I know that a good majority of reddits' Alt-Right Subs are now gone, but i feel there are plenty of communities out there that have still yet to receive the Ban-Hammer, Here is the list so far; **Transphobia:** - /r/FemaleDatingStrategy - /r/PinkPillFeminism - /r/askpinkpillers **Extreme misogyny:** - /r/MGTOW - /r/TheRedPill - /r/Muslimredpill - /r/againstwomensrights - /r/Asktrp - /r/bonecels - /r/shortcells - /r/Dogbrains - /r/memegender - /r/Pus5yPassDenied - /r/Pus5yPass - /r/MensRights - /r/Blackpillfeminism - /r/whereareallthegoodmen - /r/ProMaleCollective - /r/shortsell - /r/femlnazis - /r/AntiFeminismProject - /r/Kotakuinaction - /r/Kotakuinaction2 - /r/TumblrInAction - /r/SocialJusticeInAction **Miscellaneous Ultra-nationalism:** - /r/AznIdentity - /r/Bakchodi - /r/EasternSunRising **Alt-righters:** - /r/4chan - /r/ActualPublicFreakouts - /r/DarkEnlightenment - /r/conspiracy - /r/The_Congress - /r/StupidPol - /r/AverageRedditor - /r/Doomer - /r/MetaCanada - /r/BadUnitedKingdom - /r/Tucker_Carlson - /r/AltUnitedKingdom - /r/Politicalcompassmemes **Religious extremism:** - /r/Catholicism - /r/TrueChristian - /r/Prolife **Lib-Righters:** - /r/Anarcho_Capitalism - /r/FragileCommunism - /r/GoldandBlack - /r/ShitStatistsSay **Free Speech Absolutists:** - /r/WatchRedditDie - /r/SubredditCancer - /r/Reclassified Obviously, since this list is a bit old, I don't think this list will be entirely accurate as to which communities are already banned. Also, the chances of some of these communities getting touched by the Admins can differ from Possibly to Near Impossible. Anyway, are there any more shithole spaces yet to be touched by the Admins?
1. [Anatomy of Fascism](https://libcom.org/files/Robert%20O.%20Paxton-The%20Anatomy%20of%20Fascism%20%20-Knopf%20(2004).pdf), Robert Paxton. 2. [Ur-Fascism](https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf), Umberto Eco. 3. [Blackshirts and Reds](https://eastsidemarxism.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds-rational-fascism-and-the-overthrow-of-communism.pdf), Michael Parenti. 4. [Fascism: what it is and how to fight it](https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm), Trotsky. (and explaining [the terminology](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm) used, by Engels) 5. [Refuting Holocaust Denial](https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/how-to-refute-holocaust-denial) 6. [Learn the symbols](https://www.adl.org/hate-symbols). 7. [Debating Fascists: what to know before you do it](https://www.reddit.com/r/antifastonetoss/comments/b65xxq/why_you_shouldnt_debate_fascists/) 8. [The Alt-Right Playbook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ). Learn their tactics and how to deal with fascists! 9. [Anti-Semite and the Jew](http://abahlali.org/files/Jean-Paul_Sartre_Anti-Semite_and_Jew_An_Exploration_of_the_Etiology_of_Hate__1995.pdf), Sartre. 10. [Anti-fascist handbook](https://libcom.org/files/Antifa,%20The%20Anti-Fascist%20Handbook.pdf), Mark Bray. Will update if you have recommendations (please with link if possible). You don't have to read/watch all of it (though it's good to be educated and curious), but if you're antifascist and want to be active, you need to learn about fascism and especially their tactics and symbols.
* [Racial Harmony in a Marxist Utopia](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2016/jan/24/racial-harmony-in-a-marxist-utopia-how-the-soviet-union-capitalised-on-us-discrimination-in-pictures). * [Feudalism to space travel in 40 years](https://i.imgur.com/pe0tg2y.jpg). [First satellite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program), rocket, space walk, woman, man, animal, space station, moon and mars probes. * Soviet power production per capita in 1990 was more than [the EU, Great Britain, or China's in 2014](https://i.imgur.com/7HIm6qi.png). * Housing was socialized by localized community organizations, and there was virtually no homelessness. Houses were often shared by two families throughout the 20s and 30s – so unlike capitalism, there were no empty houses, but the houses were very full. In the 40s there was the war, and in the 50s there were a number of orphans from the war. The mass housing projects began in the 60s, they were completed in the 70s, and by the 70s, there were homeless people, but they often had genuine issues with mental health. When it is claimed that a system works, we should ask, **who it works for**. Capitalism benefits a tiny number of rapacious capitalists, to the detriment of the rest of us, while Socialism works for the masses. Now let's take a look at what happens after the USSR collapsed, and what came with capitalist privatization: * [Life expectancy decreases by 10 years. 2. 7.7 million excess deaths in the first year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#Life_expectancy). [2](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC259165/) * [40% of population drops into poverty](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/07/unpo-j28.html) * [GDP instantly halves](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Soviet_Union_GDP_per_capita.gif) * [One in ten children now live on the streets](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/an-epidemic-of-street-kids-overwhelms-russian-cities/article4141933/). [Infant mortality increases](https://knoema.com/atlas/Russian-Federation/Nenets-Autonomous-District/topics/Demographics/Mortality/Infant-mortality-rate-deaths-before-age-1-per-1000-live-births). Was 29.3 in 2003 which is around (current) Syria and Micronesia, 7.9 in 2013. [Infant mortality in USSR was 1.92](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union#Life_expectancy_and_infant_mortality), literally the lowest in the world. * [1996 election rigged by the US, Yeltsin sends in tanks to disperse the supreme soviet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_presidential_election,_1996) For an overview of the soviet experiment, watch this [brilliant talk by Micheal Parenti](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7WmYEoNtPY&feature=youtu.be), or read his article, [Left anticommunism, the unkindest cut](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/23/). Bonus vid about cyber-communism: [Paul Cockshott - Going beyond money](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI01-5zhwdA). More sources: [Socialism Crash Course](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/crash_course_socialism.md), [Socialism FAQ](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md), [Glossary](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/glossary_of_socialist_terms.md).
# How to respond to "Communism doesn't work." Does Capitalism Work? Lets unpack the idea that "Capitalism works". In the US, the most developed Capitalist country, the richest country in the history of the world * [1 out of every 7 US citizens needs to visit food banks to survive](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/hunger-study-food/14195585/), despite having enough food to feed [10 billion people](https://www.oxfam.ca/there-enough-food-feed-world). Half of all food produced is thrown away by retailers. [Food waste in 2018 enough to feed world's hungry 4 times over](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect) * [UNICEF](http://www.unicef.org/sowc06/pdfs/sowc06_chap1.pdf), [RESULTS](https://web.archive.org/web/20080527011602/http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=241), and [Bread for the World](http://www.bread.org/hunger/global/facts.html) estimate that 15 million people worldwide die each year from preventable poverty, of whom 11 million are children under the age of five. [2](http://archive.is/2CvOW) * In the US alone, [20-40k deaths every year](http://archive.is/2CvOW) because of lack of health insurance / care. On average, that's 300k over the last decade * [Empty homes outnumber the homeless by 6 to 1](http://archive.today/2014.05.23-032153/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-skip-bronson/post_733_b_692546.html). Bank foreclosures and housing speculators have left 18.9 million empty homes. [2.5 million homeless children, or ~1 / 30](https://www.newsweek.com/child-homelessness-us-reaches-historic-high-report-says-285052). In the UK, [there are 10x more empty houses than homeless families](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/housing-crisis-10-empty-homes-5008151) * Rising Housing prices from real estate speculation have skyrocketed to the point that an epidemic of [hidden homeless](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-hidden-homeless-priced-out-cbsn-originals/) has arisen: families who live in their cars, or on the street, but who still work. In most US cities, such as LA, it's illegal to sleep in your car overnight. 1/3rd of all renters pay half their income towards landlords. Even mid-size cities like Boise Idaho are experiencing a [surge of homelessness as of 2019](https://www.kivitv.com/news/state-of-208/affordable-housing-crisis-leading-to-rise-in-first-time-homelessness-in-boise) * [80% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/29/us-economy-workers-paycheck-robert-reich), 40% cannot cover a [$400 emergency](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/federal-reserve-more-than-4-out-of-10-americans-do-not-even-have-enough-money-to-cover-an-unexpected-400-expense) * [The bottom half of US citizens have a combined negative net worth. Average US household carries ~$140k in debt. Median household income only $60k.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2017/11/18/a-foolish-take-heres-how-much-debt-the-average-us-household-owes/107651700/) * [40% of millenials live with their parents](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/goodbye-american-dream-the-average-u-s-household-is-137063-in-debt-and-38-4-of-millennials-live-with-their-parents). Younger generations, with dwindling opportunities, feeling disposable and unwanted under late capitalism, suffer from a [burnout epidemic](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work). Many have stopped pursuing romantic relationships, and [having children](https://www.curbed.com/2019/7/19/20700379/raising-kids-cities-family-friendly). [2](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hikikomori-japan) * [~ 1/4th of US workers are trapped in the gig economy as of 2019](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/02/gig-economy-us-trump-uber-california-robert-reich) * [70% of US citizens say they are struggling financially](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/70-americans-are-struggling-financially/) * [8 men control as much wealth as half the worlds population](https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/meet-the-8-men-who-control-half-the-worlds-wealth.html). Anyone wanna take a guess at how this game of monopoly ends? * [Capitalist monopolies in media, food, energy, and transportation, mostly controlled by ~200 powerful shareholders](https://imgur.com/a/xgnEp) * [Billionaires made enough money in 2017 to end poverty 7 times over](https://www.newsweek.com/billionaires-money-end-poverty-report-786675) * [US Life expectancy peaked in 2014](https://i.redd.it/6zo861tkn0441.png), is on the decline, and is now [lower than in China](https://www.businessinsider.com/china-boasts-that-its-healthy-life-expectancy-beats-the-us-is-correct-2018-5). [2](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-life-expectancy/us-life-expectancy-declining-due-to-more-deaths-in-middle-age-idUSKBN1Y02C7) * Suicide rates have leaped more than [33% in the last 20 years](https://politsturm.com/american-suicide-rate-up-33/). [Teen suicides are on the rise and outpacing all other age groups](http://archive.is/Ips7C). [2](https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/health/suicide-report-cdc/index.html), [3](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/06/07/u-s-suicide-rates-rise-sharply-across-the-country-new-report-shows/?utm_term=.18c1060e6b2f) * [A Drug overdose epidemic](https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-11-26/life-expectancy-decline-deaths-of-despair), and suicides are fueling a decrease in life expectancy. * Committed [countless atrocities](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md), killing millions directly and indirectly across the globe. Currently maintains [an imperialist network](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df4R-xdKvpM) of over [800 military bases in 70 countries](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321). (For comparison, all the other countries combined have only 30 bases) * [Most prisoners per capita AND by total](https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/). Makes sense, since prison is Capitalism's boarding house. * [Runs least 54 agricultural slave labor camps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_farm#In_the_United_States_.28partial_list.29). * [34,000 undesirables imprisoned in over 500 immigrant prison camps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement#Detention_centers) * [US collapse scenarios by 2030](https://www.salon.com/2010/12/06/america_collapse_2025/) * [More here](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#workers-and-the-poor) Capitalist hegemony has short-circuited people into buying wildly illogical and ridiculous propaganda like: *"Lift yourselves up by the bootstraps"* (which shows the almost religious power of capitalist propaganda, that the impossible can become possible), or *"Communism doesn't work"*, when in fact **Communism did work extremely well**. Examples from [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/86tqdd/but_socialism_doesnt_work_s/dw7qco0/) by /u/bayarea415, [Stephen Gowans - Do publicly owned, planned economies work?](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/), [Audio on youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYf3gZZFa0k&list=PL0-IkmzWbjobDdDbSC_YgZfV94BQiRIB8) and [Ian Goodrum](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1136693839526223872.html) about the USSR specifically: * [USSR had a more nutritious diet than the US, according to the CIA. Calories consumed surpassed the US](https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5.pdf). Ended famines. * Productive forces were not organized for capital gain and private enrichment; public ownership of the means of production supplanted private ownership. It was illegal to hire others and accumulate personal wealth from their labor. * Had the [2nd fastest growing economy of the 20th century after Japan](https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/captura-de-pantalla-de-2016-05-26-10-15-23.png). The USSR started out at the same level of economic development and population as Brazil in 1920, which makes comparisons to the US, an already industrialized country by the 1920s, even more spectacular. * [Free Universal Health care, and most doctors per capita in the world](https://www.marxists.org/archive/newsholme/1933/red-medicine/index.htm). 42 doctors per 10k population, vs 24 in Denmark and Sweden, 19 in US. * [Had near zero unemployment, continuous economic growth for 70 straight years](https://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~syrbe/pubs/FarmtoFactory.pdf). The "continuous" part should make sense – the USSR was a planned, non-market economy, so market crashes á la capitalism were pretty much impossible. * [All education, including university level, free](http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm). [2](http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm) * [99% literacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez). * Saved the world from Fascism, [Taking on the majority of Nazi divisions, and killing 7 out of every 10 fascist soldier. Bore the enormous cost of blood and pain in WW2, with the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Casualties). An estimated 70% of Soviet housing was destroyed by Nazi invasion. Nazis were in retreat after the battle of Stalingrad in 1942, a full 2 years before the US landed troops in normandy. * [Doubled life expectancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union). [Eliminated poverty](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/). * [End sex inequality](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1977,_Unamended)). Equal wages for men and women mandated by law, but sex inequality, although not as pronounced as under capitalism, was perpetuated in social roles. Very impor