Current podcasts are Deprogram and Revolutionary Left Radio. I would love some more to listen to on my commute/walks.
EDIT: Thank you all for the suggestions!
Current podcasts are Deprogram and Revolutionary Left Radio. I would love some more to listen to on my commute/walks.
EDIT: Thank you all for the suggestions!
My current list:
The ones marked testing i added from the description. I’m thoroughly anti western marxism so I will throw out stuff that is revisionist or imperialist in any way. Those i’m testing have not been veryfied by me yet.
Isn’t Socialism for All - well - it’s anti-Deng to say the least… so keep that in mind a bit
mao >>> deng
I don’t really like dengian socialism because of the whole company thing. Like there is still classes in China because of deng. Sure ‘western investment’ helped but like… now it’s only half-socialism.
This is probably the wrong place to rant about Deng tho.
There were classes under Mao, and later the Gang of Four. Class cannot be eradicated without building up the productive forces to a level where public ownership and planning works most effectively, you cannot simply decree rural cooperative farming into full-scale industrialized and collectivized production and distribution. The same applies across the entire economy.
If the Gang of Four and those who uphold them were still in power, China would still have classes, and would not have had nearly the same development. Abolition of class happens by abolishing the material basis of class, not simply by legalistic decree. Even the Soviet Union had black markets with private property, and they existed because there was an economic, material basis for them, not just because the soviets didn’t root them out well enough.
Both Mao and Deng played invaluable roles in China’s history. We must uphold both of them, because they both generally applied Marxism-Leninism correctly for the conditions of China at the time of their administration. The PRC is not “half-socialism,” it’s a socialist country that is steadily and rapidly developing thanks to the success of Reform and Opening Up, as well as Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign that rooted out opportunism that began to take hold in the late 90s and 2000s.
Cheng Enfu’s model here is a decent way to picture China’s strategy for continuing socialist development.
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 😂 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 😡), 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.