Dumping area

*Place for unsorted links and unchecked recommendations*

* These two links talk about the Venezuelan Communist Party breaking up from Maduro, someone sort this stuff out
	+ https://twitter.com/pauloCanning/status/1296106780746014722
	+ https://twitter.com/libcomorg/status/1296177892670484481

* https://argumentos-historico.iep.org.pe/articulos/la-guerra-senderista-el-juicio-de-la-historia/ - some stuff BadEmpanada cited for Shining Path, need someone to review [heads up, but while the YouTube channel is cool, he has a really fucking shitty personality on Reddit and Twitter]
* http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Alec%20Nove&column[]=author someone check out Alec Nove and see if they’re reliable
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoani\_S%C3%A1nchez find out of this person is reliable
* “‘Thomas Sankara had two faces’ – Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo” by Aïssatou Diallo https://www.theafricareport.com/24024/thomas-sankara-had-two-faces-jean-baptiste-ouedraogo/amp/ [EN]
* http://troploin.fr/node/17 make a section about anarchist critiques of democracy, start off with this article
* Get a Russian member on our team to screen this and to give go-ahead to add, it’s from 1968: https://mega.nz/file/cs4yCDZR#YVtzfDpZa30bnJWW5XKDE\_j93bNjDi\_-G0\_IHoxQ3nc [905MB, 1:04:00, EN SUB, RU] [Maybe upload to PeerTube????]
* Need full access to this article to see if Amber A’Lee Frost is still doing her fash bullshit: https://archive.is/JjVRw
* This video covers how Bolsheviks repressed working-class and peasant celebrations of Christmas because of “German bourgeois ideology” (after Lenin’s death), allied with the Orthodox church to remove Slavic pagan elements (December 25th and January 7th) and how Stalinists rehabilitated Christmas in 1935 as Soviet propaganda to elevate Soviet leaders into mythologised positions when they realised workers were still celebrating Christmas in secret: “How the Bolsheviks Stole Christmas” uploaded by Left1ne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCjvsMPlfR4 [19:46, EN SUB, EN] (Russian Nietzschean communist). Don’t know where to put this since video covers several subjects
* This is a blog for addressing inconsistencies in American micro-sects and how USian MLs are isolationist cults disconnected from MLs in other parts of the world: https://theleftwind.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/winter-palace/
* CNT being critical of the Bolsheviks in 1920: https://libcom.org/history/seventy-days-russia-what-i-saw-angel-pesta%C3%B1
* https://spartacus-educational.com/RUSspirdonova.htm
* https://www.marxists.org/subject/germany-1918-23/dauve-authier/03.htm
* KPD’s anti-Nazi propaganda where they accidentally leaned into antisemitic tropes: http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/kalender/auswahl/date/1931-12-15/24352111/
* Weirdness about Tulsi and Trump
	+ https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-defends-donald-trump-firing-alexander-vindman-whether-people-like-it-not-there-1486525
	+ https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-donald-trump-section-230-battle-1552336
* Starting to suspect a lot of MLs on social media are not MLs because some of them are rejecting this book: ("Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History" by Stephen G. Wheatcroft http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=41252718E3D975FB287909D4777BA8EA [PDF, 900 KB, EN]), which was part of the reading lists in the groups I was in
* Finnish paper on information warfare: https://www.fiia.fi/julkaisu/the-cyber-enabled-information-struggle [FI]; https://www.fiia.fi/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/bp220\_the-cyber-enabled-information-struggle.pdf [EN]
* Book about Soviet-SIno Split in the “third world”: "Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World" by Jeremy Friedman http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=C04F0C2154B6DF5193AA0C0F72B974D0 [PDF, 4 MB, EN]
* Agricultural policies of Stalin’s USSR: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/43691
* Lauren Southern uses “color revolution” as a scare word in this trailer at the 50 seconds mark while implying George Soros is funding BLM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXLr-Muru8
* Upcoming books about non-aligned antifascism: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6935115/cfp-anti-fascism-and-ethnic-minorities-political-and-cultural
* "春晚那些让我倒吸一口凉气的瞬间" https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/7Dq1vfxVGxWXpek628la5A (Archive: https://archive.vn/P8Gru) [ZH] (not exactly sure where this fits in the bigotry section)
* "“Disgusted and disappointed”: Uyghur student blasts new Vice-Chancellor at rally" by Adila Yarmuhammad https://onditmagazine.medium.com/disgusted-and-disappointed-uyghur-student-blasts-new-vice-chancellor-at-rally-37c1dd04eb5a [EN] (Uyghur student condemning pro-CCP Australian uni official, not sure if it belongs though)
* "Ben-gurion Reveals Suggestion of North Vietnam’s Communist Leader" https://www.jta.org/1966/11/08/archive/ben-gurion-reveals-suggestion-of-north-vietnams-communist-leader [EN] (Pro-Israel source)
* https://archive.vn/e15im [EN] - Communist Party of India (Marxist) defending capitalist Deng Xiaoping
* https://web.archive.org/web/20191114000054/https://www.gacetaoficial.gob.cu/pdf/GOC-2019-O45.pdf [ES] - dunno what to title this, something about internet regulation in Cuba
* http://www.paulbogdanor.com/deniers/cambodia/porter.pdf [EN]
* https://archive.vn/TgAe9 [EN] - China Daily promoting right-wing “anti-PC” propaganda
* "'Sacred day': Chinese remember Tiananmen killings by fasting" by Lily Kuo https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/03/sacred-day-chinese-remember-tiananmen-killings-by-fasting (Archive: https://archive.vn/f6CkD) [EN]
* "'We must do more than remember': what Tiananmen means to the Chinese diaspora" Kate Lyons, Aamna Mohdin and Eleanor Ainge Roy https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/04/what-tiananmen-means-to-chinese-diaspora (Archive: https://archive.vn/Z9X5S) [EN]
* "My Response to Breitbart’s Libel Against Me" https://bennorton.com/response-breitbart-iran-israel/ (Archive: https://archive.vn/sPMfl) [EN] (not sure where to categorize this, shows Ben condemning Assad, iran, and Hezbollah)
* https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/contention/aop/cont090105/cont090105.xml [PDF, 974 KB, EN] not sure where to categorize this
* "Interview with Bobby Seale" http://digital.wustl.edu/e/eii/eiiweb/sea5427.0172.147bobbyseale.html [EN]
* "Is the Milk Tea Alliance the Latest Target by Chinese Disinformation Efforts in Taiwan?" by Brian Hioe https://newbloommag.net/2020/12/17/milk-tea-disinformation-target/ [EN]
* "Chinese aggression pushes Vietnam ever closer to Washington" by Charles Dunst https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Chinese-aggression-pushes-Vietnam-ever-closer-to-Washington [EN]
* Lyndon Johnson Admin. Support to Ne Win’s Burma in 1966 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v27/d101 [EN] (Note: US Government Source)
* Ne Win’s persecution of Sino-Burmese population https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/abs/1967-antichinese-riots-in-burma-and-sinoburmese-relations/32233393B60BBE02A8AFB7AD92EEFC8A [EN] (Perhaps put this and some others in a Burmese Way to Socialism Section for Myanmar?)
* “THE PROBLEM OF THE BURMESE MUSLIMS” by Mujtaba Razvi (1978, on the then Operation Dragon King) https://www.jstor.org/stable/41394695 [EN]
* "Mistranslation as disinformation: COVID-19, global imaginaries, and self-serving cosmopolitanism" by Sheng Zou https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09502386.2021.1898037#.YJb0bbHbbDI.twitter, "Resistance under the Radar: Organization of Work and Collective Action in China’s Food Delivery Industry" by Chuxuan Liu and Eli Friedman https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/714292, please get PDFs for these

* “The Burmese Ways to Socialism” by Maureen Aung-Thwin, Thant Myint-U and Thant Mynt-U, Third World Quarterly, 1992 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3992410?seq=1

### **Common Tankie Arguments**

* “A (centralized) state is needed to achieve socialism”
	+ Point out that mature Marx advocated against centralization: https://twitter.com/BreadPill\_/status/1275812161248325632 [EN]
	+ Point out that Lenin is the one who interpreted Marx to be centrally-planned, when Marx said nothing about how life will like after capitalism or during transitioning to communism, while other Marxists disagreed with Lenin and considered him a right-wing conservative
	+ Point out that Lenin originally wanted to follow the Erfurt Programme adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1891 for establishing Russian communism before Stalin misinterpreted Lenin’s texts
		1. “Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context” by Lars Lih https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=36973579DB1218873A879EA85DF9D208 [DJVU, 10MB, EN], https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=9ABE14F146B94268B8AA60B7DD8778F5 [PDF, 19MB, EN]
		2. “The Erfurt Program” by the Social Democratic Party of Germany https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/1891/erfurt-program.htm [HTML, EN]
		3. “Class Struggle (Erfurt Program)” by Karl Kautsky https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/index.htm
		4. “A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891” by Fredrick Engels https://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/marx/works/1891/06/29.htm [HTML, EN]
	+ Tell Marxist-Leninists to read the Gotha Programme which is more useful to understanding what Marxism is than Capital or Communist Manifesto
		1. “Critique of the Gotha Programme” by Karl Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/index.htm [HTML, EN]
		2. “Gothaer Program” by Social Democratic Party of Germany https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/geschichte/deutsch/spd/1875/gotha.htm [HTML, DE]
	+ Ask if they ever read “ABC’s of Communism” and encourage them to investigate if Bolsheviks kept their promises outlined in the programme https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm
	+ Point out the various horizontally-run armies, such as the Black Army, early CNT-FAI (late CNT-FAI was heavily centralized), YPG/YPJ, Zapatistas, CyberSyn, workers’ cooperatives under Tito (who disagreed with Stalin about centrally-planned economy) and Cuba was / is much more decentralized than USSR
		1. “Tito vs Stalin” uploaded by The Cold War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e78BxdfRPzA [16:44, EN SUB, EN]
		2. “AskProfWolff: Titoism” uploaded by Democracy At Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJQo-BEbl1I [7:11, EN]
	+ Point out that Marxism rose to prominence in response to the industrial scale wars. As David Graeber wrote back in 2002, *“We should remember that during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when most Marxist parties were rapidly becoming reformist social democrats, anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism were the centre of the revolutionary left. The situation only really changed with World War I and the Russian Revolution. ...Hardly surprising that anarchism quickly came to seem unrealistic, if the ultimate measure of political effectiveness became the ability to maintain huge mechanized killing machines. This is one thing that anarchists, by definition, can never be very good at. Neither is it surprising that Marxist parties —who have been only too good at it—seemed eminently practical and realistic in comparison. https://newleftreview.org/issues/II13/articles/david-graeber-the-new-anarchists* But since then we’ve seen the emergence of Nuclear MAD and the emergence of guerrilla tactics significantly change this calculus. Industrial era warfare is defined by large, but simple hierarchies that can achieve coordination at scale. Information era conflict on the other hand is defined by speed, information processing, flexibility and ambiguity. This means that hierarchical approaches in which people follow strict orders suffer significant diminishing returns. This is why the most powerful military on earth is unable to secure ground against insurgents who have a fraction of the resources they do. See Brave New War by John Robb https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-War-Terrorism-Globalization/dp/04702619
* “[ML] country is socialist”
	+ Point out that socialism by definition is stateless - Marx calls this “lower-phase communism” and even Lenin agreed with his definition but called it “socialism”
	+ China specifically - point out suicide nets (why would they exist if workers owned the means of production?), 100+ billionaires in the CCP, and that PRC produces billionaires at a faster rate than any other country. What kind of socialist society even has billionaires?
* “When has anarchism *ever* achieved socialism/communism/anything?”
	+ Point out that Marxism-Leninism has never achieved socialism/communism (which is by definition stateless), and has destroyed it every time:
		1. Three part series by Anark on why the state is counter-revolutionary: “What is the State? | The State is Counter-Revolutionary (Part 1)” uploaded by Anark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTwxpTyGUOI [34:26, EN SUB, EN], “Leninist USSR | The State is Counter Revolutionary (Part 2)” uploaded by Anark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwU3STgBknQ [44:51, EN SUB, EN], “Maoist China | The State Is Counter Revolutionary (Part 3)” uploaded by Anark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycZYRSpSIPw [52:02, EN SUB, EN]
	+ While anarchism has not achieved communism, there are some societies that resemble socialism, such as Zapatista-controlled Chiapas, Rojava in Syria, and Marinaleda in Spain. Moreover, these autonomous areas have lasted 26, 7, and ~29 years respectively.
* Constantly remind them that socialism/communism are by definition stateless. When they make critiques of anarchism, this can also be applied to socialism/communism, too. You can point out that this is actually anti-communist, since communism is stateless.
* Some terminally online American tankies have multiple flags in their bio. Point out contradictions and conflicts between these countries if there have been any.
	+ “Lenin’s Speech on Antisemitism” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C\_n\_qtgUKnY [2:20, EN SUB, RU]
* “Read theory!” - talk about how Pol Pot found Kropotkin, Marx and Lenin too difficult to read, so instead he only read Stalin and took him literally which led to a genocidal regime that Vietnam had to put down. Please read Marx, Lenin and other authors to get full context.
* “Balkanization” - Marx literally supported Irish liberation because kicking out the English landlords would make it easier to overthrow Irish bourgeois https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1869/letters/69\_11\_29-abs.htm
* When folks start stanning governments in Global South, point out the correct Marxist take is that international revolution might kick off when proles in the Global South overthrow their own reactionary governments and stanning for PRC only benefits capitalists and bureaucrats, not the proles. It’s irresponsible to make judgements about foriegn policies based on headlines without talking to local leftist networks in countries affected
	+ Ask if they actually bothered reading Frantz Fanon about how anti-imperialist countries still act in capitalists’ interests https://monoskop.org/images/6/6b/Fanon\_Frantz\_The\_Wretched\_of\_the\_Earth\_1963.pdf [PDF, 12.5MB, EN]
* If an *RT*-affiliated journalist talk about how USians are being anti-Russia, remember that Russia learned how to manipulate the narrative surrounding Chechen–Russian conflict (using George Bush’s “War on Terror” as pretext) and the Russo-Georgian War in 2008
* Watch out for spelling changes like “intraweb” instead of “interweb” when it comes to DPRK and CCP stans talking about freedom of speech and freedom of expression and call them out on endorsing splinter-web
* When someone quotes Engels, ask why the person doesn’t read Proudhon, Stirner, Bukinin or any of the other authors Marx regularly corresponds with [and criticises], which are keys to understanding who Marx is responding to in his writings, because many non-ML Marxists consider Engels a conservative or sometimes consider him down-right reactionary [for example, see anthropologists’ critiques of Engels’s misogynistic and patriarchal takes on the family structure, “white saviour complex” with non-Europeans, as well as Engels’s misinterpretation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy]
* If someone calls PRC communist or socialist, just tell they are regurgitating state department’s talking points
* Many cadres in the Communist Party in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became far-right politicians under the capitalist Russian Federation.
* [white American] Marxist-Leninists are terrible at organizing with workers. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, they thought the average workers wore business suits, were clean-shaven and trimmed, only to find that the average person had long hair, rugged beard and smoked a lot of weed. And the disconnect in their sense of fashion still persists into the 2020s.

#### Twitter Threads

* State socialism = state capitalism (call them socdems lol), also comparison of violence between anarchism and tankies lol http://archive.vn/Doht6
* Stalinism is a right-wing ideology, compare Marx’s actual writings to Lenin and Stalin’s actions: http://archive.vn/mxr2h
* “When has anarchism ever achieved communism/lasted for longer than x days?” Marxism-Leninism has never achieved socialism/communism, in fact it has destroyed it every time. http://archive.vn/zNj6W, http://archive.vn/bDRAg,
* Anarchism is only for white/Western leftists: http://archive.vn/rAvO1
* “Anarchism = no army!” Black Army, CNT-FAI, YPG/YPJ, Zapatistas: http://archive.vn/FrP2o
* “Anarchism never achieved anything” Zapatistas, Rojava. Bonus: “China is socialist!” Suicide nets, 100 billionaires in the CCP. http://archive.vn/nZyrR,
* Why PRC is not socialist, pointing out historical conflicts between ML countries (eg, Nepalese Civil War, Sino-Vietnamese War, PRC backing the Khmer Rouge, PRC opposing USSR in Afghan War, PRC backing Rodrigo Duterte killing communists). Especially useful for American tankies who have multiple flags in bio. http://archive.vn/Zy8jV
* ML accidentally makes arguments against communism: http://archive.vn/YxTet
* Oppressed people overthrew governments without Marx or Lenin http://archive.is/6zXOi

### **The Right Using Tankie-Style Arguments**

* Holocaust deniers justify denying the Holocaust by arguing that the data for the camps came from the CIA
	+ They also cite Red Cross’s visit to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, in which the Nazi government beautified it, tricking the inspectors into reporting that things were fine
* Conservatives and right-wingers believe that movements like the LGBTQIA+ rights movement, feminism, Black Lives Matter, and other progressive movements are supported by the establishment just because the media reports on them a lot
* Conservatives and right-wingers associate liberal politicians (like the US Democratic Party) to socialists, Black Lives Matter, and antifa because they happen to be not on the right
* George Soros is blamed for funding leftist and liberal movements and groups
* Corporations like YouTube, Buzzfeed, and Google often feature people talking about social justice, causing right-wingers to think corporations are on the “far left”
* Black Lives Matter has been smeared as a “color revolution” by the far-right [thanks to LaRouchite Wayne Madison and F. William Engdahl as well as French conspiracy theorist Tierry Meyssan]
* US Democratic Party politicians often try to reach out to women, non-whites and LGBTs in order to appear inclusive and often attempt to appropriate.recuperate social justice movements