Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxrO7p-6w_k&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZ5IIhnzFBOImzySh827FyK)
 - [Halim Alrah - Why liberal democracies are a sham. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYodY6o172A)
 - [What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn't Sweden socialist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd03a8Pm1hs )
+- [On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pmtapr/does_anyone_have_works_on_the_erosion_of_the/hcmyub4/)
 - [Rainer shea - How social democrats help usher in fascism in Germany, and in the US today. ](https://rainershea612.medium.com/social-democrats-helped-usher-in-fascism-in-germany-theyre-doing-it-again-in-america-f84f71846e91)
 - [Scandinavia's covert role in western imperialism](https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/Scandinavias-Covert-Role-in-Western-Imperialism-20170320-0022.html)
 - [Why can't you acheive socialism through voting in our current democracies?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/a9tgff/lsc_insulted_some_democrats/ecmjyjs/)
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 - [Paying one half of the poor to kill the other half: Why Marxists should not support Sanders.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/f7g3dj/paying_one_half_of_the_poor_to_kill_the_other/)
 - [The propaganda multiplier: How the wests propaganda machine functions.](https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/)
 - [On "brainwashing"](https://redsails.org/brainwashing/)
+- [Lenin on media and democracy.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pcv7e6/capitalism_and_free_speech/hamedc0/)
 
 ## Pacifism and Violence
 
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 - [What about Beyonce / Black Capitalism?](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/beyonces-ivy-park-sportswear-line-denies-claims-its-clothes-were-produced-by-sweatshop-workers-a7035926.html)
 - [What is the labor aristocracy?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/f6u5uv/what_is_defines_the_labor_aristocracy/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/gg24yh/what_is_the_labour_aristocracy_taken_from_zak/) [3](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/oct/x01.htm) [4](https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/gh0zf8/the_ruling_class_wins_either_way/fq612jz/)
 
+## On Decolonization
+
+- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An indigenous peoples history of the US. [Audiobook](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1ae24bda86bd23da6edad32568ad5ff574663f88&dn=Roxanne%20Dunbar-Ortiz%20-%20An%20Indigenous%20Peoples'%20History%20of%20the%20United%20States.mp3). A wonderful book on the history of the US settler colonial project.
+- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - [The US is **not** a nation of immigrants.](https://bostonreview.net/race/roxanne-dunbar-not-nation-immigrants) On "multiculturalism."
+- [Nick Estes - Why decolonization must be part of any left-wing movement.](https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/booked-indigenous-resistance-is-post-apocalyptic-with-nick-estes)
+- [Nick Estes - a Red deal](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/red-deal-green-new-deal-ecosocialism-decolonization-indigenous-resistance-environment).
+- [Red Nation - Communism is on the horizon.](https://therednation.org/communism-is-the-horizon-queer-indigenous-feminism-is-the-way/)
+- [Lenin - On the right of nations to self-determination.](https://liberationschool.org/lenin-and-the-right-of-nations-to-self-determination/)
+
 ## On Guns / Firearms / Violence
 
 - [What is the socialist stance on guns?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/7xz4w7/does_anybody_know_what_karl_marxs_views_on_gun/)
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 - [What is Socialism in one country? What's the controversy around it w/ respect to Stalin and Trotsky?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/dsj2wv/was_lenin_in_favour_of_socialism_in_one_country/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/7mwac2/how_do_trotskyists_or_trotsky_himself_respond_to/) [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/774lmt/can_someone_eli5_the_differences_between_stalins/) [4](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/4yhc4y/socialism_in_one_country_please_assist_me_in_the/)
 - [What did Lenin say about socialism in one country?](https://espressostalinist.com/2012/03/11/lenin-on-socialism-in-one-country-2/)
 - [Taimur Rahman - Why I am not a Trotskyist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ9O5UPqcOE).
-- [What is Dialectical Materialism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/e6iyt3/can_someone_explain_the_concept_of_dialectical/f9r4iep/)
+- [What is Dialectical Materialism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/e6iyt3/can_someone_explain_the_concept_of_dialectical/f9r4iep/), [2](https://dashthered.medium.com/marxism-for-normal-people-dialectical-materialism-deb5034685a4)
 - [Is Chomsky right about Marxist-Leninists being evil?](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/4394rt/how_do_you_guys_feel_about_chomskys_views_on/czgj95w/)
 - [Chomsky's takes - A thread](https://mobile.twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829?s=20)
 
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 ## On Trotskyism
 
+- [Taimur Rahman - Why I am not a Trotskyist.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ9O5UPqcOE)
 - [Primarily to the trotskyists: Can you explain the theories of the degenerated workers state, the deformed workers state and state capitalism and can these theories co-exist in the same country?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2x5m39/primarily_to_the_trotskyists_can_you_explain_the/)
-- [A critique of Trotsky?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2gpuoo/a_critique_of_trotsky/)
-- [Regarding Trotsky's ‘‘Permanent revolution’’ and the two-stage theory](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/21izu4/regarding_trotskys_permanent_revolution_and_the/)
-- [How does Lenin's theory of revolution differ from Trotsky's?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/16dpbv/how_does_lenins_theory_of_revolution_differ_from/)
 - [What are the main Marxist analyses of fascism? and a question regarding Trotsky's](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2p7ozi/what_are_the_main_marxist_analyses_of_fascism_and/)
 - [Did Stalin 'betray' the revolution? (repost of deleted question)](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1dp6qw/did_stalin_betray_the_revolution_repost_of/)
 - [Why was "Lenin's testament" suppressed by the Party after Lenin's death?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2lfc5f/why_was_lenins_testament_suppressed_by_the_party/)
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 * [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/), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/ol6h3b/im_simply_wondering_where_does_the_term_tankie/h5f3s6o/). [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)
+* [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/), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/ol6h3b/im_simply_wondering_where_does_the_term_tankie/h5f3s6o/). [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), [5](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/ol6h3b/im_simply_wondering_where_does_the_term_tankie/h5f3s6o/)
 * [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)
 * [Did Stalin really try to resign 4 times?](https://socialistmlmusings.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/stalins-four-attempts-at-resignation/)
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 * [What contributions did Stalin make to Marxism-Leninism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ejidu/what_contributions_did_stalin_make_to/)
 * [Opinions on Defense of Stalin and Mao](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/11yp4f/opinions_on_defense_of_stalin_and_mao/)
 * [Stalin's Purges](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/qergf/stalins_purges/)
-* [Was Stalin anti-Semitic? What about the doctors plot?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/b2xtna/was_stalin_antisemitic/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/grc3u1/antisemitism_in_the_ussr/fry3f52/)
+* [Was Stalin anti-Semitic? What about the doctors plot?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/b2xtna/was_stalin_antisemitic/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/grc3u1/antisemitism_in_the_ussr/fry3f52/) [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/pr1zpg/how_did_the_jews_fare_under_communism/hdfmhs9/)
 * [What are some legitimate criticisms of Stalin?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/10chdq/what_are_some_legitimate_criticisms_of_stalin/)
 * [I need clarification on myths/truths of the USSR/Soviet Union.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2dzicb/i_need_clarification_on_mythstruths_of_the/)
 * [I'm fascinated by the idea of communism...](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/21s0dw/im_fascinated_by_the_idea_of_communism/)
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 * [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)
-* [Deng on why Mao's legacy must be upheld.](http://cpcchina.chinadaily.com.cn/fastfacts/2010-10/18/content_11425373.htm)
+* [Deng on why Mao's legacy must be upheld.](https://redsails.org/deng-and-fallaci/)
 * [Deng Xiaoping - a visionary marxist-leninist.](https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1353776771573948418?s=20)
+* [Deng - We will always side with the third world.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/p9d2zy/117_years_ago_a_national_hero_was_born/h9wxz32/)
 * [What about Tibet? (95% of the population were slaves or feudal serfs before China invaded in 1959)](http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html) [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZjKom_Qj0jcDReaMb_r52z)
 * [Tibet, China, and the Violent reaction of a wealthy elite.](https://historicly.substack.com/p/tibet-china-and-the-violent-reaction)
 * [Mao's liberation of Tibet](https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/09/19/maos-liberation-of-tibet/)
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 * [What about the suicide nets at Foxconn?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/dnafal/question_suicide_nets/)
 * [Is china persecuting gay people?](https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1366919923390324737)
 * [Deng Xiaoping - on the question of national minorities and Han chauvinism](https://redsails.org/the-question-of-minority-nationalities-in-the-southwest/)
+* [Did China really kill / commit infanticide on millions of girls during the 1-child policy?](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/30/researchers-may-have-found-many-of-chinas-30-million-missing-girls/) [2](https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/asia/china-missing-girls/index.html)
 
 ### Is China State Capitalist?
 
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 * [The Long Game and Its Contradictions](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub&fbclid=IwAR1jAfUSH39nEKCkTAD7GK8ayR9YVekX6Ht6hWU7x7iKPVUK_fLdA5OlPV4). [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoali1j-mai9MtggjA-Vzc4x)
 * [The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/08/20/the-myth-of-chinese-capitalism-2/)
 * [Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62mvMWJHt8g)
+* [Isn't China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn't it fully planned like the USSR was?](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pzcwzr/apparently_president_xi_does_not_believe_in/hf0bnv0/)
+* [Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.](https://redsails.org/fidel-and-gawronski/)
 * [Do capitalists control the communist party? No](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub), [pic](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2087/1*A-SuzTx-HlyvrIPKaOTOHA.jpeg)
 * [What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC\)?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff_ZkwJmfWQ)
 * [Domenico Losurdo - is China state capitalist?](https://redsails.org/flight-from-history/#the-peoples-republic-of-china-and-the-historical-analysis-of-socialism)
@@ -537,6 +551,7 @@
 * [50% of the economy is in the socialist public sector and directly follows the plan (40% if you ignore the agricultural sector). 20 to 30% is inside the state capitalist sector, which is the sector partially or totally owned by domestic capitalists but run by the CPC or by local workers councils. The rest is made up of the small bourgeois ownership like in the NEP.](https://chinareporting.blogspot.com/2009/11/class-nature-of-chinese-state-critique_26.html)
 * [China pushing forward Marxist training in colleges, attracts 1M students.](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/988795.shtml)
 * [China tells the US that it has no plans to weaken the role of its State-Owned-Enterprises, one of the US's main demands in the trade war. "Beijing plans to make the state economy stronger, bigger, and better."](https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3038993/china-wont-give-its-state-led-economic-model-top-trade?fbclid=IwAR2ys8_Y_6Nxq2x__BM4SoKdR63it7X_JRy1XJdkLw4QrK0VQ77mXYyrcks)
+* [Unlike the US, China refuses to bail out over-leveraged property developers, and lets them go bankrupt.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/pnqrf7/whats_happening_with_evergrande_will_it_have_a/)
 * [A China misinformation Megathread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/c2b7ma/china_megathread_everything_a_leftist_must_know/)
 
 ### Is China a Democracy?
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 - [Debunking the claim that "China is Imperialist"](https://medium.com/@rainershea612/catagorically-debunking-the-claim-that-china-is-imperialist-a9ae7b280a44)
 - [The demeanor of Chinese leaders (Xi Jinping) vs Western leaders (Nancy Pelosi) towards African nations. One of the reasons why African nations favor China instead of the West.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/kxabq5/the_demeanor_of_chinese_leaders_xi_jinping_vs/) [Full video here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uzxV8ub9k)
+- [An African leader on the hypocrisy of those saying China is imperialist.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/pn5bmz/african_leader_calls_out_western_hypocrisy_when/) 
 - [Is China really imperialist? What's the difference between what Europe did to Africa, and what China is doing?](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/g0lp70/people_are_saying_that_china_is_colonialist_by/fnanq5x/)
 - [Five imperialist myths about China's role in Africa.](https://liberationschool.org/five-imperialist-myths-about-chinas-role-in-africa/)
 - [Evo Morales - Why China and Russia aren't imperialist, but the US is.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-zG2eFsNoc)
@@ -909,6 +925,7 @@
 - [Roderic Day - On Chomsky](https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/)
 - [Awful chomsky takes.](https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829?s=20)
 - [Gowans - The US has produced very few anti-imperialists: Chomsky isn't among them.](https://gowans.blog/2019/11/03/the-united-states-has-produced-very-few-anti-imperialists-noam-chomsky-isnt-among-them/)
+- [“My  response to the end of Soviet tyranny was similar to my reaction to the  defeat of Hitler and Mussolini. In all cases, it is a victory for the  human spirit. It should have been particularly welcome to socialists,  since a great enemy of socialism had at last collapsed”](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/pxtk9p/my_response_to_the_end_of_soviet_tyranny_was/)
 - https://archive.li/YVNk3
 - https://libcom.org/history/john-deutch-chomskys-friend-pentagon-cia
 - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/why-chomsky-felt-guilty-most-of-time-war-research-and-linguistics-at-mit/
@@ -1251,6 +1268,7 @@ Much credit to [David Kinder's current affairs article, the rise of the Ruth Bad
   - [Vaush says in his discord that: "if trans people didn't exist, my notification feed would be a lot better". Rails on about "trans-advocates".](https://i.imgur.com/lR5NhnF.png)
   - [Vaush laughs at trans suicide. ](https://streamable.com/q39axh)
 - [Harrasses a woman by asking her if she wanted to see his penis even though she said no repeatedly. Sends her a picture of himself in the shower anyway.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/i5nka7/vaush_says_tankies_are_irrelevant_because_he_has/g0raeoh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x)
+- [Vaush has a pre-occupation with pedophilia and beastiality.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Enough_Vaush_Spam/comments/ou0d2u/vaush_has_a_very_disturbing_preoccupation_with/)
 - [Compares the purchase of a computer to the purchase of child-porn.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/g7bwgd/famous_breadtuber_vaush_i_cant_blame_people_for/)
 - [Very happy to say the n-word.](https://twitter.com/high_define/status/1265033740075634688?s=20) [again](https://twitter.com/comradecorm/status/1263512305800810503?s=20)
   - [Defends using the N-word as a "power-move" which he is unashamed of.](https://i.imgur.com/ExE1sFZ.jpg)
@@ -1264,6 +1282,7 @@ Much credit to [David Kinder's current affairs article, the rise of the Ruth Bad
 - [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)
+- [Thinks the DPRK is a hereditary monarchy](https://www.reddit.com/r/Enough_Vaush_Spam/comments/pzbiw2/this_man_has_officially_lost_the_plot_now/).
 - [Says: "If you identify as LGBT, then you must consider North Korea your enemy", citing wapo, the geneva US mission, and CIA NK org. Ignores the DPRK's pro-lgbt stances.](https://i.redd.it/nvgx1vz4z3b51.png) [2](https://web.archive.org/web/20050806002431/http://www.korea-dpr.com/faq.htm#20)
 - He's in no leftist orgs, plays video games all day, and takes home [$1.5k / month from his subscribers by holding "debates" where he just rants at people.](https://www.patreon.com/vaush)
 - ["Marxism isn't a rejection of liberalism, it's about making it better." ](https://twitter.com/commiefr0g/status/1290343782450434049)
@@ -1317,3 +1336,5 @@ Much credit to [David Kinder's current affairs article, the rise of the Ruth Bad
 - 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/)
 - [The Fort Dietrich virus](https://twitter.com/ProPeace97/status/1420657562618318850)
 - [Cory booker](https://twitter.com/Remroum/status/1425296761820786688?s=20)
+- [Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag Archipelago](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pd01t7/how_reliable_is_this_anticommunist_defense_of/hamp4mz/)
+- [The white chauvinism of Howard Zinn](https://anti-imperialism.org/2011/09/19/the-white-chauvinism-of-howard-zinn/)

us_atrocities.md

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Notes :
 - On December 10, 2002, US military police, aided by the CIA, tortured and killed [Dilawar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilawar_(torture_victim)), an Afghan taxi driver, at [Baghram prison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagram_torture_and_prisoner_abuse), highlighting a scandal of torture and murder at the prison. Dilawar was chained to the ceiling of his cell, and suspended by his wrists for four days. His arms became dislocated from their sockets, and flapped around limplywhenever guards collected him for interrogation. During his detention, Dilawar's legs were beaten to a pulp. They would have had to have been amputated because damage was so severe. The murder and US torture complex is chronicled in the 2007 documentary [Taxi to the Dark Side](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_to_the_Dark_Side). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilawar_(torture_victim))
 - Since 2001, many enemy combatants have been held at the [Guantanamo bay detention camp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp), a prison camp in Cuba in which suspected enemies are jailed indefinitely without trial. Several inmates have been severely tortured, leading much of the world to decry its existence as a human rights abuse. The military acts as interrogators, prosecutors and defense counsel, judges, and when death sentences are imposed, as executioners. All trials are held in private. Trump has vowed to keep the prison open, saying, "[...] I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding... Don’t tell me it doesn’t work—torture works... if it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway, for what they’re doing to us." At least [108 detainees have died while in US custody in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo bay](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4355779.stm), with at least 20 being declared by the Army as murder.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp),[2](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4355779.stm)
 - The attacks precipitated the signing into law in 2001 of the [Patriot Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act), which expanded the powers of the NSA to perform mass surveillance, allowed indefinite detention of immigrants, allowed warrant-less searching of phone and email records without a court order, . Thousands of people were jailed, and questioned under the new power the act granted to law enforcement agencies. [Susan Lindauer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Lindauer), a congressional staffer turned activist, imprisoned from 2005-09 for violating the "acting as an agent of a foreign government" provision of the patriot act; the charges were later dropped after it was discovered no evidence ever existed. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act)
-- The September 11th 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, provoked an international military campaign of Middle East imperialism known as [The War on Terror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror). Conflicts include the [Nato led involvement in Afghanistan (2001–2014)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(1978%E2%80%93present)), the [Insurgency in Yemen (1992–2015)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda_insurgency_in_Yemen), the [Iraq War (2003–2011)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War), the [War in North-West Pakistan (2004–present)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_North-West_Pakistan), and the [International campaign against ISIL (2014–present)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_intervention_against_ISIL). The enemy combatants of the war have mostly been people of the Middle East. Casualty numbers are in the millions, detailed [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror#Casualties). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror)
+- The September 11th 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, provoked an international military campaign of Middle East imperialism known as [The War on Terror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror). Conflicts include the [Nato led involvement in Afghanistan (2001–2014)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(1978%E2%80%93present)), the [Insurgency in Yemen (1992–2015)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda_insurgency_in_Yemen), the [Iraq War (2003–2011)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War), the [War in North-West Pakistan (2004–present)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_North-West_Pakistan), and the [International campaign against ISIL (2014–present)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_intervention_against_ISIL). The enemy combatants of the war have mostly been people of the Middle East. Casualty numbers are in the millions, detailed [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror#Casualties). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror) In 2021, when confronted about the million Iraqi civilians killed, [former president G.W. Bush laughed.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/ptccsu/bush_laughs_as_hes_confronted_again_about_his_war/)
 - [1991, the U.S. bombed the Amiriya civilian air raid shelter in Iraq, which was sheltering a thousand sleeping civilians, massacring 408 Iraqi civilians (261 women and 52 children).](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiriyah_shelter_bombing)
 - Approximately 250,000[[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome#cite_note-www8.nationalacademies.org-5) of the 697,000 U.S. veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War are afflicted with an enduring chronic multi-symptom illness called [Gulf War Syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome). From 1995 to 2005, the health of combat veterans worsened in comparison with nondeployed veterans, with the onset of more new [chronic diseases](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_disease), functional impairment, repeated [clinic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinic) visits and [hospitalizations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitalization), [chronic fatigue syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome)-like [illness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illness), [posttraumatic stress disorder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorder), and greater persistence of adverse [health](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health) incidents.[[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome#cite_note-7). Suggested causes have included [depleted uranium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium), [sarin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin) [gas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas), [smoke from burning oil wells](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaiti_oil_fires), [vaccinations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination), [combat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat) [stress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_%28biology%29) and [psychological](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological) factors.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome)
 - In 1990, The U.S. liberates Kuwait from Iraq in the [Gulf War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War). Iraq’s dictator, Saddam Hussein, was formerly backed by the US when his regime invaded Iran in 1980, and before that was hired by the CIA in a botched assassination attempt on the then Iraqi president. During this costly eight-year war, the CIA built up Hussein’s forces with sophisticated arms, intelligence, training and financial backing, cementing Hussein’s power at home, and allowing him to crush the many internal rebellions that erupted from time to time, sometimes with poison gas. 20,000–35,000 Iraqis were killed in the Gulf War, along with 75,000+ wounded. A vindictive U.N. embargo followed that several years later still denied Iraq the technological resources to recover its food production, medical services, and sanitation facilities. As late as 1993, CNN reported that nearly 300,000 Iraqi children were suffering from malnutrition. Deaths exceeded the normal rate by 125,000 yearly, mostly affecting ‘the poor, their infants, children, chronically ill, and elderly’. Iraqi citizens, who previously had enjoyed a decent living standard, were reduced to destitution.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War)
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ Notes :
 - In the 1970s-80s, wikileaks cables revealed that the US [covertly supported the Khmer Rouge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_support_for_the_Khmer_Rouge) in their fight against the Vietnamese communists. Annual support included an end total of ~$215M USD, food aid to 20-40k Khmer Rouge fighters, CIA advisors in several camps, and ammunition. 
 - In December 1975, The US supplied the weaponry for the [Indonesian invasion of East Timor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_invasion_of_East_Timor). This incursion was launched the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had left Indonesia where they had given President Suharto permission to use American arms, which under U.S. law, could not be used for aggression. Daniel Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the UN. said that the U.S. wanted “things to turn out as they did.” The result was an estimated 200,000 dead out of a population of 700,000. Sixteen years later, on November 12, 1991, two hundred and seventeen East Timorese protesters in Dili, many of them children, marching from a memorial service, were gunned down by Indonesian Kopassus shock troops who were headed by U.S.- trained commanders Prabowo Subianto (son in law of General Suharto) and Kiki Syahnakri. Trucks were seen dumping bodies into the sea. 
 - In [1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis), the CIA helped topple the democratically elected, left-leaning government of Prime Minister [Gough Whitlam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Whitlam), by telling Governor-General, [John Kerr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr_(governor-general)), a longtime CIA collaborator, to dissolve the Whitlam government.
-- In 2018 after the release of a suppressed ISC (International Scientific Commission) report, and the release of declassified CIA communications daily reports in 2020, it was revealed that the [US used germ warfare in the Korean war](https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/a-real-flood-of-bacteria-and-germs-communications-intelligence-and-charges-of-u-s-4decafdc762). Many of these attacks involved the dropping of insects or small mammals infected with viruses such as [anthrax, plague, cholera, and encephalitis.](https://medium.com/@jeff_kaye/a-concealed-war-crime-u-s-anthrax-bombings-of-china-during-the-korean-war-14782ceb40a9) After discovering evidence of germ warfare, China invited the ISC headed by famed British scientist Joseph Needham, to investigate, but the report was suppressed for over 70 years.
+- In 2018 after the release of a suppressed ISC (International Scientific Commission) report, and the release of declassified CIA communications daily reports in 2020, it was revealed that the [US used germ warfare in the Korean war](https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/a-real-flood-of-bacteria-and-germs-communications-intelligence-and-charges-of-u-s-4decafdc762), [2](https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/secret-history-u-s-2ac4c7219bd). Many of these attacks involved the dropping of insects or small mammals infected with viruses such as [anthrax, plague, cholera, and encephalitis.](https://medium.com/@jeff_kaye/a-concealed-war-crime-u-s-anthrax-bombings-of-china-during-the-korean-war-14782ceb40a9) After discovering evidence of germ warfare, China invited the ISC headed by famed British scientist Joseph Needham, to investigate, but the report was suppressed for over 70 years.
 - Between 1963 and 1973, The US dropped ~388,000 tons of [napalm bombs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm#Military_use) in vietnam, compared to 32,357 tons used over three years in the Korean War, and 16,500 tons dropped on Japan in 1945. US also sprayed over 5 million acres with herbicide, in [Operation Ranch Hand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ranch_Hand), in a 10 year campaign to deprive the vietnamese of food and vegetation cover. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm#Military_use),[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ranch_Hand)
 - In 1971 in Pakistan, an authoritarian state supported by the U.S., brutally invaded East Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. The war ended after India, whose economy was staggering after admitting about 10 million refugees, invaded East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and defeated the West Pakistani forces. The US gave W. pakistan 411 million provided to establish its armed forces which spent 80% of its budget on its military. 15 million in arms flowed into W. Pakistan during the war. Between 300,000 to 3 million civilians were killed, with 8-10 million refugees fleeing to India. 1
 - In 1970, In Cambodia, The CIA overthrows [Prince Sihanouk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Sihanouk), who is highly popular among Cambodians for keeping them out of the Vietnam War. He is replaced by CIA puppet [Lon Nol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Nol), whose forces suppressed the large-scale popular demonstrations in favour of Sihanouk, resulting in several hundred deaths.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Nol#cite_note-kiernan302-17) This unpopular move strengthens once minor opposition parties like the Khmer Rouge (another CIA supported group), who achieve power in 1975 and massacres ~2.5 million people. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge) The Khmer Rouge, under Pol Pot, carried out the [Cambodian Genocide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide), which killed 1.5-2M people from 1975-1979.