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Crash Course Socialism

Contents
Crash Course Socialism
Surplus Value
History, and Human Nature
Value
Risk
Conformity
Democracy
Late Stage Capitalism
Defending the Status Quo
The State, and Revolution
The Communist Legacy
The Communist Future
FAQ
Media
Videos
Literature
Modern introductory books
 Essays/Introductions
Marxist literature
Marxian economics
History books
Psychology
Fiction
Audiobooks
Films
Documentaries
Podcasts
Channels
Organizations
Parties / Groups
Online Communities

If this is too long to read right now, I recommend /u/thedashrendar's excellent summary of Capitalism,
then coming back to this.

Crash Course Socialism

Surplus Value
Socialism is an economic and social system defined by social ownership of the means of production.
(Workers democratically own and operate their workplaces, as opposed to private control of
production aka Capitalism).

The means of production are non-human inputs that help create economic value, such as factories,
industrial machinery, workplaces, large tracts of land, stores of raw materials, etc. The means of
production are the means of life. Socialists refer to the means of production as capital, or private
property, i.e., the things which give the people who own them power over those who don't.

Private property in the socialist context shouldn't be confused with personal property, such as your
home, car, computer, and other possessions, which would be protected. Private property is in
actuality another word for absentee property, whose ownership is claimed through title only (and not
use), for the purpose of extracting rent from the actual users, occupants, or workers.

In a Capitalist society the means of production are owned and controlled privately, by those that can
afford them (the Capitalist, aka those with Capital). Production is carried out to benefit the capitalist
(production for profit). Workers are paid a wage, and receive that amount regardless of how much
value they produce.

Socialists call this difference the surplus, profit, unpaid labor, exploitation, or wage theft.
Wage Theft = Worker Value Added - Wage Paid

Unlike workers, Capitalists make their living, not by clocking in and being paid a certain fixed wage
per hour, but through absentee ownership. Their wealth is earned while sleeping, playing golf, or
visiting the mailbox to collect pieces of this wage theft, often in the form of stock dividends. A
worker's wealth is dependent on the number of hours they can work; a Capitalist's wealth is based on
how much absentee property they can accumulate, and as such can multiply indefinitely. Some
Capitalists earn an average worker's yearly salary in a single night's sleep.

For example, a Copper mine owner neither physically mines the copper, and (living thousands of
miles away) likely delegates day-to-day operations to a hired manager. Yet, because they have a
piece of paper that says they own it, they get a large cut of everything that was mined: the ultimate
free lunch.

A 1983 report by England national income and expenditures found that on average, 26 minutes of
every hour worked (or 43% of labor value added) by English workers across a wide range of
industries went to various exploiting or unproductive groups, with workers receiving only 57% of their
pre-tax productive output as wages1. In other words, at least 40% of the work you do every day is
stolen by Capitalists.

Capitalists use the surplus to push out competitors and gain market share, leading to the destruction
of most small businesses, with just a few companies controlling our food, media, news, energy,
transportation, and finances.
In the table below, both capital and surplus value are controlled by a company's owners, who usually
appoint a board of directors. This owning class (called Capitalists, or the Bourgeoisie) make up a tiny
minority of the population.

Capitalist firm / Economy

Other Owners, Shareholders, Board of

payments Directors, Managers, Clerks

Capital
 
Accumulation
Worker Surplus Value
Armed
value / Profit Police, Military
Enforcement
added
Political
 
Bribery
Total
Advertising  
Value
Wages    

Physical
   
assets

Intellectual
   
Capital assets

Money /
Finance    
capital

Wage workers are completely dependent on selling their labor power to those in control of
production in order to gain access to the necessities of life (money for food, shelter, clothing, etc). Its
similarities to chattel slavery has lead many to term wage work as wage slavery, with voluntary
employment being simply a false choice between one exploiter or another.

Technological advancements, instead of benefiting workers, result in decreased or stagnant wages,

worsening bargaining power, or mass layoffs. For example, a machine that replaces 10 workers leads
to their firing, resulting in a benefit for the machine owner, and an economic hardship to the fired
workers.

Increase in profits due primarily to automation

The difference between these two lines is a measure of the surplus.

History, and Human Nature

Capitalism has nothing to do with human nature. People can be greedy, or cooperative, depending
on the incentive structure and ideology of the socioeconomic system they live in, which is usually out
of their control. For the vast majority of human history, small groups of people survived by foraging,
growing, or hunting for food as a community, in a mode of life termed primitive communism.
Communal sharing was essential to the survival of the group.

Markets likewise were rare, since communities tended to be self-sufficient. Rituals, harvest festivals, a
group of elders deciding fair distribution, or communal decision-making accomplished what markets
do today. Private property (and male-dominated societies) came into existence with the growth of
large-scale agriculture and animal domestication (A historically male-dominated activity). These
tended to be passed on to male descendants (which in turn required strict female sexual control,
isolation, and increasing objectification), aggregating into fewer and fewer land-owners, and creating
class antagonisms between an owning, and a working class.
In the modern day, there is the communism of the family, in which family members share freely with
one another. There are community welfare organizations, food banks, as well as thousands of
undocumented and unpublicized acts of kindness which show that cooperation endures even in spite
of the individualism of the current dominant economic system. Popular phrases like, "Money is the
root of all evil", hint at our societal dislike of selfishness, and persist alongside the capitalist myths of
the "self-made man", and, "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps" (which shows the power of
capitalist indoctrination: in a nonsensical world, the impossible becomes possible).

Capitalism evolved historically out of feudalism and slave societies, all three being dependent on a
dominant ruling class receiving the surplus of a subordinate class.

Socialism as a diverse philosophy arose out of a criticism after the French revolution, in which a
capitalist class (the bourgeoisie) seemed to merely replace feudal lords to become the new ruling
class. At the same time, the exploited serfs were moved off the land (enclosure) and forced into the
cities to become wage-workers.

Marxism is a socialist tradition, which places emphasis on the means of production, your relation to
them, and the inherent class struggles involved between those who control the productive forces
and those who don't, as the primary force driving economic and social relations.

Value
Economic systems, such as Capitalism, don't invent, create or build anything. Workers do (See Soviet
Space Program). The "isms" just determine who gets compensated. Nor does capitalism spur
innovation; the pursuit of new ideas is fundamental to humanity, and takes place regardless of the
economic system in place. Inventions like rocketry, the internet, space travel, GPS, mobile phones,
vaccines, were all developed under public funding.

The labor theory of value (LTV) recognizes that our most valuable resource is time, specifically socially
useful/necessary labor time. There is after all only a finite number of hours of work humanity can
perform in a given day; and at least half of that value is going to a few absentee owners.

The labor theory was commonly accepted in the 19th century ( especially by Smith and Ricardo ), but
fell out of favor as capitalist states began to cement economics as a discipline to justify the new
status quo.

Most capitalist economists treat value like magic fairy dust: it can be created and destroyed with a
thought. Many modern economists and mainstream economics professors serve a role akin to the
priests during feudalism: treating value and rewards in idealist terms, rather than as scientific
concepts, justifying capitalism's immense inequality ( whilst often getting paid to promote it ), and
demonizing other theories ( such as LTV ) as heresy.

Coming down to reality from idealist and subjective experience, value, like any other scientific
concept, such as energy, is preserved in a closed system.
The labor theory of value has been proven empirically correct in recent decades, by comparing the
amount of labor required in given industries, and the money output of those industries. For nearly
every country with sufficient economic data, the correlation is > 95%.

Under capitalism, the subjective theory of value is based almost entirely on the supply and demand
curve model which is unscientific, 2 since it presupposes more unknowns than knowns, and as such is
useless at making any predictions. Capitalist value theories are based around utility, IE joy, which isn't
quantifiable, measurable, comparable, or falsifiable, and as such is useless as a scientific concept. Its
greatest use is to allow the mega-rich to justify owning thousands of lifetimes of stolen labor.

The planned economies such as that of the USSR, while imperfect, often provided better social
outcomes than its Western equivalents. Its publicly owned, planned economy brought it from
feudalism to a world superpower, with the fastest growing economy of the 20th century, despite
starting out at the same level of economic development as Brazil in 1920.

This video by Paul Cockshott - Going beyond Money, illustrates how it is currently possible to go
beyond money, and to build a democratically planned, labor-time based economy for human needs,
rather than private profit.

Risk
A common argument is that Capitalists should be rewarded for their financial risk. The only risk owners
take is that of being forced to become a worker like everyone else if the business fails.

Risk also isn't proportional to reward; Big Capitalists risk much less, and gain much more than smaller
ones, just as wage workers risk starvation and homelessness if forces outside their control lead to
their firing. The nearer the bottom you are, the greater your risks.

Slavemasters took financial risk in buying slaves, but that risk doesn't negate the harm done to their
slaves, or entitle them to their slaves' labor output. Capitalist risk likewise doesn't entitle them to a
portion of their workers' output.

The socialist argument is not that individual passive investors should still bear all the risk, it's that they
never should have been in a position to bear that risk to begin with, and only got there by exploiting
workers. Society and workers should bear the risk, make the decisions, and own the means of
production that their labor made possible.

Conformity
Socialism has nothing to do with conformity, restriction of artistic expression, or equality in abilities. It
instead proposes economic and political equality through the abolition of classes, placing all citizens
on an equal footing with regard to the means of production. It is Capitalism, with its inherent
authoritarian hierarchies, that imposes conformity on society through vapid consumerism, and
through the authoritarian nature of capitalist firms themselves. A chain of command ensures that
orders from capitalists drop like a rock, to dominate the actions of every worker.
Democracy
Socialists view democracy under capitalism to be an unrealistic utopia, better labeled as Bourgeois
Democracy, or democracy for the rich, which socialists contrast with proletarian democracy. Under
capitalism, political parties, representatives, infrastructure, and the media are controlled by
capitalists, who place restrictions on the choices given to workers, limit their representative options
to vetted capitalist puppets, and limit the scope of public debate to pro-capitalist views.

Bourgeois democracies are in reality Capitalist Dictatorships, resulting in legislation favorable to the
wealthy, regardless of the population's actual preferences. The Princeton Study, conducted in the US
in 2014, found that the preferences of the average citizen exert a near-zero influence on legislation,
making the US system of elections and campaigning little more than political theater. Parliamentary /
representative democracy has proven to be the safest shell for capitalist rule, regardless of voting
methods or differing political structures, for countries as diverse as Australia, Japan, Sweden, or Brazil.

Examples of restrictions include a media and news monopoly, the First Past the Post voting system
(which enforces capitalist two party domination), gerrymandering, long term limits with no way to
recall unpopular representatives, restrictions crafted to disenfranchise poor and minority voters, bills
directly crafted by lobbyists and bourgeois lawmakers, voter suppression, electoral fraud, unverifiable
closed source electronic voting systems, capitalist campaign financing, low voter to representative
ratios, inconvenient voting locations and times, and most pervasive, candidate stacking. Most
elections are performed before we ever get to the polling booth. In short, political democracy can't
exist without economic democracy.

The impossibility of Capitalist democracy to make a transition to working-class democracy is best

shown by the phrase: Capitalists will not allow you to vote away their wealth. Pacifism, and elections
have never been an effective means of disenfranchising the ruling class. Multi-party, representative
parliamentary democracies, such as exist in Australia, the UK, South Korea, and the United States,
have proved to be the safest shell for Capitalist rule.

Communists propose building alternatives alongside of bourgeois democracy, with the goal of to
replacing it with Proletarian democracy. Measures might include:

Replacement of bourgeois parliamentary bodies with broadly inclusive workers organizations,

such as unions, councils, or syndicates.
Seizing land, productive facilities, and housing and putting them under democratic control.
Elimination of all debts, suppression of all private banks and stock markets.
Direct democracy in as many decisions as possible, often called cyber communism. A site called
Simplevote, a direct democracy voting platform.
A democratically planned economy for human needs, with open participation.
Low-level workplace democracy.
Elimination of the standing army, and the substitution for it of armed workers.
An emphasis on universal education, health-care, child-care, care for the elderly, and human
welfare, paid for socially.
 Increase in productive technology.
Low levels of wealth and income inequality, often driven by a system of labor vouchers for
compensation.
Experts (if any) elected by the working class through universal suffrage.
All representatives and officials (including police) are revocable at any time.
Public officials are paid workmen’s wages.

Late Stage Capitalism

During Capitalism's growth period (early Capitalism), when there are new markets and labor forces to
expand to, capitalism can appear stable for the richer consumers whose products are actually being
produced by exploited, poorer workforces. Likewise, in a labor shortage, as existed in the newly
industrializing US, capitalists have no choice but to keep wages high (and the rate of exploitation low)
in order to bring in workers from other countries, and keep them from becoming subsistence farmers.

In the southern US, African slavery was used to solve the labor shortage, and keep exploitation high
(since no wages were paid), and consumer products such as tobacco and cotton cheap. In order to
take advantage of cheap labor, capitalists usually build production far away from where those
products are actually bought and consumed, meaning that most consumer goods are shipped by
ocean-freight, wasting energy and polluting the environment.

Since the 1960s, there has been a labor surplus, due to a decreased demand for workers due to
computers and automation, and an increased supply of workers (women, and low-paid
manufacturing and agriculture in less-developed countries). The extra, unemployed workers make up
a reserve army of labor, keeping wages low, and desperation high. Increased worker productivity (due
to computers and automation) mean that the surplus (the difference between worker productivity
and wage paid), is historically higher than ever. This trend will only continue, and workers will
naturally become more class conscious, as they see their exploitation increase, and their livelihood
decrease.

Since workers have less money to survive, let alone buy what their employers are selling, there is a
tendency for the rate of profit to fall, and capitalists fight and wage wars over the decreasing surplus.
Late stage capitalism refers to the extreme polarization of the two classes, the increasingly absurd
and cruel ways our society copes and justifies such stark inequality, and the horrible things capitalism
forces people to do to survive.

As the supply of labor outstrips the demand, it becomes cheaper to employ workers rather than to
sink startup costs into innovative technology. Soon, the technological growth rate grinds to a halt
(as of 2018 technological growth in Europe has slowed to ~1-2% per year), just as in ancient Rome,
inexpensive slave labor lead to stagnant technological progress.
In actuality, capitalism is highly unstable, made up of a series of crises, economic bubbles, booms,
and eventual busts, termed business cycles, that occur every few years with varying intensity, but with
most of the resulting burden shifted to workers. The capitalist state often intervenes to prop up
failing businesses, and bail out members of its own class.

Both feudalism and slavery were thought to be highly stable systems, and even they lasted hundreds
of years until their eventual overthrow.

Defending the Status Quo

The reason why most people are reticent to read anti-capitalist literature, and discouraged from
participating in the class struggle through unionism and political movements, is due to capitalist
indoctrination, a capitalist monopoly on media, and police repression. Six companies control 90% of
all media in the West.

In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony is the domination of a culturally diverse society by the
ruling class, who manipulate the culture of that society (the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values,
and mores) so that their imposed, ruling-class world view becomes the accepted cultural norm; the
universally valid dominant ideology, which justifies the social, political, and economic status quo as
natural and inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for everyone, rather than as artificial social constructs
that benefit only the ruling class.

The police in Western bourgeois democracies are the domestic enforcement arm of the capitalists,
much like the military is the external imperialist enforcement arm. They are the hired goons of the
elites of their given city, protecting their factories and workplaces from unionization and worker
control, oppressing the poor and homeless, and keeping them separated from other workers by
intentional impoverishment via legal means. Cops have a long history of killing workers and crushing
unions.

Many of the largest corporations in the US, openly bankroll police departments, helping them buy
surveillance equipment, defensive gear, and military weaponry.

The State, and Revolution

Private ownership of the means of production was established through force and private tyranny, and
is only upheld through force. The state is a special organization of force used for the suppression of
one class by another which (in capitalist society) exercises a monopoly on violence to forcibly
maintain the right to private property. The modern state developed alongside the emergent capitalist
system as the bourgeoisie seized political and economic control. It arises from the irreconcilable class
antagonisms that exist in society.

The State, under capitalist society, which protects private property and upholds the capitalist mode of
production, is an instrument wielded by the bourgeoisie to suppress the proletariat. So long as there
are classes in society, a State (or any organization that uses force in the interests of a class) must
exist.
Marxists aim to replace the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, with a transitional dictatorship of the
proletariet, smashing the presently existing bourgeois state apparatus, and replacing it with a new
state, constructed on the basis of worker power, destroying all the elements which exist to oppress
workers, and safeguarding the ones that help workers. Once the proletarian state possesses political
power and controls the means of production, it will wither away over time as it suppresses the
bourgeoisie and moves toward a classless, egalitarian society. Eventually, the use of force is no longer
necessary to suppress class antagonisms, because there are no classes, and the oppressive elements
of the proletarian state wither away.

Socialism as an economic system is distinct from neoliberalism, as well as social democracy/Welfare

state capitalism, which aims to band-aid the ills of capitalism while leaving the exploitation inherent in
wage slavery intact. Social services provided by the capitalist-controlled state have nothing to do with
socialism.

The Communist Legacy

Some Marxists say the regimes typically called socialist are more correctly defined as State Capitalist,
since production was controlled by state bureaucracies who also distributed the surplus, rather than
through the democratic input of workers. Other Marxists call them siege socialist, contrasting it with
pure socialism, stating that siege socialism is a natural reaction to the external pressures of capitalist
encirclement, and that pure socialism is an ideal which is ahistorical and nonfalsifiable. The US for
example, has been involved in militarily crushing nearly every socialist attempt for the last 80 years,
and installing right-wing fascist dictatorships (friendly to US interests) in their place. Needless to say,
capitalist encirclement has a profoundly distorting affect on the building of socialism; very few
attempts have survived US interventionism. This talk by Micheal Parenti is a good reflection and
criticism on the soviet experiment.

The early stages of the 1917 Russian Revolution were far more progressive than is typically portrayed;
Divorce was legalized, Homosexuality was decriminalized, land was distributed to the peasantry,
banks were nationalized, control of factories was given to worker's councils, the workday was
shortened, wages were fixed at a higher rate, all elected officials could now be immediately recalled;
it created mass literacy drives, free nurseries, communal kitchens, and laundries. 14 Western nations
(including the US) sent troops to Russia to fight against the gains of the revolution.

Contrary to the popular phrase, Communism did work: within a few short years, the Soviet Union
doubled its life expectancy, became a world super-power, and the second fastest growing economy
of the 1900s. Other achievements include: near-zero unemployment, continuous economic growth for
70+ years (excluding WW2), near-zero homelessness, higher caloric intake than the US, 99% literacy,
free education, free health-care (most doctors per capita in the world), free childcare, low poverty,
and low levels of sex and racial inequality, not to mention the soviet space program's achievements. 1
These achievements were possible due to efficient use of resources resulting from the lack of a
parasitic capitalist class expropriating the majority of the nation's wealth. Similar outcomes in other
socialist countries prove that socialism did indeed work, and provided an alternative to the private
property system. This is why it was intentionally and systematically attacked by Western capitalist
nations.

The famines and economic hardship typically associated with communism in Russia and China, were
partially a result of the painful process of industrialization, and the transition from agriculture to
industry. It would be the case whether capitalists, communists, or enlightened rulers were in power.
During England's rapid industrialization, life expectancy in some cities was less than 30 years. This is
the case with every country in the process of industrialization. Lysenkoism, and a period of droughts
made the problem worse. The scale of famines were also exaggerated by capitalist historians, whose
brinkmanship in quoting higher death counts is contradicted by the massive population growth of
those countries. Even in spite of this, a look at a drastic increase in the life expectancy in the USSR
should put to rest the notion of socialism as contributing to starvation.

Exaggerated death counts blamed on communism and usually attributed to Stalin or Mao are often
due to Western historians attributing all deaths to the economic system. This would be the equivalent
of attributing deaths from the Dust Bowl to FDR. Yet 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.

Even if we were to fully accept the Western propaganda that socialist regimes have killed 100 million
people, then within 10 years, capitalism kills more children under the age of 5 than socialism did in
150 years.

The Communist Future

Communism is the highest developed stage of socialism wherein there is no state, no money, no class
system. The means of production are owned by all and provide for everyone's needs. There are also
presumably high levels of automation so most do not have to work.

Many socialists point to directly democratic worker’s councils as an ideal way to organize production,
with gift economies for abundant goods, and labor voucher economies for scarce/luxury goods. Here
is an example of a moneyless, Cyber-Communist system, video.

Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - Revolutionary Catalonia, Anarchist Aragon,
Shinmin Province in Korea/Manchuria, The Bavarian Soviet Republic, The Paris Commune, The
Zapatista controlled areas of Chiapas (current day), Magonista Baja California, Shanghai People's
Commune, Rojava (current day), Communist Marinaleda, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
USSR, People's Republic of China, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Cuba.

Revolutionary vs Evolutionary (Reformist) socialism, Economic planning with labor vouchers vs.
Market socialism, are a few debated topics within socialism.
FAQ
Socialism FAQ
Glossary of Socialist Terms
Does Capitalism work?
Marxist.space - A collection of resources

Media

Videos
Introduction to Marxism by Professor Richard D. Wolff
Socialism for Dummies by Professor Richard D. Wolff
Michael Parenti - Reflections on the overthrow of the Soviet Union
Paul Cockshott - Going beyond Money (how cyber communism can work)
Michael Parenti on US imperialism, and the overthrow of Yugoslavia
Michael Parenti on anti-sovietism in the US media
Michael Parenti on Imperialism and Film - Rambo and the Swarthy Hordes
Karl Marx and Marxism - BBC documentary by Stuart Hall
Dr Gabor Maté - Why Capitalism Makes Us Sick
Vijay Prashad - Military power, and the American Empire in decline.
The Philosophy of Antifa (Philosophy Tube)
3 minute intro to Marxism
10 minute intro to Karl Marx
10 minute intro to Capitalism by Professor Richard D. Wolff
Introduction to Anarchism by Noam Chomsky, #1, #2
Chomsky on american or right-libertarianism

Literature

Modern introductory books

Introductory books
Paul D’Amatto - the meaning of Marxism
Danny Katch - Socialism…. Seriously
Chris Harman - How Marxism Works. Audiobook
Michael Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds. Youtube audiobook
Peter Gelderloos - How Nonviolence Protects the State
 Socialist books starter pack (torrent)

Essays/Introductions
Albert Einstein - Why Socialism?
Engels - Principles of Communism (A great glossary of socialist terms)
Lenin - The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
Lenin - A liberal professor on Equality
Eugene Debs - Capitalism and Socialism
Stephen Gowans - Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work? audiobook
Why do many socialist attempts end up in an one-party state? Watch this brilliant talk by Micheal
Parenti, or read his article, Left anticommunism, the unkindest cut, audiobook
Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy's job for them., audiobook

Marxist literature
Engels - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, audiobook
Marx/Engels - The Communist Manifesto
Marx - Wage Labour and Capital
Rosa Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution . Audiobook
Lenin - State and Revolution. Audiobook
Lenin - “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder . Audiobook
Lenin - Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Trotsky - Fascism: What it is and how to Fight it

Marxian economics
Cockshott and Cottrell - Towards a New Socialism (pdf) epub audiobook

History books
Howard Zinn - A Peoples History of the United States
CLR James - The Black Jacobins
J. Sakai - Settlers: the Mythology of the White Proletariat, audiobook
John Reid - The Ten Days that Shook the World
Huey P. Newton - Revolutionary Suicide
Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America
Fidel Castro - My Life
Joshua Bloom - Black Against Empire
Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds
Psychology
Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of persuasion (not explicitly Marxist, but a great breakdown of
the main psychological tactics used by exploiters to manipulate us)

Fiction
Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars / Mars Trilogy
Ursula K LeGuin - The Dispossessed

Audiobooks
Dessalines List of Audiobooks (Many of the books and articles above are here)
Dessalines Youtube Channel w/ Audiobooks

Films
Pride (2014)
Reds (1981)
Salt of the Earth (1954)
Matewan (1987)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Libertarias (1996)
The Trotsky (2009)
The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Land and Freedom (1995)
The Spook who sat by the door (1973)
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
The Proud Valley (1940)
The Young Karl Marx (2017)
Network (1976)
The Hospital (1971)
Burn! (1969)
Trumbo (2015)
Walter defends Sarajevo (1972)
Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Joe Hill (1971)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
 The Organizer (1963)
Lulu the tool (1971)
Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)

Documentaries
Seeing Red
Tsar to Lenin
Fidel - The untold story (Cuban Revolution)
How Yukong moved the mountains (Chinese Revolution)
Malcolm X - Make it Plain
The Upright Man (Thomas Sankara)
Grenada - Future coming Towards Us
Paul Robeson - Here I Stand
Black gods with guns - Robert F Williams and Black Power
The Act of Killing - Communist purging in Indonesia
Lenin - old British Documentary
Oliver Stone - Untold History of the US
Soviet Storm - WW2 in the East
Red ant dream
The Murder of Fred Hampton
The Revolution will not be televised (Chavez and Venezuela)
A place called Chiapas (EZLN)
Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul (서울의 평양 시민들)
The Haircut - A North Korean Adventure
Weight of Chains - The overthrow of Yugoslavia.

Podcasts
Proles of the round table
Eyes Left
Revolutionary Left Radio
Red Menace
Citations needed
David Harvey's anti-capitalist chronicles
Economic Update with Richard Wolff

Channels
 Anticonqustia
Empire Files
Paul Cockshott
Richard Wolff - Democracy at Work
Comrade Hakim
Vijay Prashad
Micheal Parenti

Organizations

Parties / Groups
List of Anticapitalist Organizations

Online Communities
Marxist.space - A collection of resources
/r/capitalism_in_decay
/r/socialism
/r/communism
/r/anarchism
/r/socialistRA
/r/redneckrevolt
/r/socialistprogrammers
/r/militant
101s
/r/communism101
/r/socialism_101
Memes
/r/FULLCOMMUNISM
/r/ShitLiberalsSay

Credit to /u/gab91, /r/socialism, /r/socialism_101, /r/communism101