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| [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. |
| [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. |
| [Social Democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy) | Originally synonymous with evolutionary socialism, 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 a capitalist 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. |
| [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. |
| [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, and an alliance between big and small capitalists. |
| [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. |
| [Means of Production](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_of_production) | Physical, non-human inputs used for the production of economic value, such as workplaces, factories, machinery, or tools. Synonymous with Capital. |
| [Private Property](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_property) | Means of production, when owned by private individuals, whose ownership is claimed through title, and **not use**, with the aim of extracting rent from the actual users or workers. Synonymous with absentee property. |
| [Personal Property](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property) | Property for personal use and consumption. Put simply, your house, and everything in it. Neither socialism nor communism intends to do away with personal property. |

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- [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/)
- [Didn't the USSR kill millions of it citizens, with most people living in poverty and dying early?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union#Life_expectancy_and_infant_mortality)
## But what about human nature?
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* [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/)
* [Looking for reference to types of communism.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1fcc6o/looking_for_reference_to_types_of_communism/)
* [What was Engels Contribution to Marxism?](https://necessityandfreedom.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/without-engels-there-would-be-no-marxism/)
* [Were the nazis socialist? What about national socialism, the national socialist movement (NSM), and the national front?](https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/79kvin/what_is_the_difference_between_socialists_here/), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/wiki/index#wiki_the_nazis_were_socialists.2C_communists_or_leftists)
* [What is Fascism?](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/)
## Socialism vs. communism
* [Did Karl Marx use "socialism" and "communism" interchangeably?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2msa39/did_karl_marx_use_socialism_and_communism/)
* [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/)
* [Were the nazis socialist? What about national socialism, the national socialist movement (NSM), and the national front?](https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/79kvin/what_is_the_difference_between_socialists_here/)
* [What is Fascism?](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/)
## Did the planned economies work?
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* [How would a communist economy really function in practice?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1g279l/how_would_a_communist_economy_really_function_in/)
* [How does communism deal with niches?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/27o04e/how_does_communism_deal_with_niches/)
* [How would residentials be fairly distributed under full communism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2hnmxx/how_would_residentials_be_fairly_distributed/)
* [How do police / cops differ in socialism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9hsoll/suppose_police_all_go_away_tomorrow_and_are/e6eguff/)
* [What if some people don't wanna be communist?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9mtnyt/what_if_some_people_dont_wanna_be_communist/e7hc63u/)
## On Economics and Sociology
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### Whats so bad about Bill Gates?
- [He's a philanthro-capitalist imperialist: using the bill and melinda gates foundation charity as a bargaining chip to work in the interests of billionaire elites. This impoverishes poorer countries, undermining their democracy and independence by making them fully dependent on US aid.](https://www.liberationnews.org/real-agenda-gates-foundation/)
- [Controversial Gates foundation vaccination testing (discovered to be for pharmaceutical companies Merck and Pfizer) kills 5 girls in India, leads to public outrage.](https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/controversial-vaccine-studies-why-is-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-under-fire-from-critics-in-india/amp_articleshow/41280050.cms)
- [The gates foundation helps big pharma find new markets for drugs deemed unfit for westerners, selling them in the global south. This includes harmful drugs such as Gardasil, Norplant, Cervarix. A South African newspaper declared: “We are guinea pigs for the drugmakers.”](https://www.liberationnews.org/real-agenda-gates-foundation/)
- [Gates foundation does human testing in countries without expensive regulatory bodies for pharmaceutical companies such as Merck and Pfizer. One such mass test of a harmful HPV vaccine on 23,000 girls in india kills 7 girls, sterilizes hundreds more, and leads to public outrage.](https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/controversial-vaccine-studies-why-is-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-under-fire-from-critics-in-india/amp_articleshow/41280050.cms)
- [Citations Needed - The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire - Bill Gates and Western Media.](https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so-benevolent-billionaire-bill-gates-and-western-media)
- [Post from a web developer about Microsoft's bullshit in the 1990s.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ragecomics/comments/11c1t1/internet_explorer_rfunny_said_i_should_post_it/c6lbhu2/)
- [Microsoft crimes masterpost.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/microsoft.md)
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### John McCain
- [War Criminal, who pushed for US intervention in Syria, Libya, Serbia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam.](https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/29/john-mccain-war-criminal-not-war-hero/)
- Voted against Martin Luther King day, and women's reproducgive rights for his entire political career.
- Voted against Martin Luther King day, and women's reproductive rights for his entire political career.
- [Despite giving lip-service to progressive causes, never actually voted for any of them. The "maverick" label was a false construct.](https://theintercept.com/2017/07/27/john-mccain-fake-maverick-horrible-record/)
- [Imperialism 2](https://www.cpgb-ml.org/2018/10/15/news/john-mccain-a-life-in-the-service-of-blood-soaked-imperialism/)
### What about the new atheists? (Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens)
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### Gandhi
- [Was Gandhi really a racist? What about Gandhi's legacy? A great lecture by Arundati Roy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrN8PgZzc6k)
- [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?