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"As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say that we're tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We also know that when the people understand, they cannot but follow us. In any case, we, the people, have no enemies when it comes to peoples. Our only enemies are the imperialist regimes and organizations." Thomas Sankara, 1985
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As stated, I clicked on them by description alone and am currently testing. Thanks for the heads up. As also stated, if they're revisionist, imperialist or anything, they get the boot.
It's just very funny to see S4A next to Actually Existing Socialism which IIRC has hosted Gabriel Rockhill ๐ if you take recommendations from randoms online, please save yourself the grief and go directly to Critical Theory Workshop. (Chemical Mind's edits are actually very manipulative, as bad as Midwestern Marx, they're trying to use Rockhill's words to undermine his ideas... but I didn't even check if you know who that is, just a disclaimer that I have seen nobody good edit down the hours of material.) If you like AES pod, take advantage of the CTW guys posting full course lectures online for free.
Thanks for the suggestions.
The most ideologically clean ones so far have been prolespod, the deprogram, hammer and the sickle, pick me up i'm scared.
I don't really want to open this can of worms while this community is figuring out what to do over the reddit ban, but realistically I cannot resist and am already trying to remember to make two controversial posts on Lemmy, like explaining why everyone is dumb for thinking Luigi iced healthcare man (WHO HAD A FAMILY ๐ก), so I'll just throw this out and you can make of it what you will.
The Deprogram hosted Konstantin Syomin, who is a seriously shady figure with dicey connections, and RevLeft hosted a Ukrainian socialist from an obscure party Zelensky didn't purge, who flat out condemned the republics' resistance against ethnic cleansing and torture (not that he mentioned it of course), without even mentioning the purges of his fellow Ukrainian communists, who I suppose must have been saboteurs. I know a lot of western socialists think that hard opposition to Ukraine's front against the republics and now Russia at large was reverse-engineering from nostalgia, and perhaps Freudian obsession with strong foreign leaders (Iraq War demsuccery all over again, or so I've heard). However the actual basis for antiimperialist support for the SMO is in writers like Istavan Meszaros and Samir Amin that advocate breaking dependency on the imperial core. Solidnet parties like the CPUSA and the KKE barely whisper about these positions and you cannot find them at your local library, unlike MMT freakazoids like Michael Hudson (EDIT: or Yanis Varoufakis (can't forget mr "fictitious capital is a new mode of production just like tech bozos claim")).
Did you get any of that or are you nervous that I'm already trying to take away your Good Podcasts? Don't get me wrong I still listen to many of those as well, Radio War Nerd, etcerera, because there are slim pickings, it's just that I listen much more critically after they have repeatedly thrown NAFO tier guests at me and lied about Xinjiang etc. Man I hate speaking English. Everything is so annoying to listen to.
You know, I would have had an easy time just hearing you say "check out these ones" because since you're here i assume you mean well. Thanks for the suggestion.
Np i just wish people were more critical of all these alt media outlets and random shows. I've never met a single person who listens to them who actually wants to hear any criticism. Because, for me, not questioning what I'm listening to makes it way less interesting and active.
Well, not everyone is the same. Imo, westerners only get to criticize any socialist (especially ML) media or socialist countries if they have spent considerable time studying them and countries only if they've been there.
If only they shared that opinion gosh