"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
International Anti-Capitalist podcast run by an American, a Slav and an Arab.
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Description: An international anti-fascist show run by a Scandinavian nerd, a Slavic alcoholic and an American unc that takes you to the darkest corners of the internet to help you understand the footsoldiers of online right-wing mobilization -- content creators.
The show is hosted by Mike From PA, Yugopnik and Fredda, and can be found wherever you listen to podcasts.
I seldom listen to the podcast, basically only when they bring a good guest, but i always found Yugo to be the weakest link so i am passing on this.
Did SadEmpanada crash out over this? I don't know enough about the other guys to make a judgment, but Yugo always seems very based. Maybe he's trying to pull in more into the pipeline. What a lot of the haters don't get is, you have to get people started. Once we are here I'm commie land, what more is there to learn? The Deprogram is already very ML at its current state. There's a few others but we don't really NEED a lot. What the movement needs is..... Movement. We need people pulling in more people into the movement, not just catering to those of us that's already here.
So I'll hold my judgment till I see what's happening with it.
I'd take BadEmpanada crashing out over this as an endorsement.
BadEmpanada even crashed out on me, a 200 follower account on bsky, for saying the Cubans shouldn't abandon socialism and make way for a US controlled rulling class. He is no communist and he loves taking fights with people.
Just like how he correctly criticized Contrapoints' liberalism but then proceeded to full-blown transphobe on every trans person, liberal or Socialist, online. He could have stopped, but he enjoys online drama a bit too much. My Schizoposting GOAT.
He is no communist and he loves taking fights with people.
He could have stopped, but he enjoys online drama a bit too much
My read was always that he was a little debate gremlin obsessed with arguments and being right, and if you're naturally obsessed with being right you end up arguing for the marxists. This was my personal pipeline too, to be fair.
Except he never outgrew the cringe dabatebro phase, only monetized it through youtube
Naah, he is still like that on twitter and bsky. He replies to weeks old comments just to have an argument.
Mike is a person I disagree with in quite a few ways, however I don't despise him like I do many other western leftists.
My main disagreement with him comes from his broader political strategy concerning the US.
To put it in basic terms, I believe that he suggests that socialists in the US should support socdem candidates and movements in the US in order to implement a new deal style social democracy in the US again. His argument as to why is that the US implementing those kinds of policies, and necessarily reducing its millitary spending, would constrain the US from being able to suppress global socialist movements. By allowing foe that breathing room, the global south socialist movements could achieve sovereignty against the imperial core, leaving the US ruling class unable to exploit the Periphery to the same extent, and making it easier for US socialist to fight against their own state.
I wouldn't call it the worst perspective but I think it's very flawed.
Most prominently, is the fact that the 1st new deal was only made possible by Military Keynsianism, which would strengthen the MIC nor weaken it. Also the conditions of total destruction across the developed world which came about from WW2 isn't the case, plus the global south is currently a larger portion of the world's global production and is growing. There's also the issue that the Socdems of the US all completely capitulate to the neoliberal establishment. They are eitheir just as complicit in empire or too politically incompetent to counteract reaction.
In my view, we should advocate for socialism unapologetically, and organize around defense against fascism until the US has exhausted its capacity to act as an empire entirely.
I have no idea who these people are aside from Yugopnik (alhamdulillah) but the idea is solid. I'm terminally online enough to have spent some time around the dark recesses of the internet and it's good to have a sober view of how bad things really are in there.
I would have never guessed that Yugopnik, Fredda, and MikeFromChongqing would create a podcast together, but I'm here for it. I'll have to give it a listen when I have the chance.
Couldn't find it where I listen to podcasts. Want my money back.
Sounds kinda interesting