diff --git a/anticapitalist_orgs.md b/anticapitalist_orgs.md index f553bca..68c422c 100644 --- a/anticapitalist_orgs.md +++ b/anticapitalist_orgs.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ | [Socialist Alternative](http://www.socialistalternative.org/) | Trotskyist | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/SocialistAlternativeUSA/) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/SocialistAlt) | US - New York City, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Tampa, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennslyvania; Oakland, California; Seattle, Washington; New Orleans, Louisiana; Madison, Mobile, Alabama; Austin, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Chicago, Illinois | | [Redneck Revolt / John Brown Gun Club](https://www.redneckrevolt.org/) | Armed Anti-Capitalist | [Contact](https://www.redneckrevolt.org/contact) [FB](http://www.facebook.com/redneckrevolt) [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/redneckrevolt) | US - Phoenix,Arizona;Los Angeles,California;San Diego,California;San Francisco,California;Colorado Springs,Colorado;Fort Collins,Colorado;Gainesville,Florida;Miami,Florida;Orlando,Florida;Tampa,Florida ;Nez Perce,Idaho;Wichita,Kansas;New Orleans,Louisiana;Brunswick,Maine;Grand Rapids,Michigan;Traverse City,Michigan;Ypsilanti,Michigan;Lansing ,Michigan;Eau Claire,Michigan;Minneapolis,Minnesota;Rolla,Missouri;Columbia,Missouri;Springfield,Missouri;Albany,New York;Palmyra,New York;Long Island,New York;Redwood,New York;High Point,North Carolina;Columbus,Ohio;Astoria,Oregon;Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania;Providence,Rhode Island;Chattanooga,Tennessee;Houston,Texas;Ogden,Utah;Montpelier,Vermont;Seattle,Washington; | | [Socialist Rifle Association](https://www.socialistra.org/) | Armed Anti-Capitalist | [Contact](https://socialistra.org/contact/) [FB](https://www.facebook.com/SocialistRifle) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/socialistra) | US - Spokane, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Sacramento, California; Los Angeles, California; Flagstaff, Arizona; Northwest Kansas; Wichita, Kansas; Tulsa Oklahoma; Dallas, Texas; Northwoods, Wisconsin; Madison, Wisconsin; Pittsburgh, PA; Northeast Georgia; Charleston, South Carolina; Southwest Florida; | -| [Industrial Workers of the World](https://www.iww.org/) | Unionism | [Contact](https://www.iww.org/branches) [FB](https://www.facebook.com/iww.org) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/_IWW) | US - Every state | +| [Industrial Workers of the World](https://www.iww.org/) | Unionism | [Contact](https://www.iww.org/branches) [FB](https://www.facebook.com/iww.org) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/_IWW) | US - Every state | | [Workers World Party](http://www.workers.org/) | Marxist-Leninist | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/WorkersWorldParty/) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/workersworld) | US - Boston, Massachusetts; Buffalo, New York, and Rochester, New York; Charlotte and Durham, North Carolina; Cleveland, Ohio; Huntington and Morgantown, West Virginia; Lexington, Kentucky; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Virginia; Washington, DC; Los Angeles and San Diego, California; Houston, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; Detroit, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; | | [Black Rose Anarchist Federation](http://blackrosefed.org/) | Anarcho-communist | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/BRRNfed/) | US - Austin Texas; Boston, MA; Burlington, Vermont; Central Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; New York City, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Portland, Oregon; Providence, Rhode Island; Richmond, Virginia; San Antonia, Texas; Seattle, Washington; Denver, Colorado; Durham, North Carolina; | | [International Socialist Organization](http://www.internationalsocialist.org/) | Trotskyist | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/International-Socialist-Organization-122646921103159/) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Socialists_ISO) | US - CA, Los Angeles; CA, NorCal, Berkeley; CA, Northern California (District); CA, San Diego; CO, Boulder; CO, Denver; CT, New Haven; CT, New London; DC, Washington DC; FL, Orlando; FL, South Florida; GA, Georgia State University; IL, Chicago (District); IL, Chicago, DePaul; IL, Chicago, Loyola; IL, Chicago, University of Chicago; IL, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana; KS, Lawrence; MA, Boston; MA, Western Mass; MD, University of Maryland; ME, Portland; MI, Mount Pleasant; MN, Twin Cities; MO, University of Missouri; NC, Asheville; NC, Boone; NC, Greensboro; NC, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill/UNC; NC, Winston-Salem; NY, NYC, Brooklyn; NY, NYC, Brooklyn College; NY, NYC, Columbia University; NY, NYC, Downtown Manhattan; NY, NYC, Hunter College; NY, NYC, Lehman College; NY, NYC, New York City (District); NY, NYC, New York University; NY, Potsdam; NY, Rochester; NY, Syracuse; OH, Athens; OH, Columbus; OH, Dayton; OH, Toledo; OR, Portland; PA, Philadelphia; PA, Pittsburgh; TX, Austin; TX, Denton; TX, Denton, Texas Women’s University; VT, Burlington/University of Vermont; VT, UVM; WA, Seattle; WA, University of Washington; WI, Madison; WI, Milwaukee; | @@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ | [Maoist Internationalist Movement](https://www.prisoncensorship.info/faq) | Maoist | [Contact](https://www.prisoncensorship.info/contact) [FB](https://www.facebook.com/MaoistInternationalist/) | US | | [Red Guards of Los Angeles](http://redguardsla.org/) | Maoist | [FB](http://www.facebook.com/RedGuardsLA) [Twitter](http://twitter.com/RedGuardsLA) | US - Los Angeles, CA; | | [Red Guards of Austin](https://redguardsaustin.wordpress.com/) | Maoist | [Contact](https://redguardsaustin.wordpress.com/) | US - Austin, Texas | -| [Red Guards of Charlotte](https://redguardscharlotte.wordpress.com/) | Marxist-Leninist-Maoism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/redguardscharlotte1/) | US - Charlotte, North Carolina | -| [Red Guards of Kansas City](https://kcmlm.wordpress.com/) | Marxist-Leninist-Maoism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/itisrighttorebel/) | US - Kansas City, MO | -| [Red Guards of Pittsburgh](https://redguardspittsburgh.wordpress.com/2018/03/10/attn-pittsburgh-loose-lips-sink-ships-be-aware/) | Marxist-Leninist-Maoism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/redguardspittsburgh) | US - Pittsburgh, PA | -| [American Party of Labor](http://americanpartyoflabor.org/) | Marxist-Leninism, Hoxhaism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/americanpartyoflaborapl) | US | +| [Red Guards of Charlotte](https://redguardscharlotte.wordpress.com/) | Maoist | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/redguardscharlotte1/) | US - Charlotte, North Carolina | +| [Red Guards of Kansas City](https://kcmlm.wordpress.com/) | Maoist | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/itisrighttorebel/) | US - Kansas City, MO | +| [Red Guards of Pittsburgh](https://redguardspittsburgh.wordpress.com/2018/03/10/attn-pittsburgh-loose-lips-sink-ships-be-aware/) | Marxist-Leninist-Maoism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/redguardspittsburgh) | US - Pittsburgh, PA | +| [American Party of Labor](http://americanpartyoflabor.org/) | Marxist-Leninist, Hoxhaism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/americanpartyoflaborapl) | US | | [Progressive Labor Party](http://www.plp.org/) | Marxist-Leninist | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/PLPchallenge) | US | | [Peace and Freedom Party](http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/) | Eco-Socialism / Trotskyism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/PFP.CA.Official/) | US | | [Socialist Action](https://socialistaction.org/) | Trotskyism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/socialist.action.1) | US | @@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ | [Workers' Solidarity Alliance](https://workersolidarity.org/) | Anarcho-Syndicalism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/workersolidarityalliance) | US | | [Rose City Antifa](https://www.rosecityantifa.org/) | Multi-tendency | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/sometimesantisocialalwaysantifascist/) | US - Portland, Oregon| | [Revolutionary Communist Party](http://revcom.us/) | Maoist | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/Revolutionary-Communist-Party-991523717554453/) | US | - +| [Green Party](http://www.gp.org/) | Eco-Socialism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/GreenPartyUS) | US | \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/socialism_faq.md b/socialism_faq.md index bff265a..a4127af 100755 --- a/socialism_faq.md +++ b/socialism_faq.md @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ - [[Honestly not trolling] Why, in your opinion, have most attempts to form countries based economically on communism and socialism (USSR, Cuba, China) fail?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1f8obt/honestly_not_trolling_why_in_your_opinion_have/) - [What about the authoritarian leaders like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/8xl4bi/stay_angry_comrades/e24fuqs/) - [Why did the Soviet Union fail?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1zrroq/why_did_the_soviet_union_fail/) +- [What about the gulags?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/9bem2d/what_were_the_gulags_according_to_self_identified/e52ls2e/) ## But what about human nature? @@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ * [How can people be expected to work hard if they don't get payed more FOR working harder? (I know nothing about communism)](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/21u7jo/how_can_people_be_expected_to_work_hard_if_they/) * [What prevents cultural, technological or scientific stagnation in a communist society? Also what motivation do people have to work at their Jobs?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/27ia0t/what_prevents_cultural_technological_or/) +* [Would people innovate under Communism? Doesn't capitalism create innovation?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9c9qj6/in_a_communist_society_what_are_people_motivated/) * [How does communism deal with lazy people?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/25r9hh/how_does_communism_deal_with_lazy_people/) * [How does communism/socialism deal with human laziness?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1g235j/how_does_communismsocialism_deal_with_human/) @@ -109,6 +111,13 @@ * [Can cooperatives bring about socialism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/336mz4/can_cooperatives_bring_about_socialism/) +## Pacifism and Violence + +- [What about Pacifism / pacifist socialism? Is violence necessary to acheive socialism? What about Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi?](https://theredphoenixapl.org/2011/08/11/pacifism-how-to-do-the-enemys-job-for-them/) +- [Lenin - State and Revolution](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/) , [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GrP0EVJkVE&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoatUez9-2vaAvB78afoKNRC) +- [Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution](https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/), [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhzmaUofLS8&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoYqO_Yec4sWzPeeFXMOkPWs) +- [Trotsky - Fascism - What it is and how to fight it](https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm), [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39lCH8PnZ8&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoa-4fIC4TbpTJgRM77It6LC) + ## What would [X] be like under communism? * [How would a record company/label work in a communist society?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1a0htc/how_would_a_record_companylabel_work_in_a/) @@ -373,6 +382,7 @@ - [What's going on with venezuela? Rebuttal to John Oliver's venezuela show, and overview of the situation in Venezeula](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fV-C1Ag5sI). - [Who's crashing Venezuelas economy?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqHzDLSl8U4) +- [What's going on with the crisis in Venezuela?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9bbg3w/soup_line_is_not_the_same_as_bread_line/e527pcv/) - [Are the people in venezeula really starving?](https://monthlyreview.org/2018/06/01/the-politics-of-food-in-venezuela/) - [Whats going on in Venezuela?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/66f7u5/eli5_comrades_what_is_the_situation_in_venezuela/) - [Is venezuela moving towards communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/7ixh1h/the_venezuelan_situation_already_understand_most/dr35p31/) @@ -428,10 +438,22 @@ - Hidden beneath a superficial rationalism, they provide a seemingly intellectual [defense of imperialism](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/new-atheism-old-empire/), push islamophobia, and use it to create a smokescreen for the injustices of global capitalism. [2](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/03/sam-harris-muslim-animus),[3](https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/20134210413618256.html) +### Gandhi + + - [Was Gandhi really a racist? What about Gandhi's legacy? A great lecture by Arundati Roy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrN8PgZzc6k) + ### Did the atom bombs really end WW2? - [No, the entrance of the USSR into the war against Japan was the cause of Japan's surrender, which the US fully knew about since they were intercepting Japan's communications. The Atom bombing of Japanese civilians was in reality a display of military power against the USSR, and the first act of the cold war.](http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/) +### What's wrong with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? + +- [DSA fronting candidates through the democratic party](https://blackagendareport.com/open-letter-socialists-who-might-be-fronting-democratic-party). +- [AOC disavows socialism within her first week of media scrutiny.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L8zd4L57esY) +- [AOC supports Israel. ](https://i.imgur.com/K6QsYZo.jpg) +- [AOC selling "law and order" and "family values" and not being "weak on crime" as socialist values. ](https://i.imgur.com/VRKjkXV.jpg) +- [AOC wants abolish ICE, only to replace it with a resurrected INS, yet another agency whose goal was breaking up families. ](https://i.imgur.com/ficPkrO.jpg) + ### Others - [What's so bad about Winston Churchill?](http://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/80sxhj/-/duy08zm) , [2](https://crimesofbritain.com/2016/09/13/the-trial-of-winston-churchill/) - [What about Jordan Peterson?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/85cuay/thoughts_on_jordan_petersons_criticism_of_marxism/dvwnd25/) @@ -441,6 +463,7 @@ - [Do most US troops come from poor neighborhoods? (Yes, debunking the heritage foundation debunkers)](https://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/poor-and-uneducated-like-we-thought/Content?oid=933196) - [Why communists do not participate in anti-russia hysteria, pushed by the democrats.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/90i5yp/why_the_marxist_left_is_opposed_to_and_does_not/) - [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) +- [Is Christianity / the Bible Communist?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9b7gsw/joel_osteen/e515qdb/)