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# Socialism FAQ
[The Bullshit asymmetry principle, or Brandolini's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_principle):
> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
## Contents
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* [On Nationalism and Internationalism](#on-nationalism-and-internationalism)
* [On Women's Liberation](#on-womens-liberation)
* [On Race and Class](#on-race-and-class)
* [On Decolonization](#on-decolonization)
* [On Guns / Firearms / Violence](#on-guns--firearms--violence)
* [On Capitalism](#on-capitalism)
* [On Liberalism](#on-liberalism)
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+ [Is China State Capitalist?](#is-china-state-capitalist)
+ [Is China a Democracy?](#is-china-a-democracy)
+ [Workers rights](#workers-rights)
+ [Is China destroying the environment?](#is-china-destroying-the-environment)
+ [Is China Imperialist?](#is-china-imperialist)
+ [Is China anti-LGBT / Homophobic ?](#is-china-anti-lgbt--homophobic-)
+ [What about the Hong Kong protests?](#what-about-the-hong-kong-protests)
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+ [VaushV](#vaushv)
+ [Buddhism](#buddhism)
+ [/r/MoreTankieChapo](#rmoretankiechapo)
+ [Amnesty International](#amnesty-international)
+ [Others](#others-2)
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* [What's the difference between anarchism and communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/576t0d/im_an_anarchocommunist_leninise_me/)
* [What's the difference in economic structure ( production and distribution) of anarchism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, and Marxist communism?](https://old.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9ak0wo/whats_the_difference_between_communism_and/e4w0v9n/)
* [Parenti on Anarcho-Syndicalism / Worker-Coops](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WEkyW9GwbE8&local=1&nojs=0&player_style=youtube&quality=dash).
* [Aimixin - Why Anarchism is fundamentally anti-socialist.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/qk18o7/why_is_anarchism_a_meme_around_here/hitwhhr/)
* [TheDashRendar - Where do tanks come from? How anarchists vs marxists wage warfare.](https://medium.com/@dashthered/where-do-tanks-come-from-8723ff77d83b)
* [Comrade Hakim - On the difference betweeen "liberatarian" and "authoritarian" socialism.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GM893c1X8s)
* [Huey P. Newton on the faults of western anarchism.](https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/bpp/bpp161168.htm)
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* [What about Left Unity? Engels letter to Bebel.](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/letters/73_06_20.htm) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/sendinthetanks/comments/prbh1i/build_a_unired_front/hdhq26s/)
* [What about Marxism and Empiricism? Is Marxism falsifiable?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/8978hb/is_marxism_falsifiable/)
* [Hakim - On Capitalism and Corporatism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luB9VUsXRs8)
* [What about "patriotic" socialism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/qlxfhd/on_the_question_of_patriotic_socialism_a_reply_to/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/qm43vh/can_the_mods_start_being_authoritarian_and_crack/hj8ctfi/)
## On Ultra-leftism / Left-Communism
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* [Western Marxism's martyrdom / purity complex.](https://blackagendareport.com/western-marxism-loves-purity-and-martyrdom-not-real-revolution) [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoaZIsNaAcjt87etb0A_0FWB)
- [The CIA reads french postmodernist theory: how the CIA pushed "post-Marxist" theory to build support for imperialism.](https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-reads-french-theory-on-the-intellectual-labor-of-dismantling-the-cultural-left/)
- [On MLM / Gonzalo, and the shining path.](https://www.reddit.com/r/asktankies/comments/po4vo1/what_is_your_view_of_chairman_gonzalo/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pmmjni/who_was_gonzalo_and_why_is_he_so_hated/hcj7p2s/), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pmipvn/on_gonzalos_babyboiling/hcj2cgm/), [4](https://socialistfight.com/2017/02/22/the-lucanamarca-massacre/)
- [Norton - How the FBI used Anarchism to attack the left.](https://benjaminnorton.substack.com/p/in-cointelpro-fbi-used-anarchism)
## Did economic planning work?
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- [The CIA, Gene sharp, and it's pacifist color revolution regime change tactics. ](https://web.archive.org/web/20130503221026/http://www.dailycensored.com/the-cia-and-nonviolent-resistance-3/)
- [Regime Change Agent: Gene Sharp's liberal non-violence.](https://nonsite.org/change-agent-gene-sharps-neoliberal-nonviolence-part-one/)
- [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)
- [FBI cointel directives on "nonviolent" groups.](https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/814)
- [FBI cointel directives on "nonviolent" groups.](https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/814)
- [Is a state really necessary to transition into communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/f0l14l/why_is_a_state_necessary_to_transition_into/)
- [Engels - on authority. ](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm)
- [An Overview of Leninism](https://theimmortalscience.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/), [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoaFTdUpdzXv-zCvYsz4sB01). [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)
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- [In Marxian economics, is 'value' distinct from 'price'? What does 'value' indicate, exactly?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/139g19/in_marxian_economics_is_value_distinct_from_price/)
- [can you explain the theory of alienation to me in a "explain like I'm five" manner?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2jeyaj/can_you_explain_the_theory_of_alienation_to_me_in/)
- [If private property is abolished, does this mean anyone can enter "one's home" (or where one lives) and cannot be expelled?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/19nx3l/if_private_property_is_abolished_does_this_mean/)
- [What is the tendency of the rate of profit to fall? (TRPF)](http://socialistreview.org.uk/371/what-tendency-rate-profit-fall)
- [Shouldn't capitalists be rewarded for Risk / Financial investment?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/av92oi/someone_said_the_following_in_a_debate_and_i/) [Well shouldn't business owners be rewarded for their financial risk?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/a8fnlm/counterarguments_to_common_capitalist_economic/) [Do Capitialists deserve profit?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/aany6r/trying_to_get_a_friend_to_the_left/) [Is profit proportional to risk?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1p7d3u/refutation_of_risk_incentive_and_entrepreneurship/cczoar0/)
- [What is the power of the US dollar / US currency?](https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-07-01/Why-has-the-clock-started-ticking-on-the-U-S-dollar-deathwatch--HXc5WwRLWw/index.html)
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- [Why is patriotism bad?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1nb7ke/whyis_patriotism_bad/)
- [Luna oi : how USAID serves the CIA. ](https://twitter.com/LunaOi_VN/status/1421564265530494978?s=20)
## On Women's Liberation
- [Is it necessary to be a feminist to be a communist?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/17cn2z/is_it_necessary_to_be_a_feminist_to_be_a_communist/)
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- [Interviews with Women in the USSR.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/e30gjm/ussr_and_women_rights/f90d0r8/)
- [What's wrong with "more women CEO" / imperial feminism?](https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1207061598680027137?s=20)
- [Esperanza - A Socialist, Feminist, and Transgender Analysis of “Sex Work”](https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/a-socialist-feminist-and-transgender-analysis-of-sex-work-b08aaf1ee4ab) .
- [Esperanza - The problem with sex-trade expansionary Feminism.](https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/the-problem-with-sex-trade-expansionary-feminism-a-response-to-kate-zen-e8ee7f8ae99a)
- [RevLeft Radio interview with Comrade Brigid and Esperanza - Proletarian Feminism, Women's Liberation, and the Sex Trade.](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/prolefem)
- [Kollontai - Prostitution and ways of fighting it](https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1921/prostitution.htm)
- [Esperanza - The problem with sex-trade expansionary Feminism.](https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/the-problem-with-sex-trade-expansionary-feminism-a-response-to-kate-zen-e8ee7f8ae99a)
## On Race and Class
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## On Guns / Firearms / Violence
- [What is the socialist stance on guns?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/7xz4w7/does_anybody_know_what_karl_marxs_views_on_gun/)
- [LiberationNews - A socialist approach to gun control.](https://www.liberationnews.org/united-states-violence-socialist-approach-student-walkouts-gun-control/)
- [Is it true that gun ownership correlates to increased murders and violence?](http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/83wax3/-/dvlkxil)
- [Do Marxists oppose individual terrorism? (Trotsky)](https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1911/11/tia09.htm)
- [Where do socialists stand on gun violence and acts of terrorism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/73tqcn/where_should_marxists_stand_on_gun_violence/)
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* [Stalin's Purges](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/qergf/stalins_purges/)
* [Was Stalin anti-Semitic? What about the doctors plot?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/b2xtna/was_stalin_antisemitic/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/grc3u1/antisemitism_in_the_ussr/fry3f52/) [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/pr1zpg/how_did_the_jews_fare_under_communism/hdfmhs9/)
* [What are some legitimate criticisms of Stalin?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/10chdq/what_are_some_legitimate_criticisms_of_stalin/)
* [Why did the USSR invade Finland in 1939?](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/r44hdz/why_did_ussr_finland_in_1939_did_finland_provoke/)
* [I need clarification on myths/truths of the USSR/Soviet Union.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2dzicb/i_need_clarification_on_mythstruths_of_the/)
* [I'm fascinated by the idea of communism...](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/21s0dw/im_fascinated_by_the_idea_of_communism/)
* [Was the Soviet Union democratic? If so to what extent?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2i0p0z/was_the_soviet_union_democratic_if_so_to_what/)
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* [Why did Lenin abolish factory committees established by workers?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ypaur/why_did_lenin_abolish_factory_committees/)
* [How much of the USSR's "dark history" under Stalin can actually be attributed to Yezhov?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2qlm9z/how_much_of_the_ussrs_dark_history_under_stalin/)
* [Forced Deportation Under Stalin](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/316tey/forced_deportation_under_stalin/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/ddedgw/marxistleninistswhat_do_you_think_of_the/f2hwvlm/)
* [Did the Soviet Union manufacture a famine in Ukraine? What about the Holodomor?](https://reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/a7njo6/66_of_russians_say_that_they_regret_that_the_ussr/ec4skiw?context=3), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1c4to0/is_there_a_different_aspectpov_to_the_holodomor/),[3](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/79nmdh/red_famine_by_anne_applebaum_what_is_this_all/),[4](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_1.3A_the_soviet_union_manufactured_a_famine_in_ukraine),[5](https://sputniknews.com/politics/201508091025560345/), [6](https://twitter.com/oktyabrvperedi/status/1263168006026416130?s=20), [A podcast on Stalin, Holodomor, and the purges.](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joseph-mother-fucking-stain)
* [Did the Soviet Union manufacture a famine in Ukraine? What about the Holodomor?](https://reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/a7njo6/66_of_russians_say_that_they_regret_that_the_ussr/ec4skiw?context=3), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1c4to0/is_there_a_different_aspectpov_to_the_holodomor/),[3](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/79nmdh/red_famine_by_anne_applebaum_what_is_this_all/),[4](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_1.3A_the_soviet_union_manufactured_a_famine_in_ukraine),[5](https://sputniknews.com/politics/201508091025560345/),[6](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/r42840/what_were_the_main_causes_of_the_ukraine_famine/), [A podcast on Stalin, Holodomor, and the purges.](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joseph-mother-fucking-stain)
* [Did Stalin / the USSR intentionally wreck the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War / Revolutionary Catalonia?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1e1bhf/what_was_the_role_of_ussr_in_revolutionary_spain/c9w2jva/) , [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1jlpyu/what_contributed_to_the_fallingout_between/cbg3v0p/)
* [Did the early USSR repress anarchists? What about Nestor Makhno and the Free territory of Ukraine?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/64wkgf/polemic_the_anarchokulak_bandits_of_russia_and/)
* [A brief history of Nestor Makhno.](http://www.isreview.org/issues/53/makhno.shtml)
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* [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
* [Democracy, East Germany, and the Berlin Wall](http://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/democracy-east-germany-and-the-berlin-wall/) by Stephen Gowans
* [Was the USSR imperialist?](https://i.redd.it/swwro1vqd4d61.png)
* [Is it true that people in the USSR only worked 6 hours per day?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/ddlshm/in_a_communist_economy_are_you_forced_to_work/f2k6sci/)
* [How true is the HBO documentary Chernobyl?](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/q5dd2e/was_chernobyl_really_that_badly_handled_like/hg57h0k/)
* [*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
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- [*Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder's 'Bloodlands' Is False*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=4f13589002a3dfa4b0139b332fef54ad) by Grover Furr
### [Did the Soviet Union and the Warsaw pact nations have functioning democracies?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_3.3A_the_soviet_union_and_the_eastern_bloc_had_no_democracy)
- [*Soviet Communism: A New Civilization*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=ed2ba2da9895bf1653a04e6555b5246f) by Sydney and Beatrice Webb
- [*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
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- [*The Need for Planning*](http://clogic.eserver.org/2010/Ball.pdf) by Joseph Ball
### [Did the citizens of the Soviet Union dislike their government?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_5.3A_everybody_hated_socialism)
- [66% of Russians polled in 2015 want the USSR back.](https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-regret-at-soviet-collapse-stands-at-14-year-high-poll-shows/29664759.html) The story is the same for all the former eastern-bloc countries: [72% of Hungarians say their country is worse off now than under communism, 57% of East Germans, 63% of Romanians, 77% of Czechs, 81% of Serbs (for Yugoslavia), 70% of Ukrainians, 60% of Bulgarians](https://medium.com/@rsahthion/communist-nostalgia-as-the-reality-of-bourgeois-democracy-hits-home-in-eastern-europe-3960aa341560). [A twitter thread.](https://twitter.com/HasBezosDecided/status/1279757591690838017)
- [81% of Serbs want Yugoslavia back.](https://balkaninsight.com/2010/12/24/for-simon-poll-serbians-unsure-who-runs-their-country/)
- [72% of Hungarians say they were better off under communism, 71% say intergration into the EU has weakened their country.](https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2010/04/28/hungary-better-off-under-communism/)
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* [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)
* [What are Mao's contributions to Marxism? (MLM)](https://jiminykrix.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/what-maoism-has-to-offer-the-world-and-why-so-many-former-non-communists-think-its-dope/)
* [What's the difference between MZT (Mao-Zedong-Thought) and MLM (Marxism-Leninism-Maoism)? How does Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (SWCC) differ from MLM? Does modern China uphold Mao? What about the cultural revolution?](http://cpcchina.chinadaily.com.cn/fastfacts/2010-10/18/content_11425373.htm) [2](https://leohezhao.medium.com/wrong-turns-on-the-revolutionary-road-ultra-leftism-and-the-cultural-revolution-2e090793dfad) [3](https://leohezhao.medium.com/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub)
* [What's the difference between MZT (Mao-Zedong-Thought) and MLM (Marxism-Leninism-Maoism)? How does Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (SWCC) differ from MLM? Does modern China uphold Mao? What about the cultural revolution?](http://cpcchina.chinadaily.com.cn/fastfacts/2010-10/18/content_11425373.htm) [2](https://leohezhao.medium.com/wrong-turns-on-the-revolutionary-road-ultra-leftism-and-the-cultural-revolution-2e090793dfad) [3](https://leohezhao.medium.com/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub) [4](https://www.reddit.com/r/asktankies/comments/qts7sn/what_is_the_difference_between_maoism_and/hkom8qx/)
* [A lecture on MZT, and the thought of the first generation leaders of the PRC. Also on the origins of the term, "Maoism".](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3VW9wzl1g)
* [Where should I start with Mao?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1dmxcl/where_should_i_start_with_mao/)
* [Debastardising Mao.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ecf32/debastardising_mao/)
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* [Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62mvMWJHt8g)
* [Isn't China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn't it fully planned like the USSR was?](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pzcwzr/apparently_president_xi_does_not_believe_in/hf0bnv0/)
* [Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.](https://redsails.org/fidel-and-gawronski/)
* [Do capitalists control the communist party? No](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub), [pic](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2087/1*A-SuzTx-HlyvrIPKaOTOHA.jpeg)
* [Roderic Day - China has billionaires.](https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires)
* [What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC\)?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff_ZkwJmfWQ)
* [How is SWCC not revisionist? How is it any different from Gorbachev's market reforms?](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/quohro/market_reforms_vs_revisionism/hkrptbm/)
* [Domenico Losurdo - is China state capitalist?](https://redsails.org/flight-from-history/#the-peoples-republic-of-china-and-the-historical-analysis-of-socialism)
* [Did Lenin say anything about Market Socialism, or productivism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/quevn9/what_are_actually_existing_socialist_countries_as/hkqprfx/)
* [Do capitalists control the communist party? No](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub), [pic](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2087/1*A-SuzTx-HlyvrIPKaOTOHA.jpeg)
* [Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison?](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/why-do-chinese-billionaires-keep-ending-up-in-prison/272633/) [Why are many billionaires and CEOs going missing?](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/china-billionaires-ceo-disappearing-missing-station-sanctioned-abductions-beijing-security-agencies-a7564896.html) [China sentences Ex-Chairman of a major bank, guilty of embezzling ~$100M USD, to death in 2019.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-27/china-sentences-ex-chairman-of-troubled-hengfeng-bank-to-death)
* [How the State runs business in China.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business-xi-jinping-communist-party-state-private-enterprise-huawei)
* [50% of the economy is in the socialist public sector and directly follows the plan (40% if you ignore the agricultural sector). 20 to 30% is inside the state capitalist sector, which is the sector partially or totally owned by domestic capitalists but run by the CPC or by local workers councils. The rest is made up of the small bourgeois ownership like in the NEP.](https://chinareporting.blogspot.com/2009/11/class-nature-of-chinese-state-critique_26.html)
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* [The US is losing to China: “Washington is actually far more corrupt than Beijing. If you want to get something done in Washington, you do what you do in Jakarta: just slip some money to the right people.”](https://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2014/11/12/obama-in-china-taking-candy-from-a-baby/#27d9d3c1231e)
* [Hudson and Escobar - The consequences of moving from Industrial to Finance Capital in the US](https://consortiumnews.com/2021/01/07/the-consequences-of-moving-from-industrial-to-financial-capitalism/)
* [Hudson and Escobar - China, the US, Russia - Finance capitalism, Industrial capitalism, and rent seeking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IquO_TcMZIQ)
### Is China destroying the environment?
* [China surpasses the US as of 2015 as the world's largest global trading partner.](https://twitter.com/Anonylyzer13/status/1221033018355113984)
* [China 9 years ahead of schedule on meeting its Paris agreement climate change goals. ](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2211366-china-is-on-track-to-meet-its-climate-change-goals-nine-years-early/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=news)
* [China meets ultra-low power plant emissions in advance of 2020 goal.](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/dsdam3/china_meets_ultralow_emissions_in_advance_of_the/)
* [Vijay Prashad - On the hypocrisy of western countries when criticizing China and India on Climate change.](https://nitter.net/kimcommie/status/1462810701903376385?s=21#m)
### Is China Imperialist?
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### What about China spying on its own people?
- [China’s Social Credit System, and how it isn't actually Black Mirror and how you should stop using facile pop cultural references to demonize countries you haven't bothered to understand.](https://mobile.twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/975536363364696064?lang=en)
- [The US has more CCTV's per capita than China.](https://aithority.com/news/top-10-countries-and-cities-by-number-of-cctv-cameras/#:%7E:text=The%20United%20States%20has%2015.28,the%20United%20Kingdom%20with%207.5.&text=Russia%20has%20around%20196%2C000%20CCTV,Petersburg.)
- The US's credit score system is vastly more influential and detrimental to a majority of its population than China's social credit system, [which largely doesn't even exist](https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/16/chinas-orwellian-social-credit-score-isnt-real/), and where it does exist it is [only used to target businesses](https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/15/china-social-credit-system-authoritarian/).
- [Nathan Rich - the US is lying about Huawei 5g.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfxfdHJ3k9Y)
- [numuves - How the US dominates tech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgzB4_Zw3RE)
- [On the great firewall, and china not allowing US taech companies. ](https://mobile.twitter.com/Mango_Press_/status/1423263749302067202)
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- [In its current form, its controlled by another US government agency called, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), whose aim is to "reinforce one another in a shared mission vital to U.S. national interests".](http://web.archive.org/web/20191225205544/https://www.bbg.gov/who-we-are/) It's [standards include "Be consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the US".](http://web.archive.org/web/20191215131808/https://www.bbg.gov/who-we-are/oversight/legislation/standards-principles/)
### [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
- [*The Battle for China's Past*]( http://www.strongwindpress.com/pdfs/EBook/The_Battle_for_Chinas_Past.pdf) by Mobo Gao
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- [*How did Mao manage to kill ~78 million people?*](https://www.quora.com/How-did-Mao-manage-to-kill-78-million-people/answer/Godfree-Roberts) by Godfree Roberts
### [Was the PRC a totalitarian dictatorship?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_2.3A_china_was_a_totalitarian_dictatorship)
- [*The Rise of the Chinese People's Communes*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=58B399C3CA70411186D2AD96230D649A) by Anna Louise Strong
- [*The Chinese Road to Socialism: Economics of the Cultural Revolution*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5ba75f3113b0e1e4f36fc587ddfe2826) by E. L. Wheelwright
- [*Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=c02e1f533d33ecea7d9946f55a097bd0) by William Hinton
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* [How are gay rights nowadays in Cuba?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/c0a31c/how_are_the_lgbt_rights_in_cuba_and_the_dprk/er32wq5/)
### [Was Che a murderer and/or a racist?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_1.3A_che_was_a_bloodthirsty_butcher)
- [*Che: A Revolutionary Life*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3E3E1D3A68BF27293A12BC1076076C7B) by Jon Lee Anderson
- [*Debunking the 'Che Guevara Was Racist!' Lie*](http://anti-imperialism.org/2014/02/05/debunking-the-che-guevara-was-racist-lie/) by Cuervo Rojo
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- [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)
- [*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
- [*Anti-DPRK Propaganda War – a Cavalcade of Comedy*](http://redyouthuk.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/dprk-propaganda-war-a-cavalcade-of-comedy/) by Red Youth
- [*Tourist who took camera inside North Korea shocked by 'ordinary' lives of citizens*](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638213/Tourist-took-camera-inside-North-Korea-expected-really-really-sad-people-shocked-seemingly-ordinary-lives-citizens.html)
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- [Awful chomsky takes.](https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829?s=20)
- [Gowans - The US has produced very few anti-imperialists: Chomsky isn't among them.](https://gowans.blog/2019/11/03/the-united-states-has-produced-very-few-anti-imperialists-noam-chomsky-isnt-among-them/)
- [“My response to the end of Soviet tyranny was similar to my reaction to the defeat of Hitler and Mussolini. In all cases, it is a victory for the human spirit. It should have been particularly welcome to socialists, since a great enemy of socialism had at last collapsed”](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/pxtk9p/my_response_to_the_end_of_soviet_tyranny_was/)
- [thedashrendar - That's enough of Noam Chomsky.](https://dashthered.medium.com/the-anti-chomsk%C3%BFng-66dcd8224729)
- https://archive.li/YVNk3
- https://libcom.org/history/john-deutch-chomskys-friend-pentagon-cia
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/why-chomsky-felt-guilty-most-of-time-war-research-and-linguistics-at-mit/
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- [After the Jan 2020 US assassination of Iranian general Soleimani, Sanders showed remorse for the "4500 brave US troops who died", and trillions of dollars spent on the war in Iraq, instead of the 1M Iraqi civilians killed.](https://i.imgur.com/vRHPO9K.jpg)
- [Calls for Russia to pardon white-nationalist Alexei Navalny](https://i.imgur.com/8R84SWi.png).
- [Bernie is against open borders](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0), believes in strong border and anti-immigration policies. [2](https://i.imgur.com/WcQ8bNQ.jpg)
- When asked about the 2018 Migrant caravan, where Border agents tear gassed migrants, Bernie replied, ["not all migrants seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border have a credible claim. "You have to look at it case-by-case."](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/418398-bernie-sanders-some-migrants-lack-credible-claim-for-asylum)
- When asked about the 2018 Migrant caravan, where Border agents tear gassed migrants, Bernie replied, ["not all migrants seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border have a credible claim. "You have to look at it case-by-case."](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/418398-bernie-sanders-some-migrants-lack-credible-claim-for-asylum)
- [Believes that Russians are to blame for the failure of US democracy. "Protecting american democracy from foreign invasion."](https://i.imgur.com/GkSXsZY.jpg). [2020 Campaign trail: "Americans are sick and tired of Russian intereferenc in our elections"](https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1230994357236322304)
- [Why Sanders is not a socialist - Anticonquista ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbcrJT485r8)
- [Shills for democrats, campaigned for Hillary Clinton.](https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/bernie-sanderss-hard-fight-for-hillary-clinton) After conceding the 2020 democratic primary to Joe Biden (even after Tara Reide's rape allegations against Biden surfaced), [Sanders tells his supporters that it would be "irresponsible" for progressives to not support Joe Biden.](https://communism.lemmy.ml/pictshare/2dfdmn.png) His support for Biden comes 2 months earlier than the last election when he supported Hillary. When asked about why one of his former secretaries publicly refused to support Biden, Sanders stated, “She is my former press secretary — not on the payroll”. [2](https://apnews.com/a1bfb62e37fe34e09ff123a58a1329fa). “I will do everything I can to help elect Joe,” Sanders continued. [Says Biden will be "more receptive to progressives than past democrats."](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/09/sanders-biden-more-receptive-to-progressives-than-past-democrats.html) ["I have a better relationship with Joe Biden than I did with Hillary."](https://i.imgur.com/SHJNerc.png) Says ["Biden could be the most progressive President since FDR."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieFL8StRyJo)
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- [Wore a "tax the rich" dress at the 2021 Met Gala in New York city (a fundraiser held by New York elites), while protesters were arrested and beaten outside by police.](https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-met-gala-tax-the-rich-003540608.html) Afterwards, she sells ["Tax the Rich" merchandise on her store.](https://archive.is/IbUtn)
- [Claims that socialist theory is only for privileged 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)
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### 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)
- [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).
- [The bombs were not only unnecessary, they didn't contribute to the decision to surrender.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/r3eeyu/justification_for_nuking_hiroshima_and_nagasaki/hmaa3mz/)
### What about overpopulation / unsustainability?
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### /r/MoreTankieChapo
- [Trolling threads on /r/communism, and banning pro-China posters. Banned one person for pointing out their discord stickied Obama's anti-China docu and said it was "required watching"](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/fgdjpc/does_going_against_western_propaganda_ever_make/fk47f81/)
- Had a "no-dengism" rule on their official subreddit sidebar for over a year.
- Had a "no-dengism" rule on their official subreddit sidebar for over a year.
- [Banned me for supporting Stalin.](https://i.imgur.com/gBzROhU.png, https://www.reddit.com/r/MoreTankieChapo/comments/fdfyr8/why_is_this_liberal_allowed_to_be_a_mod_thought/)
- [Purging their sub off any pro-CPC posters](https://www.reddit.com/r/MoreTankieChapo/comments/gyx1nv/reminder_about_rules_1_and_7/) After a community backlash, they removed the anti dengism rule and one of the mods, [but still continued bans on pro China posters.](https://reddit.com/r/sendinthetanks/comments/gzdmyw/welcome_to_the_newly_banned/ftg1l30)
- [Quick TLDR](https://www.reddit.com/r/sendinthetanks/comments/gzjn3i/what_is_happening_in_rmoretankiechapo/).

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# List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
*Definition: An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury.*
> "If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings." - Nelson Mandela
## Contents
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Notes :
- Try to convey a sense of moral outrage.
- This is a living document, it will be updated as new atrocities pour in.
- Feel free to make pull requests (changes), or fork it if you'd like to make your own versions.
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- 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.
- The Obama era was one of the greatest decreases in working class and [black wealth](https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/obama-foreclosure-crisis-wealth-inequality) in history: home equity decreased by ~$17k between 2007 and 2016. His housing policies led to millions losing their homes. While Wall street banks recieved $29 Trillion in bailouts, $75 Billion in relief was set aside for housing foreclosures and mortgage assistance. Instead of being paid to families, this was paid to mortgage servicers, and the services found ways to pocket the money and continue foreclosures: by the end of the program, less than 20% of the funds were used, and most had dropped out of the program due to foreclosures. The Obama administration refused to prosecute the fraud, or any of those responsible for the 2008 financial crisis.
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- On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinned George Floyd with his knee on Floyd's neck [for over 7 minutes](https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/26/george-floyd-man-dies-after-being-arrested-by-minneapolis-police-fbi-called-to-investigate/), killing him in a manner reminiscient of Eric Garner. Bystander Darnella Frazier [filmed the encounter](https://www.facebook.com/darnellareallprettymarie/posts/1425401580994277). During that time, Floyd moaned, sobbed, "Oh Mama, oh Mama," begged, "Please, please, I can't breathe, I can't breathe" at least 11 times. Other distressed witnesses joined in with "Bro, you've got him down, at least let him breathe, man," and, "He's not even resisting arrest ... he's human, bro." One of the cops responds, "This is why you don't do drugs, kids." After about four minutes, Floyd lost consciousness. Though a witness charged, "You just really killed that man, bro," Chavin kept his knee on Floyd's unmoving neck for another four minutes. Afterwards, protests erupted in dozens of US cities, [with over 50 cases of police brutality. ](https://nitter.net/i/status/1266751520055459847) Many police posed for US Media-friendly photo ops with protesters, then [immediately tear gassed, shot pepper balls, and cleared them from the area.](https://twitter.com/karaokecomputer/status/1267393445603115008?s=20) Over 11k people have been arrested, and several killed, including a 13 year old. [A massive, documented list of all the cases of police brutality in the wake of these protests, in every US state](https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality).
- On May 11th, 2020, [27 year old EMT Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend were at their apartment in Louisville Kentucky, when police, doing a no-knock-no-announce raid, stormed in and blindly fired more than 20 shots, killing her.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-woman-shot-killed-after-kentucky-police-entered-her-home-n1205651) Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, returned fire, thinking they were intruders. The police were searching for [two drug suspects who were already in police custody, who lived more than 10 miles away from Taylor's house](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor). Kenneth Walker was charged with first degree assault and attempted murder, while the cops were placed on paid leave. Walker's case was brough to a grand jury, but after protests erupted, he was released by the judge, and the district attorney moved to dismiss all charges against him. As of Septemeber 2020, the only charge brought, was against one officer, none of whose bullets killed Breonna Taylor, but for "wanton endangerment", since he fired shots into the walls of other apartments. The [other officers who murdered Breonna Taylor went free, and the nation erupted in protests.](https://www.liberationnews.org/officers-who-murdered-breonna-taylor-not-held-accountable/)
- On February 23rd, 2020, 3 men in a pickup truck shouting racist slurs, [shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ahmaud_Arbery), while he was jogging, in Brunswick Georgia. Consecutively, 2 different Brunswick District Attorneys, and other officials connected with the killers advised officers to make no arrests. After a local attorney for a passerby who caught the event on camera, released the video to a local radio station, it then went viral on youtube and twitter, forcing a response by Georgia governor Brian Kemp. While the killers were ultimately convicted, they were not arrested until 74 days after the killing.
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- In September 2020, it was revealed that [ICE had performed mass hysterectomies on immigrant women in several detention centers,](https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/) reminiscent of the long-standing [US policy of sterilization of black and brown women.](https://theintercept.com/2020/09/17/forced-sterilization-ice-us-history/) [2](https://newrepublic.com/article/159390/immigration-detention-hysterectomy-forced-sterilization)
- From the 1880s onward, many US states (27 + Puerto Rico in 1956) operated a system of [forced sterilization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#United_States) of women, rooted in white supremacy. The principle targets were the mentally ill, Native Americans, and blacks. For example, in [Sunflower County Mississippi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_County,_Mississippi), 60% of black women living there were sterilized without their permission. An estimated 3,406 Indian women were sterilized.[[63\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#cite_note-Lawrence-63) California eugenicists in 1933 began sending their literature overseas to german scientists and medical workers, sparking the beginnings of Nazi Eugenics. In the end, over 65,000 individuals were sterilized in 33 states, in all likelihood without the perspectives of ethnic minorities. The US enacted a system of forced sterilization in Puerto Rico since its takeover by the US in 1989: [a 1965 survey of of Puerto Rican residents found that about one-third of all Puerto Rican mothers, ages 20-49, were sterilized.](https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book-excerpts/health-article/forced-sterilization/) 148 female prisoners in two California institutions were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 in a supposedly voluntary program, but it was determined that the prisoners did not give consent to the procedures. In [Madrigal vs. Quilligan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrigal_v._Quilligan), many unsuspecting women were coerced to sign paperwork to perform sterilization, while others were told that the process could be reversed. None of the women were fluent in English. 10 latina women were sterilized, and the doctor was found innocent. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#United_States),[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#cite_note-71),[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrigal_v._Quilligan)
- US elites in the 18th and 19th centuries pushed a narrative of *domestic purity*, or the *cult of true womanhood*, for women as a way of pacifying her with a doctrine of "separate but equal"-giving her work equally as important as the man's, but separate and different. Inside that "equality" there was the fact that the woman did not choose her mate, and once her marriage took place, her life was determined. One girl wrote in 1791: "The die is about to be cast which will probably determine the future happiness or misery of my life.... I have always anticipated the event with a degree of solemnity almost equal to that which will terminate my present existence." Marriage enchained, and children doubled the chains. One woman, writing in 1813: "The idea of soon giving birth to my third child and the consequent duties I shall he called to discharge distresses me so I feel as if I should sink."
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- In 2019, it was discovered that [US Border patrol had been protecting rapes and abuse of its own members since the 1990s.](https://www.newsweek.com/border-patrol-game-smiles-sexual-assault-1447434) In one instance, a trainee was forced to give oral sex to 5 officers, and then raped while she was unconcious. At least 35 instances of rape by officers was found.
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- In the modern day, [20,000 to 40,000 people die every year](http://obamacarefacts.com/facts-on-deaths-due-to-lack-of-health-insurance-in-us/) because of lack of universal health care or health insurance. On average, that's 300,000 over the last decade. [1](http://obamacarefacts.com/facts-on-deaths-due-to-lack-of-health-insurance-in-us/)
- [FBI, and local police routinely ally with racists to target left wing activists.](https://ricochet.media/en/2276/police-spies-and-white-supremacy-a-brief-history) One conference on "radical left wings gangs in america", fittingly enough is held yearly in Quebec City, home of far right groups like La Muete, whose members include knife attacks, and the Quebec city mosque shooting where a gunman killed 6 people during prayer. Federal agents performed a key role in getting Nazi and Klan formations to collaborate with police, and each other.
- [An outline of some of the US's worst human rights offenses.](http://download.people.com.cn/waiwen/eight15840920921.pdf)
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- On December 5th, 2019, [police opened fire on a busy highway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Miramar_shootout) in Miramar Florida, while in pursuit of 2 jewel thieves who stole $3k of jewelry, killing the kidnapped UPS driver, the two thieves, and an innocent 70-year-old bystander in traffic. [The graphic video](https://twitter.com/rklueber28/status/1202722185690914817) shows complete negligence for the hostage, and surrounding drivers, all to recover some stolen jewelry. On a GoFundMe page that had raised more than $100,000 by Friday evening, Roy Ordonez wrote that his brother, the UPS driver, had been gunned “down like a criminal by the Florida police.” He asked people to share the fundraising page to “make people aware of trigger-happy police officers.” “They could have killed many more people, could have been one of your loved ones,” Roy Ordonez wrote. “Please don’t let my brother’s death be for nothing. Police need to be held accountable.”
- In February 2019, an [11 year old was arrested by police after refusing to say the pledge of allegiance.](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/florida-student-arrested-pledge-of-allegiance.amp) The teacher then asked “Why if it was so bad here he did not go to another place to live,” “They brought me here,” the boy replied. Polk County Public Schools spokesman Kyle Kennedy insisted the 11-year-old “was arrested after becoming disruptive and refusing to follow repeated instructions by school staff and law enforcement.” The sixth grader was then taken to a juvenile detention center, charged with disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence.
- In 2020, the state of Michigan implemented a policy of [locking up children for non-criminal offenses.](https://www.propublica.org/article/judges-are-locking-up-children-for-noncriminal-offenses-like-repeatedly-disobeying-their-parents-and-skipping-school#1019503) This follows the trend of increasing police-presence within US schools, which have massively increased the number of students arrested for non-violent offenses.
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- The US [system of bail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail_in_the_United_States#Criticisms_of_bail) (the practice of releasing suspects before their hearing for money paid to the court) has been criticized as monetizing justice, favoring rich, white collar suspects, over poorer people unable to pay for their release. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail_in_the_United_States#Criticisms_of_bail)
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- On Jan 26th, In Mississippi state penitentiary, an inmate was found hanging in his cell, in a string of deaths in the prison. [This is the 12th death within a single month.](https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2020/01/26/inmate-26-found-hanging-his-cell-parchman-coroner-said/4583731002/)
- A photo surfaced of a November 2019 training class for prison guards in west virginia, showing [34 trainees doing a nazi salute](https://www.foxnews.com/us/west-virginia-corrections-employees-fired-suspended-after-apparent-nazi-salute-photo-officials-say). Only 3 people have been fired. [A large number of prison workers, and populations in prison-towns, are white supremacists.](https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2000/allegations-racist-guards-are-plaguing-corrections-industry)
- A black-site interrogation warehouse in Chicago called [Homan Square](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/14/homan-square-detainee-police-abuse), is notorious for sexual abuse, torture, and [dissappearances](https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/02/behind-the-disappeared-of-chicagos-homan-square/385964/) of its prisoners. The main interrogator, Richard Zuley, [applied torture techniques he learned at Guantanamo bay](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/18/guantanamo-torture-chicago-police-brutality) at Homan Square[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Police_Department#Homan_Square), [2](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/14/homan-square-detainee-police-abuse), [3](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/18/guantanamo-torture-chicago-police-brutality)
- On Oct 25th, 2014, a mentally ill inmate, Michael Anthony Kerr, at the Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville, NC, [died of thirst after being denied water during a 35-day solitary confinement.](http://www.rawstory.com/2014/10/mentally-ill-nc-inmate-dies-of-thirst-after-water-denied-during-35-day-solitary-confinement/) Prison officials have said since Kerr’s death six months ago that they would investigate the events that led to his death, but no report has been issued and officials have not said when one would be. [1](http://www.rawstory.com/2014/10/mentally-ill-nc-inmate-dies-of-thirst-after-water-denied-during-35-day-solitary-confinement/)
- On May 23rd, 2014, a mentally ill inmate at a Dade county correctional facility near Miami FL was [tortured to death](http://breakingbrown.com/2014/05/prison-guards-who-scalded-inmate-to-death-avoid-punishment/) by prison guards. Darren Rainey was serving a two year sentence for cocaine possession when he was forced into a locked shower by prison guards as punishment for defecating in his cell, says one inmate. Once Rainey was inside the shower, guards blasted him with scalding hot water as he begged for his life. Investigators determined that there is not enough evidence to charge the guards. [1](http://breakingbrown.com/2014/05/prison-guards-who-scalded-inmate-to-death-avoid-punishment/)
- The [Crime bill of 1994](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Crime_Control_and_Law_Enforcement_Act), signed into law by Bill Clinton, increased the size of the US prison industry, and dealt with the problem of crime by emphasizing punishment, not prevention. It extended the death penalty to a whole range of criminal offenses, and provided $30 billion for the building of new prisons, to crack down on "super predators", a term used by Hillary Clinton to refer to remorseless juvenile criminals. [1](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36020717)
- In the 1978 case [Houchins v. KQED, Inc.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houchins_v._KQED,_Inc.) the supreme court ruled that the news media do not have guaranteed rights of access to jails and prisons. It ruled also that prison authorities could forbid inmates to speak to one another, assemble, or spread literature about the formation of a prisoners' union.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houchins_v._KQED,_Inc.)
- In September, 1971, prison guards [killed George Jackson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jackson_(activist)#Death), a black Marxist and member of the Black Panthers in San Quentin prison (who had served 10 years of an indeterminate prison sentence for a $70 robbery), after he attempted to free himself and other inmates. Outrage over this, terrible prison conditions, and mistreatment by white prison guards, caused the [Attica Prison Riot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Prison_riot), in which 33 inmates and 10 prison guards were killed, and sparked dozens of prison riots across the country. In Attica, 100 percent of the guards were white, prisoners spent fourteen to sixteen hours a day in their cells, their mail was read, their reading material restricted, their visits from families conducted through a mesh screen, their medical care disgraceful, 75% were there as a result of plea bargaining, and their parole system inequitable.
- Many companies in the 1800s were guilty of using prison laborers, such as the [Tennesee Coal Iron and Railroad company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Coal,_Iron_and_Railroad_Company#From_forced_labor_to_paternalism). In 1891, the prison workers struck, overpowered the guards, and other neighboring unions came to their aid.
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