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+# Why do we say ACAB (All cops are bastards)
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+Police are the armed enforcers of the owning / capitalist class, in the US having their origins in the [Slave catching patrols of the 1700s](https://medium.com/s/story/slavery-and-the-origins-of-the-american-police-state-ec318f5ff05b). They're the domestic enforcement arm of capital, the hired goons of the elites of their given city, serving their interests, with a monopoly on violence, analogous to the military, who acts as the imperialist enforcement arm. Their daily activities consist of fucking over poor people and trapping them in a cycle of poverty. 
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+Instead of solving thefts of personal property for working class people, they are themselves active thieves, generating over [$12B USD / year in "civil forfeiture"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States), and even more profit through traffic offenses and court costs. You can call them to come stand around and scratch their heads for an hour (if they don't decide to shoot you), but more likely they'll be at a protest being active agents of the [US police state](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#pervasive)([pic](https://i.imgur.com/KRbulxR.jpg)), where they collect a massive amount of data on "troublemakers" using [facial recognition](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-facial-recognition-became-routine-policing-tool-america-n1004251), and [military grade equipment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police), ([pic](https://i.imgur.com/9wj0OG4.jpg)) against the citizens they occupy.
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+Oh but who will imprison the rapists? Not the police: Less than [0.5% of rapists are in prison](https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system), despite [1 out of every 5 women being raped in the US](https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics). Perpetrators of sexual violence are *less likely* to go to prison than for any other crime, such as non-violent drug offenses. Police, when not [abducting and raping women themselves](https://twitter.com/rontkim/status/1130889246162804737), [or beating their wives and kids in high numbers](https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/), have been shown to [protect high-status sex traffic rings](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/26/jimmy-savile-given-free-rein-to-sexually-abuse-60-people-report-finds), and famous, well-connected predators.
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+[Cops have a long history of murdering workers organizing for better conditions. ](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#workers-and-the-poor) They imprison the poor in [huge numbers](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#prisoners), [1 out of every 5 black men](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs), and 1 / 7 Latino men are kidnapped at some point and thrown in a cage, mostly for nonviolent drug-related offenses. [Cops kill over 1000 ppl a year in the US.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police-shootings-2019/)
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+All cops have a duty to uphold those interests, that is their societal function; if they don't toe that line, they get fired. That's the systemic reason to hate them, and advocate for the abolition of capitalist police, and why the only good cop is an ex cop, or a dead one. And I know an ex cop who quit when they realized what harm they were doing to ppl. 
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+But not all cops are bad you might say? Well when they're not spending their time fucking with poor ppl, kidnapping, and murdering people, [4 out of every 10 of them go home and beat their wives and kids.](https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/) They also [kill so many house pets](https://qz.com/870601/police-killing-dogs-is-an-epidemic-according-to-the-justice-department/amp/) that it's considered a noted statistical phenomenon ([30 murdered dogs every day](https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/jun/16/doj-police-shooting-family-dogs-has-become-epidemic/), [2](https://puppycidedb.com/)) . So they are also domestic abusers, pet killers, and all around trash on a personal level. 
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+Sorry I'm so amped about this but they just murdered a [14 year old in Phoenix, AZ](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2019/02/15/month-after-officer-killed-teen-antonio-arce-tempe-investigation-continues/2873020002/) a few weeks ago, and after delaying the release of, then doctoring the body cam footage, the cop is getting off yet again.
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+[ACAB](https://i.imgur.com/LeKwBWt.jpg)
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+[List of atrocities committed by US authorities.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md)
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+Oh, and for anyone wondering what the alternative is, here are some things domestic worker-controlled security forces (it feels almost blasphemous to call them police, since they have the exact opposite function as capitilast police) have historically done:
+- Actually solved murders, rapes, and thefts against working class people.
+- Were fully accountable for offenses (although these were rare since there was no for-profit abduction system as exists in Capitalism).
+- Enforced traffic guidelines in cities, first with suggestions, then with minimal to no fines. See this episode of [How Yukong moved the mountains](https://youtu.be/5m6qbrWTj7Y?t=1456) to get an idea of the demeanor of some police in China during the cultural revolution for example.
+- Arrested Capitalists, not empowered them.
+- Worker strikes, when they happened, were left alone.
+- Had minimal crime rates, since homelessness and joblessness were low.
+- Focused on rehabilitation, not punishment.
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 Lets unpack the idea that "Capitalism works". In the US, the most developed Capitalist country, the richest country in the history of the world:

 - [1 out of every 7 US citizens needs to visit food banks to survive](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/hunger-study-food/14195585/), despite having enough food to feed [10 billion people.](https://www.oxfam.ca/there-enough-food-feed-world) Half of all food produced is [thrown away by retailers.](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect) [Food waste in 2018 enough to feed world's hungry 4 times over.](https://reliefweb.int/report/world/food-waste-enough-feed-world-s-hungry-four-times-over)
- [Empty homes outnumber the homeless by 6 to 1](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-skip-bronson/post_733_b_692546.html). Bank foreclosures and housing speculators have left 18.9 million empty homes. [2.5 million **homeless children**, or ~1 / 30](https://www.newsweek.com/child-homelessness-us-reaches-historic-high-report-says-285052). In the UK, [there are 10x more empty houses than homeless families](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/housing-crisis-10-empty-homes-5008151).  
 - [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**. [2](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). 
 - In the US alone, [20-40k deaths every year](http://obamacarefacts.com/facts-on-deaths-due-to-lack-of-health-insurance-in-us/) because of lack of health insurance / care. On average, that's 300k over the last decade.
- [Average US household carries ~$140k in debt. Median household income only \$60k](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2017/11/18/a-foolish-take-heres-how-much-debt-the-average-us-household-owes/107651700/), [40% of millenials live with their parents.](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/goodbye-american-dream-the-average-u-s-household-is-137063-in-debt-and-38-4-of-millennials-live-with-their-parents) 
+- [Empty homes outnumber the homeless by 6 to 1](http://archive.today/2014.05.23-032153/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-skip-bronson/post_733_b_692546.html). Bank foreclosures and housing speculators have left 18.9 million empty homes. [2.5 million **homeless children**, or ~1 / 30](https://www.newsweek.com/child-homelessness-us-reaches-historic-high-report-says-285052). In the UK, [there are 10x more empty houses than homeless families](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/housing-crisis-10-empty-homes-5008151).
+- [80% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/29/us-economy-workers-paycheck-robert-reich), 40% cannot cover a [$400 emergency.](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/federal-reserve-more-than-4-out-of-10-americans-do-not-even-have-enough-money-to-cover-an-unexpected-400-expense)
+- [The bottom half of US citizens have a combined negative net worth.](https://www.timesunion.com/technology/businessinsider/article/One-brutal-sentence-captures-what-a-disaster-13882763.php) [Average US household carries ~$140k in debt. Median household income only $60k](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2017/11/18/a-foolish-take-heres-how-much-debt-the-average-us-household-owes/107651700/), [40% of millenials live with their parents.](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/goodbye-american-dream-the-average-u-s-household-is-137063-in-debt-and-38-4-of-millennials-live-with-their-parents) 
+- [~ 1/4th of US workers are trapped in the gig economy as of 2019.](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/02/gig-economy-us-trump-uber-california-robert-reich)
 - [8 men control as much wealth as half the worlds population.](https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/meet-the-8-men-who-control-half-the-worlds-wealth.html) Anyone wanna take a guess at how this game of monopoly ends?
 - [Billionaires made enough money in 2017 to end poverty 7 times over.](https://www.newsweek.com/billionaires-money-end-poverty-report-786675)
- [80% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/29/us-economy-workers-paycheck-robert-reich), 40% cannot cover a [$400 emergency.](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/federal-reserve-more-than-4-out-of-10-americans-do-not-even-have-enough-money-to-cover-an-unexpected-400-expense)
 - [US Life expectancy peaked in 2015, is on the decline, and is now lower than in China.](https://www.businessinsider.com/china-boasts-that-its-healthy-life-expectancy-beats-the-us-is-correct-2018-5)
 - Suicide rates have leaped more than [33% in the last 20 years.](https://politsturm.com/american-suicide-rate-up-33/) [2](https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/health/suicide-report-cdc/index.html), [3](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/06/07/u-s-suicide-rates-rise-sharply-across-the-country-new-report-shows/?utm_term=.18c1060e6b2f) 
 - [Committed countless atrocities](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md), killing millions directly and indirectly across the globe. Imperialist network of [800 military bases in 70 countries.](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321) 
- [Most prisoners per capita AND by total](https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/). Makes sense, since prison is Capitalism's boarding house. [Runs least 54 agricultural slave labor camps.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_farm#In_the_United_States_.28partial_list.29) 
- [More here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/5q2oak/someone_dies_under_socialism_no_matter_how_its/dcvu8lg/)
+- [Most prisoners per capita AND by total](https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/). Makes sense, since prison is Capitalism's boarding house. [Runs least 54 agricultural slave labor camps.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_farm#In_the_United_States_.28partial_list.29). [34,000 *undesirables* imprisoned in over 500 immigrant prison
+    camps.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement#Detention_centers)
+- [More here.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#workers-and-the-poor)

 Capitalist hegemony has short-circuited people into buying wildly illogical and ridiculous propaganda like: "*Lift yourselves up by the bootstraps*" (which shows the almost religious power of capitalist propaganda, that the impossible can become possible), or "*Communism doesn't work*", when in fact **Communism did work extremely well.**

@ -27,14 +29,14 @@ Examples from [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/86tqdd/but
 - [Had zero unemployment, continuous economic growth for 70 straight years.](https://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~syrbe/pubs/FarmtoFactory.pdf) The "continuous" part should make sense – the USSR was a planned, non-market economy, so market crashes á la capitalism were pretty much impossible.
 - [All education, including university level, free](http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm). [2]( http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm)
 - [99% literacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez).
- Saved the world from Fascism, [killing 7 out of every 10 fascist soldier, bore the enormous cost of blood and pain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Casualties). Nazis were in retreat after the battle of Stalingrad in 1942, a **full 2 years** before the US landed troops in normandy. 
+- Saved the world from Fascism, [Taking on the majority of Nazi divisions, and killing 7 out of every 10 fascist soldier. Bore the enormous cost of blood and pain in WW2, with the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_\(World_War_II\)#Casualties). An estimated 70% of Soviet housing was destroyed by Nazi invasion. Nazis were in retreat after the battle of Stalingrad in 1942, a **full 2 years** before the US landed troops in normandy. 
 - [Doubled life expectancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union). [Eliminated poverty.](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/)
- [End sex inequality](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1977,_Unamended\) ). Equal wages for men and women mandated by law, but sex inequality, although not as pronounced as under capitalism, was perpetuated in social roles. Very important lesson to learn.
+- [End sex inequality](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union_\(1977,_Unamended\)). Equal wages for men and women mandated by law, but sex inequality, although not as pronounced as under capitalism, was perpetuated in social roles. Very important lesson to learn.
 - [End Racial inequality.](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2016/jan/24/racial-harmony-in-a-marxist-utopia-how-the-soviet-union-capitalised-on-us-discrimination-in-pictures)
 - Feudalism to [space travel](https://i.imgur.com/pe0tg2y.jpg) in 40 years. [First satellite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program), rocket, space walk, woman, man, animal, space station, moon and mars probes.
 - Housing was socialized by localized community organizations, and there was virtually no homelessness. Houses were often shared by two families throughout the 20s and 30s – so unlike capitalism, there were no empty houses, but the houses were very full. In the 40s there was the war, and in the 50s there were a number of orphans from the war. The mass housing projects began in the 60s, they were completed in the 70s, and by the 70s, there were homeless people, but they often had genuine issues with mental health.

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 Now let's take a look at what happens after the USSR collapse: 

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 This video by [Paul Cockshott - Going beyond Money](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI01-5zhwdA), illustrates how it is currently possible to go beyond money, and to build a democratically planned, labor-time based economy **for human needs, rather than private profit.** 

 ## Risk
-A common argument is that *Capitalists should be rewarded for their [financial risk](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/av92oi/someone_said_the_following_in_a_debate_and_i/)*. The only *risk* owners take is that of being [forced to become a worker like everyone else](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/a7fo1y/does_marx_ever_go_over_risk_in_his_works/) if the business fails. Risk also isn't proportional to reward; Big Capitalists risk much less, and gain much more than smaller ones, just as wage workers risk starvation and homelessness if forces outside their control lead to their firing. The nearer the bottom you are, the **greater your risks.**
+A common argument is that *Capitalists should be rewarded* for their [financial risk](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/av92oi/someone_said_the_following_in_a_debate_and_i/). The only *risk* owners take is that of being [forced to become a worker like everyone else](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/a7fo1y/does_marx_ever_go_over_risk_in_his_works/) if the business fails. Risk also isn't proportional to reward; Big Capitalists risk much less, and gain much more than smaller ones, just as wage workers risk starvation and homelessness if forces outside their control lead to their firing. The nearer the bottom you are, the **greater your risks.**

 Slavemasters took financial *risk* in buying slaves, but that risk doesn't negate the harm done to their slaves, or entitle them to their slaves' labor output. Capitalist risk likewise doesn't entitle them to a portion of their workers' output.

@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ The socialist argument is not that individual passive investors should still bea
 [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.

 ## Democracy
-Socialists view democracy under capitalism to be an unrealistic utopia, better labeled as [Bourgeois Democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Marxism), Capitalist Dictatorship, 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 and limitations on the ability and choices of the working class. [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.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig) Examples of restrictions include stacking the candidates before an election, 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.
+Socialists view democracy under capitalism to be an unrealistic utopia, better labeled as [Bourgeois Democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Marxism), Capitalist Dictatorship, 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, 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.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig) Examples of restrictions include stacking the candidates before an election, 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/)

@ -256,8 +256,11 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni
 - [Lenin - The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm)
 - [Lenin - A liberal professor on Equality](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/mar/11.htm)
 - [Eugene Debs - Capitalism and Socialism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1912/1912-capsoc.htm)
+- [Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work?](http://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work) [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYf3gZZFa0k&list=PL0-IkmzWbjobDdDbSC_YgZfV94BQiRIB8)
+- Why do many socialist attempts end up in an one-party state? Watch this [brilliant talk by Micheal Parenti](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7WmYEoNtPY&feature=youtu.be), or read his article, [Left anticommunism, the unkindest cut](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/23/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/), [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51KSe96VCuI)
+- [Pacifism - How to do the enemy's job for them.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxrO7p-6w_k&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZ5IIhnzFBOImzySh827FyK)
 ### Marxist literature
- [Engels - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific](http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm)
+- [Engels - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific](http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm), [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS4cpvvLeYo&list=PL0-IkmzWbjobt3oC7Mhq9kHWVbBKRtyg8)
 - [Marx/Engels - The Communist Manifesto](http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/)
 - [Marx - Wage Labour and Capital](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/)
 - [Rosa Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution](http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm) 
@ -276,12 +279,16 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni
 - [Huey P. Newton - Revolutionary Suicide](https://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Suicide-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0143105329)
 - [Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America](https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485894404&sr=8-1&keywords=open+veins+of+latin+america)
 - [Fidel Castro - My Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_(Fidel_Castro_autobiography))
- [George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia)
 - [Trotsky - History of the Russian Revolution](https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/)
 - [Joshua Bloom - Black Against Empire](https://www.amazon.com/Black-against-Empire-Politics-Foundation/dp/0520293282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485894343&sr=8-1&keywords=black+against+empire)
+- [Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds](https://www.amazon.com/Blackshirts-Reds-Rational-Overthrow-Communism/dp/0872863298)
 ### Psychology
 - [Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of persuasion](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:bad0ad6cca5c00ba8d1f8e8c4e5962f6d611f381&dn=Influence_%20The%20Psychology%20of%20Persuasion%20by%20Robert%20Cialdini&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Feddie4.nl%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.pirateparty.gr%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.zer0day.to%3A1337) (not explicitly Marxist, but a great breakdown of the main psychological tactics used by exploiters to manipulate us)
  - <pre>magnet:?xt=urn:btih:bad0ad6cca5c00ba8d1f8e8c4e5962f6d611f381&dn=Influence_%20The%20Psychology%20of%20Persuasion%20by%20Robert%20Cialdini&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Feddie4.nl%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.pirateparty.gr%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.zer0day.to%3A1337</pre>
+### Fiction
+- Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars / Mars Trilogy
+- Ursula K LeGuin - The Dispossessed
+
 ## Audiobooks
 - [Dessalines List of Audiobooks](audiobooks.md)
 - [Dessalines Youtube Channel w/ Audiobooks](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7HJWIFGGeMiJi2h3k18CrQ)
--- a/glossary_of_socialist_terms.md
+++ b/glossary_of_socialist_terms.md
@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Notes:
 | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
 | [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. |
+| [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.  |
 | [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 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. |
--- a/microsoft.md
+++ b/microsoft.md
@ -17,5 +17,6 @@
 - Its [workers often suffer burnout](https://archive.is/20120629191556/http://www.krsaborio.net/research/1980s/89/890423.htm), and has been called a *velvet sweatshop*. Microsoft lost a lawsuit for $93 million for using "permatemp" employees, which were worked as hard as ordinary employees, yet received none of the benefits. Microsoft is the largest American corporate user of H-1B guest worker visas in order to pay them less. Microsoft has also come under criticism for developing software capable of analyzing the output of remote sensors in order to [measure the competence and productivity of workers based on their physical responses.](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/microsoft-seeks-patent-for-office-spy-software-h0dd5zmtfnt)

 ## Sources
-
- http://www.kmfms.com/whatsbad.html
+- https://stallman.org/microsoft.html
+- http://www.kmfms.com/whatsbad.html
+- https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
--- a/recipes/beer_brewing.md
+++ b/recipes/beer_brewing.md
@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 ## Videos

 - [Homebrewing basics playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJGQZwp3xofuwirWhdD2ks1Zf2cji0-rr&disable_polymer=true)
-
 ## Instructions

 ### Mash
@ -19,10 +18,12 @@
 - Put on lid, cover in blanket / beach towel.
 - Leave for 1 hour.
 - Meanwhile, fill up kettle again and bring your sparge water up to 170-180 deg.
- Pour this out into other containers (your kettle is now your brew kettle and should be empty)
- Start draining mash tun (recirculate until its clear).
- Drain into kettle until empty.
- Once it gets low, your sparge water. Recirculate every time. Repeat until all sparge water is used.
+- Pour this out into other containers (your kettle is now your brew kettle and should be empty).
+- Start draining mash tun.
+  - Recirculate a few times till its clear.
+  - Drain into kettle until empty. Add more sparge water.
+  - Stir in, then wait 30 minutes for hot sparge water to mix.
+  - Repeat until no more sparge water. This process should take about 2 hours.
 - Save 1 qt of this into a container for a yeast starter.
 - Take sample from kettle, chill in fridge, and measure the specific gravity, should be around 1.040.

@ -63,3 +64,11 @@
 - [Here's](https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-check-and-control-alcohol-levels-the-kitchns-beer-school-2015-217260) what you can do for adjusting numbers. 
 - Stir in priming sugar. 
 - Bottle.
+
+---
+- Total Water Needed [?]: 9.16 Gallons, 34.66 Liters
+- Mash Water Needed [?]: 2.99 Gallons, 11.33 Liters, 1 hour 151 deg
+- Sparge Water Needed [?]: 6.16 Gallons, 23.33 Liters, 10 minutes 170 deg
+- Strike Temperature [?]: 164.33 F, 74 CPre-Boil Wort Produced [?]: 6.99 Gallons, 26.44 Liters 
+- 3 weeks primary, 2 weeks bottle 
+- 5.5 gallons post boil vol
--- a/socialism_faq.md
+++ b/socialism_faq.md
@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
 * [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/) [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxrO7p-6w_k&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZ5IIhnzFBOImzySh827FyK)
+- [Was the civil rights struggle in the US really nonviolent?](http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/62/the-civil-rights-movement-in-mississippi-on-violence-and-nonviolence) [Malcolm X - message to the grassroots. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku2JzolPt50)
 - [An Overview of Leninism](https://theimmortalscience.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/), [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)
@ -227,6 +228,9 @@
  * [What were the sailor's specific demands?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/4cm20u/why_were_the_demands_of_kronstadt_unreasonable/). 
  * [Were the sailors anarchists? ( No, they were Left Social Revolutionaries )](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/53s4w9/what_really_happened_kronstadt/d7wuvo3/). 
  * [Trotsky's position on petite-bourgeois attacks in the middle of the Russian Civil War.](http://www.marxist.com/kronstadt-trotsky-was-right.htm)
+* [Were the Soviet POWs returning from the front on WW2 treated as spies?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/bmyhq7/treatment_of_soviet_pows_upon_their_return_to_the/)
+* [Wasn't the fall of the Berlin Wall / East Germany a good thing?](https://zcomm.org/zmagazine/fall-of-the-berlin-wall/), [2](http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9911/08/germany.carpetbaggers/), [3](https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/humpty-dumpty-and-the-fall-of-berlins-wall/), [4](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/ossies-former-east-germans-compare-socialist-youth-with-life-under-capitalism/)
+  *  [Democracy, East Germany, and the Berlin Wall](http://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/democracy-east-germany-and-the-berlin-wall/) by Stephen Gowans
 * [*Fraud, Famine, and Fascism*](http://rationalrevolution.net/special/library/tottlefraud.pdf) by Douglas Tottle
 * [*The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933*](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpQllPVzQ2UFd3aWM/view?usp=sharing) by Mark Tauger
 * [*Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931–1933*](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpNExnSEVhMjBLRlE/view?usp=sharing) by Mark Tauger
@ -249,7 +253,6 @@
 - [*Is the Red Flag Flying?*](http://archive.org/details/IsTheRedFlagFlying) by Albert Syzmanski
 - [*Socialism Betrayed*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3043d96567ceab152a0992313bcf82b9) by Keeran and Kenny
 - [*Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934–1941*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=bcb105833aa3f469f1131209e3875a9f) by Robert Thurston
- [*Democracy, East Germany, and the Berlin Wall*](http://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/democracy-east-germany-and-the-berlin-wall/) by Stephen Gowans
 - [*The Russians are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism*](http://archive.org/details/TheRussiansAreComing) by V.L. Allen
 - [*The 1936 Soviet Constitution*](http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/1936toc.html)
 - [*Soviet Democracy*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=c22e40075143d321a449a15690f82720) by Pat Sloan
@ -279,6 +282,7 @@
 * [What is Maoism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/139sid/what_is_maoism/)
 * [How many peopled really died during the Great Leap Forward?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/39w9w0/how_many_peopled_really_died_during_the_great/)
 * [Did Mao really kill millions of people in the great leap forward?](https://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward#.T5wbUSfm_x8.reddit)
+* [What about the mass killing of landlords? What about landlordism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/bvk5rd/what_do_you_think_of_the_mass_killing_of/)
 * [What about the famines? Did Mao kill millions?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/11yp4f/opinions_on_defense_of_stalin_and_mao/c6qobhh/)
 * [Why did Mao launch the Cultural Revolution? What was he trying to achieve as distinct from the Revolution the Chinese Communists had already won? To what extent did he succeed? Does it have any continuing impact? (x-post from /r/AskHistorians)](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/23958h/why_did_mao_launch_the_cultural_revolution_what/)
 * [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)
@ -286,6 +290,10 @@
 * [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/)
 * [Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/91liw2/how_is_china_staying_true_to_communist_values/e2z3kzu/)
+* [Does china have concentration camps for Uyghur Muslims? UN Report says no.](https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/23/un-did-not-report-china-internment-camps-uighur-muslims/) 
+  * [What about religous freedom in China? Is China killing / imprisoning Muslims?](https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1004884261051092993?s=21)
+  * [Chinese muslims enjoying a faith revival.](http://time.com/3099950/china-muslim-hui-xinjiang-uighur-islam/)
+  * [A Pakistani diplomat visits western China.](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/422970-pakistani-diplomat-narrates-visit-to-chinas-xinjiang)
 ### [Did Mao kill millions of people?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_1.3A_mao_killed_millions_of_people)
 - [*Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward?*](http://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/) by Joseph Ball
 - [*Monster or Liberator?*](http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/12/monster-liberator-legacy-mao-zedong/) by Carlos Martinez
@ -332,6 +340,7 @@
 - [Human rights and the DPRK](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1tb5ho/human_rights_and_the_dprk/)
 - [What evidence is there than DPRK is not engaged in gross violations of human rights?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2mfq2m/what_evidence_is_there_than_dprk_is_not_engaged/)
 - [Can someone explain Songbun (Caste system) of the DPRK to me?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2dqtn3/can_someone_explain_songbun_caste_system_of_the/)
+- [What about Otto Warmbier?](https://nypost.com/2017/09/26/coroners-report-for-otto-warmbier-shows-no-signs-of-torture/)[2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/awuok8/with_all_of_the_news_about_north_korea_going/)
 ### [Do North Koreans believe in unicorns and think Kim Jong-Un is immortal?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_1.3A_north_koreans_believe_in_unicorns_and_they_think_kim_jong-un_is_immortal)
 - [Do communists defend the nationalistic (juche) aspects of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of North Korea)? short answer: no.](https://www.reddit.com/r/FULLDISCOURSE/comments/60voir/lets_talk_about_the_dprk/)
 - [*Western DPRK Propaganda: The Worst, Occasionally Hilarious, and Often Racist, Lies*]( http://anti-imperialism.org/2014/08/14/western-dprk-propaganda-the-worst-occasionally-hilarious-and-often-racist-lies/) by Alyx Mayer
@ -403,11 +412,13 @@
  - 8 variations of  “Jewish?” (Charlie Chaplin), “Polish Jew, (Tom Driberg)” “English Jew,” or “Jewess.”
  - [Paul Robeson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson) - "ROBESON, Paul (US Negro) ...Very anti-white. [Henry] Wallace supporter."
    - Paul Robeson wasn't anti-white, just look at the welsh coal miners for whom Robeson Campaigned.
+    - [Relevant testimony of Paul Robeson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmFjjaFNHKo) to the House of Unamerican activities committee during the red scare.
  - [Stephen Spender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Spender)  - "Sentimental sympathiser... Tendency towards homosexuality" 
  - [Hugh MacDiarmid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_MacDiarmid), Scottish nationalist poet, and anti-imperialist. 
  - [George Padmore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Padmore), Trinidadian journalist and anti-imperialist campaigner.
- His books Animal Farm and 1984 are used widely as anti-communist propaganda in schools in the US and UK. So much so that [his animated animal farm film was funded by the CIA.](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/how-cia-brought-animal-farm-to-the-screen/).  There's a reason they teach George Orwell in schools and not Franz Fanon, Che, Huey P Newton, Malcolm X, Lenin, CLR James, etc. 
+- His books Animal Farm and 1984 are used widely as anti-communist propaganda in schools in the US and UK. So much so that [his animated animal farm film was funded by the CIA](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/how-cia-brought-animal-farm-to-the-screen/).  There's a reason they teach George Orwell in schools and not Franz Fanon, Che, Huey P Newton, Malcolm X, Lenin, CLR James, etc. 
 - [Orwell worked as a British imperial cop in Burma for 5 years](http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Myanmar/sub5_5e/entry-3083.html). His short story, [Shooting an Elephant](http://www.denisedrespling.com/review-shooting-elephant-george-orwell/), uses ethnic slurs and denigrates burmese people. 
+- [The testimony of Paul Robeson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmFjjaFNHKo) (one of the people Orwell snitched on), to HUAC (House of Unamerican activities committee) during the red scare.
 - [A reddit thread on George Orwell](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/797lnl/as_a_communist_how_do_you_feel_the_works_of/), [Thread #2](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/7dhx99/for_those_on_the_right_who_think_orwell_wrote/dpy4zik/).
 ### John McCain
 - [War Criminal, who pushed for US military intervention in Syria, Libya, Serbia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam.](https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/29/john-mccain-war-criminal-not-war-hero/) [Imperialism 2](https://www.cpgb-ml.org/2018/10/15/news/john-mccain-a-life-in-the-service-of-blood-soaked-imperialism/).
@ -419,8 +430,9 @@
 - [Was Gandhi really a racist? What about Gandhi's legacy? A great lecture by Arundati Roy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrN8PgZzc6k)
 - [Gandhi - The jews should've killed themselves instead.](https://izquotes.com/quote/mahatma-gandhi/hitler-killed-five-million-jews-it-is-the-greatest-crime-of-our-time-but-the-jews-should-have-231149)
 - [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)
-### 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/)
+### Did 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/) [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoaLP3G2HGj-O5JTepm0Kjt-),
+    [Summary](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/bd615l/perspectives_on_ww2/eky36vp/?context=3)
 ### What's wrong with Bernie Sanders?
 - [Supports US imperialism](https://leftistcritic.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/bernie-sanders-an-imperialist-worth-despising/). [2](https://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-sanders-troubling-history-supporting-us-military-violence-abroad)
  - [Voted for US intervention](https://i.imgur.com/HCvaDLp.jpg) in the following nations: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya, [Somalia](http://votesmart.org/bill/2732/7934/27110/bernie-sanders-voted-yea-passage-with-amendment-s-j-res-45-authorization-for-use-of-%20us-armed-forces-in-somalia#7934), Syria, Yemen, [Yugoslavia](http://www.libertyunionparty.org/?page_id=363),[2](http://votesmart.org/bill/2808/7948/27110/bosnia-troop-deployment-resolution#.Ve5QZkvJyhG), Bosnia, Haiti, Congo, Liberia, Sudan, and Ukraine.
@ -441,10 +453,12 @@
  - [She votes to keep the US in NATO, who's been responsible for countless atrocities in Europe and the Middle East.](http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll044.xml)
  - Going back on her promise to only back "progressive democrats" after her election to congress in 2018, she [backs Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the house.](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-backs-pelosi-speaker-dem-rebellion-falters-n939086)
  - [Says her policies are more reminiscent of Norway than Caracas, repeating the right wing myth of socialism destroying Venezuela, and wrongly conflating nordic social democracy with socialism.](https://i.imgur.com/fTJfV2k.png)
+  - [Says its possible to be both a "democratic socialist" and a Capitalist. ](https://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/aoc-can-you-be-a-democratic-socialist-and-a-capitalist-it-s-possible-1439125059571?fbclid=IwAR1PmnyrP28stOyVqNP5Bf4vjqEtV5S4MXQIY4sDgcv-XWgEn1u5Z0ne3J8)
  - [Thinks the US military is socialist. Thinks social services like schools and libraries are socialist.](https://i.imgur.com/JHOZDlg.png)
  - [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)
 - [She supports Israel, and its genocide of Palestineans .](https://i.imgur.com/K6QsYZo.jpg)
+- [Goes along with democrats and Republicans in backing US puppet Juan Guaido over Maduro in Venezuela.](https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1124924184629583872?s=19) 
 - [Claims that socialist theory is only for priviledged few with college educated parents, and that working class people aren't capable of understanding theory. Is unaware of the Spanish-speaking socialist tradition. ](https://medium.com/@marko_v_kobak/sharpening-the-mind-a-response-to-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-24babecac9c5?fbclid=IwAR2I8uYX9ZUvPyd5MZxKiIEeXgbgnfzulR4qjzOGF1hxK6SEX7oqkFmyBIc)
 ### What's wrong with Elizabeth Warren?
 - [She supports Capitalism. ](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/23/elizabeth-warren-i-am-a-capitalist-but-markets-need-rules.html)
@ -453,6 +467,8 @@
 ### Kamala Harris
 - https://twitter.com/WillisJermane/status/1090261366789656578
 - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/31/kamala-harris-laughed-jailing-parents-truancy
+### Biden
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seRaSRZKo2U
 ### Why don't socialists support a UBI / Universal Basic income?
 - [Would basic income fix our problems?](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/8p097l/i_just_realized_that_monopoly_has_integrated/)
 - [A Marxist critique of Basic income.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/8wizh9/marxist_critiques_on_the_universal_basic_income/)
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 - [Whats so bad about UBI (universal basic income)?](https://thenewinquiry.com/universal-basic-bullshit/),[2](https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/false-promise-universal-basic-income-andy-stern-ruger-bregman),[3](https://youtu.be/J10jKdPRN9A)
 - [Why are socialists against Israel / Zionism?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT5L4YU_Fl4&feature=youtu.be)
 - [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/)
+- [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/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9vaw8f/-/e9b1kxr)
 - [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/)
 - [Was Mark Twain a socialist?](https://socialistworker.org/2010/04/21/the-twain-they-didnt-teach)
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 - The [Indian Wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars) is a name given to the collection of over 40 conflicts and wars between Native Americans and US settlers. The US census bureau reports that they have cost the lives of about 19,000 white men, women and children, including those killed in individual combats, and the lives of about 30,000 Indians. The actual number of killed and wounded Indians must be very much higher than the number given... Fifty percent additional would be a safe estimate..<sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars)</sup>
 - From 1500-1900s, European and later US colonists and authorities displaced and [committed genocide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples#The_question_of_colonization_and_genocide_in_the_Americas) on the Native American Population. Ward Churchill characterizes the reduction of the North American Indian population from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900 as a "vast genocide.. the most sustained on record. Some of the atrocities will be listed above. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples#The_question_of_colonization_and_genocide_in_the_Americas), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history#Americas)</sup>
 ### Black people
+- The origins of US police lie in the [slave-catching patrols](https://medium.com/s/story/slavery-and-the-origins-of-the-american-police-state-ec318f5ff05b) of the 1700s.
 - On September 27th, 2018, a Dallas TX police officer getting off work entered the apartment of 26 year old Botham Jean (thinking it was her own), and [shot and killed him](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7202254/dallas-cop-enters-wrong-house-kills-man-thought-burglar/). The officer, Amber Guyger, at first was placed on administrative leave, and eventually was charged with manslaughter. Jeans family accused the Dallas Police Department of using Jean's marijuana use in news articles as a justification for his murder. <sup>[1](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/botham-jean-family-wants-to-put-one-rumor-to-rest-dallas-shooting-amber-guyger/),[2](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/botham-jean-family-wants-to-put-one-rumor-to-rest-dallas-shooting-amber-guyger/),[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Police_Department#Killing_of_Botham_Jean)</sup>
 - On June 20th 2018, a Pittsburgh PA cop shot 17-year old [Antwon Rose in the back while he was running away](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/20/police-fatally-shoot-17-year-old-antwon-rose-fleeing-traffic-stop-east-pittsburgh/719334002/) and killed him. Luckily a cell phone video caught the incident, showing officers handcuffing his corpse. "He was just a really lovely, gentle kid," Gisele Fetterman told the newspaper at a World Refugee Day event in Market Square on Wednesday. "His mom is amazing. All the kids loved him. Just a fine person. Bubbly. Funny. Goofy. Just really special."<sup>[1](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/20/police-fatally-shoot-17-year-old-antwon-rose-fleeing-traffic-stop-east-pittsburgh/719334002/)</sup>
 - On July 19th, 2017, Cincinatti OH prosecutors decided not to pursue a third murder trial for police officer Ray Tensing, who shot [Samuel DuBose in the head](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Samuel_DuBose) on July 19th 2015, killing him, after pulling him over for a missing front license plate. The prosecutor told the mother, "since there are more racists in Hamilton county than not, its pointless to pursue another trial because you won't get a conviction." Tensing was wearing a confederate battle flag T-shirt when he murdered DuBose. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Samuel_DuBose)</sup>
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 - In 2004, during a protest at the republican national convention, over 1,800 people were arrested. They were held at [Hudson Pier Depot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_depots_of_the_New_York_City_Transit_Authority#Hudson_Pier_Depot) at [Pier 57](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_57) on the [Hudson River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_River_%28Hudson_River%29), a three-story, block-long pier that has been converted into a temporary prison, described as overcrowded, dirty, and contaminated with [oil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum) and [asbestos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos). People reported having suffered from smell, bad ventilation, and even chemical burns and rashes. In 2014, the city was forced to pay \$6.4 million to 430 individual plaintiffs. \$6.6 million was paid to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by 1,200 additional people. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Republican_National_Convention_protest_activity),[2](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state)</sup>
 - In 1991 in Los Angeles, [Latasha Harlins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Latasha_Harlins) was a 15-year-old black teen who was shot in the head by Soon Ja Du, a 51-year-old female store owner from South Korea, who was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Harlins' death. Harlins' death came 13 days after the videotaped beating of [Rodney King](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King). Du was fined $500 and sentenced to five years of probation and 400 hours of community service but **no prison time for her crime**. Some cited the shooting as one of the causes of the [1992 Los Angeles riots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots).<sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Latasha_Harlins)</sup>
 - In 1991, Los Angeles police beat up [Rodney King](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King#Incident), a black taxi-driver, and his two passengers, after he refused to pull over. The brutal beating, in which he was gagged, tazed, kicked, and beaten with batons by around 6 cops, with ~15 more idly watching, was caught on video, and the media frenzy and black community reaction surrounding his beating lead to the [1992 Los Angeles riots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots). <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King#Incident)</sup>
- On May 13, 1985, the police again attempted to evict [MOVE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE), [and bombed an entire city block](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing), killing 11 people (including 5 children, Delisha, Thee, Netta, Frank, Raymond, Vincent, Conrad, Rhonda, Lil Phil, Thomaso, & Theresa Africa), and leaving 250 homeless. Police initially lobbed [tear gas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_gas) canisters at the building, and a gunfight with [semi-automatic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_firearm) and [automatic firearms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_firearm) ensued. Commissioner Sambor then ordered a bombing from a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, and [Philadelphia Police Department](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Police_Department) Lt. Frank Powell proceeded to drop two one-pound bombs made of C4 explosive (which the police referred to as "entry devices") made of FBI-supplied [water gel explosive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_gel_explosive), a [dynamite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite) substitute, targeting a fortified, bunker-like cubicle on the roof of the house. The resulting explosions ignited a fire from fuel for a gasoline-powered generator in rooftop bunker that eventually destroyed approximately 65 nearby houses. The firefighters, who had earlier [deluge-hosed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cannon#Riot_control) the MOVE members in a failed attempt to evict them from the building, stood by as the fire caused by the bomb engulfed the first house and spread to others, having been given orders to let the fire burn. Despite the earlier drenching of the building by firefighters, officials said that they feared that MOVE would shoot at the firefighters. Eleven people (John Africa, five other adults and five children aged 7 to 13) died in the resulting fire and more than 25have been few industries which have been immune.[1]. A long 0 people were left homeless. Ramona Africa, one of the two survivors, stated that police fired at those trying to escape. No one from the city government was charged criminally. Many MOVE members are still in prison, fighting for their release. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing)</sup>
+- On May 13, 1985, the police again attempted to evict [MOVE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE), [and bombed an entire city block](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing), killing 11 people (including 5 children, Delisha, Thee, Netta, Frank, Raymond, Vincent, Conrad, Rhonda, Lil Phil, Thomaso, & Theresa Africa), and leaving 250 homeless. Police initially lobbed [tear gas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_gas) canisters at the building, and a gunfight with [semi-automatic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_firearm) and [automatic firearms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_firearm) ensued. Commissioner Sambor then ordered a bombing from a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, and [Philadelphia Police Department](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Police_Department) Lt. Frank Powell proceeded to drop two one-pound bombs made of C4 explosive (which the police referred to as "entry devices") made of FBI-supplied [water gel explosive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_gel_explosive), a [dynamite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite) substitute, targeting a fortified, bunker-like cubicle on the roof of the house. The resulting explosions ignited a fire from fuel for a gasoline-powered generator in rooftop bunker that eventually destroyed approximately 65 nearby houses. The firefighters, who had earlier [deluge-hosed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cannon#Riot_control) the MOVE members in a failed attempt to evict them from the building, stood by as the fire caused by the bomb engulfed the first house and spread to others, having been given orders to let the fire burn. Despite the earlier drenching of the building by firefighters, officials said that they feared that MOVE would shoot at the firefighters. Eleven people (John Africa, five other adults and five children aged 7 to 13) died in the resulting fire and more than 25 people were left homeless. Ramona Africa, one of the two survivors, stated that police fired at those trying to escape. No one from the city government was charged criminally. Many MOVE members are still in prison, fighting for their release. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing)</sup>
 - In 1979, a [communist-led march](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Workers%27_Party_(United_States)) to oust the [Ku Klux Klan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan) and the [American Nazi Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nazi_Party) lead to the [Greensboro Massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre), where local police helped the KKK stop the march and kill 5 protesters. Edward Dawson, a Klansman-turned FBI informant as part of the agency's [COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO) program and was among the founders of the North Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan when the North Carolina chapter of the [United Klans of America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Klans_of_America) split. By 1979 he was working as an informant for the Greensboro Police Department. He was given a copy of the march route from the police and informed them of the potential for violence. Absent the police, the attackers escaped with relative ease. All of the killers were acquitted in state and national trials. The city lost a civil lawsuit in 1980, being one of the few times in US history when "a jury held local police liable for cooperating with the KKK in a wrongful death." The Greensboro city council finally apologized for the incident in 2017. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre)</sup>
 - In 1979, Los Angeles police shot and killed [Eulia Love](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Eulia_Love) over a disputed gas bill. LA police had a notorious reputation for using violence in black, brown, and gay communities. The police chief in a press conference later corrected the amount of the bill, after a reporter quoted an incorrect amount for the bill.  <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Eulia_Love)></sup>
 - In 1978, the police were involved in shootout with [MOVE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE), a black power commune in Philadelphia, after attempting to evict them. The 9 surviving members (called the MOVE 9, including Charles Sims Africa) were given 100 year long sentences, 7 of which are still currently in prison. 
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 - On March 25th-27th, 2017, ICE agents [arrested 84 immigrants](http://www.kgw.com/news/local/ice-arrests-84-people-during-3-day-sweep-of-pacific-northwest/426890395) in Oregon and Washington. Many arrested had no criminal background. [Oregon Governor Katie Brown](https://twitter.com/OregonGovBrown/status/847529947899904000) complied with ICE, but received vitriolic responses when she [tweeted in support](https://twitter.com/OregonGovBrown/status/847529947899904000) of immigrant families. <sup>[1](http://www.kgw.com/news/local/ice-arrests-84-people-during-3-day-sweep-of-pacific-northwest/426890395)</sup>
 - On March 27th, 2017, ICE agents in Chicago broke into the home of [Felix Torres](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/unarmed-legal-resident-in-critical-condition-after-ice-agents-raided-chicago-home-and-shot-him-family/), and shot him while he and his family slept in their home. After speaking with Torres’ daughter, [the People’s Response Team added](https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesResponseTeam/photos/a.724838781005672.1073741828.724231234399760/765074203648796/?type=3&theater) that “no members of the family are undocumented, and the family has lived in the home for at least 30 years.”Carmen Torres said, “They didn’t say anything. They just came in and pointed pistols in our faces and dragged us out,” [DNA Info reported](https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170327/belmont-cragin/police-shoot-wound-person-belmont-cragin). “It’s a lie when they say he was holding a gun. He doesn’t even own a gun,” she said. “They shot my dad. They shot him, and I don’t know why.” He is in critical condition. <sup>[1](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/unarmed-legal-resident-in-critical-condition-after-ice-agents-raided-chicago-home-and-shot-him-family/)</sup>
 - In early 2017, ICE began a [campaign of arrests and deportation](https://theintercept.com/2017/02/14/ice-arrested-nearly-700-people-last-week-advocates-are-bracing-for-more-to-come/) of undocumented immigrants. 700 People have been arrested so far. <sup>[1](https://theintercept.com/2017/02/14/ice-arrested-nearly-700-people-last-week-advocates-are-bracing-for-more-to-come/)</sup>
- In the present day, [ICE (U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement#Case_samples), the police tasked with immigration enforcement, operates over 200 prison camps, housing over 31,000 undocumented people deemed "aliens", 20,000 of which have no criminal convictions, in the US [system of immigration detention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_the_United_States#Criticisms). [The camps](http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/opinions/reyes-immigration-detention/) include forced labor (often with [contracts from private companies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement#Corporate_contracts)), poor conditions, lack of rights (since the undocumented aren't considered citizens), and forced deportations, often splitting up families. Detainees are often held for a year without trial, with antiquated court procedures pushing back court dates for months, encouraging many to accept immediate deportation in the hopes of being able to return faster than the court can reach a decision, but forfeiting legal status, in a cruel system of coercion. After the creation of DHS and ICE, the budget for immigration enforcement doubled from [$6.2 billion in 2002 to $12.5 billion in 2006 under Obama.](https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/immigration-enforcement-united-states-rise-formidable-machinery) <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_the_United_States#Criticisms), [2](http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/opinions/reyes-immigration-detention/),[3](https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/immigration-enforcement-united-states-rise-formidable-machinery)</sup>
+- In the present day, [ICE (U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement#Case_samples), the police tasked with immigration enforcement, operates over 500 prison camps, holding over 34,000 undocumented people deemed "aliens", 20,000 of which have no criminal convictions, in the US [system of immigration detention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_the_United_States#Criticisms). [The camps](http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/opinions/reyes-immigration-detention/) include forced labor (often with [contracts from private companies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement#Corporate_contracts)), poor conditions, lack of rights (since the undocumented aren't considered citizens), and forced deportations, often splitting up families. Detainees are often held for a year without trial, with antiquated court procedures pushing back court dates for months, encouraging many to accept immediate deportation in the hopes of being able to return faster than the court can reach a decision, but forfeiting legal status, in a cruel system of coercion. After the creation of DHS and ICE, the budget for immigration enforcement doubled from [$6.2 billion in 2002 to $12.5 billion in 2006 under Obama.](https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/immigration-enforcement-united-states-rise-formidable-machinery) <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_the_United_States#Criticisms), [2](http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/opinions/reyes-immigration-detention/),[3](https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/immigration-enforcement-united-states-rise-formidable-machinery)</sup>
 - In 1996, in response to increased immigration from countries such as El Salvador and Guatemala ravaged by US imperialism and authoritarian dictatorships, the US passed the [Anti-Terrorism and effective Death Penalty Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiterrorism_and_Effective_Death_Penalty_Act_of_1996), allowing deportation of any immigrant ever convicted of a crime, no matter how long ago or how serious. Lawful permanent residents who had married Americans and now had children were not exempt. The *New York Times* reported in July that "hundreds of long-term legal residents have been arrested since the law passed." <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiterrorism_and_Effective_Death_Penalty_Act_of_1996)</sup>
 - By 1984, during the Reagan-era of social services and welfare cutbacks, 42% of all Latino children and one-fourth of the families lived below the poverty line.
 - In 1983, a mostly latino workforce lead the 3-year long [Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_copper_mine_strike_of_1983), in which the police, national guard, and Arizona governor assisted in one of the largest strikebreaking incidents of the 1980s, ending with the [Phelps Dodge Corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phelps_Dodge_Corporation) replacing most of the workers and decertifying the unions. Miners were subject to [undercover surveillance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance) by the Arizona Criminal Intelligence Systems Agency, to identify strikers engaged in violence, with the governor sending 325 National Guard soldiers to Morenci, and increasing the number of state policemen there to 425. Meanwhile, the local government passed [injunctions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injunction) limiting both picketing and demonstrations at the mine. The Arizona copper mine strike would later become a symbol of defeat for American unions. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_copper_mine_strike_of_1983)</sup>
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 - On May 30, 2009, 3 members of the Arizona Minutemen (a right-wing nativist constitutionalist group) [broke in and murdered 29-year-old Raul Flores, Jr., and his daughter, 9-year-old Brisenia Ylianna Flores.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Raul_and_Brisenia_Flores#Minutemen_American_Defense)
 - On Jan 21st, 2009, self-proclaimed white supremacist [Keith Luke of Brockton murdered Selma Goncalves, 22, and Arlindo Goncalves, 72, and injured another.](http://www.tauntongazette.com/x776197967/GUILTY-Keith-Luke-convicted-of-2009-Brockton-murder-rampage)  Luke confessed to police during a videotaped interview that he committed the crimes because he wanted to kill “non-whites.”
 - On July 4th weekend, 1999, Benjamin Smith, a member of the neo-nazi world church of the creator, [killed 3 people and wounded 10 more](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Nathaniel_Smith) in drive by shootings, then committed suicide. He targeted Jews, black people, and Asians. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Nathaniel_Smith)</sup>
+- On June 18th, 1984, [Alan Berg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Berg), A jewish talk show host was shot to death as he stepped out of his car into his driveway, by members of [The Order](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_\(white_supremacist_group\)), a white supremacist terrorist group.
 - The [16th Street Baptist Church bombing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing) was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church. The explosion at the church killed four girls and injured 22 others. 
 - The [Tulsa race riot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot), sometimes referred to as the Tulsa massacre, Tulsa pogrom,or Tulsa race riot of 1921, took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when a mob of white citizens attacked residents and businesses of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[1] This is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the history of the United States.[11] The attack, carried out on the ground and by air, destroyed more than 35 blocks of the district, at the time the wealthiest black community in the U.S.
 - The [East St. Louis riots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_St._Louis_Race_Riots), or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1-3, 1917 were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40-250 black people and approximately $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US Dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless. The events took place in and near East St. Louis, Illinois, an industrial city on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from St. Louis, Missouri. The July 1917 riot was marked by white-led violence throughout the city. These events have been described as the worst case of labor-related violence in 20th-century American history, and among the worst race riots in U.S. history.