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 - [Esperanza - A Socialist, Feminist, and Transgender analysis of Sex Work [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:62ef7d10e3f427d5d195b7da66f0bd86e72f97f2&dn=Esperanza%20-%20A%20Socialist%2c%20Feminist%2c%20and%20Transgender%20analysis%20of%20Sex%20Work%20%5baudiobook%5d%20by%20dessalines)
 - [Lenin - The New Economic Policy [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:504c16b8a014e8d55f54c877ad4fd654b0023dbe&dn=Lenin%20-%20The%20New%20Economic%20Policy%20%5baudiobook%5d%20by%20dessalines)
 - [Silvia Federici - Caliban and the Witch [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5235321931784e4cfb9efef3138b605164026ed9&dn=Silvia%20Federici%20-%20Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch%20%5baudiobook%5d%20by%20dessalines)
+- [John Smith - Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century \(article\) [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ab601810c50700a7bc8d8f0f89ebcfb60229e917&dn=John%20Smith%20-%20Imperialism%20in%20the%20Twenty-First%20Century)
+- [John Smith - The GDP Illusion - Value added versus Value Capture [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d11417b93e812301a4787f8c53897f25817beec8&dn=John%20Smith%20-%20The%20GDP%20Illusion%20-%20Value%20added%20versus%20Value%20Capture%20%5baudiobook%5d%20by%20dessalines)
+- [Lise Vogel - Marxism and the Oppression of Women [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2b32f06c48d977bb08f0c2eed444d4fbe281577f&dn=Lise%20Vogel%20-%20Marxism%20and%20the%20Oppression%20of%20Women%20%5baudiobook%5d%20by%20dessalines)
+- [A.M. Gittlitz - I Want to Believe [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e3fd8f527a154bc79c9f77b27c3b026b9e334265&dn=A.M.%20Gittlitz%20-%20I%20Want%20to%20Believe%20%5baudiobook%5d%20by%20dessalines)
+- [Jacek Zlydach - Advertising is a Cancer on Society [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:dd172e3af7a5f4cd626324f76a58c10f55d38bb6&dn=Jacek%20Zlydach%20-%20Advertising%20is%20a%20Cancer%20on%20Society%20%5baudiobook%5d%20by%20dessalines)

 ## Read by others

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 - [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) [An analysis by the Brookings Institution conducted the summer of 2021 found that, 27.5% of households with children were food insecure — meaning some 13.9 million children lived in a household characterized by child food insecurity. A separate analysis by researchers at Northwestern found insecurity has more than tripled among households with children to 29.5% in late 2020.](https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/912486921/food-insecurity-in-the-u-s-by-the-numbers)
 - [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 worldwide die **each year** from preventable poverty, of whom 11 million are **children under the age of five**. [2](http://archive.is/2CvOW).
 - 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.
+- The UN estimates that **just 3% of US military spending per year** [could end all starvation on earth](https://worldbeyondwar.org/explained)
 - [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). In [Christmas, 2019, more than half a million homeless people across the US.](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/24/pers-d24.html) [In 2019 in Los Angeles, ~60k people are homeless on any given night.](http://www.laalmanac.com/social/so14.php)
 - Rising Housing prices from real estate speculation have skyrocketed to the point that an epidemic of [hidden homeless](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-hidden-homeless-priced-out-cbsn-originals/) has arisen: families who live in their cars, or on the street, but who still work. In most US cities, such as LA, it's illegal to sleep in your car overnight. 1/3rd of all renters pay half their income towards landlords. Even mid-size cities like Boise Idaho are experiencing a [surge of homelessness as of 2019](https://www.kivitv.com/news/state-of-208/affordable-housing-crisis-leading-to-rise-in-first-time-homelessness-in-boise).
 - [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)
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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://lemmygrad.ml/post/231437/comment/187228)
+- [Aimixin - Why Anarchism is fundamentally anti-socialist.](https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/187228)
 - [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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 - [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://lemmygrad.ml/post/231054/comment/184251) [3](https://socialistfight.com/2017/02/22/the-lucanamarca-massacre/), [4](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/231662/comment/188644)
+* [On MLM / Gonzalo, and the shining path.](https://www.reddit.com/r/asktankies/comments/po4vo1/what_is_your_view_of_chairman_gonzalo/) [2](https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/184251) [3](https://socialistfight.com/2017/02/22/the-lucanamarca-massacre/), [4](https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/188644)
 * [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 Long Game and Its Contradictions](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub&fbclid=IwAR1jAfUSH39nEKCkTAD7GK8ayR9YVekX6Ht6hWU7x7iKPVUK_fLdA5OlPV4). [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoali1j-mai9MtggjA-Vzc4x)
 - [The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/08/20/the-myth-of-chinese-capitalism-2/)
 - [Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62mvMWJHt8g)
- [Isn't China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn't it fully planned like the USSR was?](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pzcwzr/apparently_president_xi_does_not_believe_in/hf0bnv0/)
+- [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://lemmygrad.ml/comment/185239)
 - [Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.](https://redsails.org/fidel-and-gawronski/)
 - [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)
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 - [Thinks the US military is socialist. Thinks social services like schools and libraries are socialist.](https://i.imgur.com/JHOZDlg.png)
 - After his death AOC Tweeted to commemorate John McCain, saying his [“legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency.”](https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1033538876370046977)
 - [Believes that Trump "betrays" US values.](https://i.imgur.com/H61toBx.png)
- [Despite her curated image as a New York bartender, she only bartended for 6 months, and worked primarily for a startup incubator called Brooklyn Avenue Press.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/mho3dm/aoc_was_at_a_startup_incubator_in_2011_where_she/) [2](https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-surprising-entrepreneurial-roots-run-for-congress.html)
+- [Despite her curated image as a New York bartender, she only bartended for 6 months, and worked primarily for a startup incubator called Brooklyn Avenue Press.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/mho3dm/aoc_was_at_a_startup_incubator_in_2011_where_she/) [2](https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-surprising-entrepreneurial-roots-run-for-congress.html), [3](https://twitter.com/Edward__Bernays/status/1438131799243243523?s=20)
 - [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)