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Honestly, there aren't many good ML podcasts, I feel, or even leftist ones...
Not many... but I have recently found three in particular that I enjoy, in case anyone wants suggestions.
If you speak portuguese or want to read (the subtitles are mostly ok), theres a weekly political analisys by a brazilian communist party. Its the best thing i find online in pt, es, en and it. If you want i can send you the link
Brazil has really good communists nowadays 🙌
Most communist parties in Brasil are alligned with imperialism, in part or as a whole. But PCO is grassroots communism, no academic bullshit or consessions for the burguersie. They talk to the people, defend palestine in actions (not just Internet posting), defend the working class etc etc. Lenin would be overhelmed with proud
They're reactionary trots and politically irrelevant. UP and the PCB are the two decent ones.
Pcb is undergoing a major crisis. It will probably break at some point in the nearish future. It was an important party in the past, but for reasons i dont know they became an academic party and non-revolutionary to put it lighly. At some point one of their leaders (Mauro Iasi iirc) even suggested taking "leninist" out of their program
Up i really dont know much about
Your analysis is based on a glance at a site lmao.
UP is the electoral arm of another larger, radical organization. The point of it is to act as a tool for taking radical rhetoric into the elections and recruiting for the other, more openly ML and revolution-focused groups. It is not a whole thing in itself, just a tool of another larger movement.
It is still a relatively new organization, though. They are ever more consistently showing up amongst organizers of events and lower level institutions, like universities.
Neither of them sided with Hamas afaik, but if they did its a good surprise
They did though.
https://pcb.org.br/portal2/category/s10-internacional/c91-solidariedade-a-palestina https://www.instagram.com/unidadepopularpa/p/C3dgVYCO4b5/?img_index=1
You could easily find this stuff online
They sided with palestine, but afaik not with hamas
I definitely don’t mean the “communist” parties. But PCO is… kinda Trotskyist no? And kinda conservative, anti-LGBTQ movements and such.
They are not kinda trotskyists, they are trotskyists. They are not conservadores, they are the most progressive party in the country. They are for right to abortion, legalization of drugs, same sex marriage, end of exploitation of woman, etc etc. What they are against (and thats where people get those ideas you pointed) is censorship, and in Brasil you have lots (and if you count the famous ones, all of them) of indentitarian movements infiltrated by CIA agenda points, asking to sendo people to jail amd censor them. A good example is the minister for human rights: Police gets into the slums and kill 30 people (guess their color) he says nothing, but some guy calls a fuebol player a monkey and he asks for the guy to be imprisioned. They defended gay people way before it was cooler, way before CIA took the movement over. Theres a particular case when a researcher found out that a very important person from the black movement (from the colonization time) was gay. People from the Black movement got pissed and asked for him to be censored and even beaten. PCO didnt agree with his thesis but they defended his right to say that and offered to shield him from the aggressions. The point is, their agenda is to bring forth communism, and it includes freedom of speech. When people ask them to betray this objective in order to support some identitarian movement thats asking for censorship, they say no. Does that make them anti lgbt?
Send me the link, though I probably won't be able to understand it.
Still, I can maybe recommend it to other people.
https://youtube.com/@pco29?si=hDesSb-CLQkwtHyV
MONDAYS - International analysis (with a nationalist Navy Commander from Br)
TUESDAYS - Minor political analysis (BR + worldwide)
THURSDAY - Marxist theorical classes (today was about the development of the russian revolution early years and its ideological consequences)
SATURDAY - Major political analysis (BR + worldwide)
Id just like to add that they recently visited Hamas in Catar for a series of interviews. They are serious about what they do
Amazing!
Thank you!
OH NICE
Sure, I'm interested
N O I C E
Okay, so:
The Black Casebook
Collective Action Comics
We're Not So Different
Aaaaaannnd that's about it. Communist podcasts. There you go.
All on Spotify or Google Podcasts.
Or on most podcast platforms, as far as I can tell.
Oh yeah, and I'll throw in Against Japanism. Kinda ultra that one, but actually new information and new topics, I feel.
Plus, ProlesPod is coming back soon and they have their "a re-introduction" episode.
But eh, I'm trying to promote obscure or small-time podcasters, not podcasters that will probably strike it big (and strike it big again, in the case of ProlesPod).
I have a list somewhere too.
I recently started listening to WNSD, and while I knew the hosts are unapologetically leftists, I didn't know they were MLs. I'm enjoying the hell out of it, so that's a fun surprise.
They're on Hexbear, I believe.
No way! If you're reading this, hi Dr. Janega and Luke! Love the show
Yeah, I think at least Luke is on here, but I could be wrong.
Noice!
Podcasting Is Praxis is not a big brain theory podcast but they're by far the best and funniest current events/general banter comedy podcast I've come across. I'm pretty sure they're mostly ML, they certainly channel a lot of the same energy as Hexbear does.
A People's History Of Ideas tells the history of the Chinese revolution in extreme detail and the guy doing it is a Maoist. If you are the kind of person who like to know the minutuae of how safehouses were operated in Shanghai in the 1920's this is the place to look. Interspersed with the revolutionary history episodes is the occasional episode on Gonzaloism or oral histories from people who visited China during the Mao years. It's good albeit a little dry.
The second one sounds so fucking good. I’m excited to try both of these out. Holy shit.
that second pod sounds great I'm going to check it out thank you!
"Maoist"
That will be a no from me, but thank you.
such an incredibly lib sounding name...
tru
what criteria do you use to define "good"?
One that doesn't really retread old ground or talk about the same stuff the other ones are talking about.
Also, one that isn't just back-slapping their guests and never questioning them. Or simply agreeing with other leftists. Ones that promote debate and new ideas.
Among other things, of course.
I don't like the guests on the Deprogram and Rev Left Radio has gone downhill, as a Russian friend told me, so I steer clear from the "popular" or "top" ones nowadays.
What do you mean by this? Why would a 'Russian friend' tell you about rev left instead of you just listening to it? Are you just seething because Brett has the correct anti-imperialist line?
that's 100% it Pluto is basically an American lib the way he talks about Russia
Yes, everyone who has a remotely different opinion from you is mad and seething regardless of how they’re presenting said opinion.
He’s the one trying to shit on Rev Left Radio because of a “remotely different opinion” than him and his “Russian friend”. Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it.
Knowing Pluto he’s one step away from calling Brett a Nazbol for critically supporting Russia. If he’s going to throw shade at principled anti-imperialists, it’s going to be reflected back at him.