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- [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)
* [But what about human nature?](#but-what-about-human-nature)
* [What about human nature?](#what-about-human-nature)
* [Schools of thought](#schools-of-thought)
* [Socialism vs. communism](#socialism-vs-communism)
* [Did the planned economies work?](#did-the-planned-economies-work)
* [Did economic planning work?](#did-economic-planning-work)
* [Who would sweep the floors under communism?](#who-would-sweep-the-floors-under-communism)
* [What about cooperatives?](#what-about-cooperatives)
* [Pacifism and Violence](#pacifism-and-violence)
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- [What about the gulags?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/9bem2d/what_were_the_gulags_according_to_self_identified/e52ls2e/)
- [Didn't the USSR kill millions of it citizens, with most people living in poverty and dying early?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union#Life_expectancy_and_infant_mortality)
- [What about Stalin, the purges, the holodomor, etc? A revleft podcast.](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joseph-mother-fucking-stain)
- [Why are there no modern revolutions, in the past 40 years?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/9y34ea/why_are_there_no_revolutions/)
## But what about human nature?
## What about human nature?
- [History and human nature.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/crash_course_socialism.md#history-and-human-nature)
- [What about human nature?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2yk3xl/what_about_human_nature_answer_but_add_yours_too/)
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* [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/)
## Did the planned economies work?
## Did economic planning work?
- [Did Socialism work, in the USSR?](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/86tqdd/but_socialism_doesnt_work_s/dw7qco0/)
- [Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work?](http://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work)
- [Did Socialism work, in the USSR?](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/capitalism_doesnt_work.md)
- [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)
- [My economics teacher said that the planned economies communist countries had are proven failures. Is this true?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/3e68nf/my_economics_teacher_said_that_the_planned/)
- [Towards a new socialism - Cockshott and Cottrell](http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/)
- [Towards a new socialism - Cockshott and Cottrell](http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/) [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjHCPWs5sl4&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZNiItBbuVvKQBdE80tsyhx)
- [Why are communists against markets?](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/market_socialism.md)
## Who would sweep the floors under communism?
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- [Is human labor the source of value because human beings do not normally work for free?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1hjpgk/is_human_labor_the_source_of_value_because_human/)
- [Value as a necessary product of labor?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2ufx5a/value_as_a_necessary_product_of_labor/)
- [What is the right way to think about the relation between value and labor?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1d3jy2/what_is_the_right_way_to_think_about_the_relation/)
- [Whats so bad about land ownership / renting / private property? Why do socialists want to abolish it? Don't landowners do work?](https://www.reddit.com/r/CapitalismVSocialism/comments/7r0t5a/how_landlords_create_value/dsu99td/)
- [I am in trouble understanding how exactly would a private property abolition work.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1su2je/i_am_in_trouble_understanding_how_exactly_would_a/)
- [Private property: Cause or result of alienation?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1c35xf/private_property_cause_or_result_of_alienation/)
- [In Marxian economics, is 'value' distinct from 'price'? What does 'value' indicate, exactly?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/139g19/in_marxian_economics_is_value_distinct_from_price/)

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## Racially motivated
- 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>
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- On Oct 27, 2018, a white supremacist [shot and killed 11 people and wounded 7 more in a Synagogue in Pittsburgh PA, while morning shabbat services were being held.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting). The shooter posted on the right-wing social network Gab, shortly before the attack that "HIAS (Hebrew immigrant aid society) likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in." He shouted "All Jews must die" as he carried out the attack. The shooting was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States in history. The intervening years between 2016 and 2018 saw rising indicators of antisemitism in American public life, including a 57% rise in antisemitic incidents in 2017 in context of rising hate crimes against other groups including Muslims and African Americans as reported by the FBI, a wave of vandalizations of hundreds of Jewish gravestones in Pennsylvania and Missouri, and a multiplication by 2 of antisemitic incidents on university campuses. [2](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46002549)
- On Oct 24, 2018, A white supremacist [killed two black people, Maurice Stallard, and Vickie Jones, while they were shopping at a Kroger in Jeffersontown Kentucky.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersontown_Kroger_shooting) The shooter had earlier tried to enter the First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown, a predominantly black church, during a service but was unable to because the doors were locked. Between 10 to 15 minutes later, Bush entered the Kroger, shot Stallard inside, then Jones in the parking lot. He then exchanged gunfire with a bystander, who saw him shoot Jones. Another man said Bush told him, "Don't shoot me. I won't shoot you. Whites don't shoot whites" and then tried to flee.
- On Oct 24, 2018, A white supremacist [killed two black people, Maurice Stallard, and Vickie Jones, while they were shopping at a Kroger in Jeffersontown Kentucky.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersontown_Kroger_shooting) The shooter had earlier tried to enter the First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown, a predominantly black church, during a service but was unable to because the doors were locked. Between 10 to 15 minutes later, Bush entered the Kroger, shot Stallard inside, then Jones in the parking lot. He then exchanged gunfire with a bystander, who saw him shoot Jones. Another man said Bush told him, "Don't shoot me. I won't shoot you. Whites don't shoot whites" and then tried to flee.
- In late October 2018, Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc Jr. (later nicknamed the magabomber), [mailed sixteen packages containing pipe bombs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2018_United_States_mail_bombing_attempts#Suspect) to several critics of Donald Trump, including various Democratic Party politicians. Sayoc constructed the pipe bombs in his [van, covered with pro-trump and pro-pence stickers.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/pipe-bomb-suspect-apos-van-180951324.html) It was later found that Sayoc's Florida home was [foreclosed on by Trump's treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin's, Bank](https://theintercept.com/2018/10/26/cesar-sayoc-foreclosure-steven-mnuchin/), during a period of foreclosures caused by the 2008 financial crisis.
- In March 2018, a young conservative named Mark Conditt sent a [series of letter bombs in Austin Texas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_serial_bombings), killing 2 people, and wounding 6 bystanders. The bombs appeared to target the east side of Austin, which predominantly consists of poorer, African-American and Latino residents. Austin police chief Brian Manley initially refused to classify Conditt as a terrorist, stating, "he does not at all mention anything about terrorism, nor does he mention anything about hate." After Conditt was discovered, he detonated a bomb in his vehicle, killing himself. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_serial_bombings)
- On February 14th, 2018, white supremacist Nikolas Cruz [shot up his highschool](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting#Suspect) in Parkland Florida, killing 17 and wounding 15 more. Cruz [repeatedly espoused racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views on social media](https://heavy.com/news/2018/02/nicolas-nikolas-nick-cruz-florida-school-shooter-gunman-instagram/), and displayed an obsession with violence and guns. He was openly hostile to the antifa movement, and muslims. According to *Republic of Florida* (a white nationalist militia) leader Jordan Jereb, Cruz trained with and receieved a rifle from another member in the group, and was caught on video training wearing his Trump MAGA hat. Cruz also posted a photo of himself on [Instagram wearing one of Trump’s signature red “Make America Great Again” hats](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-shooters-instagram-picture-maga-hat/), with an American flag-patterned bandana covering the bottom half of his face. Former classmates have confirmed that he also wore the red Trump hat to school. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting#Suspect)</sup>