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 | [Communalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communalism)     | A system that integrates communal ownership and federations of highly localised independent communities, developed by libertarian socialist Murray Bookchin. |
 | [Utopian Socialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopian_socialism) | A collection of socialist ideas that predated Marx, namely those of Owen, Fourier, and Saint-Simon. They focus on the presentation of visions and outlines for imaginary or futuristic ideal societies, with positive ideals being the main reason for moving society in such a direction. Later socialists such as Marx and Engels criticized utopian socialism as not being grounded in the material conditions of existing society, and for not identifying the wage-earning class capable of making the transition, and relying on wealthy utopian reformers acting within a capitalist framework. |

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 ## Sources

 - [Principles of communism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm)
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 * [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)
 * [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)

 ## On Ultra-leftism / Left-Communism

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 * [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/)
 * [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)
+* [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/)

 ## Did economic planning work?
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    - [FBI cointel directives on "nonviolent" groups.](https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/814)
 - [Is a state really necessary to transition into communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/f0l14l/why_is_a_state_necessary_to_transition_into/)
 - [Engels - on authority. ](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm)
- [An Overview of Leninism](https://theimmortalscience.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/), [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)
+- [An Overview of Leninism](https://theimmortalscience.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/), [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoaFTdUpdzXv-zCvYsz4sB01). [Lenin - State and Revolution](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/) , [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GrP0EVJkVE&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoatUez9-2vaAvB78afoKNRC)
 - [Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution](https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/), [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhzmaUofLS8&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoYqO_Yec4sWzPeeFXMOkPWs)
 - [Trotsky - Fascism - What it is and how to fight it](https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm), [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39lCH8PnZ8&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoa-4fIC4TbpTJgRM77It6LC)

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 - [What about the history of Marxist Feminism?](https://isreview.org/issue/93/womens-liberation-marxist-tradition)
 - [Thomas Sankara - Women’s liberation and African freedom struggle](http://www.themilitant.com/2011/7502/750249.html)
 - [Clara Zetkin - Lenin and the Women's Question](https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1920/lenin/zetkin1.htm)
- [Witchcraft - Class struggle and women's liberation in the middle ages.](https://www.cvltnation.com/rebellion-of-the-damned-witchcraft-as-social-revolt-in-early-modern-france/)
+- [Witchcraft - Class struggle and women's liberation in the middle ages.](https://www.cvltnation.com/rebellion-of-the-damned-witchcraft-as-social-revolt-in-early-modern-france/) [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoYf68CgjTOc88IDu1mvI4_L)
 - [Interviews with Women in the USSR.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/e30gjm/ussr_and_women_rights/f90d0r8/)
 - [What's wrong with "more women CEO" / imperial feminism?](https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1207061598680027137?s=20)

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 - [*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
- [*Socialism: Utopian and Scientific*](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/) by Friedrich Engels
+- [*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

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 * [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)
 * [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 State Capitalist?

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 * [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)
 * [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).
+* [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/)
 * [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)
 * [What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC\)?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff_ZkwJmfWQ)
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 * [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 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/)
+* [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)
 * [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 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/)
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 ### Is China Imperialist?

 - [Debunking the claim that "China is Imperialist"](https://medium.com/@rainershea612/catagorically-debunking-the-claim-that-china-is-imperialist-a9ae7b280a44)
- [The demeanor of Chinese leaders (Xi Jinping) vs Western leaders (Nancy Pelosi) towards African nations. One of the reasons why African nations favor China instead of the West.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/kxabq5/the_demeanor_of_chinese_leaders_xi_jinping_vs/)
+- [The demeanor of Chinese leaders (Xi Jinping) vs Western leaders (Nancy Pelosi) towards African nations. One of the reasons why African nations favor China instead of the West.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/kxabq5/the_demeanor_of_chinese_leaders_xi_jinping_vs/) [Full video here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uzxV8ub9k)
 - [Is China really imperialist? What's the difference between what Europe did to Africa, and what China is doing?](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/g0lp70/people_are_saying_that_china_is_colonialist_by/fnanq5x/)
+- [US air force veteran Bill Brown breaks down the history of anti-chinese propaganda, and why China is not colonialist like the west.](https://twitter.com/thouse_opinions/status/1371723368832004099)
 - [Yanis Varoufakis on China's foreign policy dealings with Greece and Africa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBgbYQ5QAM0).
 - [Vijay Prashad and Qiao Collective - Is China imperializing Africa?](https://www.qiaocollective.com/home/conversation-vijay-prashad)
 - [Danny Haiphong from BlackAgenaReport interview with Anya Parampil from thegrayzone: on the new cold war, and a myriad of lies about China.](https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/24/42711/)
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 - [China has forgiven over $10B in debt, over half to Cuba](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2019/05/29/china-has-forgiven-nearly-10-billion-in-debt-cuba-accounts-for-over-half/#7a4116c3615b), but also including > 20 African nations, Pakistan, and Cambodia.
 - [After covid, China suspends debt repayment for 77 countries, promises > $2B USD and medical supplies as aid to help developing countries fight covid.](https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1190790.shtml)
 - [President Xi pledges coronavirus vaccine to Africa first, helps fund African CDC headquarters.](https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1191988.shtml)
+- [China writes off $6M in debt to rwanda, provides another $60M in grants.](https://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/china-cancels-6-million-debt-rwanda-offers-extra-grants)
 - [China forgives over $78M in Cameroon debt](https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/04/china/cameroon-china-debt-relief-intl/index.html).
 - [China writes off $36m Mozambican debt](https://furtherafrica.com/2017/10/26/china-writes-off-36m-mozambican-debt/).
 - [China writes off substantial amount of Angola debt.](https://www.angop.ao/angola/en_us/noticias/politica/2017/5/23/China-agrees-partial-write-off-Angola-debt,73246665-509c-48a2-ae40-415d3fb65b00.html)
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 - [Egyptian media delegates provide a detailed insight of the situation in Xinjiang](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/430738-egyptian-media-delegates-provide-a-detailed-insight-of-the-situation-in-xinjiang)
 - [A majority of Muslim countries support China's policies in XinJiang](https://i.imgur.com/Cks29xL.jpg), [and don't believe the western lies told about it.](https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/07/278860/arab-muslim-majority-countries-china-mistreatment-uighurs/). [54 Countries in total](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1168522.shtml). [2](http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/13/c_138222183.htm), [3](https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/china-thanks-37-countries-including-islamic-states-praising-its), [4](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1159357.shtml) Supporters: Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, DR Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Gabon, Kuwait, Laos, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkmenistan, UAE, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
 - [China's policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region lift 1.85 million people out of poverty from 2014-2017.](http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/24/c_137554986.htm?source=post_page---------------------------)
+- [Dan Cohen - Is China committing genocide? Behind the US goverments propaganda campaign.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjurb61SZgk)
+- [Redsails - The Xinjiang atrocity propaganda blitz](https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/)
 - [RodericDay - A thread about the key sources for Uyghur Genocide (Especially Adrian Zenz).](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1287411708374454273.html)
+- [BayArea415 - american debunks major western propaganda on Uyghurs and Xinjiang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yURIS7S9zg)
 - [US fuels terrorism in China.](https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/24/us-fueling-terrorism-in-china/) 
 - [Wiki on the Turkestan Islamic Party (has a full list of terrorist attacks committed by east turkestan separatists)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party)
 - [About the TiP (Turkestan Islamic Party)](https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/05/china-s-uyghur-problem-the-unmentioned-part/)
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 - [If China Is Anti-Islam, Why Are These Chinese Muslims Enjoying a Faith Revival?](https://time.com/3099950/china-muslim-hui-xinjiang-uighur-islam/) 
 - [A New York Times "expose" of re-education centers in Xinjiang lied and mistranslated every claim.](https://www.quora.com/What-would-be-the-consequences-of-the-New-York-Times-expose-on-Xinjiang/answer/Jamin-Chen-1)
 - [Reddit holds an AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e9ad4n/i_am_rushan_abbas_uyghur_activist_and_survivor_of/) for an "Uyghur Activist", who turns out to be [Rushan Abbas](https://web.archive.org/web/20181207031224/https://www.isi-consultants.com/rushan-abbas/), a CIA agent who worked for Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of State, Department of Justice, and various U.S. intelligence agencies, and even worked at Guantanamo bay, the US muslim torture camp. [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/e9crzq/shit_liberals_do_claim_to_be_an_uyghur_survivor/) [2](https://medium.com/@rsahthion/a-reddit-ama-claiming-to-be-a-uiyghur-quickly-exposes-a-cia-asset-slandering-china-1d667c098b77)
- [Reddit holds yet another AMA with Sophie Richardson, the "China director" at the US soft-power regime change agency Human Rights Watch. The comments expose her as not speaking chinese, and spreading blatant lies about China.](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hwi7ub/i_am_sophie_richardson_china_director_at_human/)
+- [Reddit holds yet another AMA with Sophie Richardson, the "China director" at the US soft-power regime-change agency Human Rights Watch. The comments expose her as not speaking chinese, and spreading blatant lies about China.](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hwi7ub/i_am_sophie_richardson_china_director_at_human/)
+- [Reddit holds another AMA with a grifting author, Amelia Pang](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m99tvp/im_the_author_of_made_in_china_a_prisoner_an_sos/), who wrote a NYTimes best selling book about going undercover into an Uyghur prison. It turns out that she worked for the Epoch Times for many years, and also never visited or talked with a single prisoner. Her book is based on extrapolations from a 1991 film. She leaves the AMA after leaving all the top questions unanswered.
 - [A case study in Anti-Chinese racism.](https://medium.com/@rsahthion/a-case-study-in-racist-anti-chinese-sentiment-fuelled-by-american-bots-and-western-propaganda-f0a69978d568)
 - [Debunking an article from the intercept about Uyghurs.](https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1355383514137554944?s=20)
 - [Zenz makes a claim that 500,000 tibetans (1 out of every 3 working age Tibetans) are in forced labor camps.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/ixmy9p/china_has_somehow_put_16_of_the_entire_tibetan/)
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  - [AOC wants abolish ICE, only to replace it with a resurrected INS, yet another agency whose goal was breaking up families. ](https://i.imgur.com/ficPkrO.jpg)
  - [As of 2020, replaces some of her more radical staff with political professionals, breaks with Sanders, calling his strategy too "conflict based", wants to start working more with establishment Dems.](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/30/new-aoc-divides-the-left-150767)
  - [In December 2020, after a proposal by comic Jimmy Dore, for house democrats to refuse support for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, unless she agrees to bring a Medicare for all bill to the house, to bring relief for US citizens who lost healthcare during the pandemic. AOC and the rest of the "squad" refused, and backed Pelosi, citing concerns that the bill would not win anyway. Dore retorted that 9 / 10 democratic voters, and even a majority of republican voters support medicare for all.](https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/jimmy-dore-calls-on-democrats-to-withhold-support-for-nancy-pelosi-unless-she-brings-single-payer-medicare-for-all-to-a-vote/)
+  - [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.
 - [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 supports Israel, and its genocide of Palestineans.](https://i.imgur.com/K6QsYZo.jpg)
 - [Is against pardoning Julian Assange.](https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1359550389578854406?s=20)
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 - [After Trump fires John Bolton (who tried and failed at starting wars with North Korea, Venezuela, and Iran), she goes full neocon, angry that Trump isn't going to war with North Korea.](https://i.imgur.com/3rSM3oU.jpg)
 - [Believes that Trump "betrays" US values.](https://i.imgur.com/H61toBx.png)
 - [Claims that socialist theory is only for priviledged few with college educated parents, and that working class people aren't capable of understanding theory. Is unaware of the Spanish-speaking socialist tradition. ](https://medium.com/@marko_v_kobak/sharpening-the-mind-a-response-to-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-24babecac9c5?fbclid=IwAR2I8uYX9ZUvPyd5MZxKiIEeXgbgnfzulR4qjzOGF1hxK6SEX7oqkFmyBIc)
+- [After Biden opens new child immigrant detention facilities in February 2021, she stops calling them "concentration camps", and names them "influx facilities".](https://i.imgur.com/oSlwtda.jpg)

 ### What's wrong with Elizabeth Warren?

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 ### Joe Biden

+- [Breaks every single campaign promise.](https://twitter.com/nickwestes/status/1369670676299214852?s=20)
 - [Biden on young, black, "super-predators"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seRaSRZKo2U)
 - [Biden - "I don't want to defund the police, we need more police. Trump wants to tho"](https://twitter.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1297035723485323264?s=20) [2](https://twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1303377661545324545?s=20)
 - ["I have no plans for defense cuts."](https://www.stripes.com/news/us/biden-says-us-must-maintain-small-force-in-middle-east-has-no-plans-for-major-defense-cuts-1.644631)
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 - [Danny Haiphong - Biden's victory in the 2020 election is still a loss for humanity](https://blackagendareport.com/joe-bidens-victory-still-loss-humanity)
 - [LiberationNews - On Biden taking office](https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-biden-in-office-capitalists-in-power/)
 - Biden breaks nearly every campaign promise his first few weeks in office, including a promise to [raise the minimum wage, telling governors its not going to happen.](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/18/biden-governors-minimum-wage-469898)
+- [Airstrikes Syria his first few days in office. It took Trump over a year to do the same.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-syria-strike/exclusive-u-s-carries-out-airstrike-against-iranian-backed-militia-target-in-syria-officials-idUSKBN2AP33D)

 ### Greta Thunberg

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  - [Defends using the N-word as a "power-move" which he is unashamed of.](https://i.imgur.com/ExE1sFZ.jpg)
  - [Bans a black woman from his discord for finding his use of the n-word highly offensive.](https://twitter.com/high_define/status/1322473467434991617?s=20)
  - [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/)
 - 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*
 - [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)
@ -1178,6 +1192,7 @@ Much credit to [David Kinder's current affairs article, the rise of the Ruth Bad
 - ["Marxism isn't about collectivism, its about freedom from tyranny. Collectivism is groupthink."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWsrVEyEIcI)
 - [Hakim - Vaush has no idea what he's talking about.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX9_kXYMSck)
 - [Claims that tankies only exist in "small online circles", ignoring the millions of communists in the global south.](https://twitter.com/duck_azz/status/1291635709154033664?s=20)
+- [Supports US presence in the middle east as a "stabilizing force"](https://twitter.com/SpookySocialist/status/1367635044311957506?s=20)
 - ["Tacoma wept."](https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1300197204443893760)

 ### Buddhism
@ -1214,4 +1229,5 @@ Much credit to [David Kinder's current affairs article, the rise of the Ruth Bad
 - CPUSA [1](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/bidens-crisis-presidency-and-potential-for-transformative-change/), [2](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/biden-and-sanders-establish-task-force-to-unite-party-on-progressive-agenda/), [3](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/a-clear-shot-shows-diversity-on-police-forces-a-good-thing/)
 - [Ziq](https://web.archive.org/web/20180405002453/https://raddle.me/f/lobby/28422/i-m-stepping-down-as-admin-because-of-some-shit-i-did-emma)
 - [Robert Evans](https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1288116233133424648) [2](https://communism.lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/XwBw0R0M59.jpg)
+- Paul Morrin - [China is imperialist](https://twitter.com/LurkerUntamed/status/1372732445146165251?s=20), [Cuba, China, the DPRK, and the USSR are "social imperialist".](https://twitter.com/ANTICONQUISTA/status/1375213633186193413)
 - [A response to David Harvey's theories of Imperialism by John Smith.](https://urpe.wordpress.com/2018/01/11/a-critique-of-david-harvey-on-imperialism/)
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 ### Middle East

+- On February 25th, 2021, in his first month in office, [Biden bombs Syria](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-bombs-facilities-syria-used-iran-backed-militia-n1258912), killing at least 22 people. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby called the bombing “proportionate” and “defensive.” [2](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/25/us-airstrike-syria-iran-militia)
 - On November 27th, 2020, Israel [assassinated Iranian nuclear physicist Moshen Fakhrizadeh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohsen_Fakhrizadeh) via a satellite controlled vehicle-mounted machine gun, which then self-detonated after killing him. The attack was likely commited by Israel with US help and foreknowledge.
 - On January 2nd, 2020, [President Donald Trump ordered the drone assassination](https://i.imgur.com/EJYI44G.jpg) of [Iranian General Qassem Soleimani](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/iraq-3-katyusha-rockets-fired-baghdad-airport-200102232817666.html) [2](https://apnews.com/5597ff0f046a67805cc233d5933a53ed), in a blatant act of war against Iran. Soleimani was a beloved figure to the Iranian people, his death sending shockwaves among residents, and a 3-day national mourning period was declared. Hillary Mann Leverett, a former White House National Security official, said the killing of Soleimani was a "declaration of war" on Iran, and is "equivalent to the Iranians assassinating the US defence secretary". The drone attack was part of several targeted [US airstrikes](https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/01/breaking-iranian-general-soleimani-killed-in-illegal-us-airstrikes-on-baghdad/), and comes in the wake of turmoil following [another series of US airstrikes](https://www.axios.com/pentagon-airstrikes-syria-iraq-hezbollah-5f9800dd-b668-4ff7-a3d7-d987f031a1aa.html) in Iraq and Syria [which killed 25 members of the Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah militia](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50951742), after which [outraged Iraqi protesters surrounded the US embassy in Baghdad](https://www.axios.com/us-embassy-baghdad-iraq-attacked-protestors-iran-6e700ad0-d9cc-49cb-868b-3225dc070bd4.html). In response, the US blamed "Iranian infiltrators" for the embassy attack, and [deployed an additional 750 troops](https://www.axios.com/us-embassy-attack-750-troops-deployed-iraq-2ecf4632-2143-4531-bc1a-936cfd5e6553.html), bolstering the 14k troops currently stationed in  [~20 military bases surrounding Iran](https://i.imgur.com/dlyDNr6.jpg). Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi militia commander, was also killed in a pre-dawn raid on the same day. That evening, another US airstrike in Iraq [killed 6 people.](https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Air-Strikes-Targeting-Iraqi-Militia-Kill-Six-Army-Source-20200103-0012.html)
 - In September 2019, the [US killed at least 30 pine nut farmers, and injured 40 others via a drone attack](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/afghanistan-dozens-civilians-killed-drone-attack-190919072728303.html) in the nangarhar province in Afghanistan. Malik Rahat Gul, a tribal elder in Wazir Tangi, said the air raid happened at a time when tired workers, mainly daily wage earners, had gathered near their tent after harvesting pine nuts in a field nearby. "The workers had lit a bonfire and were sitting together when a drone targeted them". This marks the 18th year of war in Afghanistan. 
@ -192,7 +193,7 @@ Notes :

 ### Europe

- In late 2019, [CIA agent Anne Sacoolas hit and killed a British teenage pedestrian named Harry Dunn with her car](https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/18/assange-us-extradite-cia-killed-british-teen/#more-20969), while she was driving on the wrong side of the road, near the RAF Croughton base in the UK where she and her husband (both CIA agents) worked. After the Foreign and Commonwealth office rejected Anne Sacoolas request for diplomatic immunity, Anne fled the UK on a US Air Force plane. Both the US and UK governments lied to the Dunn family, saying that she was a US diplomat, and hid the fact that she had fled for months. In October, the Dunn family visited the White House and met with Donald Trump. According to Seiger, Trump tried to buy off the couple, promising them that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was “standing by ready to write a check.” Trump reportedly blindsided the Dunns, telling them that Sacoolas was in the other room waiting to meet with them. The couple refused the offer, demanding her extradition. Sacoolas's lawyers have stated, “Anne will not return voluntarily to the United Kingdom to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident.” As of February 2020, the extradition request is at an impasse, while at the same time the UK is complying with Julian Assange's extradition to the US. RAF Croughton base houses agents from the NSA and CIA, and is famous for being exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for forwarding information from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone to the CIA.
+- In late 2019, [CIA agent Anne Sacoolas hit and killed a British teenage pedestrian named Harry Dunn with her car](https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/18/assange-us-extradite-cia-killed-british-teen/#more-20969), while she was driving on the wrong side of the road, near the RAF Croughton base in the UK where she and her husband (both CIA agents) worked. After the Foreign and Commonwealth office rejected Anne Sacoolas request for diplomatic immunity, Anne fled the UK on a US Air Force plane. Both the US and UK governments lied to the Dunn family, saying that she was a US diplomat, and hid the fact that she had fled for months. In October, the Dunn family visited the White House and met with Donald Trump. According to Seiger, Trump tried to buy off the couple, promising them that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was “standing by ready to write a check.” Trump reportedly blindsided the Dunns, telling them that Sacoolas was in the other room waiting to meet with them. The couple refused the offer, demanding her extradition. Sacoolas's lawyers have stated, “Anne will not return voluntarily to the United Kingdom to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident.” As of February 2020, the extradition request is at an impasse, while at the same time the UK is complying with Julian Assange's extradition to the US. RAF Croughton base houses agents from the NSA and CIA, and is famous for being exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for forwarding information from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone to the CIA. On march 2021, the [US admitted that sacoolas was a CIA agent.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36C3gmE3fWY) 
 - In 2003, the CIA kidnapped Italian milanese Imam Abu Omar, took him to Egypt, then tortured, including rape, genital electro-shock, and resulted in him becoming deaf in one ear, in the [Imam Rapito Affair.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Rapito_affair) On 23 December 2005, a judge issued a European arrest warrant against 22 CIA agents, but the US hasn't responded.
 - From March to June of 1999, After Serbs refused to acquiesce in the break-up of their republic, the US and NATO began [bombing Yugoslavia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia) killing ~500 civilians, leaving thousands homeless, destroying bridges, industrial plants, public buildings, private businesses, as well as barracks and military installations. [1](https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/18/breaking-yugoslavia-how-the-us-used-nato-as-its-battering-ram/), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia)
 - In February, 1998, A US marine core plane flying wrecklessly below regulations, cut a cable supporting aerial cable cars at a ski resort near Cavalese, Italy, killing 20 people, in the [Cavalese Cable Car Disaster.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_\(1998\)) The pilots destroyed the plane's tape, and were found not guilty. Italian prosecutors were outraged that the US refused to forgoe the NATO treaty that gives all jurisduction to US military courts. By February 1999, the victims' families had received USD $65,000 per victim as immediate help by the Italian government, which was reimbursed by the U.S. government. In May 1999, the U.S. Congress rejected a bill that would have set up a $40 million compensation fund for the victims. In December 1999, the Italian legislature approved a monetary compensation plan for the families ($1.9 million per victim). NATO treaties obligated the U.S. government to pay 75% of this compensation, which it did.
@ -375,6 +376,7 @@ Notes :
 ### Workers and the Poor

 - [1 out of every 7 US citizens needs to visit food banks to survive](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/hunger-study-food/14195585/), despite having enough food to feed [10 billion people.](https://www.oxfam.ca/there-enough-food-feed-world) Half of all food produced is [thrown away by retailers.](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect) [Food waste in 2018 enough to feed world's hungry 4 times over.](https://reliefweb.int/report/world/food-waste-enough-feed-world-s-hungry-four-times-over) [An analysis by the Brookings Institution conducted the summer of 2021 found that, 27.5% of households with children were food insecure — meaning some 13.9 million children lived in a household characterized by child food insecurity. A separate analysis by researchers at Northwestern found insecurity has more than tripled among households with children to 29.5% in late 2020.](https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/912486921/food-insecurity-in-the-u-s-by-the-numbers)
+- US federal and state governments have epically mismanaged and failed to mobilize a response to a global pandemic caused by the [Covid 19](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19) virus. Many state governments repeat an endless cycle of refusing to mandate protective measures such as masks and stay-at-home orders, refusing to close super-spreader locations like restaurants, churches, and gyms, then seeing rising death counts, hospital crowding, and a shortage of ventilators. Despite the high death count, many mainstream US news sources continue to call the virus a hoax, and alternatively the "Chinese virus", shifting blame for its mismanagement to the US's new primary enemy. Before many countries developed vaccines, [Trump attempted a backroom deal to buy a German company working on a vaccine, prompting angry reactions from German politicians](https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-confirms-that-donald-trump-tried-to-buy-firm-working-on-coronavirus-vaccine/). The US, along with other OECD nations, [voted in Feb 2021 to block a push by developing nations to waive vaccine patent rights](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-wto-idUSKBN2B21V9) [2](https://i.imgur.com/uNj73qU.png), in an effort to stop developing nations from producing current vaccines, and protect US pharma's intellectual property. As of April 2021, there have been 540k civilian deaths within its borders ( the worst death / capita rates globally of any nation), and an uncountable more outside.
 - An analysis of 2016 data showed that [8 men control as much wealth as half of the world's population](http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/15/news/economy/oxfam-income-inequality-men/). Those 8 men are Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Amancio Ortega, Larry Ellison and Michael Bloomberg, and are collectively worth $426 billion. [1](http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/15/news/economy/oxfam-income-inequality-men/)
 - US authorities have a [long history of murdering striking workers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_United_States_labor_disputes) fighting for better conditions, dating back to the 1800s, up to the present day. According to a study in 1969, the United States has had the bloodiest and most violent labor history of any industrial nation in the world, and there have been few industries which have been immune.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_United_States_labor_disputes#cite_note-1) A long list of these deaths and disputes can be found [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_United_States_labor_disputes), and [this article on the Labor History of the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States#Organized_labor_1929.E2.80.931955). 
 - US conservatives and authorities have systematically dismantled labor unions over the past few decades, and by 2011 fewer than 7% of employees in the private sector belong to unions. The number of major work stoppages fell by 97% from 381 in 1970 to 187 in 1980 to only 11 in 2010.[129](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States#cite_note-129), [130](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States#cite_note-130) The accumulating weaknesses were exposed when President Ronald Reagan—a former union president—broke the [Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_%281968%29) strike in 1981, dealing a major blow to unions.[131](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States#cite_note-round-131) Union membership among workers in private industry shrank dramatically, though after 1970 there was growth in employees unions of federal, state and local governments.[132](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States#cite_note-132),[133](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States#cite_note-133) The intellectual mood in the 1970s and 1980s favored deregulation and free competition.[134](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States#cite_note-Derthick218-134) Numerous industries were deregulated, including airlines, trucking, railroads and telephones, over the objections of the unions involved.[135](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States#cite_note-135) Republicans, using conservative [think tanks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank) as idea farms, began to push through legislative blueprints to curb the power of public employee unions as well as eliminate business regulations.[128](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States#cite_note-Carter_A._Wilson_2013_256.E2.80.9357-128),[136](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States#cite_note-136) Union weakness in the [Southern United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States) undermined unionization and social reform throughout the nation, and such weakness is largely responsible for the anaemic U.S. [welfare state](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state).[137](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States#cite_note-137),[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States#Unions_since_1955)
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 ## Racially motivated

+- [A poll in 2019](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/one-third-of-americans-would-support-a-preemptive-nuclear-strike-on-north-korea-researchers-say/2019/06/25/25ed1314-9711-11e9-a027-c571fd3d394d_story.html) found that 1/3rd of US citizens support a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the DPRK.
 - https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/h8kpvq/two_black_men_have_been_found_hanged_in_public_in/ TODO 
 - According to hate crimes researcher Brian Levin, hate crimes in nine US metropolitan areas [have risen by 20%](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-hate-crimes-20-percent-2016-fueled-election-campaign-n733306) in the years following Trump's election. <sup>[1](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-hate-crimes-20-percent-2016-fueled-election-campaign-n733306) [2](https://theintercept.com/2018/10/27/here-is-a-list-of-far-right-attackers-trump-inspired-cesar-sayoc-wasnt-the-first-and-wont-be-the-last/) [3](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41975573) [4](http://saalt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Communities-on-Fire.pdf)</sup>
 - US citizens are [7 times more likely to be killed by a far-right extremist than a Muslim attacker.](https://thinkprogress.org/you-are-more-than-7-times-as-likely-to-be-killed-by-a-right-wing-extremist-than-by-muslim-terrorists-417f3c3461db/)