On gun violence:

A few resources:

On Guns / Firearms / Violence

• What is the socialist stance on guns?
• LiberationNews - A socialist approach to gun control.
• Is it true that gun ownership correlates to increased murders and violence?
• Do Marxists oppose individual terrorism? (Trotsky)
• Where do socialists stand on gun violence and acts of terrorism?
• Will the revolution necessarily be violent?
• How can we justify owning firearms in the wake of mass shootings?

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/397275

On Anarchism:

• What's the difference between anarchism and communism?
• What's the difference in economic structure ( production and distribution) of anarchism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, and Marxist communism?
• Aimixin - Why Anarchism is fundamentally anti-socialist.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/345665

On George Orwell:

What's so bad about George Orwell?

• He's antisemitic, homophobic, and racist. Specifically, he snitched out Jews, Black people, Homosexuals, and communists to British Intelligence. His list, here, includes him writing:
  • 8 variations of “Jewish?” (Charlie Chaplin), “Polish Jew, (Tom Driberg)” “English Jew,” or “Jewess.”
  • Paul Robeson - "ROBESON, Paul (US Negro) ...Very anti-white. [Henry] Wallace supporter."
    • Paul Robeson wasn't anti-white, just look at the welsh coal miners for whom Robeson Campaigned.
    • The testimony of Paul Robeson (one of the people Orwell snitched on), to HUAC (House of Unamerican activities committee) during the red scare.
  • Stephen Spender - "Sentimental sympathiser... Tendency towards homosexuality"
  • Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish nationalist poet, and anti-imperialist.
  • George Padmore, Trinidadian journalist and anti-imperialist campaigner.
• His books Animal Farm and 1984 are used widely as anti-communist propaganda in schools in the US and UK. So much so that his animated animal farm film was funded by the CIA. There's a reason they teach George Orwell in schools and not Franz Fanon, Che, Huey P Newton, Malcolm X, Lenin, CLR James, etc.
• In 1941, illustrator Elias Gertrude approached Orwell, then an editor for the British Ministry of information, with an idea for a satirical cartoon film, portraying the Nazis as pig characters ruling a farm in a kind of dysfunctional fairy story. He told her that there was not much call for her idea, stole it, changed the name from A Fairy Story to Animal Farm, and changed the pig-nazis into Communists.
• Between 1952 and 1957, from three sites in West Germany, a CIA operation codenamed ‘Aedinosaur’ launched millions of ten-foot balloons carrying copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and dropped them over Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia — whose airforces were ordered to shoot the balloons down..
• Orwell, anti-communist: A criticism of Orwell and his Work - By Isaac Asimov.
• Orwell - "I have never really disliked Hitler."
• He attempted to rape one of his first courtships: "Previously the young couple had kissed, but now, during a late summer walk, he had wanted more. At only five feet to his six feet and four inches, Jacintha had shouted, screamed and kicked before running home with a torn skirt and bruised hip. It was "this" rather than any gradual parting of the ways that explains why Jacintha broke off all contact with her childhood friend, never to learn that he had transformed himself into George Orwell."
• Redsails - On Orwell.
• Rainer Shea - Orwells 1984 - Anti-communist propaganda.
• Orwell worked as a British imperial cop in Burma for 5 years. His short story, Shooting an Elephant, uses ethnic slurs and denigrates burmese people.
• A reddit thread on George Orwell, Thread #2.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/324396

Found it! On the CPC:

The CPC is not run by billionaires, wtf are you talking about.

Is China State Capitalist?

• The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned. 70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned. 1, 2 The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the 5 year plans laid out by the central committee.
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?
• 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?
• Is the CPC committed to communism?
• The Long Game and Its Contradictions. Audiobook
• The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?
• Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?
• Isn't China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn't it fully planned like the USSR was?
• Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/267386

On the sex trade:

Excellent post. For those wanting to learn more, here are some resources on the sex trade.

• Esperanza - A Socialist, Feminist, and Transgender Analysis of “Sex Work” .
• RevLeft Radio interview with Comrade Brigid and Esperanza - Proletarian Feminism, Women's Liberation, and the Sex Trade.
• Kollontai - Prostitution and ways of fighting it
• Esperanza - The problem with sex-trade expansionary Feminism.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/296518

On the word "fascism":

need to make a bot for this post any time fascism gets mentioned.

The western left’s use of the term fascism, is borderline white-supremacist at this point. Fascism was a form of colonialism that died by the 1940s, and is only allowed to be demonized in public discourse, because it was a form of colonialism directed also against white europeans. It was defeated, and Germany / Italy / Japan reverted to the more stable form of government for colonialism: bourgeois parliamentarism.

British, european, and now US colonizers were doing the exact same thing, and killing far more people for hundreds of years in the global south, yet you don’t hear ppl scared of their countries potentially “becoming british colonialists.” This is why you have new leftists terrified that the UK or US or europe “might turn fascist!!”, betraying that the atrocities propagated by those empires against the global south was and is completely acceptable.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/333686