diff --git a/socialism_faq.md b/socialism_faq.md index f3c8fdc..a62e353 100644 --- a/socialism_faq.md +++ b/socialism_faq.md @@ -1,27 +1,160 @@ # Socialism FAQ +## Liberalism + [Why do communists dislike liberals?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/4uaxjf/whats_the_deal_with_communists_hating_liberals/) -[What's the role of the state in the revolution, and what is a state?](https://theimmortalscience.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/) +## Tactics + +[Do Marxists oppose individual terrorism? (Trotsky)](https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1911/11/tia09.htm) + + +## Branches [What's the difference between anarchism and communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/576t0d/im_an_anarchocommunist_leninise_me/) -[Why do Marxists oppose individual terrorism? (Trotsky)](https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1911/11/tia09.htm) +[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/) -[Why do many socialist attempts end up in an authoritarian state? Watch this brilliant talk by Micheal Parenti](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYVes44hcJg&feature=youtu.be), or read his article, [Left anticommunism, the unkindest cut](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/23/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/). +## Markets [Why are communists against markets?](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/market_socialism.md) -[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/) - -[Is it true that Socialism has killed X million people, and how many has capitalism killed?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/5q2oak/someone_dies_under_socialism_no_matter_how_its/dcvu8lg/) - -[Do communists defend the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of North Korea)? short answer: no.](https://www.reddit.com/r/FULLDISCOURSE/comments/60voir/lets_talk_about_the_dprk/) +## Other Topics [Why are socialists against bitcoin mining?](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mining-electricity-consumption-ethereum-energy-climate-change), [2](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/27/bitcoin-mining-consumes-electricity-ireland) [What's so bad about Elon Musk?](https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/musk-slams-union-drive-in-email-to-employees) [2](http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-injuries-rates-higher-industry-average-worksafe-2017-5), [3](http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2016/05/09/elon-musk-tesla-crony/84169496/), [4](https://www.salon.com/2017/10/08/against-mars-a-lago-why-spacexs-mars-colonization-plan-should-terrify-you/), [5](https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-is-a-jerk-that-once-fired-his-assistant-of-12-1797699824), [6](https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/7spkqa/happy_2018_everybody_lets_take_a_moment_to_recall/), [7](https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/73eh4m/tracking_elon_musks_visions_promises_and/) -## TODO: +## States + +[Is it true that Socialism has killed X million people, and how many has capitalism killed?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/5q2oak/someone_dies_under_socialism_no_matter_how_its/dcvu8lg/) + +[What's the role of the state in the revolution, and what is a state?](https://theimmortalscience.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/) + +[Why do many socialist attempts end up in an authoritarian state? Watch this brilliant talk by Micheal Parenti](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYVes44hcJg&feature=youtu.be), or read his article, [Left anticommunism, the unkindest cut](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/23/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/). + + +### Soviet Union + +[Did the Soviet Union manufacture a famine in Ukraine?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_1.3A_the_soviet_union_manufactured_a_famine_in_ukraine) + +* 1: [*Fraud, Famine, and Fascism*](http://rationalrevolution.net/special/library/tottlefraud.pdf) by Douglas Tottle +* 2: [*The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933*](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpQllPVzQ2UFd3aWM/view?usp=sharing) by Mark Tauger +* 3: [*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 +* 4: [*The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=32DAA2871728468189A57E0233492A3A) by Davies and Wheatcroft +* 5: [*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) + +* 1: [*The Triumph of Evil*](http://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf) by Austin Murphy +* 2: [*Human Rights in the Soviet Union*](http://archive.org/details/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion) by Albert Syzmanski +* 3: [*Another View of Stalin*](http://www.scribd.com/doc/36425175/Ludo-Martens-Another-View-of-Stalin) by Ludo Martens +* 4: [*Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=6513AE40D043D98FFE6031A776783160) by Getty and Manning +* 5: [*Origins of the Great Purges*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=202D73A751817E9D047121E74D02671C) by J. Arch Getty +* 6: [*The Road to Terror*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=a87ecbb483bf27f182f31626527035a6) by J. Arch Getty +* 7: [*Other studies by historian*](http://kasamaproject.org/history/2674-6j-arch-getty-creating-alternative-new-history-of-soviet-30s) by J. Arch Getty +* 8: [*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" +* 9: [*Khrushchev Lied*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=e6bc9593a1787378b671944f51b393a9) by Grover Furr +* 10: [*Blackshirts and Reds*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=2A465EA2A003644077523F690545F113) by Michael Parenti +* 11: [*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) + +* 1: [*Soviet Communism: A New Civilization*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=ed2ba2da9895bf1653a04e6555b5246f) by Sydney and Beatrice Webb +* 2: [*Is the Red Flag Flying?*](http://archive.org/details/IsTheRedFlagFlying) by Albert Syzmanski +* 3: [*Socialism Betrayed*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3043d96567ceab152a0992313bcf82b9) by Keeran and Kenny +* 4: [*Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934–1941*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=bcb105833aa3f469f1131209e3875a9f) by Robert Thurston +* 5: [*Democracy, East Germany, and the Berlin Wall*](http://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/democracy-east-germany-and-the-berlin-wall/) by Stephen Gowans +* 6: [*The Russians are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism*](http://archive.org/details/TheRussiansAreComing) by V.L. Allen +* 7: [*The 1936 Soviet Constitution*](http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/1936toc.html) +* 8: [*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) + +* 1: [*Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work?*](http://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/) by Stephen Gowans +* 2: [*From Farm to Factory*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=fa5b6de5135f49269cd2b35b727236f7) by Robert Allen +* 3: [*The Rise of Socialism*](http://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/1932/toward/03.htm) by William Foster +* 4: [*We Lived Better Then*](http://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/) by Stephen Gowans +* 5: [*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) + +* 1: [*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) +* 2: [*60% of Russians Want Communism Back*](https://web.archive.org/web/20140223044330/http://www.systemiccapital.com/60-percent-of-russians-want-communism-back/) +* 3: [*Former Soviet Countries See More Harm from Breakup*](http://www.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx) +* 4: [*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) +* 5: [*Struggling Romanians Yearn for Communism*](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/30/struggling-romanians-yearn-for-communism/) +* 6: [*Tajikistan Pines for Old Soviet Union Strength*](http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0527/Tajikistan-pines-for-old-Soviet-Union-strength) +* 7: [*Referendum on the Preservation of the USSR*](http://en.ria.ru/infographics/20110313/162959645.html) +* 8: [*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) +* 9: [*Freest Under Czech Communism!*](http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/24/freest-under-czech-communism/) +* 10: [*Seven Myths about the USSR*](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/seven-myths-about-the-ussr/) by Stephen Gowans +* 11: [*An experiment in living socialism: Bulgaria then and now*](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpMl92U3JzQ0pIa3c/view?usp=sharing) by F.S. +* 12: [*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 + +### Peoples Republic of China + +[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) + +* 1: [*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 +* 2: [*Monster or Liberator?*](http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/12/monster-liberator-legacy-mao-zedong/) by Carlos Martinez +* 3: [*The Battle for China's Past*]( http://www.strongwindpress.com/pdfs/EBook/The_Battle_for_Chinas_Past.pdf) by Mobo Gao +* 4: [*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 +* 5: [*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) + +* 1: [*The Rise of the Chinese People's Communes*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=58B399C3CA70411186D2AD96230D649A) by Anna Louise Strong +* 2: [*The Chinese Road to Socialism: Economics of the Cultural Revolution*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5ba75f3113b0e1e4f36fc587ddfe2826) by E. L. Wheelwright +* 3: [*Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=c02e1f533d33ecea7d9946f55a097bd0) by William Hinton +* 4: [*Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=69633412b4947eb197779d652ba6e331) by William Hinton +* 5: [*Turning Point in China: An Essay on the Cultural Revolution*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=FF14AB76713984526357FE8829DEAD3C) by William Hinton + +### Cuba + +[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) + +* 1: [*Che: A Revolutionary Life*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3E3E1D3A68BF27293A12BC1076076C7B) by Jon Lee Anderson +* 2: [*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) + +* 1: [*20 Reasons to Support Cuba*](http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/07/20-reasons-to-support-cuba/) +* 2: [*Cuba: A Revolution in Motion*](http://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Revolution-Motion-Isaac-Saney/dp/1842773631) by Isaac Saney +* 3: [*Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=79273783e814b6a8747ea24710d15f0c) by Arnold August + http://www.democracyintheus.com/ +* 4: [*Cuban Democracy Fact Sheet*](http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/resources/democracyfactsheet2015.pdf) +* 5: [*All in This Together: Cuba's Participatory Democracy*](http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/cubasi/article/187/all-in-this-together-cubarsquos-participatory-democracy) +* 6: [*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 +* 7: [*2002 Cuban Constitution*](http://www.walterlippmann.com/cubanconstitution.html) +* 8: [*Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba*](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=fdfc7aee98499baaae696d5b1e04c065) by Linda Fuller + + +[Did the cuban people like Fidel Castro?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Obp6YS4SY) + + +### Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) + +[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) + +* 1: [*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 +* 2: [*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 +* 3: [*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) + +[Do communists defend the nationalistic (juche) aspects of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of North Korea)? short answer: no.](https://www.reddit.com/r/FULLDISCOURSE/comments/60voir/lets_talk_about_the_dprk/) + +[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) + +* 1: [*Korea Resilient! Socialism in Democratic Korea*](http://return2source.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/korea-resilient-socialism-in-democratic-korea/) by Vince Sherman +* 2: [*How to Think about Socialism in Korea*](https://mltoday.com/article/1302-how-to-think-about-socialism-in-korea/) +* 3: [*Understanding North Korea*](http://www.globalresearch.ca/understanding-north-korea/3818) by Stephen Gowans +* 4: [*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 +* 5: [*Constitution of the DPRK*](http://www.kfausa.org/dprk-constitution/) +* 6: [*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 +* 7: [*Interview: Understanding and Defending North Korea*](http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/11/understanding-north-korea/) +* 8: [*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/) +* 9: [*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) + + +# TODO - Bill Gates