Mirrored from Reddit, not my work. Source: https://teddit.net/r/bernieblindness/comments/hdiha0/resources_to_help_bernie_supporters_understand/
I’ve replaced www.youtube.com URLs with yewtu.be, and www.reddit.com with teddit.net. They are open source YouTube and Reddit webclients respectively, for better privacy. Just switch the domains back if you want undo this and get back to the vanilla YouTube link.
TODO: Archive all the Google Drive/Docs stuff too.
NOTE: if you have any good resources please link them in the comments so i can add them to my personal list ive been building.
im giving a decent list of free Marxist books/resources for everyone’s use. i compiled this for the comrades who cannot afford to buy/order such books and for learning for everyone. This list should not be credited too much to me, a lot of the resources come from other comrades hard work and compiling and hours of researching, i found much here but most credit should go to everyone else who compiled/made/created these resources (some writing is even pasted from other comrades posts). i recommend the youtubers first.
Introduction to socialism:
Richard Wolff: Introduction to Marxism
The difference between personal and private property
Books:
Reform or revolution by Rosa Luxembourg https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/
How Europe under-developed Africa by Walter Rodney https://archive.org/details/HowEuropeUnderdevelopedAfricaByWalterRodney/page/n1/mode/2up
Unequal exchange: The prospects of socialism https://web.archive.org/web/20170919180937/http://snylterstaten.dk/english/unequal-exchange-and-prospects-socialism-communist-working-group
Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism https://archive.org/details/FundamentalsOfMarxismLeninism
Das Kapital by Karl Marx https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124455/page/n5/mode/2up
The communist Manifesto by Karl Marx https://archive.org/details/ComManifesto/mode/2up
Its not over: Learning from the socialist experiment https://www.ebookphp.com/its-not-over-learning-from-the-socialist-experiment-epub-pdf/
Economic problems in the USSR by Josef Stalin https://archive.org/details/economicproblemssocialismussrstalin
The Myth of Capitalism Reborn: A Marxist critique of Theories of Capitalist Restoration in the USSR https://archive.org/details/TheMythOfCapitalismReborn/page/n53/mode/2up
Killing hope: US military and CIA interventions since World war 2 https://archive.org/details/pdfy-q0ULBH2DJICRS3Vg/mode/2up
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
Imperialism The Highest Stage Of Capitalism By Lenin https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.3317/mode/2up
The State and Revolution by Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm
Wage Labor and Capital https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/wage-labour-capital.pdf
Marxism and Feminism https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/1979/marxism/ch12.html
Economics for dummies, to help people understand capitalism but be wary, it is semi pro capitalism https://archive.org/details/EconomicsForDummies_/mode/2up
The great conspiracy against Russia by Michael Sayer and Albert E. Kahn https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/great-conspiracy-against-russia.pdf \
Towards a new socialism by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf
Socialist political Economy https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe/
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of communism (an absolute must read for Marxists-Leninists) https://eastsidemarxism.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds-rational-fascism-and-the-overthrow-of-communism.pdf
Late Victorian Holocausts by Mark Davis (how the introduction of capitalism causes famine) https://archive.org/details/latevictorianhol00dav_wbr
Anti Communism: Who benefits from it? by Vladimir Mshvenieradze. it reveals just how prevalent anti-communism was and still is. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-V4quceAKK9bXVaOEx0Nm4xXzQ/view
Youtubers and Youtube Videos:
Hakim (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://yewtu.be/channel/UCPPZoYsfoSekIpLcz9plX1Q
TheFinnishBolshevik (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://yewtu.be/channel/UCCvdjsJtifsZoShjcAAHZpA
Every anti-communist argument debunked https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MjwL1mSrPLA
Benji (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://yewtu.be/channel/UCDG87s_QtD4YrIamqb9k5WQ
DemocraticSocialist01 (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://yewtu.be/user/MrReco12
ComradeSloth (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://yewtu.be/channel/UCZtETWkXOblKAN5V1GUfnyg
Tovarisch Endymion (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://yewtu.be/channel/UCTG-iJm0HtjWVOAwN8sA4Xg
Spooky Scary Socialist (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://yewtu.be/channel/UCl_A_42M6kvjH8Gr-rwfCUw
Capitalism is destroying us, socialism is not an option https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CVpV_wVYOEg
How capitalism is theft https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GFEzJovH2yo
Resource document pages and Archives:
A complete Marxist archive https://www.marxists.org/
Venezuela myths debunked: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FgJdjKwWHow6Yy1-zmiiwxX_DDgaF8kHkmVohkL_Yew/edit?usp=drivesdk
The basics of Marxist-Leninist Theory https://archive.org/details/basics_of_marxist__leninist_theory
Massive document page debunking anti socialist lies by Albamc35 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRBtOd7tCPwJgXNy4m1PLvDnPrbMcn6yMe7mVIIHZfA/edit
The case for Marxism-Leninism https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uOAy23Rouv_Mg14_NgcEOm-K19ragMTlB03RV7Td01Q/edit
Another document page debunking lies against socialism https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gxwhh-vdeB–47HM-20cEVRC9eAMhrapbNf0Sk8VSOs/edit
massive right winger fact sheet https://socdoneleft.github.io/stinky_rightwinger_factsheet.html#public_healthcare
Socialist archive https://revolutionarydemocracy.org/index.htm
Huge socialist book archive https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
Huge Marxist-Leninist archive https://neodemocracy.blogspot.com/
Huge soviet archive and pro socialist articles https://northstarcompass.org/
Studies consistently find that people in most ex-socialist countries feel that life was better under socialism than it is under capitalism:
i want to comment on something i feel is important, as Marxist-Leninist we do not have to deny invasions at all, even genocides. they are horrible atrocities. but nothing compared to capitalism, we must learn from our mistakes. Though we should be careful of propaganda, there’s a reason project mockingbird happened, and we must realize history is different from repeatable science. Excerpt again from turtle:
We should not respond to bourgeois propaganda by insisting (as some well-meaning yet mistaken comrades have done) that every single misdeed of Stalin is a lie; rather, we should place them into proper historical context, along with his various achievements. This is the correct way for Marxists to analyze the world: with a firm, well-grounded materialist critique, yielding no ground to hero worship, or to a fictitious “great man” theory of history. Recall what Fidel Castro said on the matter:
A list of masterposts also by turtle
List of Masterposts
General
North America
Eastern Europe
Masterpost on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union)
Masterpost on the German Democratic Republic
Masterpost on the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania
Masterpost on the Hungarian People’s Republic
Masterpost on the Polish People’s Republic
Masterpost on the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Pew Research Center: 30th Anniversary Survey of Post-Communist Nations
Breakdown of Eastern European Views on Capitalism and Socialism (By Nation)
Asia
Latin America
Masterpost on the Achievements of Socialism in Bolivia
Masterpost on Cuban Socialism, With Sources
Celebrating the Sandinistas: Sources on their Achievements
Masterpost on the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)
All credit to bayarea415: The Failure Of Capitalism (poverty):
Wealth Inequality in America
• 41 million Americans go hungry, including 13 million children and 5.4 millions seniors, while farmers destroy food to keep prices high.
• $32 trillion dollars are in offshore bank accounts that cannot be taxed for the benefit of the people.
• 9 of the richest people in the world have more wealth than 1.5 billion people.
• “The official poverty rate is 14.5%, meaning 45.3 million people in the US live in poverty, up by over 8 million since 2008. An additional 97.3 million (33%) of people living in the United States are low-income, defined as incomes below twice the federal poverty line, or $47,700 for a family of four. Taken together, this means that 48% of the US population is poor or low income, 1 in every 2 people.
• More than 1 in 5 children in America (21.8%) are living under the official poverty line. Half of all children will be on food stamps before they turn 20, including 9 out of 10 African American children.
• Only 48% of Americans can handle a $400 emergency.”
• For every 22 empty homes, there is 1 homeless person.
• The United Nations has announced that the US has the worst poverty and wealth gap in the developed world.
Source and more stats here: https://kairoscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Poverty-Fact-Sheet-Feb-2015-final.pdf
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Death count of Capitalism: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=842010
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6HjTfm_D3sE
http://www.sciforums.com/threads/the-death-tolls-of-socialism-and-capitalism.114760/
http://guerrillaontologies.com/2014/05/attempting-the-impossible-calculating-capitalisms-death-toll/
UNICEF, RESULTS, and Bread for the World estimate that 15 million people die each year from preventable poverty, of whom 11 million are children under the age of five. So in 10 years, capitalism kills more children under the age of 5 than socialism did in 150 years.
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We have enough food to feed 10 billion people. Even assuming 20% of it is lost, we could still feed the entire population of the world. But we don’t, because the logistics of it is expensive and inefficient. Because developing poor countries is too expensive, and sending them food “disrupts the local markets”.
If these people didn’t need to operate under capitalism to survive, sending them food wouldn’t be an issue. If we prioritized things properly, we could develop self-sustainable agriculture projects everywhere in the world.
But we don’t. Because of capitalism.
Or something closer to us in the west:
In the US alone, 20,000 to 40,000 deaths every year because of lack of health insurance. On average, that’s 300,000 over the last decade.
Around 9 million people die every year of hunger and hunger-related diseases. but we have more than enough food to feed EVERYONE. What happen to the capitalist market being the best way to allocate resources?
Every year 3,575,000 people die from water related diseases. This is equivalent to a jumbo jet crashing every hour. Most of these people are children (2.2 million). but we have more than enough clean water, and can produce enough for everyone. again, where is this perfect market allocation?
2 million people die from VACCINE PREVENTABLE DISEASE EVERY YEAR! again i ask, where is this moral perfect market allocation?