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- [Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America, Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3cc58222c97db89a139260f0ca11368671bea60) - [Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America, Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3cc58222c97db89a139260f0ca11368671bea60)
- [Marx and Engels - The Communist Manifesto](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7428b83a5f9a51885e12166c0895a41f7f05396a&dn=Audiobook+The+Communist+Manifesto+by+Karl+Marx+and+Friedrich+Eng) - [Marx and Engels - The Communist Manifesto](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7428b83a5f9a51885e12166c0895a41f7f05396a&dn=Audiobook+The+Communist+Manifesto+by+Karl+Marx+and+Friedrich+Eng)
- [Fidel Castro - My Life](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:22156961fcefdb4b9cc4ab458f4c60b0fd186761&dn=Fidel%20Castro%20-%20My%20Life) - [Fidel Castro - My Life](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:22156961fcefdb4b9cc4ab458f4c60b0fd186761&dn=Fidel%20Castro%20-%20My%20Life)
- [Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e23a07e07eea40cb172625b03253b6484fb27e2f) - [Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of Persuasion (New and Expanded)](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e23a07e07eea40cb172625b03253b6484fb27e2f)
- [Walter Rodney - How Europe underdeveloped Africa](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C8EA24A6B93F427D17585CBDE9F31EE2F5ACF2EB&dn=Walter+Rodney+-+How+Europe+Underdeveloped+Africa+%5Baudiobook%5D+audible) - [Walter Rodney - How Europe underdeveloped Africa](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C8EA24A6B93F427D17585CBDE9F31EE2F5ACF2EB&dn=Walter+Rodney+-+How+Europe+Underdeveloped+Africa+%5Baudiobook%5D+audible)
- [Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An indigenous peoples history of the US. ](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1ae24bda86bd23da6edad32568ad5ff574663f88&dn=Roxanne%20Dunbar-Ortiz%20-%20An%20Indigenous%20Peoples'%20History%20of%20the%20United%20States.mp3) - [Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An indigenous peoples history of the US. ](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1ae24bda86bd23da6edad32568ad5ff574663f88&dn=Roxanne%20Dunbar-Ortiz%20-%20An%20Indigenous%20Peoples'%20History%20of%20the%20United%20States.mp3)
- [Autobiography of Malcolm X - as told to Alex Haley](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4e1ba39a81f987fddf7e6abf9e49e2a0c8490168&dn=Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X) - [Autobiography of Malcolm X - as told to Alex Haley](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4e1ba39a81f987fddf7e6abf9e49e2a0c8490168&dn=Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X)

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- [Crash Course Socialism](#crash-course-socialism) - [Crash Course Socialism](#crash-course-socialism)
* [Surplus Value](#surplus-value) - [Surplus Value](#surplus-value)
* [History, and Human Nature](#history-and-human-nature) - [History, and Human Nature](#history-and-human-nature)
* [Value](#value) - [Value](#value)
* [Risk](#risk) - [Risk](#risk)
* [Conformity](#conformity) - [Conformity](#conformity)
* [Democracy](#democracy) - [Democracy](#democracy)
* [Late Stage Capitalism](#late-stage-capitalism) - [Late Stage Capitalism](#late-stage-capitalism)
* [Defending the Status Quo](#defending-the-status-quo) - [Defending the Status Quo](#defending-the-status-quo)
* [The State, and Revolution](#the-state-and-revolution) - [The State, and Revolution](#the-state-and-revolution)
* [The Communist Legacy](#the-communist-legacy) - [The Communist Legacy](#the-communist-legacy)
* [The Communist Future](#the-communist-future) - [The Communist Future](#the-communist-future)
* [FAQ](#faq) - [FAQ](#faq)
- [Media](#media) - [Media](#media)
* [Videos](#videos) - [Videos](#videos)
* [Literature](#literature) - [Literature](#literature)
+ [Modern introductory books](#modern-introductory-books) - [Modern introductory books](#modern-introductory-books)
+ [Essays/Introductions](#essaysintroductions) - [Essays/Introductions](#essaysintroductions)
+ [Marxist literature](#marxist-literature) - [Marxist literature](#marxist-literature)
+ [Marxian economics](#marxian-economics) - [Marxian economics](#marxian-economics)
+ [History books](#history-books) - [History books](#history-books)
+ [Psychology](#psychology) - [Psychology](#psychology)
+ [Fiction](#fiction) - [Fiction](#fiction)
* [Audiobooks](#audiobooks) - [Audiobooks](#audiobooks)
* [Films](#films) - [Films](#films)
* [Documentaries](#documentaries) - [Documentaries](#documentaries)
* [Podcasts](#podcasts) - [Podcasts](#podcasts)
* [Channels](#channels) - [Channels](#channels)
- [Organizations](#organizations) - [Organizations](#organizations)
* [Parties / Groups](#parties--groups) - [Parties / Groups](#parties--groups)
* [Online Communities](#online-communities) - [Online Communities](#online-communities)
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*If this is too long to read right now, I recommend /u/thedashrendar's [excellent summary of Capitalism](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/a0mwut/what_exactly_is_capitalism/eaj3b4a/), then coming back to this.* _If this is too long to read right now, I recommend /u/thedashrendar's [excellent summary of Capitalism](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/a0mwut/what_exactly_is_capitalism/eaj3b4a/), then coming back to this._
# Crash Course Socialism # Crash Course Socialism
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[Socialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism) is an economic and social system defined by **social ownership of the means of production**. (Workers democratically own and operate their workplaces, as opposed to private control of production aka [Capitalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism)). [Socialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism) is an economic and social system defined by **social ownership of the means of production**. (Workers democratically own and operate their workplaces, as opposed to private control of production aka [Capitalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism)).
The [means of production](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_of_production) are non-human inputs that help create economic value, such as **factories, industrial machinery, workplaces, large tracts of land, stores of raw materials**, etc. The means of production are the means of life. Socialists refer to the means of production as *capital*, or [private property](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ownership), i.e., the things which give the people who own them power over those who don't. The [means of production](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_of_production) are non-human inputs that help create economic value, such as **factories, industrial machinery, workplaces, large tracts of land, stores of raw materials**, etc. The means of production are the means of life. Socialists refer to the means of production as _capital_, or [private property](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ownership), i.e., the things which give the people who own them power over those who don't.
Private property in the socialist context shouldn't be confused with [personal property](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property#Personal_versus_private_property), such as your home, car, computer, and other possessions, which would be protected. Private property is in actuality another word for *absentee property*, whose ownership is claimed through title only (and not use), for the purpose of extracting rent from the *actual* users, occupants, or workers. Private property in the socialist context shouldn't be confused with [personal property](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property#Personal_versus_private_property), such as your home, car, computer, and other possessions, which would be protected. Private property is in actuality another word for _absentee property_, whose ownership is claimed through title only (and not use), for the purpose of extracting rent from the _actual_ users, occupants, or workers.
In a Capitalist society the means of production are owned and controlled privately, by those that can afford them (the Capitalist, aka those with Capital). Production is carried out to [benefit the capitalist](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/a0mwut/what_exactly_is_capitalism/eaj3b4a/) (production for profit). Workers are paid a wage, and [receive that amount regardless of how much value they produce](https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/1979/marxism/ch04.html). In a Capitalist society the means of production are owned and controlled privately, by those that can afford them (the Capitalist, aka those with Capital). Production is carried out to [benefit the capitalist](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/a0mwut/what_exactly_is_capitalism/eaj3b4a/) (production for profit). Workers are paid a wage, and [receive that amount regardless of how much value they produce](https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/1979/marxism/ch04.html).
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For example, a Copper mine owner neither physically mines the copper, and (living thousands of miles away) likely delegates day-to-day operations to a hired manager. Yet, **because they have a piece of paper that says they own it, they get a large cut of everything that was mined**: the ultimate free lunch. For example, a Copper mine owner neither physically mines the copper, and (living thousands of miles away) likely delegates day-to-day operations to a hired manager. Yet, **because they have a piece of paper that says they own it, they get a large cut of everything that was mined**: the ultimate free lunch.
A 1983 report by England national income and expenditures found that on average, **26 minutes of every hour worked** (or 43% of labor value added) by English workers across a wide range of industries went to various exploiting or unproductive groups, with workers receiving only *57% of their pre-tax productive output as wages*<sup>[1](http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf)</sup>. In other words, at least **40% of the work you do every day is stolen by Capitalists.** A 1983 report by England national income and expenditures found that on average, **26 minutes of every hour worked** (or 43% of labor value added) by English workers across a wide range of industries went to various exploiting or unproductive groups, with workers receiving only _57% of their pre-tax productive output as wages_<sup>[1](http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf)</sup>. In other words, at least **40% of the work you do every day is stolen by Capitalists.**
Capitalists use the surplus to [push out competitors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices) and gain market share, leading to the destruction of most small businesses, with [just a few companies](http://imgur.com/a/xgnEp) controlling our food, media, [news](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6U2Un5kEdI), energy, transportation, and finances. Capitalists use the surplus to [push out competitors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices) and gain market share, leading to the destruction of most small businesses, with [just a few companies](http://imgur.com/a/xgnEp) controlling our food, media, [news](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6U2Un5kEdI), energy, transportation, and finances.
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[Wage workers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oztdRo9GLLk) are **completely dependent** on selling their labor power to those in control of production in order to gain access to the necessities of life (money for food, shelter, clothing, etc). Its similarities to chattel slavery has lead many to term wage work as [wage slavery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery), with voluntary employment being simply a false choice between **one exploiter or another**. [Wage workers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oztdRo9GLLk) are **completely dependent** on selling their labor power to those in control of production in order to gain access to the necessities of life (money for food, shelter, clothing, etc). Its similarities to chattel slavery has lead many to term wage work as [wage slavery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery), with voluntary employment being simply a false choice between **one exploiter or another**.
Technological advancements, instead of benefiting workers, result in decreased or stagnant wages, worsening bargaining power, or **mass layoffs**. For example, a machine that replaces 10 workers *leads to their firing*, resulting in a benefit for the machine owner, and an economic hardship to the fired workers. Technological advancements, instead of benefiting workers, result in decreased or stagnant wages, worsening bargaining power, or **mass layoffs**. For example, a machine that replaces 10 workers _leads to their firing_, resulting in a benefit for the machine owner, and an economic hardship to the fired workers.
**Increase in profits due primarily to automation** **Increase in profits due primarily to automation**
![The difference between these two lines is the surplus](http://i.imgur.com/FPr1mCB.png) ![The difference between these two lines is the surplus](http://i.imgur.com/FPr1mCB.png)
*The difference between these two lines is a measure of the surplus.* _The difference between these two lines is a measure of the surplus._
## History, and Human Nature ## History, and Human Nature
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Markets likewise were rare, since communities tended to be self-sufficient. Rituals, harvest festivals, a group of elders deciding fair distribution, or communal decision-making accomplished what markets do today. Private property (and male-dominated societies) came into existence with the growth of large-scale agriculture and animal domestication (A historically male-dominated activity). These tended to be passed on to male descendants (which in turn required strict female sexual control, isolation, and increasing objectification), aggregating into fewer and fewer land-owners, and creating class antagonisms between an owning, and a working class. Markets likewise were rare, since communities tended to be self-sufficient. Rituals, harvest festivals, a group of elders deciding fair distribution, or communal decision-making accomplished what markets do today. Private property (and male-dominated societies) came into existence with the growth of large-scale agriculture and animal domestication (A historically male-dominated activity). These tended to be passed on to male descendants (which in turn required strict female sexual control, isolation, and increasing objectification), aggregating into fewer and fewer land-owners, and creating class antagonisms between an owning, and a working class.
In the modern day, there is the **communism of the family**, in which family members share freely with one another. There are community welfare organizations, food banks, as well as thousands of undocumented and unpublicized acts of kindness which show that cooperation endures even in spite of the individualism of the current dominant economic system. Popular phrases like, "Money is the root of all evil", hint at our societal dislike of selfishness, and persist alongside the capitalist myths of the "self-made man", and, "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps" (which shows the power of capitalist indoctrination: in a nonsensical world, *the impossible becomes possible*). In the modern day, there is the **communism of the family**, in which family members share freely with one another. There are community welfare organizations, food banks, as well as thousands of undocumented and unpublicized acts of kindness which show that cooperation endures even in spite of the individualism of the current dominant economic system. Popular phrases like, "Money is the root of all evil", hint at our societal dislike of selfishness, and persist alongside the capitalist myths of the "self-made man", and, "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps" (which shows the power of capitalist indoctrination: in a nonsensical world, _the impossible becomes possible_).
Capitalism evolved historically out of [feudalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism) and [slave societies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery), all three being examples of *class society*, with a dominant [ruling class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruling_class) receiving the surplus of a subordinate class. Capitalism evolved historically out of [feudalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism) and [slave societies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery), all three being examples of _class society_, with a dominant [ruling class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruling_class) receiving the surplus of a subordinate class.
Socialism as a diverse philosophy arose out of a criticism after the French revolution, in which a capitalist class (the [bourgeoisie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie)) seemed to merely replace [feudal lords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism) to become the new ruling class. At the same time, the exploited serfs were moved off the land ([enclosure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure)) and forced into the cities to become wage-workers. Socialism as a diverse philosophy arose out of a criticism after the French revolution, in which a capitalist class (the [bourgeoisie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie)) seemed to merely replace [feudal lords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism) to become the new ruling class. At the same time, the exploited serfs were moved off the land ([enclosure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure)) and forced into the cities to become wage-workers.
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## Value ## Value
Economic systems, such as Capitalism, don't invent, *create* or *build* anything. Workers do (See [Soviet Space Program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program)). The "isms" only determine who gets compensated. Economic systems, such as Capitalism, don't invent, _create_ or _build_ anything. Workers do (See [Soviet Space Program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program)). The "isms" only determine who gets compensated.
Nor does [capitalism spur innovation](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9c9qj6/in_a_communist_society_what_are_people_motivated/); the pursuit of new ideas is fundamental to humanity, and takes place regardless of the economic system in place. Inventions like rocketry, the internet, space travel, GPS, mobile phones, vaccines, [were all developed under public funding](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/). Nor does [capitalism spur innovation](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9c9qj6/in_a_communist_society_what_are_people_motivated/); the pursuit of new ideas is fundamental to humanity, and takes place regardless of the economic system in place. Inventions like rocketry, the internet, space travel, GPS, mobile phones, vaccines, [were all developed under public funding](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/).
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The labor theory of value [has been proven empirically correct in recent decades](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emnYMfjYh1Q), by comparing the amount of labor required in given industries, and the money output of those industries. For nearly every country with sufficient economic data, **the correlation is > 95%**. The labor theory of value [has been proven empirically correct in recent decades](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emnYMfjYh1Q), by comparing the amount of labor required in given industries, and the money output of those industries. For nearly every country with sufficient economic data, **the correlation is > 95%**.
Under capitalism, [the subjective theory of value](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value) is based almost entirely on the [supply and demand curve model which is unscientific](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbm3u2r_Cs), [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKGYzhoYK2I) since it presupposes more unknowns than knowns, and as such is useless at making any predictions. Capitalist value theories are based around [utility](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility), IE joy, which isn't quantifiable, measurable, comparable, or falsifiable, and as such is *useless* as a scientific concept. Its greatest use is to allow the mega-rich to justify owning [thousands of lifetimes](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/4wxdnb/how_many_lifetimes_of_labor_has_bill_gates_stolen/?ref=search_posts) of stolen labor. Under capitalism, [the subjective theory of value](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value) is based almost entirely on the [supply and demand curve model which is unscientific](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbm3u2r_Cs), [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKGYzhoYK2I) since it presupposes more unknowns than knowns, and as such is useless at making any predictions. Capitalist value theories are based around [utility](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility), IE joy, which isn't quantifiable, measurable, comparable, or falsifiable, and as such is _useless_ as a scientific concept. Its greatest use is to allow the mega-rich to justify owning [thousands of lifetimes](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/4wxdnb/how_many_lifetimes_of_labor_has_bill_gates_stolen/?ref=search_posts) of stolen labor.
[The planned economies](capitalism_doesnt_work.md) such as that of the USSR, while imperfect, often provided [better social outcomes](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/) than its Western equivalents. Its publicly owned, planned economy brought it from feudalism to a world superpower, with the [fastest growing economy of the 20th century](https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/captura-de-pantalla-de-2016-05-26-10-15-23.png), despite starting out at the same level of economic development as Brazil in 1920. [The planned economies](capitalism_doesnt_work.md) such as that of the USSR, while imperfect, often provided [better social outcomes](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/) than its Western equivalents. Its publicly owned, planned economy brought it from feudalism to a world superpower, with the [fastest growing economy of the 20th century](https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/captura-de-pantalla-de-2016-05-26-10-15-23.png), despite starting out at the same level of economic development as Brazil in 1920.
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## Risk ## 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. 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.** 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. 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.
The socialist argument is not that individual passive investors should still bear all the risk, it's that they never should have been in a position to bear that risk to begin with, and only got there by exploiting workers. **Society and workers should bear the risk**, make the decisions, and own the means of production that their labor made possible. The socialist argument is not that individual passive investors should still bear all the risk, it's that they never should have been in a position to bear that risk to begin with, and only got there by exploiting workers. **Society and workers should bear the risk**, make the decisions, and own the means of production that their labor made possible.
## Conformity ## Conformity
[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 class 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. [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 class 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 ## Democracy
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[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. [The Princeton Study, conducted in the US in 2014](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig), found that the preferences of the average US citizen exert a near-zero influence on legislation, making the US system of elections and campaigning little more than political theater. **Multi-party, Parliamentary / representative democracy has proven to be the safest shell for capitalist rule**, regardless of voting methods or differing political structures, for countries as diverse as Australia, Japan, Sweden, the UK, the US, South Korea, or Brazil. [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. [The Princeton Study, conducted in the US in 2014](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig), found that the preferences of the average US citizen exert a near-zero influence on legislation, making the US system of elections and campaigning little more than political theater. **Multi-party, Parliamentary / representative democracy has proven to be the safest shell for capitalist rule**, regardless of voting methods or differing political structures, for countries as diverse as Australia, Japan, Sweden, the UK, the US, South Korea, or Brazil.
Examples of restrictions include 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. Examples of restrictions include a [media and news monopoly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership), [2](https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/), 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/) 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/)
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## Late Stage Capitalism ## Late Stage Capitalism
During Capitalism's growth period (early Capitalism), when there are new markets and labor forces to expand to, capitalism can appear stable for the richer consumers whose products *are actually being produced* by exploited, poorer workforces. Likewise, in a labor shortage, as existed in the newly industrializing US, capitalists *have no choice* but to keep wages high (and the rate of exploitation low) in order to bring in workers from other countries, and keep them from becoming subsistence farmers. During Capitalism's growth period (early Capitalism), when there are new markets and labor forces to expand to, capitalism can appear stable for the richer consumers whose products _are actually being produced_ by exploited, poorer workforces. Likewise, in a labor shortage, as existed in the newly industrializing US, capitalists _have no choice_ but to keep wages high (and the rate of exploitation low) in order to bring in workers from other countries, and keep them from becoming subsistence farmers.
In the southern US, **African slavery was used to solve the labor shortage**, and keep exploitation high (since no wages were paid), and consumer products such as tobacco and cotton cheap. In order to take advantage of cheap labor, capitalists usually build production far away from where those products are actually bought and consumed, meaning that most consumer goods are shipped by ocean-freight, wasting energy and **polluting the environment**. In the southern US, **African slavery was used to solve the labor shortage**, and keep exploitation high (since no wages were paid), and consumer products such as tobacco and cotton cheap. In order to take advantage of cheap labor, capitalists usually build production far away from where those products are actually bought and consumed, meaning that most consumer goods are shipped by ocean-freight, wasting energy and **polluting the environment**.
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Private ownership of the means of production was established through force and [private tyranny](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVt7U2YIgZs), and is only upheld through force. The state is a **special organization of force used for the suppression of one class by another** which (in capitalist society) exercises a monopoly on violence to forcibly maintain the right to private property. The modern state developed alongside the emergent capitalist system as the bourgeoisie seized political and economic control. It arises from the irreconcilable class antagonisms that exist in society. Private ownership of the means of production was established through force and [private tyranny](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVt7U2YIgZs), and is only upheld through force. The state is a **special organization of force used for the suppression of one class by another** which (in capitalist society) exercises a monopoly on violence to forcibly maintain the right to private property. The modern state developed alongside the emergent capitalist system as the bourgeoisie seized political and economic control. It arises from the irreconcilable class antagonisms that exist in society.
The State, under capitalist society, which protects private property and upholds the capitalist mode of production, is an instrument wielded by the bourgeoisie to *suppress the proletariat*. **So long as there are classes in society, a State (or any organization that uses force in the interests of a class) must exist.** The State, under capitalist society, which protects private property and upholds the capitalist mode of production, is an instrument wielded by the bourgeoisie to _suppress the proletariat_. **So long as there are classes in society, a State (or any organization that uses force in the interests of a class) must exist.**
Marxists aim to replace the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, with a transitional [dictatorship of the proletariet](https://theimmortalscience.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/), smashing the presently existing bourgeois state apparatus, and replacing it with a new state, constructed on the basis of worker power, destroying all the elements which exist to oppress workers, and safeguarding the ones that help workers. Once the proletarian state possesses political power and controls the means of production, it will *wither away* over time as it suppresses the bourgeoisie and moves toward a classless, egalitarian society. Eventually, the use of force *is no longer necessary* to suppress class antagonisms, because there *are no classes*, and the oppressive elements of the proletarian state wither away. Marxists aim to replace the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, with a transitional [dictatorship of the proletariet](https://theimmortalscience.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/), smashing the presently existing bourgeois state apparatus, and replacing it with a new state, constructed on the basis of worker power, destroying all the elements which exist to oppress workers, and safeguarding the ones that help workers. Once the proletarian state possesses political power and controls the means of production, it will _wither away_ over time as it suppresses the bourgeoisie and moves toward a classless, egalitarian society. Eventually, the use of force _is no longer necessary_ to suppress class antagonisms, because there _are no classes_, and the oppressive elements of the proletarian state wither away.
Socialism as an economic system is distinct from [neoliberalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism), as well as [social democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy)/Welfare [state capitalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism), which aims to band-aid the ills of capitalism while leaving the exploitation inherent in [wage slavery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery) intact. Social services provided by the capitalist-controlled state have nothing to do with socialism. Socialism as an economic system is distinct from [neoliberalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism), as well as [social democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy)/Welfare [state capitalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism), which aims to band-aid the ills of capitalism while leaving the exploitation inherent in [wage slavery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery) intact. Social services provided by the capitalist-controlled state have nothing to do with socialism.
## The Communist Legacy ## The Communist Legacy
Some Marxists say the regimes typically called socialist are more correctly defined as [State Capitalist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism), since production was controlled by state bureaucracies who also distributed the surplus, rather than through the democratic input of workers. Other Marxists call them *siege socialist*, contrasting it with *pure socialism*, stating that siege socialism is a natural reaction to the external pressures of capitalist encirclement, and that *pure socialism* is an ideal which is [ahistorical and nonfalsifiable.](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/23/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/) The US for example, has been involved in [militarily crushing nearly every socialist attempt](us_atrocities.md) for the last 80 years, and installing right-wing fascist dictatorships (friendly to US interests) in their place. Needless to say, **capitalist encirclement has a profoundly distorting affect** on the building of socialism; very few attempts have survived US interventionism. [This talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7WmYEoNtPY&feature=youtu.be) by Micheal Parenti is a good reflection on the soviet experiment. Some Marxists say the regimes typically called socialist are more correctly defined as [State Capitalist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism), since production was controlled by state bureaucracies who also distributed the surplus, rather than through the democratic input of workers. Other Marxists call them _siege socialist_, contrasting it with _pure socialism_, stating that siege socialism is a natural reaction to the external pressures of capitalist encirclement, and that _pure socialism_ is an ideal which is [ahistorical and nonfalsifiable.](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/23/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/) The US for example, has been involved in [militarily crushing nearly every socialist attempt](us_atrocities.md) for the last 80 years, and installing right-wing fascist dictatorships (friendly to US interests) in their place. Needless to say, **capitalist encirclement has a profoundly distorting affect** on the building of socialism; very few attempts have survived US interventionism. [This talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7WmYEoNtPY&feature=youtu.be) by Micheal Parenti is a good reflection on the soviet experiment.
The early stages of the [1917 Russian Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution) were far more progressive than is typically portrayed; Divorce was legalized, **Homosexuality was decriminalized**, land was distributed to the peasantry, banks were nationalized, control of factories was given to worker's councils, **the workday was shortened**, wages were fixed at a higher rate, all elected officials could now be immediately recalled; it created mass literacy drives, free nurseries, communal kitchens, and laundries. 14 Western nations (including the US) [sent troops to Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War) to fight against the gains of the revolution. The early stages of the [1917 Russian Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution) were far more progressive than is typically portrayed; Divorce was legalized, **Homosexuality was decriminalized**, land was distributed to the peasantry, banks were nationalized, control of factories was given to worker's councils, **the workday was shortened**, wages were fixed at a higher rate, all elected officials could now be immediately recalled; it created mass literacy drives, free nurseries, communal kitchens, and laundries. 14 Western nations (including the US) [sent troops to Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War) to fight against the gains of the revolution.
Contrary to the popular phrase, [Communism did work](capitalism_doesnt_work.md): within a few short years, the **Soviet Union doubled its life expectancy**, became a world super-power, and the second fastest growing economy of the 1900s. Other achievements include: near-zero unemployment, continuous economic growth for 70+ years (*excluding WW2*), near-zero homelessness, higher caloric intake than the US, 99% literacy, free education, free health-care (most doctors per capita in the world), free childcare, low poverty, and low levels of sex and racial inequality, not to mention the soviet space program's achievements. [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/86tqdd/but_socialism_doesnt_work_s/dw7qco0/) Contrary to the popular phrase, [Communism did work](capitalism_doesnt_work.md): within a few short years, the **Soviet Union doubled its life expectancy**, became a world super-power, and the second fastest growing economy of the 1900s. Other achievements include: near-zero unemployment, continuous economic growth for 70+ years (_excluding WW2_), near-zero homelessness, higher caloric intake than the US, 99% literacy, free education, free health-care (most doctors per capita in the world), free childcare, low poverty, and low levels of sex and racial inequality, not to mention the soviet space program's achievements. [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/86tqdd/but_socialism_doesnt_work_s/dw7qco0/)
These achievements were possible due to efficient use of resources resulting from the lack of a parasitic capitalist class expropriating the majority of the nation's wealth. Similar outcomes in other socialist countries prove that [socialism did indeed work](capitalism_doesnt_work.md), and provided an alternative to the private property system. This is why it was *intentionally and systematically* attacked by Western capitalist nations. These achievements were possible due to efficient use of resources resulting from the lack of a parasitic capitalist class expropriating the majority of the nation's wealth. Similar outcomes in other socialist countries prove that [socialism did indeed work](capitalism_doesnt_work.md), and provided an alternative to the private property system. This is why it was _intentionally and systematically_ attacked by Western capitalist nations.
The famines and economic hardship typically associated with communism in Russia and China, were partially a result of the painful process of [industrialization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialisation), and the transition from agriculture to industry. It would be the case whether capitalists, communists, or enlightened rulers were in power. During England's rapid industrialization, life expectancy in some cities was less than 30 years. This is the case with every country in the process of industrialization. [Lysenkoism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism), and [a period of droughts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine) made the problem worse. The scale of famines were also exaggerated by capitalist historians, whose brinkmanship in quoting higher death counts is contradicted by the **massive population growth** of those countries. Even in spite of this, a look at a [drastic increase in the life expectancy in the USSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union#Life_expectancy_and_infant_mortality) should put to rest the notion of socialism as contributing to starvation. The famines and economic hardship typically associated with communism in Russia and China, were partially a result of the painful process of [industrialization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialisation), and the transition from agriculture to industry. It would be the case whether capitalists, communists, or enlightened rulers were in power. During England's rapid industrialization, life expectancy in some cities was less than 30 years. This is the case with every country in the process of industrialization. [Lysenkoism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism), and [a period of droughts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine) made the problem worse. The scale of famines were also exaggerated by capitalist historians, whose brinkmanship in quoting higher death counts is contradicted by the **massive population growth** of those countries. Even in spite of this, a look at a [drastic increase in the life expectancy in the USSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union#Life_expectancy_and_infant_mortality) should put to rest the notion of socialism as contributing to starvation.
Exaggerated death counts blamed on *communism* and usually attributed to Stalin or Mao are often due to Western historians attributing **all deaths** to the economic system (One stark example, is the US-state-run organization "victims of communism", which counts German WW2 casualties as communist victims). This would be the equivalent of attributing deaths from the [Dust Bowl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl) to FDR. Yet [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.](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) Exaggerated death counts blamed on _communism_ and usually attributed to Stalin or Mao are often due to Western historians attributing **all deaths** to the economic system (One stark example, is the US-state-run organization "victims of communism", which counts German WW2 casualties as communist victims). This would be the equivalent of attributing deaths from the [Dust Bowl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl) to FDR. Yet [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.](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)
Even if we were to fully accept the Western propaganda that socialist regimes have killed 100 million people, then within 10 years, **capitalism kills more children under the age of 5 than socialism did in 150 years**. Even if we were to fully accept the Western propaganda that socialist regimes have killed 100 million people, then within 10 years, **capitalism kills more children under the age of 5 than socialism did in 150 years**.
@ -385,10 +385,10 @@ Past and present socialist societies include - The [Paris Commune](https://en.wi
- [I, Daniel Blake (2016)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5168192/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) - [I, Daniel Blake (2016)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5168192/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
- [The Proud Valley (1940)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Proud_Valley) - [The Proud Valley (1940)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Proud_Valley)
- [The Young Karl Marx (2017)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Karl_Marx) - [The Young Karl Marx (2017)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Karl_Marx)
- [Network (1976)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(1976_film)) - [Network (1976)](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(1976_film)>)
- [The Hospital (1971)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hospital) - [The Hospital (1971)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hospital)
- [Burn! (1969)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn!_(1969_film)) - [Burn! (1969)](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn!_(1969_film)>)
- [Trumbo (2015)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumbo_(2015_film)) - [Trumbo (2015)](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumbo_(2015_film)>)
- [Walter defends Sarajevo (1972)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Defends_Sarajevo) - [Walter defends Sarajevo (1972)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Defends_Sarajevo)
- [Rosa Luxemburg (1986)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091869/?ref_=ttls_li_tt) - [Rosa Luxemburg (1986)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091869/?ref_=ttls_li_tt)
- [Joe Hill (1971)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067276/?ref_=ttls_li_tt) - [Joe Hill (1971)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067276/?ref_=ttls_li_tt)
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- [Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul (서울의 평양 시민들)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktE_3PrJZO0) - [Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul (서울의 평양 시민들)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktE_3PrJZO0)
- [The Haircut - A North Korean Adventure](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E) - [The Haircut - A North Korean Adventure](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E)
- [Weight of Chains - The overthrow of Yugoslavia.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weight_of_Chains) - [Weight of Chains - The overthrow of Yugoslavia.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weight_of_Chains)
- [Coup 53](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_53)
## Podcasts ## Podcasts
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- [/r/socialistprogrammers](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialistprogrammers/) - [/r/socialistprogrammers](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialistprogrammers/)
- 101s - 101s
- [/r/GenZhou](https://www.reddit.com/r/genzhou/) - [/r/GenZhou](https://www.reddit.com/r/genzhou/)
- [/r/asktankies](https://www.reddit.com/r/asktankies/) - [/r/asktankies](https://www.reddit.com/r/asktankies/)
- [/r/communism101](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/) - [/r/communism101](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/)
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- [/r/FULLCOMMUNISM](https://www.reddit.com/r/FULLCOMMUNISM/) - [/r/FULLCOMMUNISM](https://www.reddit.com/r/FULLCOMMUNISM/)
- [/r/ShitLiberalsSay](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/) - [/r/ShitLiberalsSay](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/)
*Credit to [/u/gab91](https://www.reddit.com/u/gab91), [/r/socialism](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/), [/r/socialism_101](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/), [/r/communism101](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/)* _Credit to [/u/gab91](https://www.reddit.com/u/gab91), [/r/socialism](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/), [/r/socialism_101](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/), [/r/communism101](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/)_

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- (Optional) [Paul D’Amatto - the meaning of Marxism](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:24c9a942f97f99c1816a344292b7baff5f289986&dn=The+Meaning+of+Marxism+-+Paul+D%27Amato.epub). [Youtube audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX9h_ApIRc0&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoaJXdItsv-JPqE7gBW2M80o). A modern introduction to Marxism, only read if you have been having trouble understanding concepts. - (Optional) [Paul D’Amatto - the meaning of Marxism](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:24c9a942f97f99c1816a344292b7baff5f289986&dn=The+Meaning+of+Marxism+-+Paul+D%27Amato.epub). [Youtube audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX9h_ApIRc0&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoaJXdItsv-JPqE7gBW2M80o). A modern introduction to Marxism, only read if you have been having trouble understanding concepts.
- (Optional) [Chris Harman - How Marxism Works](https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/1979/marxism/index.html). [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjob9lPqBGAyQAX6lhxm5fE_d) Another shorter modern introduction to Marxism: read this if you've been having any trouble. - (Optional) [Chris Harman - How Marxism Works](https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/1979/marxism/index.html). [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjob9lPqBGAyQAX6lhxm5fE_d) Another shorter modern introduction to Marxism: read this if you've been having any trouble.
- [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). The most important political work of the 20th century. Through a clarifying and critical analysis of Marx and Engels's thoughts on the state, Lenin explains the class nature of the state, and argues convincingly for the creation of proletarian states: the vehicle which can bring about socialism. This strategy and analysis would be adopted and sucessfully carried out in dozens of countries following this blueprint. Focuses on the most important question for all socialists: What is to be done? - [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). The most important political work of the 20th century. Through a clarifying and critical analysis of Marx and Engels's thoughts on the state, Lenin explains the class nature of the state, and argues convincingly for the creation of proletarian states: the vehicle which can bring about socialism. This strategy and analysis would be adopted and sucessfully carried out in dozens of countries following this blueprint. Focuses on the most important question for all socialists: What is to be done?
- Michael Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds. [Youtube audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoak57jcXDh1rY4n7Ic-EVsE). Brandolini's law: It takes 10x the amount of energy required to refute bullshit, than it does to produce it... IE, it's far easier to learn theory, than it is to undo a lifetime of anti-communist propaganda. This book explains *why* that cradle-to-grave anti-communist indoctrination process exists (from school to workplace to media), and why the mere existence of communist countries is so threatening to the wealthy. It gives an overview of the soviet experiment: what it achieved for humanity, the history of its anti-fascist struggle, and its struggle for human equality, and how its overthrow, and how the US entrenchment of neoliberal globalization and neo-colonialism has wrought destruction in the global south. - Michael Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds. [Youtube audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoak57jcXDh1rY4n7Ic-EVsE). Brandolini's law: It takes 10x the amount of energy required to refute bullshit, than it does to produce it... IE, it's far easier to learn theory, than it is to undo a lifetime of anti-communist propaganda. This book explains _why_ that cradle-to-grave anti-communist indoctrination process exists (from school to workplace to media), and why the mere existence of communist countries is so threatening to the wealthy. It gives an overview of the soviet experiment: what it achieved for humanity, the history of its anti-fascist struggle, and its struggle for human equality, and how its overthrow, and how the US entrenchment of neoliberal globalization and neo-colonialism has wrought destruction in the global south.
- [Stephen Gowans - 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) A great essay to accompany the previous book, about the tremendous success of the soviet planned economy, and the real reasons for the USSR's downfall. - [Stephen Gowans - 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) A great essay to accompany the previous book, about the tremendous success of the soviet planned economy, and the real reasons for the USSR's downfall.
- [Marx - Critique of the Gotha Programme](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Critque_of_the_Gotha_Programme.pdf) An invaluable essay from Marx dissecting a weak socialist party program, where Marx also outlines the transition from capitalism to communism, as well as a description of how a labor-time based economy can function. - [Marx - Critique of the Gotha Programme](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Critque_of_the_Gotha_Programme.pdf) An invaluable essay from Marx dissecting a weak socialist party program, where Marx also outlines the transition from capitalism to communism, as well as a description of how a labor-time based economy can function.
- [Rosa Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution](http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm) . [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhzmaUofLS8&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoYqO_Yec4sWzPeeFXMOkPWs). Why electoralism will not save us, and revolution is the only way forward. - [Rosa Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution](http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm) . [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhzmaUofLS8&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoYqO_Yec4sWzPeeFXMOkPWs). Why electoralism will not save us, and revolution is the only way forward.
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- [Kwame Nkrumah - The Mechanisms of Neo-colonialism.](https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/nkrumah/neo-colonialism/ch01.htm) Essay describing how neocolonialism and US "aid" impoverishes Africa. - [Kwame Nkrumah - The Mechanisms of Neo-colonialism.](https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/nkrumah/neo-colonialism/ch01.htm) Essay describing how neocolonialism and US "aid" impoverishes Africa.
- [Ward Wilson - The bomb didn't beat Japan, Stalin did.](http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/) [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoaLP3G2HGj-O5JTepm0Kjt-). Essay on the mythology around the US use of atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. - [Ward Wilson - The bomb didn't beat Japan, Stalin did.](http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/) [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoaLP3G2HGj-O5JTepm0Kjt-). Essay on the mythology around the US use of atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- (Optional) [Zinn - A people's history of the US.](https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0060838655) A good beginner US history book, looks at US history from the lens of its most oppressed populations. The chapters on the US constitution and civil wars are excellent. - (Optional) [Zinn - A people's history of the US.](https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0060838655) A good beginner US history book, looks at US history from the lens of its most oppressed populations. The chapters on the US constitution and civil wars are excellent.
- [Fidel Castro - My Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_(Fidel_Castro_autobiography)) (Audiobook on torrents). This book will get you into the mindset of what it means to be a socialist: to rebel, to teach, to be a good comrade, and to fight for the betterment of humanity. Castro was an active part of many of the most important events of the 20th century; but not only is his wisdom on these events invaluable, his life was truly extraordinary. You will learn hundreds of lessons from communist grandpa reading this book. - [Fidel Castro - My Life](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_(Fidel_Castro_autobiography)>) (Audiobook on torrents). This book will get you into the mindset of what it means to be a socialist: to rebel, to teach, to be a good comrade, and to fight for the betterment of humanity. Castro was an active part of many of the most important events of the 20th century; but not only is his wisdom on these events invaluable, his life was truly extraordinary. You will learn hundreds of lessons from communist grandpa reading this book.
- Michael Parenti - Inventing Reality. [Youtube audiobook](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjob0rkb9-tZlCvHAKse_HtF6). A great expose of US / western media, examining the tactics employed by a small number of capitalist media companies to indoctrinate the population, backed up by comprehensive historical examples. - Michael Parenti - Inventing Reality. [Youtube audiobook](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjob0rkb9-tZlCvHAKse_HtF6). A great expose of US / western media, examining the tactics employed by a small number of capitalist media companies to indoctrinate the population, backed up by comprehensive historical examples.
- [Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth](https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-wretched-of-the-earth/). A great look at the psychology of settler-colonialism, and the path to liberation. - [Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth](https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-wretched-of-the-earth/). A great look at the psychology of settler-colonialism, and the path to liberation.
- [J. Sakai - Settlers: the Mythology of the White Proletariat](http://readsettlers.org/text-index.html), [audiobook](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZEICtu8cocz_3oRFS6L7wN). The most important US history book. Analyzes the US's settler-colonialist foundations, its history of genocide, exploitation, social bribery, and the spoils that went to those who willingly absorbed into whiteness and the murican dream (even if they had to kill indians to get some cheap land to do so.) Excellent and unique analysis of FDR's new deal as the bribery and absorption of the labor movement into the murican dream. - [J. Sakai - Settlers: the Mythology of the White Proletariat](http://readsettlers.org/text-index.html), [audiobook](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZEICtu8cocz_3oRFS6L7wN). The most important US history book. Analyzes the US's settler-colonialist foundations, its history of genocide, exploitation, social bribery, and the spoils that went to those who willingly absorbed into whiteness and the murican dream (even if they had to kill indians to get some cheap land to do so.) Excellent and unique analysis of FDR's new deal as the bribery and absorption of the labor movement into the murican dream.
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- [Stalin - The foundations of Leninism.](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm) An invaluable text on what Marxism-Leninism adds to the Marxist tradition. - [Stalin - The foundations of Leninism.](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm) An invaluable text on what Marxism-Leninism adds to the Marxist tradition.
- [Zak Cope - Divided world divided class.](https://www.amazon.com/Divided-World-Class-Stratification-Capitalism-ebook/dp/B00SE3V9GY) A look at the imperialist division of the world, and modern class politics of the imperial-core labor aristocracy. - [Zak Cope - Divided world divided class.](https://www.amazon.com/Divided-World-Class-Stratification-Capitalism-ebook/dp/B00SE3V9GY) A look at the imperialist division of the world, and modern class politics of the imperial-core labor aristocracy.
- [Cockshott and Cottrell - Towards a New Socialism (pdf)](http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/%7Ecottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf) [epub](http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/TNS.epub) [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjHCPWs5sl4&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZNiItBbuVvKQBdE80tsyhx) Many books talk about what communists are against: this book is about what we're for: it outlines how we can use modern technology to go beyond money, and implement a planned economy based on human labor time. - [Cockshott and Cottrell - Towards a New Socialism (pdf)](http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/%7Ecottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf) [epub](http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/TNS.epub) [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjHCPWs5sl4&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZNiItBbuVvKQBdE80tsyhx) Many books talk about what communists are against: this book is about what we're for: it outlines how we can use modern technology to go beyond money, and implement a planned economy based on human labor time.
- [CLR James - The Black Jacobins](http://www.ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/CLR_James_The_Black_Jacobins.pdf) A story of the only successful slave revolt in world history, that occurred in Haiti in the late 1700s. - [CLR James - The Black Jacobins](http://www.ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/CLR_James_The_Black_Jacobins.pdf) [Audiobook](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d205972f1200de9670514679710cd3da3a3c2774&dn=The%20Black%20Jacobins%20Toussaint%20L%27Ouverture%20and%20the%20San%20Domingo%20Revolution%20-%20C.L.R.%20James). A story of the only successful slave revolt in world history, that occurred in Haiti in the late 1700s.
- [John Smith - Imperialism in the 21st century.](https://www.amazon.com/Imperialism-Twenty-First-Century-Globalization-Super-Exploitation/dp/1583675779) An update to Lenin's imperialism, this is an advanced level book that shows how imperialism functions in the era of neoliberal globalization and transnational corporations. - [John Smith - Imperialism in the 21st century.](https://www.amazon.com/Imperialism-Twenty-First-Century-Globalization-Super-Exploitation/dp/1583675779) An update to Lenin's imperialism, this is an advanced level book that shows how imperialism functions in the era of neoliberal globalization and transnational corporations.
- [The quotations of Chairman Mao Zedong "the little red book"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_Tse-tung). A greatest hits of Mao's wisdom on many subjects. - [The quotations of Chairman Mao Zedong "the little red book"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_Tse-tung). A greatest hits of Mao's wisdom on many subjects.
- [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) A history of imperialist exploitation of latin America by Europe. - [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) A history of imperialist exploitation of latin America by Europe.

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# Mandarin Study Plan # Mandarin Study Plan
- [Refold Mandarin Guide](https://refold.la/quickstart)
## Daily study
| Type | Time (minutes) |
| --------- | -------------- |
| Vocab | 15 |
| Grammar | 15 |
| Immersion | 30 |
## To Watch
- https://youtu.be/dpQ3IMd4AMg?list=PLwFUKjRMEUxw2IRsDA8GZGW1AZdgCoiAA
- https://youtu.be/q2hrlAGewvY
- https://youtu.be/Ng3UC894haQ
- https://youtu.be/qrXIeWGvHDg?list=PLrYgra2FrMh-fQrd59Gdqn9Jq9ZLTqfJc
- https://youtu.be/mfBwNIjMbss?list=PL7VdqFXO0Lzdu2U1q-_vZxcuWyqJEitZV
## Immersion resources
- [Refold mandarin main guide](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS5Hri7NoO6bhY4rFpCGpkPCB46OS2ZCX7bpDiRU2dNA0CJnHwWKG885NdAbREzXVRkSnbVO8ODaVwv/pub)
- [Refold Mandarin resources](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1mq3sfslUsC9WlPM7pJN5A7hOFdVqpEFBbiU8-fgmRUw/htmlview#gid=0)
- [Heavenly path resources](https://heavenlypath.notion.site/heavenlypath/Heavenly-Path-d9be1806465b4525afeb132d1079194c)
- Chinese marxism lectures youtube?
## Apps ## Apps
- [HelloChinese](http://hellochinese.cc/) - [HelloChinese](http://hellochinese.cc/)
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### Anki decks ### Anki decks
- [HSK](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1907668496)
- [Zhongwen red green blue](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3169370251)
- [Domino Chinese](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/722819818) - [Domino Chinese](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/722819818)
- [Spoonfed Chinese](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/53920083) - [Spoonfed Chinese](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/53920083)

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# French press
- 30g medium coarse grounded Coffee + 500 ml water
- leave it 4 minutes
- mix a bit at top, remove foam and fines with spoon
- let it rest 5 or + minutes
- After that, press the filter just until the surface and pour the coffee through it (without pressing the plunge all the way).
# Hot coffee v60
- Grind 30 g of coffee
- Rinse paper filter with water just off the boil
- Add coffee grounds to V60
- Create well in the middle of the grounds
- Start timer
- t = 0:00
- Add 2x coffee weight = 60 g of bloom water
- Swirl the coffee slurry until evenly mixed
- Bloom for up to 45 s
- t = 0:45
- Add water aiming for 60% of total brew weight = 300 g in the next 30 s
- Since you already added 60 g bloom water, add 240 g in 30 s (flow rate = 8 g/s)
- t = 1:15
- Add water aiming for 100% of the total brew weight = 500 g in the next 30 s
- Since you already added 300 g water, add 200 g in 30 s (flow rate = 6.66 g/s)
Poor a little slower than in the first phase, not too aggressively
- t = 1:45
- Stir 1x clockwise and 1x anticlockwise with spoon. This knocks off grounds from side wall
- Allow V60 to drain a little
- Give V60 a gentle swirl
- Let brew drawdown. Aim to finish drawdawn by t = 3:30
- Enjoy!
# Iced filtered coffee # Iced filtered coffee
- 32.5g coffee/500ml ## Ingredients
- 20g Coffee ( medium coarse, not too fine or else it will be bitter)
- 150g Ice
- 150ml hot water (205°F)
## Brew
- Put ice into the decanter.
- Wet filter with hot water.
- Put coffee in filter. Make a divot in the middle.
- Bloom the coffee with 50g of hot water.
- Swirl
- Add 100g of water to reach 150g total.
- Swirl to get extra bits.
- Should take ˜2-3 minutes total
- Serve over ice cubes
---
- 30g coffee/500ml
- 200g ice - 200g ice
- 300g hot water - 300g hot water
1. 97g bloom (45sec) stir bloom 1. 60g bloom (45sec) stir bloom
2. pour remain water in 2:30 to 3 minutes 2. pour remain water in 2:30 to 3 minutes
3. stir once circular motion once in opposite motion 3. stir once circular motion once in opposite motion
4. after drawdown, swirl canister to melt ice 4. after drawdown, swirl canister to melt ice

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- [Socialism FAQ](#socialism-faq) - [Socialism FAQ](#socialism-faq)
* [Didn't communism fail? It works in theory but not in practice.](#didnt-communism-fail-it-works-in-theory-but-not-in-practice) - [Didn't communism fail? It works in theory but not in practice.](#didnt-communism-fail-it-works-in-theory-but-not-in-practice)
* [What about human nature?](#what-about-human-nature) - [What about human nature?](#what-about-human-nature)
* [Schools of thought](#schools-of-thought) - [Schools of thought](#schools-of-thought)
* [On Ultra-leftism / Left-Communism](#on-ultra-leftism--left-communism) - [On Ultra-leftism / Left-Communism](#on-ultra-leftism--left-communism)
* [Did economic planning work?](#did-economic-planning-work) - [Did economic planning work?](#did-economic-planning-work)
* [Who would sweep the floors under communism?](#who-would-sweep-the-floors-under-communism) - [Who would sweep the floors under communism?](#who-would-sweep-the-floors-under-communism)
* [What about cooperatives?](#what-about-cooperatives) - [What about cooperatives?](#what-about-cooperatives)
* [What about democracy? Can't voting fix our problems?](#what-about-democracy-cant-voting-fix-our-problems) - [What about democracy? Can't voting fix our problems?](#what-about-democracy-cant-voting-fix-our-problems)
* [Pacifism and Violence](#pacifism-and-violence) - [Pacifism and Violence](#pacifism-and-violence)
* [What would X be like under communism?](#what-would-x-be-like-under-communism) - [What would X be like under communism?](#what-would-x-be-like-under-communism)
* [On Economics and Sociology](#on-economics-and-sociology) - [On Economics and Sociology](#on-economics-and-sociology)
* [On Nationalism and Internationalism](#on-nationalism-and-internationalism) - [On Nationalism and Internationalism](#on-nationalism-and-internationalism)
* [On Women's Liberation](#on-womens-liberation) - [On Women's Liberation](#on-womens-liberation)
* [On Race and Class](#on-race-and-class) - [On Race and Class](#on-race-and-class)
* [On Decolonization](#on-decolonization) - [On Decolonization](#on-decolonization)
* [On Guns / Firearms / Violence](#on-guns--firearms--violence) - [On Guns / Firearms / Violence](#on-guns--firearms--violence)
* [On Capitalism](#on-capitalism) - [On Capitalism](#on-capitalism)
* [On Liberalism](#on-liberalism) - [On Liberalism](#on-liberalism)
* [On Leninism](#on-leninism) - [On Leninism](#on-leninism)
+ [Further reading](#further-reading) - [Further reading](#further-reading)
* [On Trotskyism](#on-trotskyism) - [On Trotskyism](#on-trotskyism)
* [On India](#on-india) - [On India](#on-india)
* [On the USSR](#on-the-ussr) - [On the USSR](#on-the-ussr)
+ [Did the Soviet Union repress and kill millions of people?](#did-the-soviet-union-repress-and-kill-millions-of-people) - [Did the Soviet Union repress and kill millions of people?](#did-the-soviet-union-repress-and-kill-millions-of-people)
+ [Did the Soviet Union and the Warsaw pact nations have functioning democracies?](#did-the-soviet-union-and-the-warsaw-pact-nations-have-functioning-democracies) - [Did the Soviet Union and the Warsaw pact nations have functioning democracies?](#did-the-soviet-union-and-the-warsaw-pact-nations-have-functioning-democracies)
+ [Was Soviet Socialism an economic failure?](#was-soviet-socialism-an-economic-failure) - [Was Soviet Socialism an economic failure?](#was-soviet-socialism-an-economic-failure)
+ [Did the citizens of the Soviet Union dislike their government?](#did-the-citizens-of-the-soviet-union-dislike-their-government) - [Did the citizens of the Soviet Union dislike their government?](#did-the-citizens-of-the-soviet-union-dislike-their-government)
+ [Further reading](#further-reading-1) - [Further reading](#further-reading-1)
* [On Mao, Maoism, and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and the PRC](#on-mao-maoism-and-marxism-leninism-maoism-and-the-prc) - [On Mao, Maoism, and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and the PRC](#on-mao-maoism-and-marxism-leninism-maoism-and-the-prc)
+ [Is China State Capitalist?](#is-china-state-capitalist) - [Is China State Capitalist?](#is-china-state-capitalist)
+ [Is China a Democracy?](#is-china-a-democracy) - [Is China a Democracy?](#is-china-a-democracy)
+ [Workers rights](#workers-rights) - [Workers rights](#workers-rights)
+ [Is China destroying the environment?](#is-china-destroying-the-environment) - [Is China destroying the environment?](#is-china-destroying-the-environment)
+ [Is China Imperialist?](#is-china-imperialist) - [Is China Imperialist?](#is-china-imperialist)
+ [Is China anti-LGBT / Homophobic ?](#is-china-anti-lgbt--homophobic-) - [Is China anti-LGBT / Homophobic ?](#is-china-anti-lgbt--homophobic-)
+ [What about the Hong Kong protests?](#what-about-the-hong-kong-protests) - [What about the Hong Kong protests?](#what-about-the-hong-kong-protests)
+ [What about China spying on its own people?](#what-about-china-spying-on-its-own-people) - [What about China spying on its own people?](#what-about-china-spying-on-its-own-people)
+ [What's going on with the Uyghurs?](#whats-going-on-with-the-uyghurs) - [What's going on with the Uyghurs?](#whats-going-on-with-the-uyghurs)
+ [What about the Falun Gong?](#what-about-the-falun-gong) - [What about the Falun Gong?](#what-about-the-falun-gong)
+ [What about the Tiananmen square massacre?](#what-about-the-tiananmen-square-massacre) - [What about the Tiananmen square massacre?](#what-about-the-tiananmen-square-massacre)
+ [What is Radio Free Asia?](#what-is-radio-free-asia) - [What is Radio Free Asia?](#what-is-radio-free-asia)
+ [Did Mao kill millions of people?](#did-mao-kill-millions-of-people) - [Did Mao kill millions of people?](#did-mao-kill-millions-of-people)
+ [Was the PRC a totalitarian dictatorship?](#was-the-prc-a-totalitarian-dictatorship) - [Was the PRC a totalitarian dictatorship?](#was-the-prc-a-totalitarian-dictatorship)
* [On the German Democratic Republic (GDR)](#on-the-german-democratic-republic-gdr) - [On the German Democratic Republic (GDR)](#on-the-german-democratic-republic-gdr)
* [On Cuba](#on-cuba) - [On Cuba](#on-cuba)
+ [Was Che a murderer and/or a racist?](#was-che-a-murderer-andor-a-racist) - [Was Che a murderer and/or a racist?](#was-che-a-murderer-andor-a-racist)
+ [Is Cuba a functioning democracy or a terrible place to live?](#is-cuba-a-functioning-democracy-or-a-terrible-place-to-live) - [Is Cuba a functioning democracy or a terrible place to live?](#is-cuba-a-functioning-democracy-or-a-terrible-place-to-live)
* [On North Korea](#on-north-korea) - [On North Korea](#on-north-korea)
+ [Do North Koreans believe in unicorns and think Kim Jong-Un is immortal?](#do-north-koreans-believe-in-unicorns-and-think-kim-jong-un-is-immortal) - [Do North Koreans believe in unicorns and think Kim Jong-Un is immortal?](#do-north-koreans-believe-in-unicorns-and-think-kim-jong-un-is-immortal)
+ [Is the DPRK a Fascist Monarchy?](#is-the-dprk-a-fascist-monarchy) - [Is the DPRK a Fascist Monarchy?](#is-the-dprk-a-fascist-monarchy)
+ [Further reading](#further-reading-2) - [Further reading](#further-reading-2)
* [On Venezuela](#on-venezuela) - [On Venezuela](#on-venezuela)
* [People](#people) - [People](#people)
+ [Whats so bad about Elon Musk?](#whats-so-bad-about-elon-musk) - [Whats so bad about Elon Musk?](#whats-so-bad-about-elon-musk)
+ [Whats so bad about Bill Gates?](#whats-so-bad-about-bill-gates) - [Whats so bad about Bill Gates?](#whats-so-bad-about-bill-gates)
+ [What's so bad about George Orwell?](#whats-so-bad-about-george-orwell) - [What's so bad about George Orwell?](#whats-so-bad-about-george-orwell)
+ [John McCain](#john-mccain) - [John McCain](#john-mccain)
+ [What about the new atheists? (Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens)](#what-about-the-new-atheists-sam-harris-richard-dawkins-christopher-hitchens) - [What about the new atheists? (Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens)](#what-about-the-new-atheists-sam-harris-richard-dawkins-christopher-hitchens)
+ [Gandhi](#gandhi) - [Gandhi](#gandhi)
+ [Noam Chomsky](#noam-chomsky) - [Noam Chomsky](#noam-chomsky)
+ [What's wrong with Bernie Sanders?](#whats-wrong-with-bernie-sanders) - [What's wrong with Bernie Sanders?](#whats-wrong-with-bernie-sanders)
+ [What's wrong with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?](#whats-wrong-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez) - [What's wrong with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?](#whats-wrong-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez)
- [Imperialism](#imperialism) - [Imperialism](#imperialism)
- [Domestic issues](#domestic-issues) - [Domestic issues](#domestic-issues)
- [She's a democrat, not a socialist.](#shes-a-democrat-not-a-socialist) - [She's a democrat, not a socialist.](#shes-a-democrat-not-a-socialist)
+ [What's wrong with Elizabeth Warren?](#whats-wrong-with-elizabeth-warren) - [What's wrong with Elizabeth Warren?](#whats-wrong-with-elizabeth-warren)
+ [Kamala Harris](#kamala-harris) - [Kamala Harris](#kamala-harris)
+ [Pete Buttigieg](#pete-buttigieg) - [Pete Buttigieg](#pete-buttigieg)
+ [Joe Biden](#joe-biden) - [Joe Biden](#joe-biden)
+ [Greta Thunberg](#greta-thunberg) - [Greta Thunberg](#greta-thunberg)
+ [Slavoj Zizek](#slavoj-zizek) - [Slavoj Zizek](#slavoj-zizek)
+ [What's wrong with Barack Obama?](#whats-wrong-with-barack-obama) - [What's wrong with Barack Obama?](#whats-wrong-with-barack-obama)
- [Imperialism](#imperialism-1) - [Imperialism](#imperialism-1)
- [Empowering Finance Capital](#empowering-finance-capital) - [Empowering Finance Capital](#empowering-finance-capital)
- [Mass Imprisonment](#mass-imprisonment) - [Mass Imprisonment](#mass-imprisonment)
- [Mass surveillance](#mass-surveillance) - [Mass surveillance](#mass-surveillance)
- [More](#more) - [More](#more)
+ [Ruth Bader Ginsburg](#ruth-bader-ginsburg) - [Ruth Bader Ginsburg](#ruth-bader-ginsburg)
- [Native peoples, immigrants, and treatment of minorities.](#native-peoples-immigrants-and-treatment-of-minorities) - [Native peoples, immigrants, and treatment of minorities.](#native-peoples-immigrants-and-treatment-of-minorities)
- [Law and Order](#law-and-order) - [Law and Order](#law-and-order)
- [Others](#others) - [Others](#others)
+ [Others](#others-1) - [Others](#others-1)
* [Other Topics](#other-topics) - [Other Topics](#other-topics)
+ [Why are socialists against bitcoin mining?](#why-are-socialists-against-bitcoin-mining) - [Why are socialists against bitcoin mining?](#why-are-socialists-against-bitcoin-mining)
+ [Did atom bombs really end WW2?](#did-atom-bombs-really-end-ww2) - [Did atom bombs really end WW2?](#did-atom-bombs-really-end-ww2)
+ [What about overpopulation / unsustainability?](#what-about-overpopulation--unsustainability) - [What about overpopulation / unsustainability?](#what-about-overpopulation--unsustainability)
+ [Why don't socialists support a UBI / Universal Basic income?](#why-dont-socialists-support-a-ubi--universal-basic-income) - [Why don't socialists support a UBI / Universal Basic income?](#why-dont-socialists-support-a-ubi--universal-basic-income)
+ [DSA / Jacobin](#dsa--jacobin) - [DSA / Jacobin](#dsa--jacobin)
+ [VaushV](#vaushv) - [VaushV](#vaushv)
+ [Buddhism](#buddhism) - [Buddhism](#buddhism)
+ [/r/MoreTankieChapo](#rmoretankiechapo) - [/r/MoreTankieChapo](#rmoretankiechapo)
+ [Amnesty International](#amnesty-international) - [Amnesty International](#amnesty-international)
+ [Others](#others-2) - [Others](#others-2)
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## Schools of thought ## Schools of thought
* [Glossary of Socialism Terms.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/glossary_of_socialist_terms.md) - [Glossary of Socialism Terms.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/glossary_of_socialist_terms.md)
* [What are the different forms of Marxism and what are their differences?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/206xtz/what_are_the_different_forms_of_marxism_and_what/) - [What are the different forms of Marxism and what are their differences?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/206xtz/what_are_the_different_forms_of_marxism_and_what/)
* [Can someone give us a quick like-we're-five rundown of the distinctions between Trotskyism, Maoism, orthodox Marxism, and so on?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/132d5s/can_someone_give_us_a_quick_likewerefive_rundown/) - [Can someone give us a quick like-we're-five rundown of the distinctions between Trotskyism, Maoism, orthodox Marxism, and so on?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/132d5s/can_someone_give_us_a_quick_likewerefive_rundown/)
* [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 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/) - [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). - [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/) - [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) - [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) - [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) - [Huey P. Newton on the faults of western anarchism.](https://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/bpp/bpp161168.htm)
* [What is the communist response to a lot of Anarchist criticisms? A Megathread.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cewriu/masterpost_for_defending_socialism_against/) - [What is the communist response to a lot of Anarchist criticisms? A Megathread.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cewriu/masterpost_for_defending_socialism_against/)
* [The tyranny of structurelessness - The failure of anarchist-style organizing in the womens movement.](https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm) - [The tyranny of structurelessness - The failure of anarchist-style organizing in the womens movement.](https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm)
* [What is Stalinism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/15g4xo/what_is_stalinism/) - [What is Stalinism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/15g4xo/what_is_stalinism/)
* [Looking for reference to types of communism.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1fcc6o/looking_for_reference_to_types_of_communism/) - [Looking for reference to types of communism.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1fcc6o/looking_for_reference_to_types_of_communism/)
* [What was Engels Contribution to Marxism?](https://necessityandfreedom.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/without-engels-there-would-be-no-marxism/) - [What was Engels Contribution to Marxism?](https://necessityandfreedom.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/without-engels-there-would-be-no-marxism/)
* [Was Marx anti-semitic? ( On the Jewish Question )](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/exfvbe/for_anyone_who_are_confused_by_marx_is/) - [Was Marx anti-semitic? ( On the Jewish Question )](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/exfvbe/for_anyone_who_are_confused_by_marx_is/)
* [Were the nazis socialist? What about national socialism, the national socialist movement (NSM), and the national front?](https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/79kvin/what_is_the_difference_between_socialists_here/), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/cblf1y/to_commit_a_hate_crime/ethf3t8/), [4](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/wiki/index#wiki_the_nazis_were_socialists.2C_communists_or_leftists) - [Were the nazis socialist? What about national socialism, the national socialist movement (NSM), and the national front?](https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/79kvin/what_is_the_difference_between_socialists_here/), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/cblf1y/to_commit_a_hate_crime/ethf3t8/), [4](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/wiki/index#wiki_the_nazis_were_socialists.2C_communists_or_leftists)
* [What is Fascism?](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/) - [What is Fascism?](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/)
* [Is the US a fascist state?](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/qxguko/do_you_consider_the_us_to_be_a_fascist_state/hl9q3mr/) - [Is the US a fascist state?](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/qxguko/do_you_consider_the_us_to_be_a_fascist_state/hl9q3mr/)
* [Did Karl Marx use "socialism" and "communism" interchangeably?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2msa39/did_karl_marx_use_socialism_and_communism/) - [Did Karl Marx use "socialism" and "communism" interchangeably?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2msa39/did_karl_marx_use_socialism_and_communism/)
* [What is Luxemburgism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/bzl9iu/luxemburgism/eqtbcxe/) - [What is Luxemburgism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/bzl9iu/luxemburgism/eqtbcxe/)
* [Is the revolutionary DotP a separate material stage apart from lower phased communism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2mrkkj/is_the_revolutionary_dotp_a_separate_material/) - [Is the revolutionary DotP a separate material stage apart from lower phased communism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2mrkkj/is_the_revolutionary_dotp_a_separate_material/)
* [Is socialism the lowest stage of communism or is it the transition to communism, in between capitalism and communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2rijno/is_socialism_the_lowest_stage_of_communism_or_is/) - [Is socialism the lowest stage of communism or is it the transition to communism, in between capitalism and communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2rijno/is_socialism_the_lowest_stage_of_communism_or_is/)
* [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 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/) - [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) - [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/) - [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 the origins of the creator of the term totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt](https://twitter.com/aiukliAfrika/status/1063203765082304512) - [On the origins of the creator of the term totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt](https://twitter.com/aiukliAfrika/status/1063203765082304512)
## On Ultra-leftism / Left-Communism ## On Ultra-leftism / Left-Communism
* What about the USSR, wasn't it authoritarian? 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) - What about the USSR, wasn't it authoritarian? 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)
* [Why do most Marxists dislike ultra-lefts / left-communists (the "not real socialism" crowd) ?](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/left-communists-and-ultra-leftists-are-reactionaries-2d2fca4c991a) - [Why do most Marxists dislike ultra-lefts / left-communists (the "not real socialism" crowd) ?](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/left-communists-and-ultra-leftists-are-reactionaries-2d2fca4c991a)
* [Hakim - Why the USSR was socialist - A critique of left-communism.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKggZ22izDs) - [Hakim - Why the USSR was socialist - A critique of left-communism.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKggZ22izDs)
* [Cockshott - In what sense was the USSR socialist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu85byBBddY) - [Cockshott - In what sense was the USSR socialist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu85byBBddY)
* [Cockshott - Socialism and surplus - Why the USSR was socialist.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-T-Fr6DvFw) - [Cockshott - Socialism and surplus - Why the USSR was socialist.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-T-Fr6DvFw)
* [Where are communists on the political compass?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/f4a9w9/where_do_communists_fall_on_the_political_spectrum/fhozyg4/) - [Where are communists on the political compass?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/f4a9w9/where_do_communists_fall_on_the_political_spectrum/fhozyg4/)
* [Lenin - "Left-Wing" Communism: An infantile disorder.](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/) [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjob1T8DTNDG7EQaN18eSJ97m) - [Lenin - "Left-Wing" Communism: An infantile disorder.](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/) [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjob1T8DTNDG7EQaN18eSJ97m)
* [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) - [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/) * [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/)
- [Norton - How the FBI used Anarchism to attack the left.](https://benjaminnorton.substack.com/p/in-cointelpro-fbi-used-anarchism) * [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? ## Did economic planning work?
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## Who would sweep the floors under communism? ## Who would sweep the floors under communism?
* [How can people be expected to work hard if they don't get payed more FOR working harder? (I know nothing about communism)](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/21u7jo/how_can_people_be_expected_to_work_hard_if_they/) - [How can people be expected to work hard if they don't get payed more FOR working harder? (I know nothing about communism)](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/21u7jo/how_can_people_be_expected_to_work_hard_if_they/)
* [What prevents cultural, technological or scientific stagnation in a communist society? Also what motivation do people have to work at their Jobs?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/27ia0t/what_prevents_cultural_technological_or/) - [What prevents cultural, technological or scientific stagnation in a communist society? Also what motivation do people have to work at their Jobs?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/27ia0t/what_prevents_cultural_technological_or/)
* [What about automation / robotics? Why do some communists say innovation has stopped?](https://youtu.be/QGBQwZsp3T0) - [What about automation / robotics? Why do some communists say innovation has stopped?](https://youtu.be/QGBQwZsp3T0)
* [Would people innovate under Communism? Doesn't capitalism create innovation?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9c9qj6/in_a_communist_society_what_are_people_motivated/) - [Would people innovate under Communism? Doesn't capitalism create innovation?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9c9qj6/in_a_communist_society_what_are_people_motivated/)
* [How does communism deal with lazy people?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/25r9hh/how_does_communism_deal_with_lazy_people/) - [How does communism deal with lazy people?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/25r9hh/how_does_communism_deal_with_lazy_people/)
* [How does communism/socialism deal with human laziness?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1g235j/how_does_communismsocialism_deal_with_human/) - [How does communism/socialism deal with human laziness?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1g235j/how_does_communismsocialism_deal_with_human/)
* [What about people who refuse to work?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/cgo2ux/people_who_refuse_to_work/) - [What about people who refuse to work?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/cgo2ux/people_who_refuse_to_work/)
## What about cooperatives? ## What about cooperatives?
* [Can cooperatives bring about socialism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/336mz4/can_cooperatives_bring_about_socialism/) - [Can cooperatives bring about socialism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/336mz4/can_cooperatives_bring_about_socialism/)
* [Couldn't small anarchist / anarcho-communist communes replace Capitalism?](https://old.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9ak0wo/whats_the_difference_between_communism_and/e4w0v9n/) - [Couldn't small anarchist / anarcho-communist communes replace Capitalism?](https://old.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9ak0wo/whats_the_difference_between_communism_and/e4w0v9n/)
## What about democracy? Can't voting fix our problems? ## What about democracy? Can't voting fix our problems?
- [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) - [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)
- [Halim Alrah - Why liberal democracies are a sham. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYodY6o172A) - [Halim Alrah - Why liberal democracies are a sham. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYodY6o172A)
- [What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn't Sweden socialist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd03a8Pm1hs ) - [What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn't Sweden socialist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd03a8Pm1hs)
- [On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pmtapr/does_anyone_have_works_on_the_erosion_of_the/hcmyub4/) - [On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pmtapr/does_anyone_have_works_on_the_erosion_of_the/hcmyub4/)
- [Rainer shea - How social democrats help usher in fascism in Germany, and in the US today. ](https://rainershea612.medium.com/social-democrats-helped-usher-in-fascism-in-germany-theyre-doing-it-again-in-america-f84f71846e91) - [Rainer shea - How social democrats help usher in fascism in Germany, and in the US today. ](https://rainershea612.medium.com/social-democrats-helped-usher-in-fascism-in-germany-theyre-doing-it-again-in-america-f84f71846e91)
- [Scandinavia's covert role in western imperialism](https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/Scandinavias-Covert-Role-in-Western-Imperialism-20170320-0022.html) - [Scandinavia's covert role in western imperialism](https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/Scandinavias-Covert-Role-in-Western-Imperialism-20170320-0022.html)
@ -223,7 +224,7 @@
- [How the capitalist democratic party sabotaged the Sanders campaign.](https://medium.com/@rainershea612/the-democratic-party-is-fully-prepared-to-steal-the-primary-from-sanders-again-51b7b1130a8d) - [How the capitalist democratic party sabotaged the Sanders campaign.](https://medium.com/@rainershea612/the-democratic-party-is-fully-prepared-to-steal-the-primary-from-sanders-again-51b7b1130a8d)
- [Why Sanders is not a socialist - Anticonquista ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbcrJT485r8) - [Why Sanders is not a socialist - Anticonquista ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbcrJT485r8)
- [Paying one half of the poor to kill the other half: Why Marxists should not support Sanders.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/f7g3dj/paying_one_half_of_the_poor_to_kill_the_other/) - [Paying one half of the poor to kill the other half: Why Marxists should not support Sanders.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/f7g3dj/paying_one_half_of_the_poor_to_kill_the_other/)
- [The propaganda multiplier: How the wests propaganda machine functions.](https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/) - [The propaganda multiplier: A study on media / news concentration, and how the wests propaganda machine functions.](https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/)
- [On "brainwashing"](https://redsails.org/brainwashing/) - [On "brainwashing"](https://redsails.org/brainwashing/)
- [Lenin on media and democracy.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pcv7e6/capitalism_and_free_speech/hamedc0/) - [Lenin on media and democracy.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pcv7e6/capitalism_and_free_speech/hamedc0/)
- Michael Parenti - Inventing Reality. [Youtube audiobook](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjob0rkb9-tZlCvHAKse_HtF6) - Michael Parenti - Inventing Reality. [Youtube audiobook](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjob0rkb9-tZlCvHAKse_HtF6)
@ -248,24 +249,25 @@
## What would X be like under communism? ## What would X be like under communism?
* [What does housing look like in Communist countries?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/chpwq7/could_you_guys_help_us_figure_out_what_housing/euwffax/) - [What does housing look like in Communist countries?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/chpwq7/could_you_guys_help_us_figure_out_what_housing/euwffax/)
* [How would a record company/label work in a communist society?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1a0htc/how_would_a_record_companylabel_work_in_a/) - [How would a record company/label work in a communist society?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1a0htc/how_would_a_record_companylabel_work_in_a/)
* [Music tours and traveling in a socialist state?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2bs0yb/music_tours_and_traveling_in_a_socialist_state/) - [Music tours and traveling in a socialist state?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2bs0yb/music_tours_and_traveling_in_a_socialist_state/)
* [How would airlines work for the workers and the customers in a communist world?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1exz0n/how_would_airlines_work_for_the_workers_and_the/) - [How would airlines work for the workers and the customers in a communist world?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1exz0n/how_would_airlines_work_for_the_workers_and_the/)
* [How would a society without the family work?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/14mh40/how_would_a_society_without_the_family_work/) - [How would a society without the family work?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/14mh40/how_would_a_society_without_the_family_work/)
* [Record Collecting](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/25t8ps/record_collecting/) - [Record Collecting](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/25t8ps/record_collecting/)
* [How would everyday life be different in a Marxist society?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2awusu/how_would_everyday_life_be_different_in_a_marxist/) - [How would everyday life be different in a Marxist society?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2awusu/how_would_everyday_life_be_different_in_a_marxist/)
* [How would non-essential products their production be promoted in a traditional Marxist economy?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/22bjbf/how_would_nonessential_products_their_production/) - [How would non-essential products their production be promoted in a traditional Marxist economy?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/22bjbf/how_would_nonessential_products_their_production/)
* [How would media be handled in a Communist state?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1kr25m/how_would_media_be_handled_in_a_communist_state/) - [How would media be handled in a Communist state?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1kr25m/how_would_media_be_handled_in_a_communist_state/)
* [What is going to happen after the revolution?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/27l9cc/what_is_going_to_happen_after_the_revolution/) - [What is going to happen after the revolution?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/27l9cc/what_is_going_to_happen_after_the_revolution/)
* [How would a communist economy really function in practice?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1g279l/how_would_a_communist_economy_really_function_in/) - [How would a communist economy really function in practice?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1g279l/how_would_a_communist_economy_really_function_in/)
* [How does communism deal with niches?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/27o04e/how_does_communism_deal_with_niches/) - [How does communism deal with niches?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/27o04e/how_does_communism_deal_with_niches/)
* [How would residentials be fairly distributed under full communism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2hnmxx/how_would_residentials_be_fairly_distributed/) - [How would residentials be fairly distributed under full communism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2hnmxx/how_would_residentials_be_fairly_distributed/)
* [How do police / cops differ in socialism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9hsoll/suppose_police_all_go_away_tomorrow_and_are/e6eguff/) - [How do police / cops differ in socialism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9hsoll/suppose_police_all_go_away_tomorrow_and_are/e6eguff/)
* [An interview with some traffic cops in China.](https://youtu.be/QFJSepGLFTw?t=1450) - [An interview with some traffic cops in China.](https://youtu.be/QFJSepGLFTw?t=1450)
* [What if some people don't wanna be communist?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9mtnyt/what_if_some_people_dont_wanna_be_communist/e7hc63u/) - [What if some people don't wanna be communist?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9mtnyt/what_if_some_people_dont_wanna_be_communist/e7hc63u/)
* [What about drugs / drug use?](https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Critique:On_drug_use) - [What about drugs / drug use?](https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Critique:On_drug_use)
- [Where do communists stand on vaccine mandates?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/sgaoip/how_many_leftists_support_vaccine_mandates/), [2](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/119625/comment/107935)
* [Where do communists stand on vaccine mandates?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/sgaoip/how_many_leftists_support_vaccine_mandates/), [2](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/119625/comment/107935)
## On Economics and Sociology ## On Economics and Sociology
@ -389,9 +391,9 @@
### Further reading ### Further reading
- [*The Leninist Theory of Organisation*](http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/196x/leninism/index.htm) by Ernest Mandel - [_The Leninist Theory of Organisation_](http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/196x/leninism/index.htm) by Ernest Mandel
- [*Lenin: A Study on the Unity of his Thought*](http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1924/lenin/) by Georg Lukacs - [_Lenin: A Study on the Unity of his Thought_](http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1924/lenin/) by Georg Lukacs
- [*Socialism: Utopian and Scientific*](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/) by Friedrich Engels [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjobt3oC7Mhq9kHWVbBKRtyg8) - [_Socialism: Utopian and Scientific_](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/) by Friedrich Engels [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjobt3oC7Mhq9kHWVbBKRtyg8)
## On Trotskyism ## On Trotskyism
@ -408,87 +410,87 @@
## On the USSR ## On the USSR
* [Did socialism achieve anything in the USSR?](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/86tqdd/but_socialism_doesnt_work_s/dw7qco0/) - [Did socialism achieve anything in the USSR?](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/86tqdd/but_socialism_doesnt_work_s/dw7qco0/)
* [What are some of the USSR's accomplishments?](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8636) - [What are some of the USSR's accomplishments?](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8636)
* [Why do the majority of Russians regret the collapse of the USSR?](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2017/12/25/majority-of-russians-regret-soviet-collapse-poll-says-a60039) - [Why do the majority of Russians regret the collapse of the USSR?](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2017/12/25/majority-of-russians-regret-soviet-collapse-poll-says-a60039)
* [What is Stalinism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/15g4xo/what_is_stalinism/) - [What is Stalinism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/15g4xo/what_is_stalinism/)
* [What about Stalin? Didn't he kill millions? (Revleft podcast on Stalin)](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joseph-mother-fucking-stain) - [What about Stalin? Didn't he kill millions? (Revleft podcast on Stalin)](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joseph-mother-fucking-stain)
* [Was Stalin's USSR State Capitalist?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/383c4i/was_stalins_ussr_state_capitalist/) - [Was Stalin's USSR State Capitalist?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/383c4i/was_stalins_ussr_state_capitalist/)
* [Lenin on State Capitalism (The Tax in Kind)](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/apr/21.htm) - [Lenin on State Capitalism (The Tax in Kind)](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/apr/21.htm)
* [What about the term tankies / stalinists? What's the meaning of the term?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/dm2mbz/on_tankies/) [What about the 1956 Hungarian revolt?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/dh6nyi/why_was_the_hungarian_uprising_crushed_by_the_ussr/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/ht4z8a/hungarian_revolution_in_1956/), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/ol6h3b/im_simply_wondering_where_does_the_term_tankie/h5f3s6o/). [MI6 trained the hungarian opposition to fight soviets in the 1956 revolt.](http://archive.is/fMAzu) [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/PartyofCommunistsUSA/comments/9kqkt5/anticommunist_and_antijewish_pogroms_of_hungarys/) [4](http://www3.sympatico.ca/thidas/Hungarian-history/Exodus.html), [5](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/ol6h3b/im_simply_wondering_where_does_the_term_tankie/h5f3s6o/) - [What about the term tankies / stalinists? What's the meaning of the term?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/dm2mbz/on_tankies/) [What about the 1956 Hungarian revolt?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/dh6nyi/why_was_the_hungarian_uprising_crushed_by_the_ussr/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/ht4z8a/hungarian_revolution_in_1956/), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/ol6h3b/im_simply_wondering_where_does_the_term_tankie/h5f3s6o/). [MI6 trained the hungarian opposition to fight soviets in the 1956 revolt.](http://archive.is/fMAzu) [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/PartyofCommunistsUSA/comments/9kqkt5/anticommunist_and_antijewish_pogroms_of_hungarys/) [4](http://www3.sympatico.ca/thidas/Hungarian-history/Exodus.html), [5](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/ol6h3b/im_simply_wondering_where_does_the_term_tankie/h5f3s6o/)
* [RedSails - on "Tankies"](https://redsails.org/tankies/) - [RedSails - on "Tankies"](https://redsails.org/tankies/)
* [Hakim - Why the USSR was socialist - A critique of left-communism.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKggZ22izDs) - [Hakim - Why the USSR was socialist - A critique of left-communism.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKggZ22izDs)
* [Did Stalin really try to resign 4 times?](https://socialistmlmusings.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/stalins-four-attempts-at-resignation/) - [Did Stalin really try to resign 4 times?](https://socialistmlmusings.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/stalins-four-attempts-at-resignation/)
* [Why were there prison labor camps in the USSR and were they justified?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2hkn8r/why_were_there_prison_labor_camps_in_the_ussr_and/) - [Why were there prison labor camps in the USSR and were they justified?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2hkn8r/why_were_there_prison_labor_camps_in_the_ussr_and/)
* [Did the USSR really make an alliance with the nazis? (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/148o4x/1939_sovietnazi_partition_of_poland/c7azkz9/), [2](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3223834/Stalin-planned-to-send-a-million-troops-to-stop-Hitler-if-Britain-and-France-agreed-pact.html), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/8mg59o/why_did_the_ussr_aid_nazi_germany_in_invading/), [4](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/4t1p4j/why_did_the_soviet_union_sign_the/), [5](https://i.imgur.com/cAMvQ1O.jpg) - [Did the USSR really make an alliance with the nazis? (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/148o4x/1939_sovietnazi_partition_of_poland/c7azkz9/), [2](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3223834/Stalin-planned-to-send-a-million-troops-to-stop-Hitler-if-Britain-and-France-agreed-pact.html), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/8mg59o/why_did_the_ussr_aid_nazi_germany_in_invading/), [4](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/4t1p4j/why_did_the_soviet_union_sign_the/), [5](https://i.imgur.com/cAMvQ1O.jpg)
* [Did the USSR supply the Nazis with raw materials and weapons in the years before WW2?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/a5r9sx/-/eboru9r) - [Did the USSR supply the Nazis with raw materials and weapons in the years before WW2?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/a5r9sx/-/eboru9r)
* [How many Jews escaped from Poland to the USSR in WW2?](https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/escape-of-jews-from-poland-to-the-soviet-union) - [How many Jews escaped from Poland to the USSR in WW2?](https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/escape-of-jews-from-poland-to-the-soviet-union)
* [What about the Katyn Massacre?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/148o4x/1939_sovietnazi_partition_of_poland/c7azkz9/). [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/71gikf/nkvd_and_soviet_crimes/dnalyrr/) - [What about the Katyn Massacre?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/148o4x/1939_sovietnazi_partition_of_poland/c7azkz9/). [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/71gikf/nkvd_and_soviet_crimes/dnalyrr/)
* [What contributions did Stalin make to Marxism-Leninism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ejidu/what_contributions_did_stalin_make_to/) - [What contributions did Stalin make to Marxism-Leninism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ejidu/what_contributions_did_stalin_make_to/)
* [Opinions on Defense of Stalin and Mao](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/11yp4f/opinions_on_defense_of_stalin_and_mao/) - [Opinions on Defense of Stalin and Mao](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/11yp4f/opinions_on_defense_of_stalin_and_mao/)
* [Stalin's Purges](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/qergf/stalins_purges/) - [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/) - [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/) - [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/) - [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 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/) - [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/) - [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/)
* [How necessary or productive were the torture, mass executions of captives, and labor camps of 20th-century socialist governments and revolutions?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2ksxum/how_necessary_or_productive_were_the_torture_mass/) - [How necessary or productive were the torture, mass executions of captives, and labor camps of 20th-century socialist governments and revolutions?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2ksxum/how_necessary_or_productive_were_the_torture_mass/)
* [Why did Lenin abolish factory committees established by workers?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ypaur/why_did_lenin_abolish_factory_committees/) - [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/) - [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/) - [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://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 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 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/) - [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.](https://archive.fo/B6Mpi) - [A brief history of Nestor Makhno.](https://archive.fo/B6Mpi)
* [ELI5 of the Kronstadt Rebellion.](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/49dzce/on_this_day_in_1921_the_kronstadt_rebellion/d0rarcw/) - [ELI5 of the Kronstadt Rebellion.](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/49dzce/on_this_day_in_1921_the_kronstadt_rebellion/d0rarcw/)
* [What about the Kronstadt sailor's rebellion, why did the USSR stop it?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/8ryrdb/what_are_mls_opinions_on_the_kronstadt_rebellion/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/r94f2/thoughts_on_the_kronstadt_rebellion/). - [What about the Kronstadt sailor's rebellion, why did the USSR stop it?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/8ryrdb/what_are_mls_opinions_on_the_kronstadt_rebellion/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/r94f2/thoughts_on_the_kronstadt_rebellion/).
* [What were the sailor's specific demands?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/4cm20u/why_were_the_demands_of_kronstadt_unreasonable/). - [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/). - [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) - [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/) - [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/) - [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) - [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/) - [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/) - [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 - [_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 - [_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 - [_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
* [*The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=32DAA2871728468189A57E0233492A3A) by Davies and Wheatcroft - [_The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=32DAA2871728468189A57E0233492A3A) by Davies and Wheatcroft
* [*Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union*](http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc9912/lies.htm) by Mario Sousa - [_Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union_](http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc9912/lies.htm) by Mario Sousa
### [Did the Soviet Union repress and kill millions of people?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_2.3A_the_soviet_union_repressed_and_killed_millions_of_people) ### [Did the Soviet Union repress and kill millions of people?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_2.3A_the_soviet_union_repressed_and_killed_millions_of_people)
- [*The Triumph of Evil*](http://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf) by Austin Murphy - [_The Triumph of Evil_](http://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf) by Austin Murphy
- [*Human Rights in the Soviet Union*](http://archive.org/details/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion) by Albert Syzmanski - [_Human Rights in the Soviet Union_](http://archive.org/details/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion) by Albert Syzmanski
- [*Another View of Stalin*](http://www.scribd.com/doc/36425175/Ludo-Martens-Another-View-of-Stalin) by Ludo Martens - [_Another View of Stalin_](http://www.scribd.com/doc/36425175/Ludo-Martens-Another-View-of-Stalin) by Ludo Martens
- [*Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=6513AE40D043D98FFE6031A776783160) by Getty and Manning - [_Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=6513AE40D043D98FFE6031A776783160) by Getty and Manning
- [*Origins of the Great Purges*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=202D73A751817E9D047121E74D02671C) by J. Arch Getty - [_Origins of the Great Purges_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=202D73A751817E9D047121E74D02671C) by J. Arch Getty
- [*The Road to Terror*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=a87ecbb483bf27f182f31626527035a6) by J. Arch Getty - [_The Road to Terror_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=a87ecbb483bf27f182f31626527035a6) by J. Arch Getty
- [*Other studies by historian*](http://kasamaproject.org/history/2674-6j-arch-getty-creating-alternative-new-history-of-soviet-30s) by J. Arch Getty - [_Other studies by historian_](http://kasamaproject.org/history/2674-6j-arch-getty-creating-alternative-new-history-of-soviet-30s) by J. Arch Getty
- [*The Legacy of Stalinism*](https://web.archive.org/web/20150801083826/http://marxism-third-worldism.tumblr.com/post/82610306586/anti-stalinism-and-the-legacy-of-state-socialism) by "brown-eggs" - [_The Legacy of Stalinism_](https://web.archive.org/web/20150801083826/http://marxism-third-worldism.tumblr.com/post/82610306586/anti-stalinism-and-the-legacy-of-state-socialism) by "brown-eggs"
- [*Khrushchev Lied*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=e6bc9593a1787378b671944f51b393a9) by Grover Furr - [_Khrushchev Lied_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=e6bc9593a1787378b671944f51b393a9) by Grover Furr
- [*Blackshirts and Reds*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=2A465EA2A003644077523F690545F113) by Michael Parenti - [_Blackshirts and Reds_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=2A465EA2A003644077523F690545F113) by Michael Parenti
- [*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 - [_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) ### [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 - [_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 - [_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 - [_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 - [_Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934–1941_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=bcb105833aa3f469f1131209e3875a9f) by Robert Thurston
- [*The Russians are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism*](http://archive.org/details/TheRussiansAreComing) by V.L. Allen - [_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) - [_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 - [_Soviet Democracy_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=c22e40075143d321a449a15690f82720) by Pat Sloan
### [Was Soviet Socialism an economic failure?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_4.3A_socialism_is_an_economic_failure) ### [Was Soviet Socialism an economic failure?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_4.3A_socialism_is_an_economic_failure)
- [*Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work?*](http://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/) by Stephen Gowans, [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYf3gZZFa0k&list=PL0-IkmzWbjobDdDbSC_YgZfV94BQiRIB8) - [_Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work?_](http://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/) by Stephen Gowans, [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYf3gZZFa0k&list=PL0-IkmzWbjobDdDbSC_YgZfV94BQiRIB8)
- [*From Farm to Factory*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=fa5b6de5135f49269cd2b35b727236f7) by Robert Allen - [_From Farm to Factory_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=fa5b6de5135f49269cd2b35b727236f7) by Robert Allen
- [*The Rise of Socialism*](http://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/1932/toward/03.htm) by William Foster - [_The Rise of Socialism_](http://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/1932/toward/03.htm) by William Foster
- [*We Lived Better Then*](http://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/) by Stephen Gowans - [_We Lived Better Then_](http://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/) by Stephen Gowans
- [*The Need for Planning*](http://clogic.eserver.org/2010/Ball.pdf) by Joseph Ball - [_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) ### [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)
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- [81% of Serbs want Yugoslavia back.](https://balkaninsight.com/2010/12/24/for-simon-poll-serbians-unsure-who-runs-their-country/) - [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/) - [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/)
- [Bulgaria's plummeting birth rate after the fall of the soviet bloc.](https://balkaninsight.com/2020/07/09/bulgaria-writes-new-chapter-in-long-story-of-demographic-decline/) - [Bulgaria's plummeting birth rate after the fall of the soviet bloc.](https://balkaninsight.com/2020/07/09/bulgaria-writes-new-chapter-in-long-story-of-demographic-decline/)
- [*Homesick for a Dictatorship*](http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-dictatorship-majority-of-eastern-germans-feel-life-better-under-communism-a-634122.html) - [_Homesick for a Dictatorship_](http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-dictatorship-majority-of-eastern-germans-feel-life-better-under-communism-a-634122.html)
- [*60% of Russians Want Communism Back*](https://web.archive.org/web/20140223044330/http://www.systemiccapital.com/60-percent-of-russians-want-communism-back/) - [_60% of Russians Want Communism Back_](https://web.archive.org/web/20140223044330/http://www.systemiccapital.com/60-percent-of-russians-want-communism-back/)
- [*Former Soviet Countries See More Harm from Breakup*](http://www.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx) - [_Former Soviet Countries See More Harm from Breakup_](http://www.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx)
- [*Russians say Aug 1991 events are tragedy, not triumph of democracy*](http://rbth.co.uk/news/2014/08/19/poll_russians_say_aug_1991_events_are_tragedy_not_triumph_of_democracy_39129.html) - [_Russians say Aug 1991 events are tragedy, not triumph of democracy_](http://rbth.co.uk/news/2014/08/19/poll_russians_say_aug_1991_events_are_tragedy_not_triumph_of_democracy_39129.html)
- [*Struggling Romanians Yearn for Communism*](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/30/struggling-romanians-yearn-for-communism/) - [_Struggling Romanians Yearn for Communism_](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/30/struggling-romanians-yearn-for-communism/)
- [*Tajikistan Pines for Old Soviet Union Strength*](http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0527/Tajikistan-pines-for-old-Soviet-Union-strength) - [_Tajikistan Pines for Old Soviet Union Strength_](http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0527/Tajikistan-pines-for-old-Soviet-Union-strength)
- [*Referendum on the Preservation of the USSR*](http://en.ria.ru/infographics/20110313/162959645.html) - [_Referendum on the Preservation of the USSR_](http://en.ria.ru/infographics/20110313/162959645.html)
- [*Central Asia in Nostalgia for the Soviet Period*](http://web.archive.org/web/20130722044443/http://www.thewashingtonreview.org/articles/central-asia-in-nostalgia-for-the-soviet-period.html) - [_Central Asia in Nostalgia for the Soviet Period_](http://web.archive.org/web/20130722044443/http://www.thewashingtonreview.org/articles/central-asia-in-nostalgia-for-the-soviet-period.html)
- [*Freest Under Czech Communism!*](http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/24/freest-under-czech-communism/) - [_Freest Under Czech Communism!_](http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/24/freest-under-czech-communism/)
- [*Seven Myths about the USSR*](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/seven-myths-about-the-ussr/) by Stephen Gowans - [_Seven Myths about the USSR_](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/seven-myths-about-the-ussr/) by Stephen Gowans
- [*An experiment in living socialism: Bulgaria then and now*](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpMl92U3JzQ0pIa3c/view?usp=sharing) by F.S. - [_An experiment in living socialism: Bulgaria then and now_](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpMl92U3JzQ0pIa3c/view?usp=sharing) by F.S.
- [*Growing Up Under Communism Was The Happiest Time Of My Life*](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221064/Oppressive-grey-No-growing-communism-happiest-time-life.html) by Zsuzsanna Clark - [_Growing Up Under Communism Was The Happiest Time Of My Life_](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221064/Oppressive-grey-No-growing-communism-happiest-time-life.html) by Zsuzsanna Clark
### Further reading ### Further reading
* [A collection of Soviet history books on Stalin and Stalinism.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/1hzwl3/a_collection_of_soviet_history_books_on_stalin/) - [A collection of Soviet history books on Stalin and Stalinism.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/1hzwl3/a_collection_of_soviet_history_books_on_stalin/)
* [*The Triumph of Evil, Chapter 1: The Documented Facts About Eastern Europe and Communism*](http://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf) by A. Murphy - [_The Triumph of Evil, Chapter 1: The Documented Facts About Eastern Europe and Communism_](http://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf) by A. Murphy
## On Mao, Maoism, and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and the PRC ## On Mao, Maoism, and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and the PRC
* [What is Maoism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/139sid/what_is_maoism/) - [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/) - [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) - [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 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/) - [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/) - [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 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 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://web.archive.org/web/20210218232858/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/) - [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://web.archive.org/web/20210218232858/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) - [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/) - [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/) - [Debastardising Mao.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ecf32/debastardising_mao/)
* [Was Sun Yat Sen a communist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kvAMVX0bjE) - [Was Sun Yat Sen a communist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kvAMVX0bjE)
* [Deng on why Mao's legacy must be upheld.](https://redsails.org/deng-and-fallaci/) - [Deng on why Mao's legacy must be upheld.](https://redsails.org/deng-and-fallaci/)
* [Deng Xiaoping - a visionary marxist-leninist.](https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1353776771573948418?s=20) - [Deng Xiaoping - a visionary marxist-leninist.](https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1353776771573948418?s=20)
* [Deng - We will always side with the third world.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/p9d2zy/117_years_ago_a_national_hero_was_born/h9wxz32/) - [Deng - We will always side with the third world.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/p9d2zy/117_years_ago_a_national_hero_was_born/h9wxz32/)
* [What about Tibet? (95% of the population were slaves or feudal serfs before China invaded in 1959)](http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html) [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZjKom_Qj0jcDReaMb_r52z) - [What about Tibet? (95% of the population were slaves or feudal serfs before China invaded in 1959)](http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html) [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZjKom_Qj0jcDReaMb_r52z)
* [Tibet, China, and the Violent reaction of a wealthy elite.](https://historicly.substack.com/p/tibet-china-and-the-violent-reaction) - [Tibet, China, and the Violent reaction of a wealthy elite.](https://historicly.substack.com/p/tibet-china-and-the-violent-reaction)
* [Mao's liberation of Tibet](https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/09/19/maos-liberation-of-tibet/) - [Mao's liberation of Tibet](https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/09/19/maos-liberation-of-tibet/)
* [Dalai Lama - Forgive Pinochet](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/forgive-pinochet-says-dalai-lama-1.187150) - [Dalai Lama - Forgive Pinochet](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/forgive-pinochet-says-dalai-lama-1.187150)
* [Dalai Lama admits his organization recieved millions from the CIA yearly](https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/02/world/world-news-briefs-dalai-lama-group-says-it-got-money-from-cia.html). - [Dalai Lama admits his organization recieved millions from the CIA yearly](https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/02/world/world-news-briefs-dalai-lama-group-says-it-got-money-from-cia.html).
* [Dalai Lama - If the next Dalai Lama is a female, her face must be attractive, otherwise its not much use... she should use makeup.](https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1345465786907774976?s=20) - [Dalai Lama - If the next Dalai Lama is a female, her face must be attractive, otherwise its not much use... she should use makeup.](https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1345465786907774976?s=20)
* [Did China really try to save the GDR?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/dsvsf9/newly_declassified_documents_released_by_german/) - [Did China really try to save the GDR?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/dsvsf9/newly_declassified_documents_released_by_german/)
* [Didn't China cause the Coronavirus? A Megathread.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/fi390n/china_and_the_coronavirus/) - [Didn't China cause the Coronavirus? A Megathread.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/fi390n/china_and_the_coronavirus/)
* [What about China's coronavirus response? Is there really any sinophobia?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/evwls8/megathread_addressing_sinophobia_and_chinas/) [2](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/canada-chinese-community-battles-racist-backlash-amid-coronavirus-outbreak?__twitter_impression=true) [3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GasWB8s-tqs&feature=youtu.be) - [What about China's coronavirus response? Is there really any sinophobia?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/evwls8/megathread_addressing_sinophobia_and_chinas/) [2](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/canada-chinese-community-battles-racist-backlash-amid-coronavirus-outbreak?__twitter_impression=true) [3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GasWB8s-tqs&feature=youtu.be)
* [The New York Times anti-China Syndrome (about the coronavirus)](https://fair.org/home/nyts-china-syndrome/) - [The New York Times anti-China Syndrome (about the coronavirus)](https://fair.org/home/nyts-china-syndrome/)
* [Debunking NYTimes anti-china covid-19 talking points, especially about Dr Li.](https://mronline.org/2020/03/05/yellow-caking-an-epidemic/) - [Debunking NYTimes anti-china covid-19 talking points, especially about Dr Li.](https://mronline.org/2020/03/05/yellow-caking-an-epidemic/)
* [NYT misquotes WHO doctors who went to China, the doctors refute them.](https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1360731850034053120?s=20) - [NYT misquotes WHO doctors who went to China, the doctors refute them.](https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1360731850034053120?s=20)
* [The US went against the CDC recommendations and evacuated 14 corona-virus infected US citizens, sparking the spread of the virus in the US](https://nypost.com/2020/02/20/coronavirus-infected-americans-flown-back-to-us-on-plane-full-of-healthy-people/). - [The US went against the CDC recommendations and evacuated 14 corona-virus infected US citizens, sparking the spread of the virus in the US](https://nypost.com/2020/02/20/coronavirus-infected-americans-flown-back-to-us-on-plane-full-of-healthy-people/).
* [An April 2020 poll of Republicans and Democrats finds that 77% blame China for coronavirus, with 54% saying China owes reparations. ](http://archive.is/FB7KP) - [An April 2020 poll of Republicans and Democrats finds that 77% blame China for coronavirus, with 54% saying China owes reparations. ](http://archive.is/FB7KP)
* [Vijay Prashad and Qiao Collective - On the covid timeline, and US Sinophobia.](https://www.qiaocollective.com/home/conversation-vijay-prashad) - [Vijay Prashad and Qiao Collective - On the covid timeline, and US Sinophobia.](https://www.qiaocollective.com/home/conversation-vijay-prashad)
* [Did China hide covid?](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/trumps-blame-china-campaign-is-an-effort-to-dodge-responsibility/) - [Did China hide covid?](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/trumps-blame-china-campaign-is-an-effort-to-dodge-responsibility/)
* [Taimur Rahman - How China beat the Coronavirus.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN8bKQOyw_Q) - [Taimur Rahman - How China beat the Coronavirus.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN8bKQOyw_Q)
* [What about the suicide nets at Foxconn?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/dnafal/question_suicide_nets/) - [What about the suicide nets at Foxconn?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/dnafal/question_suicide_nets/)
* [Is china persecuting gay people?](https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1366919923390324737) - [Is china persecuting gay people?](https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1366919923390324737)
* [Deng Xiaoping - on the question of national minorities and Han chauvinism](https://redsails.org/the-question-of-minority-nationalities-in-the-southwest/) - [Deng Xiaoping - on the question of national minorities and Han chauvinism](https://redsails.org/the-question-of-minority-nationalities-in-the-southwest/)
* [Did China really kill / commit infanticide on millions of girls during the 1-child policy?](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/30/researchers-may-have-found-many-of-chinas-30-million-missing-girls/) [2](https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/asia/china-missing-girls/index.html) - [Did China really kill / commit infanticide on millions of girls during the 1-child policy?](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/30/researchers-may-have-found-many-of-chinas-30-million-missing-girls/) [2](https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/asia/china-missing-girls/index.html)
### Is China State Capitalist? ### Is China State Capitalist?
* The backbone of the economy is [state ownership and socialist planning](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/1NSG54IaEm.png?format=webp). [24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/8hdbib/how_is_china_communist_if_it_has_a_ton_of_private/dyj082s/) [70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned](https://chinapower.csis.org/chinese-companies-global-500/). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_Assets_Supervision_and_Administration_Commission#Central_SOEs), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Chinese_companies) The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the [5 year plans laid out by the central committee.](https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-29/19th-CPC-Central-Committee-concludes-fifth-plenary-session-UZ8ZC4kHhm/index.html) - The backbone of the economy is [state ownership and socialist planning](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/1NSG54IaEm.png?format=webp). [24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/8hdbib/how_is_china_communist_if_it_has_a_ton_of_private/dyj082s/) [70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned](https://chinapower.csis.org/chinese-companies-global-500/). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_Assets_Supervision_and_Administration_Commission#Central_SOEs), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Chinese_companies) The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the [5 year plans laid out by the central committee.](https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-29/19th-CPC-Central-Committee-concludes-fifth-plenary-session-UZ8ZC4kHhm/index.html)
* [Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043159032935006208.html) - [Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043159032935006208.html)
* [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/) - [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/)
* [Didn't China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn't it liberalize its economy? Is China's drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/b3gjfe/chinas_drastic_decrease_in_poverty_is_a_result_of/ey8depl/?context=3) - [Didn't China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn't it liberalize its economy? Is China's drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/b3gjfe/chinas_drastic_decrease_in_poverty_is_a_result_of/ey8depl/?context=3)
* [Is the CPC committed to communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/c9ee36/why_do_i_see_so_many_people_on_the_communism/esxapi2/) - [Is the CPC committed to communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/c9ee36/why_do_i_see_so_many_people_on_the_communism/esxapi2/)
* [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 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/) - [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) - [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://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/) - [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) - [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) - [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/) - [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) - [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/) - [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/)
* [Vijay Prashad - Is China capitalist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X7U2W6ryjE) - [Vijay Prashad - Is China capitalist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X7U2W6ryjE)
* [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) - [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)
* [China cracks down on billionaires - Ben Norton interviews Ian Goodrum](https://youtu.be/TiJ2-Uw_0tA) - [China cracks down on billionaires - Ben Norton interviews Ian Goodrum](https://youtu.be/TiJ2-Uw_0tA)
* [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) - [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)
* [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) - [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) - [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)
* [China pushing forward Marxist training in colleges, attracts 1M students.](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/988795.shtml) - [China pushing forward Marxist training in colleges, attracts 1M students.](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/988795.shtml)
* [China tells the US that it has no plans to weaken the role of its State-Owned-Enterprises, one of the US's main demands in the trade war. "Beijing plans to make the state economy stronger, bigger, and better."](https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3038993/china-wont-give-its-state-led-economic-model-top-trade?fbclid=IwAR2ys8_Y_6Nxq2x__BM4SoKdR63it7X_JRy1XJdkLw4QrK0VQ77mXYyrcks) - [China tells the US that it has no plans to weaken the role of its State-Owned-Enterprises, one of the US's main demands in the trade war. "Beijing plans to make the state economy stronger, bigger, and better."](https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3038993/china-wont-give-its-state-led-economic-model-top-trade?fbclid=IwAR2ys8_Y_6Nxq2x__BM4SoKdR63it7X_JRy1XJdkLw4QrK0VQ77mXYyrcks)
* [Unlike the US, China refuses to bail out over-leveraged property developers, and lets them go bankrupt.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/pnqrf7/whats_happening_with_evergrande_will_it_have_a/) - [Unlike the US, China refuses to bail out over-leveraged property developers, and lets them go bankrupt.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/pnqrf7/whats_happening_with_evergrande_will_it_have_a/)
* [A China misinformation Megathread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/c2b7ma/china_megathread_everything_a_leftist_must_know/) - [A China misinformation Megathread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/c2b7ma/china_megathread_everything_a_leftist_must_know/)
### Is China a Democracy? ### Is China a Democracy?
* [Is China a democracy?](https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-democracy-does-the-China-have/answer/Godfree-Roberts?share=0ac8c628&srid=JMzz) - [Is China a democracy?](https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-democracy-does-the-China-have/answer/Godfree-Roberts?share=0ac8c628&srid=JMzz)
* [Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043159032935006208.html) - [Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043159032935006208.html)
* [What kind of democracy does China have, and how is it different from the west?](https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-democracy-does-the-China-have/answers/81676052?share=0ac8c628&srid=JMzz) - [What kind of democracy does China have, and how is it different from the west?](https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-democracy-does-the-China-have/answers/81676052?share=0ac8c628&srid=JMzz)
* In contrast to low US political approval ratings, 96% of Chinese are satisfied with the national government (Edelmans 2016). World Values Surveys says that 83% think the country is run for their benefit rather than for the benefit of special groups. [A Harvard research center study of long-term public opinion survey finds that > 95% of Chinese citizens approved their government.](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/) [How is this possible in a one-party state? (TED talk by Eric X Li)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0YjL9rZyR0) - In contrast to low US political approval ratings, 96% of Chinese are satisfied with the national government (Edelmans 2016). World Values Surveys says that 83% think the country is run for their benefit rather than for the benefit of special groups. [A Harvard research center study of long-term public opinion survey finds that > 95% of Chinese citizens approved their government.](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/) [How is this possible in a one-party state? (TED talk by Eric X Li)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0YjL9rZyR0)
* [How does China’s political system work?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu4QTxl9GVw) - [How does China’s political system work?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu4QTxl9GVw)
* [How are Chinese leaders elected / chosen? How meristocratic is the system? How do elections differ from those in western bourgeois democracies?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgpQxVCekgw) - [How are Chinese leaders elected / chosen? How meristocratic is the system? How do elections differ from those in western bourgeois democracies?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgpQxVCekgw)
* [Who runs China? Makeup of the national people's congress.](https://news.cgtn.com/event/2019/whorunschina/index.html) - [Who runs China? Makeup of the national people's congress.](https://news.cgtn.com/event/2019/whorunschina/index.html)
* [US policy-makers are misjudging popular support China's Government.](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-numbers-show-just-how-much-the-lives-of-everyday-chinese-have-improved-in-recent-decades-2019-10-02) - [US policy-makers are misjudging popular support China's Government.](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-numbers-show-just-how-much-the-lives-of-everyday-chinese-have-improved-in-recent-decades-2019-10-02)
* [The american dream is alive... in China.](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html) - [The american dream is alive... in China.](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html)
### Workers rights ### Workers rights
* [The real wage (IE the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it's the most populous country on the planet. The US real wage by comparison is lower in 2019 than it was in 1973.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8SvK0E5dI) - [The real wage (IE the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it's the most populous country on the planet. The US real wage by comparison is lower in 2019 than it was in 1973.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8SvK0E5dI)
* [Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043159032935006208.html) - [Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043159032935006208.html)
* [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) [2](http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/07/c_138372963.htm) - [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) [2](http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/07/c_138372963.htm)
* How [healthcare works in China (refuting a fearmongering NYT video about health care in China)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvpo2jv5eqI). - How [healthcare works in China (refuting a fearmongering NYT video about health care in China)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvpo2jv5eqI).
* [Uninsured Chinese citizens pay an average of $5-7 to see a specialist (the majority of hospital visits ), and with insurance, its free. 95% of Chinese citizens have insurance](https://hotpot.team/new-york-times-lies/) - [Uninsured Chinese citizens pay an average of $5-7 to see a specialist (the majority of hospital visits ), and with insurance, its free. 95% of Chinese citizens have insurance](https://hotpot.team/new-york-times-lies/)
* [Wages themselves are forced to rise in the private sector by the CPC (+16% every years, +400% since 1980) who force the capitalists to accept the presence of CPC chapters who represent the interest of the workers, increasing workers control even in the capitalist parts of the economy. ](https://www.workers.org/2015/07/21/china-rising-wages-and-worker-militancy/#.WXOlQtPytsM) - [Wages themselves are forced to rise in the private sector by the CPC (+16% every years, +400% since 1980) who force the capitalists to accept the presence of CPC chapters who represent the interest of the workers, increasing workers control even in the capitalist parts of the economy. ](https://www.workers.org/2015/07/21/china-rising-wages-and-worker-militancy/#.WXOlQtPytsM)
* [Eliminated Urban Poverty. On track to eliminate all poverty within a decade.](https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/aug/19/china-poverty-inequality-development-goals) - [Eliminated Urban Poverty. On track to eliminate all poverty within a decade.](https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/aug/19/china-poverty-inequality-development-goals)
* [CGTN documentary - China's war on poverty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuaJGPZCBYU) - [CGTN documentary - China's war on poverty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuaJGPZCBYU)
* [Trade union laws of the PRC.](https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/30352/118793/F1165849917/CHN30352%202.pdf) - [Trade union laws of the PRC.](https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/30352/118793/F1165849917/CHN30352%202.pdf)
* [The west views China as one big sweatshop, but the actual working hours aren't much more than anywhere else. The average for a migrant worker (most vulnerable to exploitation as they are traveling from the countryside) is 8.8 hours, little under an hour more than a typical working day. Labor strikes are rarely suppressed, and usually get the support of the PRC.](https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchfree/2013/07/11/held-hostage-entrepreneurs-uneasy-over-chinese-govt-inaction/#2431f5463de4) - [The west views China as one big sweatshop, but the actual working hours aren't much more than anywhere else. The average for a migrant worker (most vulnerable to exploitation as they are traveling from the countryside) is 8.8 hours, little under an hour more than a typical working day. Labor strikes are rarely suppressed, and usually get the support of the PRC.](https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchfree/2013/07/11/held-hostage-entrepreneurs-uneasy-over-chinese-govt-inaction/#2431f5463de4)
* [The workplace safety standards of China are better than in the capitalist countries of the West like in Australia who have an higher rate of work related death despite having a GDP per capita 3-5 times higher.](http://www.trotskyistplatform.com/workplace-safety-now-better-in-china-than-in-australia/) - [The workplace safety standards of China are better than in the capitalist countries of the West like in Australia who have an higher rate of work related death despite having a GDP per capita 3-5 times higher.](http://www.trotskyistplatform.com/workplace-safety-now-better-in-china-than-in-australia/)
* [/u/cheezicle - My experience as a factory worker in a Chinese "sweatshop"](https://archive.is/B6ZBi) - [/u/cheezicle - My experience as a factory worker in a Chinese "sweatshop"](https://archive.is/B6ZBi)
* [70% of Chinese millenials own their own home, and 91% as of 2021 plan to buy their own home within the next 5 years.](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-39512599) - [70% of Chinese millenials own their own home, and 91% as of 2021 plan to buy their own home within the next 5 years.](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-39512599)
* [In a typical example of proletarian police accountability, the CPC sentences a police officer to death for killing a pregnant woman in a restaurant in southern China.](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26230765) - [In a typical example of proletarian police accountability, the CPC sentences a police officer to death for killing a pregnant woman in a restaurant in southern China.](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26230765)
* [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) - [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 - 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) - [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? ### 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 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 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/) - [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) - [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? ### Is China Imperialist?
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### [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 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 - [_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 - [_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 - [_The Battle for China's Past_](http://www.strongwindpress.com/pdfs/EBook/The_Battle_for_Chinas_Past.pdf) by Mobo Gao
- [*Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story"*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=b83ac8a7e6c2d8ce3f809842521965f1) by Benton and Chun - [_Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story"_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=b83ac8a7e6c2d8ce3f809842521965f1) by Benton and Chun
- [*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 - [_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) ### [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 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 - [_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 - [_Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=c02e1f533d33ecea7d9946f55a097bd0) by William Hinton
- [*Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=69633412b4947eb197779d652ba6e331) by William Hinton - [_Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=69633412b4947eb197779d652ba6e331) by William Hinton
- [*Turning Point in China: An Essay on the Cultural Revolution*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=FF14AB76713984526357FE8829DEAD3C) by William Hinton - [_Turning Point in China: An Essay on the Cultural Revolution_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=FF14AB76713984526357FE8829DEAD3C) by William Hinton
## On the German Democratic Republic (GDR) ## On the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
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## On Cuba ## On Cuba
* [A Cuba and Fidel Megathread.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cfu81s/cuba_and_fidel_castro_megathread/) - [A Cuba and Fidel Megathread.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cfu81s/cuba_and_fidel_castro_megathread/)
* [Just how socialist was/is Cuba?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2n372o/just_how_socialist_wasis_cuba/) - [Just how socialist was/is Cuba?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2n372o/just_how_socialist_wasis_cuba/)
* [Why, in your opinion, have most attempts to form countries based economically on communism and socialism (USSR, Cuba, China) fail?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1f8obt/honestly_not_trolling_why_in_your_opinion_have/) - [Why, in your opinion, have most attempts to form countries based economically on communism and socialism (USSR, Cuba, China) fail?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1f8obt/honestly_not_trolling_why_in_your_opinion_have/)
* [In defence of (and questions about) Cuba](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/x3qtw/in_defence_of_and_questions_about_cuba/) - [In defence of (and questions about) Cuba](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/x3qtw/in_defence_of_and_questions_about_cuba/)
* [Did the cuban people like Fidel Castro?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Obp6YS4SY) - [Did the cuban people like Fidel Castro?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Obp6YS4SY)
* [Multiple questions about Cuba](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2pg82b/multiple_questions_about_cuba/) - [Multiple questions about Cuba](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2pg82b/multiple_questions_about_cuba/)
* [Did the US really think Castro was a dictator? Answer: No.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/87tto3/i_submitted_a_til_about_fidel_castros_hatred_for/dwgpg7d/) - [Did the US really think Castro was a dictator? Answer: No.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/87tto3/i_submitted_a_til_about_fidel_castros_hatred_for/dwgpg7d/)
* [Why did people flee Cuba / Did Cuba have a famine in the 1990s?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/8yc2ak/if_cuba_is_a_decenthighquality_state_why_werent/e29so7h/) - [Why did people flee Cuba / Did Cuba have a famine in the 1990s?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/8yc2ak/if_cuba_is_a_decenthighquality_state_why_werent/e29so7h/)
* [Did Fidel Castro persecute gay / LGBT people? What about the UMAP prisons?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchy101/comments/8kxgul/what_do_anarchists_think_of_the_castro_regime/dzc2wp8/) - [Did Fidel Castro persecute gay / LGBT people? What about the UMAP prisons?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchy101/comments/8kxgul/what_do_anarchists_think_of_the_castro_regime/dzc2wp8/)
* [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/) - [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) ### [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 - [_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 - [_Debunking the 'Che Guevara Was Racist!' Lie_](http://anti-imperialism.org/2014/02/05/debunking-the-che-guevara-was-racist-lie/) by Cuervo Rojo
### [Is Cuba a functioning democracy or a terrible place to live?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_2.3A_cuba_has_no_democracy_and_is_a_horrible_place_to_live) ### [Is Cuba a functioning democracy or a terrible place to live?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_2.3A_cuba_has_no_democracy_and_is_a_horrible_place_to_live)
- [*20 Reasons to Support Cuba*](http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/07/20-reasons-to-support-cuba/) - [_20 Reasons to Support Cuba_](http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/07/20-reasons-to-support-cuba/)
- [*Cuba: A Revolution in Motion*](http://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Revolution-Motion-Isaac-Saney/dp/1842773631) by Isaac Saney - [_Cuba: A Revolution in Motion_](http://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Revolution-Motion-Isaac-Saney/dp/1842773631) by Isaac Saney
- [*Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=79273783e814b6a8747ea24710d15f0c) by Arnold August + http://www.democracyintheus.com/ - [_Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=79273783e814b6a8747ea24710d15f0c) by Arnold August + http://www.democracyintheus.com/
- [*Cuban Democracy Fact Sheet*](http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/resources/democracyfactsheet2015.pdf) - [_Cuban Democracy Fact Sheet_](http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/resources/democracyfactsheet2015.pdf)
- [*All in This Together: Cuba's Participatory Democracy*](http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/cubasi/article/187/all-in-this-together-cubarsquos-participatory-democracy) - [_All in This Together: Cuba's Participatory Democracy_](http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/cubasi/article/187/all-in-this-together-cubarsquos-participatory-democracy)
- [*The Elected Delegate and the Dissident in Cuba's Municipal Elections*](http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/05/the-elected-delegate-and-the-dissident-in-cuba%E2%80%99s-municipal-elections/) by Arnold August - [_The Elected Delegate and the Dissident in Cuba's Municipal Elections_](http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/05/the-elected-delegate-and-the-dissident-in-cuba%E2%80%99s-municipal-elections/) by Arnold August
- [*2002 Cuban Constitution*](http://www.walterlippmann.com/cubanconstitution.html) - [_2002 Cuban Constitution_](http://www.walterlippmann.com/cubanconstitution.html)
- [*Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=fdfc7aee98499baaae696d5b1e04c065) by Linda Fuller - [_Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=fdfc7aee98499baaae696d5b1e04c065) by Linda Fuller
## On North Korea / the DPRK ## On North Korea / the DPRK
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### [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 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 - [_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 - [_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) - [_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)
### [Is the DPRK a Fascist Monarchy?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_2.3A_the_dprk_is_a_fascist_monarchy) ### [Is the DPRK a Fascist Monarchy?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_2.3A_the_dprk_is_a_fascist_monarchy)
- [*Korea Resilient! Socialism in Democratic Korea*](http://return2source.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/korea-resilient-socialism-in-democratic-korea/) by Vince Sherman - [_Korea Resilient! Socialism in Democratic Korea_](http://return2source.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/korea-resilient-socialism-in-democratic-korea/) by Vince Sherman
- [*How to Think about Socialism in Korea*](https://mltoday.com/article/1302-how-to-think-about-socialism-in-korea/) - [_How to Think about Socialism in Korea_](https://mltoday.com/article/1302-how-to-think-about-socialism-in-korea/)
- [*Understanding North Korea*](http://www.globalresearch.ca/understanding-north-korea/3818) by Stephen Gowans - [_Understanding North Korea_](http://www.globalresearch.ca/understanding-north-korea/3818) by Stephen Gowans
- [*A Model of Democratic and Participatory Socialist Planning*](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/2kwid3/a_model_of_democratic_and_participatory_socialist/) by MasCapital - [_A Model of Democratic and Participatory Socialist Planning_](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/2kwid3/a_model_of_democratic_and_participatory_socialist/) by MasCapital
- [*Constitution of the DPRK*](http://www.kfausa.org/dprk-constitution/) - [_Constitution of the DPRK_](http://www.kfausa.org/dprk-constitution/)
- [*Socialist Korea: A Case Study in the Strategy of Economic Development*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=6b0447bc14808161362b828aee0a284a) by Brun and Hersch - [_Socialist Korea: A Case Study in the Strategy of Economic Development_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=6b0447bc14808161362b828aee0a284a) by Brun and Hersch
- [*Interview: Understanding and Defending North Korea*](http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/11/understanding-north-korea/) - [_Interview: Understanding and Defending North Korea_](http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/11/understanding-north-korea/)
- [*Democracy: US vs DPRK – Towards the Annihilation of a Narrative*](https://vngiapaganda.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/democracy-us-vs-dprk-towards-the-annihilation-of-a-narrative/) - [_Democracy: US vs DPRK – Towards the Annihilation of a Narrative_](https://vngiapaganda.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/democracy-us-vs-dprk-towards-the-annihilation-of-a-narrative/)
- [*The secret genocide in South Korea you’ve probably never heard of*](https://medium.com/@wolf.aldrich/the-50-s-in-south-korea-what-happened-60f629ac3272) - [_The secret genocide in South Korea you’ve probably never heard of_](https://medium.com/@wolf.aldrich/the-50-s-in-south-korea-what-happened-60f629ac3272)
### Further reading ### Further reading
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- The Gates foundation helps big pharma find test markets for their drugs, selling them in the global south. This includes drugs such as Gardasil, Norplant, Cervarix. A South African newspaper declared: “We are guinea pigs for the drugmakers.” In the case of Gardasil, the drug-pushing was cloaked in the language of environmentalism, popular empowerment, and feminism. Melinda Gates evoked “choice” in support of her family planning initiatives, but in reality was not poor women, but a handful of the world’s wealthiest people who have presumed to choose which methods of contraception will be delivered, and to whom. - The Gates foundation helps big pharma find test markets for their drugs, selling them in the global south. This includes drugs such as Gardasil, Norplant, Cervarix. A South African newspaper declared: “We are guinea pigs for the drugmakers.” In the case of Gardasil, the drug-pushing was cloaked in the language of environmentalism, popular empowerment, and feminism. Melinda Gates evoked “choice” in support of her family planning initiatives, but in reality was not poor women, but a handful of the world’s wealthiest people who have presumed to choose which methods of contraception will be delivered, and to whom.
- [Funnels hundreds of millions in grant money to corporations](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/11/philanthropy-charity-banga-carnegie-gates-foundation-development), such as Mastercard, Merck, Pfizer, ABC, NBC, Univision, Scholastic, and Pearson. - [Funnels hundreds of millions in grant money to corporations](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/11/philanthropy-charity-banga-carnegie-gates-foundation-development), such as Mastercard, Merck, Pfizer, ABC, NBC, Univision, Scholastic, and Pearson.
- Philanthro-capitalism undermines local communities, dismantling their democracy and autonomy in health care, by making them fully dependent on US billionaires, who are completely unnaccountable. - Philanthro-capitalism undermines local communities, dismantling their democracy and autonomy in health care, by making them fully dependent on US billionaires, who are completely unnaccountable.
- Philanthrocapitalists are currently rushing to take power in a system of global health and population control. Bill Gates warned of “huge population growth in *places where we don’t want it*, like Yemen and Pakistan and parts of Africa.”, echoing overpopulation fears that have inspired eugenicists since the time of Malthus. Population control is a form of social control, directly targeting the bodies and dignity of poor people, conditioning them to believe that life’s most intimate decisions are outside of their competence and control. - Philanthrocapitalists are currently rushing to take power in a system of global health and population control. Bill Gates warned of “huge population growth in _places where we don’t want it_, like Yemen and Pakistan and parts of Africa.”, echoing overpopulation fears that have inspired eugenicists since the time of Malthus. Population control is a form of social control, directly targeting the bodies and dignity of poor people, conditioning them to believe that life’s most intimate decisions are outside of their competence and control.
- Elite charitable funds are a legal means of **tax avoidance**. Under US law, investments in charitable foundations are tax-free; moreover, investors are not required to sell their stock positions and may continue to vote their shares without restriction. By sheltering foundations, the US Treasury effectively co-finances the activities of Gates foundation and its investors. - Elite charitable funds are a legal means of **tax avoidance**. Under US law, investments in charitable foundations are tax-free; moreover, investors are not required to sell their stock positions and may continue to vote their shares without restriction. By sheltering foundations, the US Treasury effectively co-finances the activities of Gates foundation and its investors.
- [The Bill Gates global health empire promises more empire and less public health.](https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/08/bill-gates-global-health-policy/) - [The Bill Gates global health empire promises more empire and less public health.](https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/08/bill-gates-global-health-policy/)
- Since he is the largest donor to the WHO, [he pushes funding for "headline grabbers" such as Malaria and HIV, despite local experts telling policy-makers that other ailments such as Tuberculosis, malnutrition, and bacterial disease are the biggest causes of death.](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736\(09\)60885-0/fulltext) - Since he is the largest donor to the WHO, [he pushes funding for "headline grabbers" such as Malaria and HIV, despite local experts telling policy-makers that other ailments such as Tuberculosis, malnutrition, and bacterial disease are the biggest causes of death.](<https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60885-0/fulltext>)
- [During the COVID-19 pandemic, he worked on behalf of big pharma again to protect vaccine intellectual property rights, prioritizing wealthy northern countries over the global south. As of April 2021, fewer than 600 million vaccine doses have been administered around the world; three-quarters of those in just 10 mostly high-income countries. The timeline for supplying poor and middle-income countries with enough vaccines to achieve herd immunity, meanwhile, has been pushed into 2024. These numbers represent more than the “catastrophic moral failure” the director general of the WHO warned about. It is a stark reminder than any policy that obstructs or inhibits vaccine production risks being self-defeating for the rich countries defending exclusive rights and gobbling up the lion’s share of available vaccine supplies.](https://archive.is/9bkpq) - [During the COVID-19 pandemic, he worked on behalf of big pharma again to protect vaccine intellectual property rights, prioritizing wealthy northern countries over the global south. As of April 2021, fewer than 600 million vaccine doses have been administered around the world; three-quarters of those in just 10 mostly high-income countries. The timeline for supplying poor and middle-income countries with enough vaccines to achieve herd immunity, meanwhile, has been pushed into 2024. These numbers represent more than the “catastrophic moral failure” the director general of the WHO warned about. It is a stark reminder than any policy that obstructs or inhibits vaccine production risks being self-defeating for the rich countries defending exclusive rights and gobbling up the lion’s share of available vaccine supplies.](https://archive.is/9bkpq)
- [Used philanthropy as a front to generate profits for businesses in the agricultural and health sectors. ](https://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Fblog%2F60%2Findex.html%3Fuuid%3D25408) - [Used philanthropy as a front to generate profits for businesses in the agricultural and health sectors. ](https://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Fblog%2F60%2Findex.html%3Fuuid%3D25408)
- [Citations Needed - The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire - Bill Gates and Western Media.](https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so-benevolent-billionaire-bill-gates-and-western-media) - [Citations Needed - The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire - Bill Gates and Western Media.](https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so-benevolent-billionaire-bill-gates-and-western-media)
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- [Hugh MacDiarmid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_MacDiarmid), Scottish nationalist poet, and anti-imperialist. - [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. - [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.
- In 1941, illustrator Elias Gertrude approached Orwell, then an editor for the British Ministry of information, with an idea for a satirical cartoon film, portraying the Nazis as pig characters ruling a farm in a kind of dysfunctional fairy story. [He told her that there was not much call for her idea, stole it, changed the name from *A Fairy Story* to *Animal Farm*, and changed the pig-nazis into Communists.](https://www.radnorshire-fine-arts.co.uk/brand/elias-gertrude-1913-1988/) - In 1941, illustrator Elias Gertrude approached Orwell, then an editor for the British Ministry of information, with an idea for a satirical cartoon film, portraying the Nazis as pig characters ruling a farm in a kind of dysfunctional fairy story. [He told her that there was not much call for her idea, stole it, changed the name from _A Fairy Story_ to _Animal Farm_, and changed the pig-nazis into Communists.](https://www.radnorshire-fine-arts.co.uk/brand/elias-gertrude-1913-1988/)
- [Between 1952 and 1957, from three sites in West Germany, a CIA operation codenamed ‘Aedinosaur’ launched millions of ten-foot balloons carrying copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and dropped them over Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia — whose airforces were ordered to shoot the balloons down.](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/novel-explosives-of-the-cold-war). - [Between 1952 and 1957, from three sites in West Germany, a CIA operation codenamed ‘Aedinosaur’ launched millions of ten-foot balloons carrying copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and dropped them over Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia — whose airforces were ordered to shoot the balloons down.](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/novel-explosives-of-the-cold-war).
- [Orwell, anti-communist: A criticism of Orwell and his Work - By Isaac Asimov.](http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm) - [Orwell, anti-communist: A criticism of Orwell and his Work - By Isaac Asimov.](http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm)
- [Orwell - "I have never really disliked Hitler."](https://twitter.com/SarahTheHaider/status/1300360063845126144?s=20) - [Orwell - "I have never really disliked Hitler."](https://twitter.com/SarahTheHaider/status/1300360063845126144?s=20)
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#### Imperialism #### Imperialism
- [Voted to expand NATO to Finland and Sweden](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-panel-approves-nato-expansion-rushing-to-full-senate-vote). On the same day this vote became public, she [pretends to get handcuffed during a defend abortion rally outside the supreme court rally,](https://twitter.com/DoctorFishbones/status/1549451426312736768?s=20&t=PPrcfbxTpd150_9Jewq1-g), then [asks for donations in emails](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/5c696b7a-73dc-40cb-9764-7b60cadae843.jpeg).
- [Voted for Trump's 2020 War budget, allocating $738 Billion to military spending (a 3% increase over the previous year).](http://www.idcommunism.com/2019/07/ocasio-cortez-aoc-votes-in-favor-of-trumps-war-budget.html) - [Voted for Trump's 2020 War budget, allocating $738 Billion to military spending (a 3% increase over the previous year).](http://www.idcommunism.com/2019/07/ocasio-cortez-aoc-votes-in-favor-of-trumps-war-budget.html)
- [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) - [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)
- [After Evo Morales was overthrown in a US-backed coup, she retracts her pro-Morales statements, meets with a coup-supporting group in Washington, and tweets in support of the viciously anti-indigenous government of Jean Anez.](https://i.imgur.com/mYdPxcG.jpg) [2](https://orinocotribune.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-meets-with-bolivian-coup-organizers/), [3](https://rainershea.com/f/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-meets-with-bolivian-coup-organizers) - [After Evo Morales was overthrown in a US-backed coup, she retracts her pro-Morales statements, meets with a coup-supporting group in Washington, and tweets in support of the viciously anti-indigenous government of Jean Anez.](https://i.imgur.com/mYdPxcG.jpg) [2](https://orinocotribune.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-meets-with-bolivian-coup-organizers/), [3](https://rainershea.com/f/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-meets-with-bolivian-coup-organizers)
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- [Is against pardoning Julian Assange.](https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1359550389578854406?s=20) - [Is against pardoning Julian Assange.](https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1359550389578854406?s=20)
- [Goes along with democrats and Republicans in backing US puppet Juan Guaido over Maduro in Venezuela.](https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1124924184629583872?s=19) - [Goes along with democrats and Republicans in backing US puppet Juan Guaido over Maduro in Venezuela.](https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1124924184629583872?s=19)
- [After the December 2020 Elections in Venezuala, she defends Juan Guaido, and calls Maduro an "authoritarian" yet again.](https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1336139779281457153) - [After the December 2020 Elections in Venezuala, she defends Juan Guaido, and calls Maduro an "authoritarian" yet again.](https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1336139779281457153)
- [In 2021, qualified that she *only* doesn't support a US invasion of Haiti, "without a plan", "right now".](https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1416735107151503362?s=20) - [In 2021, qualified that she _only_ doesn't support a US invasion of Haiti, "without a plan", "right now".](https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1416735107151503362?s=20)
- [AOC pays homage to "Tibetan Uprising Day"](https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1370755518122373121?s=20), a CIA-sponsored campaign to restore the brutal Tibetan theocracy and re-institute slavery. - [AOC pays homage to "Tibetan Uprising Day"](https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1370755518122373121?s=20), a CIA-sponsored campaign to restore the brutal Tibetan theocracy and re-institute slavery.
- [Stands with Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and the right-wing pro-Trump Hong Kong rioters in their condemnation of China and its supposed "concentration camps."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Etgp3SvXEAAKNX4?format=jpg&name=large) - [Stands with Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and the right-wing pro-Trump Hong Kong rioters in their condemnation of China and its supposed "concentration camps."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Etgp3SvXEAAKNX4?format=jpg&name=large)
- [Believes, like other democrats, that Russia rigs US elections](https://i.imgur.com/3rmhrAf.png) - [Believes, like other democrats, that Russia rigs US elections](https://i.imgur.com/3rmhrAf.png)
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### Kamala Harris ### Kamala Harris
*Much credit to [this post.](https://politijohn.tumblr.com/post/186036319237/get-to-know-kamala-harris)* _Much credit to [this post.](https://politijohn.tumblr.com/post/186036319237/get-to-know-kamala-harris)_
- [Under her jurisdiction, in "progressive" San Francisco, 56% of all inmates in SF jails were black, along with 40% of all arrests (Only 5.8% of the population is black).](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/04/san-francisco-police-department-scandal-racist-texts) [Ignores police brutality](https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/kamala-harris/they-shot-at-little-kids-too-when-kamala-harris-tu/), protected [14 of her officers](http://sfpublicdefender.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Letter-to-Attorney-General-Kamala-Harris.pdf) who were caught sending extremely racist text messages. [Oversaw San Francisco’s felony conviction rate rising from 52% to 67% in only 3 years.](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general) - [Under her jurisdiction, in "progressive" San Francisco, 56% of all inmates in SF jails were black, along with 40% of all arrests (Only 5.8% of the population is black).](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/04/san-francisco-police-department-scandal-racist-texts) [Ignores police brutality](https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/kamala-harris/they-shot-at-little-kids-too-when-kamala-harris-tu/), protected [14 of her officers](http://sfpublicdefender.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Letter-to-Attorney-General-Kamala-Harris.pdf) who were caught sending extremely racist text messages. [Oversaw San Francisco’s felony conviction rate rising from 52% to 67% in only 3 years.](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general)
- [As part of her tough on crime approach she assigned senior prosecutors to misdemeanors like graffiti and vandalism, tripling the number of cases brought to trial.](https://twitter.com/walkerbragman/status/1146176227797032960) - [As part of her tough on crime approach she assigned senior prosecutors to misdemeanors like graffiti and vandalism, tripling the number of cases brought to trial.](https://twitter.com/walkerbragman/status/1146176227797032960)
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- [Obama and Hillary Clinton rigged Haiti's 2010 election, threatening the then-president with removing US financial aid, unless their OAS candidate, Michel Martelly, won the election, after he forced other popular candidates to drop out.](http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2046634,00.html) This is a continuation of ["Operation uphold democracy"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Uphold_Democracy), in which US troops invaded Haiti to overthrow democratically elected president Jean-Baptiste Aristide in 1991, who is still in exile. [Lobbied to lower Haiti's minimum wage to $0.30 / hour.](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wikileaks-haiti-let-them-live-3-day/) - [Obama and Hillary Clinton rigged Haiti's 2010 election, threatening the then-president with removing US financial aid, unless their OAS candidate, Michel Martelly, won the election, after he forced other popular candidates to drop out.](http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2046634,00.html) This is a continuation of ["Operation uphold democracy"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Uphold_Democracy), in which US troops invaded Haiti to overthrow democratically elected president Jean-Baptiste Aristide in 1991, who is still in exile. [Lobbied to lower Haiti's minimum wage to $0.30 / hour.](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wikileaks-haiti-let-them-live-3-day/)
- Obama continued backing [Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president who helped the US fight Saddam, giving him $2B every year](https://theintercept.com/2014/10/02/feigned-american-support-egyptian-democracy-lasted-roughly-six-weeks/). After Mubarak was exposed for corruption in the 2009 Arab Spring, the US entered talks with [Suleiman, a CIA collaborator and Mubarak's vice president intelligence chief known for torturing people on behalf of the US.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Suleiman) The US then granted him asylum and medical treatment. - Obama continued backing [Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president who helped the US fight Saddam, giving him $2B every year](https://theintercept.com/2014/10/02/feigned-american-support-egyptian-democracy-lasted-roughly-six-weeks/). After Mubarak was exposed for corruption in the 2009 Arab Spring, the US entered talks with [Suleiman, a CIA collaborator and Mubarak's vice president intelligence chief known for torturing people on behalf of the US.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Suleiman) The US then granted him asylum and medical treatment.
- Obama continued support for Israel and their genocide of Palestineans, leaving a parting gift of his presidency to Israel of [$38B in military aid over the next 10 years.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-statement-idUSKCN11K2CI) “Prime Minister Netanyahu and I are confident that the new MOU will make a significant contribution to Israel’s security in what remains a dangerous neighborhood,” Obama wrote. - Obama continued support for Israel and their genocide of Palestineans, leaving a parting gift of his presidency to Israel of [$38B in military aid over the next 10 years.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-statement-idUSKCN11K2CI) “Prime Minister Netanyahu and I are confident that the new MOU will make a significant contribution to Israel’s security in what remains a dangerous neighborhood,” Obama wrote.
- Finally acheived the US goal of overthrowing Gaddafi and destabilizing Libya. From 2011 onward, began conducting an extensive bombing campaign (>110 tomahawk cruise missiles) in the [Libyan Civil Wars of 2011 and 2014](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)). This includes 7,700 air strikes, resulting in 30,000 -100,000 deaths. Loyalist towns were bombed to rubble and ethnically cleansed, and the country is in chaos as Western-trained and armed Islamist militias seize territory and oil facilities and vie for power. The Misrata militia, trained and armed by Western special forces, is one of the most violent and powerful in the world.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)) The country has since collapsed into a chaos of child soldiers, slavery, and violence between extremist groups, a haunting repetition of what US imperialism has left in its wake in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. [An interview with Gaddafi's former spokesman about the US overthrow of Libya.](https://www.rt.com/news/470321-libya-gaddafi-spokesman-interview/) When pressured, Obama stated that "not managing the aftermath of overthrowing Gaddafi" was ["the greatest mistake of his presidency."](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/12/barack-obama-says-libya-was-worst-mistake-of-his-presidency) - Finally acheived the US goal of overthrowing Gaddafi and destabilizing Libya. From 2011 onward, began conducting an extensive bombing campaign (>110 tomahawk cruise missiles) in the [Libyan Civil Wars of 2011 and 2014](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)>). This includes 7,700 air strikes, resulting in 30,000 -100,000 deaths. Loyalist towns were bombed to rubble and ethnically cleansed, and the country is in chaos as Western-trained and armed Islamist militias seize territory and oil facilities and vie for power. The Misrata militia, trained and armed by Western special forces, is one of the most violent and powerful in the world.[1](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)>) The country has since collapsed into a chaos of child soldiers, slavery, and violence between extremist groups, a haunting repetition of what US imperialism has left in its wake in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. [An interview with Gaddafi's former spokesman about the US overthrow of Libya.](https://www.rt.com/news/470321-libya-gaddafi-spokesman-interview/) When pressured, Obama stated that "not managing the aftermath of overthrowing Gaddafi" was ["the greatest mistake of his presidency."](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/12/barack-obama-says-libya-was-worst-mistake-of-his-presidency)
- In 2009, [Obama and Hillary Clinton assisted in the military coup of democratically elected leftist leader Zelaya of Honduras, who the US saw as a threat to US business interests](https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/15/us-role-honduras-coup-and-subsequent-violence), [2](.https://theintercept.com/2015/07/06/clinton-honduras-coup/). [Leaked emails](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157083-peanut-gallery.html) found that [Hillary was brokering a deal with the coup leaders, to ensure Zelaya would be prevented from returning to power](https://theintercept.com/2015/07/06/clinton-honduras-coup/), and Obama [blocked a proposed resolution requiring Zelaya's return](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-honduras/pressure-mounts-on-honduras-to-end-coup-crisis-idUSN287369520090929). After the coup, at least [116 anti-US environmental activists have been murdered by the pro-US regime.](https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/how-many-more/) [2](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-clinton-backed-honduran-regime-is-picking-off-indigenous-leaders/) The US now faces [massive immigration from the very same countries it destabilized](https://theconversation.com/how-us-policy-in-honduras-set-the-stage-for-todays-migration-65935), then deports them in a never-ending cycle of oppression. [Obama says that deporting Honduran immigrants will send a message that "they will not be welcome to this country."](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/u-s-says-deportation-of-honduran-children-a-warning-to-illegal-migrants-idUSKBN0FK29N20140715) - In 2009, [Obama and Hillary Clinton assisted in the military coup of democratically elected leftist leader Zelaya of Honduras, who the US saw as a threat to US business interests](https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/15/us-role-honduras-coup-and-subsequent-violence), [2](.https://theintercept.com/2015/07/06/clinton-honduras-coup/). [Leaked emails](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157083-peanut-gallery.html) found that [Hillary was brokering a deal with the coup leaders, to ensure Zelaya would be prevented from returning to power](https://theintercept.com/2015/07/06/clinton-honduras-coup/), and Obama [blocked a proposed resolution requiring Zelaya's return](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-honduras/pressure-mounts-on-honduras-to-end-coup-crisis-idUSN287369520090929). After the coup, at least [116 anti-US environmental activists have been murdered by the pro-US regime.](https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/how-many-more/) [2](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-clinton-backed-honduran-regime-is-picking-off-indigenous-leaders/) The US now faces [massive immigration from the very same countries it destabilized](https://theconversation.com/how-us-policy-in-honduras-set-the-stage-for-todays-migration-65935), then deports them in a never-ending cycle of oppression. [Obama says that deporting Honduran immigrants will send a message that "they will not be welcome to this country."](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/u-s-says-deportation-of-honduran-children-a-warning-to-illegal-migrants-idUSKBN0FK29N20140715)
- [Obama grants immunity to Bush Jr's CIA torturers.](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/obama-justice-department-immunity-bush-cia-torturer) - [Obama grants immunity to Bush Jr's CIA torturers.](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/obama-justice-department-immunity-bush-cia-torturer)
- [Expands drone bases in west Africa, including this one in Niger](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283346/Obama-builds-new-drone-base-West-Africa-combat-spread-Al-Qaeda.html). - [Expands drone bases in west Africa, including this one in Niger](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283346/Obama-builds-new-drone-base-West-Africa-combat-spread-Al-Qaeda.html).
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#### Mass Imprisonment #### Mass Imprisonment
- [Deported over 3M immigrants during his presidency](https://www.axios.com/immigration-ice-deportation-trump-obama-a72a0a44-540d-46bc-a671-cd65cf72f4b1.html), [2](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/12/biden-immigration-2020-1411691) [Deported over 400k people in 2012 alone.](https://i.imgur.com/mko2Hm6.png) Helped grow ICE, and the US mass immigrant detention system. - [Deported over 3M immigrants during his presidency](https://www.axios.com/immigration-ice-deportation-trump-obama-a72a0a44-540d-46bc-a671-cd65cf72f4b1.html), [2](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/12/biden-immigration-2020-1411691) [Deported over 400k people in 2012 alone.](https://i.imgur.com/mko2Hm6.png) Helped grow ICE, and the US mass immigrant detention system.
- 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) [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) - 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) [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)
- [Banned all immigration from Syria and Iran.](https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/23/executive-order-blocking-property-and-suspending-entry-united-states-cer) - [Banned all immigration from Syria and Iran.](https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/23/executive-order-blocking-property-and-suspending-entry-united-states-cer)
- Scaled up the war on drugs, imprisoning minorities at far greater rates than ever historically. Gave no support to Black lives matter, the Ferguson protests, or the dakota access pipeline protests, allowing local authorities to brutally repress these movements. - Scaled up the war on drugs, imprisoning minorities at far greater rates than ever historically. Gave no support to Black lives matter, the Ferguson protests, or the dakota access pipeline protests, allowing local authorities to brutally repress these movements.
- The [War On Drugs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs), a policy of arrest and imprisonment targeting minorities, first initiated by Nixon, has over the years created a monstrous system of mass incarceration, resulting in the imprisonment of 1.5 million people each year, with the US having the most prisoners per capita of any nation. One in five black Americans will spend time behind bars due to drug laws. The war has created a permanent underclass of impoverished people who have few educational or job opportunities as a result of being punished for drug offenses, in a vicious cycle of oppression. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs#cite_note-59), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs) - The [War On Drugs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs), a policy of arrest and imprisonment targeting minorities, first initiated by Nixon, has over the years created a monstrous system of mass incarceration, resulting in the imprisonment of 1.5 million people each year, with the US having the most prisoners per capita of any nation. One in five black Americans will spend time behind bars due to drug laws. The war has created a permanent underclass of impoverished people who have few educational or job opportunities as a result of being punished for drug offenses, in a vicious cycle of oppression. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs#cite_note-59), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs)
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#### Mass surveillance #### Mass surveillance
- [Obama authorized the massive, behind-closed-doors growth of the worldwide US surveillance system.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_(2013%E2%80%93present)) - [Obama authorized the massive, behind-closed-doors growth of the worldwide US surveillance system.](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_(2013%E2%80%93present)>)
- Since 2012, the US military has a [state-run and funded astroturfing campaign](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks) to manipulate public opinion online, and spread pro-US propaganda through government funded sockpuppets, called [Operation Earnest Voice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice). - Since 2012, the US military has a [state-run and funded astroturfing campaign](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks) to manipulate public opinion online, and spread pro-US propaganda through government funded sockpuppets, called [Operation Earnest Voice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice).
- The 2010 [US diplomatic cables leak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak) by Chelsea Manning revealed a pervasive policy of using US ambassadors as spies, supporting dictatorships, spying on the UN, strong-arming for US companies abroad, and disrupting nuclear disarmament talks. The scope of these leaks touches every country the US has a relationship with, and they are better detailed [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak) - The 2010 [US diplomatic cables leak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak) by Chelsea Manning revealed a pervasive policy of using US ambassadors as spies, supporting dictatorships, spying on the UN, strong-arming for US companies abroad, and disrupting nuclear disarmament talks. The scope of these leaks touches every country the US has a relationship with, and they are better detailed [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak)
- [Obama ruthlessly went after and jailed whistleblowers](https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-before-trump-obama-prosecuted-leaks-20170804-htmlstory.html), [2](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning), indicting [more than all previous presidents combined.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-iT51XSTgE) [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS9TXJqxkSQ), [3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIWjon88lWc) - [Obama ruthlessly went after and jailed whistleblowers](https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-before-trump-obama-prosecuted-leaks-20170804-htmlstory.html), [2](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning), indicting [more than all previous presidents combined.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-iT51XSTgE) [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS9TXJqxkSQ), [3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIWjon88lWc)
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- [In her final supreme court decision, helped push through Trump's fast-track deportation bill.](https://www.npr.org/2020/06/25/883312496/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-administration-in-deportation-case), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Homeland_Security_v._Thuraissigiam) - [In her final supreme court decision, helped push through Trump's fast-track deportation bill.](https://www.npr.org/2020/06/25/883312496/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-administration-in-deportation-case), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Homeland_Security_v._Thuraissigiam)
- [On Black Lives Matter / Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest: "I think its dumb and disrespectful, but I wouldn't lock a person up for doing it."](https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/10/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-colin-kaepernick/index.html) Later retracted her statement after receiving public backlash. - [On Black Lives Matter / Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest: "I think its dumb and disrespectful, but I wouldn't lock a person up for doing it."](https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/10/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-colin-kaepernick/index.html) Later retracted her statement after receiving public backlash.
- [RBG hired 1 POC staffer in 25 years. Kavanaugh, a conservative justice, has 25% POC out of his 48 law clerks. One writer noted that Kavanaughs views on affirmative action don't reflect his diverse hiring practices, while Ginsburg's progressive views don't extend to her chambers. This is an improvement from her 13-year tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, when Ginsburg never had any black clerks. When this issue was raised during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1993, Ginsburg said: “If you confirm me for this job, my attractiveness to black candidates is going to improve.” That promise was ignored.](https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/ruth-bader-ginsburg-can-learn-from-justice-kavanaugh) [2](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-bader-ginsburg-can-learn-something-from-brett-kavanaugh/2018/10/15/b8974a86-cd77-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html) - [RBG hired 1 POC staffer in 25 years. Kavanaugh, a conservative justice, has 25% POC out of his 48 law clerks. One writer noted that Kavanaughs views on affirmative action don't reflect his diverse hiring practices, while Ginsburg's progressive views don't extend to her chambers. This is an improvement from her 13-year tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, when Ginsburg never had any black clerks. When this issue was raised during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1993, Ginsburg said: “If you confirm me for this job, my attractiveness to black candidates is going to improve.” That promise was ignored.](https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/ruth-bader-ginsburg-can-learn-from-justice-kavanaugh) [2](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-bader-ginsburg-can-learn-something-from-brett-kavanaugh/2018/10/15/b8974a86-cd77-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html)
- [Her best friend on the court was the most racist, conservative justice in modern times, Scalia.](https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/03/the-rise-of-the-ruth-bader-ginsburg-cult) In the fawning book *Notorious RBG*, one of the few mentions of race is in the book’s discussion of Bush v. Gore, the contentious decision that decided the 2000 presidential election. The authors mention that Ginsburg’s draft of her dissent had a footnote alluding to the possible suppression of Black voters in Florida. Justice Scalia responded to this draft by flying into a rage, telling Ginsburg that she was using “Al Sharpton tactics.” Ginsburg removed the footnote before it saw the light of day. This anecdote’s inclusion in the book is baffling, as Ginsburg contemplates calling anti-Black racism in the most facile of ways. But when her friend Justice Scalia plucks an argument straight from right-wing talk radio to shame her out of doing so, Ginsburg instantly capitulates. Scalia called the Voting rights act ["racial entitlement"](https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/in-voting-rights-scalia-sees-a-racial-entitlement), opposed women's rights, and consistently defended anti-gay measures, yet these views did not stop her calling Scalia her ["best buddy" on the court, their families even spending every new year together.](https://www.vox.com/2016/2/14/10990156/scalia-ginsburg-friends) - [Her best friend on the court was the most racist, conservative justice in modern times, Scalia.](https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/03/the-rise-of-the-ruth-bader-ginsburg-cult) In the fawning book _Notorious RBG_, one of the few mentions of race is in the book’s discussion of Bush v. Gore, the contentious decision that decided the 2000 presidential election. The authors mention that Ginsburg’s draft of her dissent had a footnote alluding to the possible suppression of Black voters in Florida. Justice Scalia responded to this draft by flying into a rage, telling Ginsburg that she was using “Al Sharpton tactics.” Ginsburg removed the footnote before it saw the light of day. This anecdote’s inclusion in the book is baffling, as Ginsburg contemplates calling anti-Black racism in the most facile of ways. But when her friend Justice Scalia plucks an argument straight from right-wing talk radio to shame her out of doing so, Ginsburg instantly capitulates. Scalia called the Voting rights act ["racial entitlement"](https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/in-voting-rights-scalia-sees-a-racial-entitlement), opposed women's rights, and consistently defended anti-gay measures, yet these views did not stop her calling Scalia her ["best buddy" on the court, their families even spending every new year together.](https://www.vox.com/2016/2/14/10990156/scalia-ginsburg-friends)
#### Law and Order #### Law and Order
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### What about overpopulation / unsustainability? ### What about overpopulation / unsustainability?
* [Agricultural economist refutes overpopulation myths. ](https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/12/16766872/overpopulation-exaggerated-concern-climate-change-world-population) - [Agricultural economist refutes overpopulation myths. ](https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/12/16766872/overpopulation-exaggerated-concern-climate-change-world-population)
* [Dissecting the overpopulation myths. ](https://climateandcapitalism.com/2010/04/28/overpopulation-and-global-warming-dissecting-the-numbers-part-one/) - [Dissecting the overpopulation myths. ](https://climateandcapitalism.com/2010/04/28/overpopulation-and-global-warming-dissecting-the-numbers-part-one/)
* [Dont blame the babies, blame capitalism. ](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/children-climate-change-family-guilt) - [Dont blame the babies, blame capitalism. ](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/children-climate-change-family-guilt)
* [Overpopulation isnt causing climate change. Blame capitalism. ](https://www.redpepper.org.uk/overpopulation-isnt-causing-climate-change-blame-capitalism/) - [Overpopulation isnt causing climate change. Blame capitalism. ](https://www.redpepper.org.uk/overpopulation-isnt-causing-climate-change-blame-capitalism/)
### Why don't socialists support a UBI / Universal Basic income? ### Why don't socialists support a UBI / Universal Basic income?
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- [Justifying his "non-racist use" of the n-word](https://twitter.com/high_define/status/1265033740075634688) - [Justifying his "non-racist use" of the n-word](https://twitter.com/high_define/status/1265033740075634688)
- ["Fuck black culture."](https://www.reddit.com/r/Enough_Vaush_Spam/comments/lv9qu8/vaush_patronizes_a_black_nationalist/) - ["Fuck black culture."](https://www.reddit.com/r/Enough_Vaush_Spam/comments/lv9qu8/vaush_patronizes_a_black_nationalist/)
- Calls people ["Mentally ill crybabies"](https://i.imgur.com/T0RnOCC.jpg), "Woke-Scolds", and "Simps". - Calls people ["Mentally ill crybabies"](https://i.imgur.com/T0RnOCC.jpg), "Woke-Scolds", and "Simps".
- ["US geopolitical power is important to me personally, because I'm not ready to lose that to China"](https://twitter.com/AlMuntherO_O/status/1260679840698634242?s=20). *got removed* - ["US geopolitical power is important to me personally, because I'm not ready to lose that to China"](https://twitter.com/AlMuntherO_O/status/1260679840698634242?s=20). _got removed_
- [Vaush goes full neocon - "The US shouldn't pull out of the middle east, or else chaos would ensue, and these countries would become like Cambodia [which the USA bombed and overthrew Sihanouk - Ed]. Then they'd become chinese vassal states"](https://streamable.com/kfzaxj). - [Vaush goes full neocon - "The US shouldn't pull out of the middle east, or else chaos would ensue, and these countries would become like Cambodia [which the USA bombed and overthrew Sihanouk - Ed]. Then they'd become chinese vassal states"](https://streamable.com/kfzaxj).
- [Says its a mistake for the US military to leave Afghanistan. Calls the 2.7 trillions dollars spent, and hundreds of thousands of afghan lives lost, "relatively cheap."](https://twitter.com/AndeanComintern/status/1427377366926508036?s=20) - [Says its a mistake for the US military to leave Afghanistan. Calls the 2.7 trillions dollars spent, and hundreds of thousands of afghan lives lost, "relatively cheap."](https://twitter.com/AndeanComintern/status/1427377366926508036?s=20)
- [Is against decolonization.](https://twitter.com/trikstr_/status/1280053214117793792) "We're not going to fkn leave America, white people are staying... we're not gonna give something back to native Americans... the best way forward is to integrate our communities". Vaush responds to a native person talking about indigenous movements and rights by saying: ["I'll listen to the scientists."](https://twitter.com/guajirx/status/1280314035217588224?s=21) - [Is against decolonization.](https://twitter.com/trikstr_/status/1280053214117793792) "We're not going to fkn leave America, white people are staying... we're not gonna give something back to native Americans... the best way forward is to integrate our communities". Vaush responds to a native person talking about indigenous movements and rights by saying: ["I'll listen to the scientists."](https://twitter.com/guajirx/status/1280314035217588224?s=21)

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## Week ## Week
Day | Workout | Day | Workout |
--- | --- | ----- | --------- |
Mon | Lower | Mon | Full Body |
Tues | Upper + Abs | Tues | Rest |
Wed | Rest | Wed | Rest |
Thurs | Lower + Abs | Thurs | Full Body |
Fri | Upper + Cardio | Fri | Rest |
Order: Chest, Legs, Arms, Cardio / Core, Posture
## Equipment ## Equipment
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## Videos ## Videos
### Upper videos ### Chest
#### Chest - [MiDASMVMT - 15 min dumbell chest workout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o1YzksPuqg)
- [Fraser Wilson - 20 min chest and shoulder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDtemhu9PjA)
#### Arms ### Arms
#### Back - [Fraser Wilson - 15 min arm workout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY6-JzdnHUM)
- [Fraser Wilson - 20 min dumbell arms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzwU9RR6l2w)
#### Shoulders ### Back
- [MiDaSMVMT - 15 min Dumbbell back](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjzlUcjsRLs)
### Shoulders
- [MiDaSMVMT - 15 min shoulders and traps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ5kX8BBmw4)
### Lower ### Lower
### Abs / core - [FitnessBlender - 30 min dumbbell squats and deadlifts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0FxMguetIw)
- [Juice & Toya - 20 min lower body dumbell workout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PRk8DH2_mY)
- [Fraser Wilson - 20 min home leg workout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wg9g9Uxomg)
### Cardio / abs
- [FitnessBlender - 20 min Brutal HIIT Ladder Workout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnsLVArIt8)
- [Fraser Wilson - 20 min Dumbell abs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9HcNA2AXnQ)
- [Pamela Reif - 10 min hiit workout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr08J6wB53Y)
- [Athlean X - 6 pack abs workout (10 mins)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OF3q6MHie8)
### Posture / corrective
- [Jeremy Ethier / GjustLink - Follow-along 12 min posture routine ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV67sCZwBuc)
## Dieting
- [Jeff Nippard - The smartest way to get lean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8V9ZaSq9Oc)
### Cardio