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So… any of you bears wanna help me out? Thanks!!

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Trueanon and Blowback are my personal favourites cannot recommend both of them enough, they're just so good.

Other flavourites of hexbear are Citations Needed, The Deprogram and the Antifada. I've also heard that Everybody Loves Communism, RevLeft Media, Radio War Nerd, Geopolitical Economy Report and Guerrilla Media are also good.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really had a hard time getting into trueanon. I listened to quite a lot of episodes and Brace is very entertaining on other people's shows but i just couldn't stand his pod. Every episode just feels the same and in chapo pod style i hadn't a fucking clue what they were talking about half the time.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like it's good to start with their the game series to kind of get a feel for the style of comedy without it being so in your face, idk with other podcasts I find the whole like, "here's 10 minutes of random bullshit before we actually start" kind of annoying but with Brace and Liz they just have good enough chemistry that it becomes actually funny

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Their Falun Gong and Elon Musk series is what sold me on them. If anyone is on the fence about TrueAnon, those are very good starting points

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Is Trueanon not a bit kooky or is that just the subreddit?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Ait here's a list of a few leftist podcasts:

1Dime Radio

American Prestige

Blowback

Book Club Commune

CENTER FOR COMMUNIST STUDIES

Cadre Journal

Center for Communist Studies Audio

Citations Needed

Cosmopod

David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles

Democracy at Work

Foreign Languages Press - Audiobooks

Guerrilla History

Give The People What They Want!

Historical Materialism Podcast

Introduction To Marx/Marxsim

Mass Struggle

New Books in Critical Theory

No Easy Answers

People's History of Ideas Podcast

Peoples Dispatch

Pod Damn America

Politics In Command

Proles of the Round Table

Radical Thoughts Podcast

Radio Free Amanda

Reading Capital With Comrades

Red Book Club

Red Library

Red Plateaus

Red Power Hour

Revolution and Ideology

Revolutionary Lumpen Radio

Revolutionary Left Radio

Red Menace Podcast

Socialism for All

The Antifada

Socialist Revolution

The Crimson Flag Podcast

The Lavender Menace

The People's Forum

The Red Nation

The Red Nation Podcast

The Unequal Exchange Podcast

The Verso Podcast

Theory Underground

Why Theory

Working Class History

Žižek And So On

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've heard Radio Free Asia has lots of topics on socialism

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What sort of socialism podcast are you looking for in particular? Is it something:

  • Introductory
  • Historical
  • Theory-based
  • Current affairs-focused
  • Casual
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I would like to hear some history of both US socialist movements and US action against socialist movements, as well as socialist movements in other countries. I would also like to learn about theory, and current affairs. It’s fine if it’s not all in one podcast, and I’m also open to one-off or series of podcasts focused on these historical aspects.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Podcasts on US social movements... that's a tough one. You'll hear some episodes covering this on RevLeft Radio but because most socialist movements in the US are either quite small and fragmented or they haven't achieved a whole lot there often isn't a huge amount to cover.

For US actions against socialism, Blowback is really good, as others have already mentioned. Others are American Exception and some episodes of Guerilla History.

For theory, I strongly recommend Red Menace as well as a lot of the stuff produced by Socialism For All. There's also Marx Madness, We Read Theory, Red Book Club, Radical Reviewer (on YouTube), and a lot of the episodes of Teach Me Communism.

For current affairs, there's Citations Needed, Radio War Nerd (specifically about wars), Everybody Loves Communism, The Deprogram, and some of TrueAnon.

While this next recommendation doesn't fit any of your categories, I'd also recommend Actually Existing Socialism because they interview primarily academics on their areas of expertise in socialist movements and it's really underrated, although it can be a bit dry so it might not be to your tastes.

My overall recommendation would be to try out an episode or two of whatever podcasts take your fancy to see if you like the presentation style and if it's to your preferred depth. Some of these podcasts are more conversational and entry-level while some of them go much deeper and lean towards the more academic side. There no right or wrong in this matter, it's just about finding what suits your preference.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cosmopod is also very good for theory.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Excellent suggestion!

I have only listened to like one or two episodes from Cosmopod because I haven't been on a podcast kick but I've liked what I have heard so far.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

As someone else recommended in a top-level comment, Blowback is an amazing resource, especially season 2 and 3, which deal with the Cuban Revolution and the Korean War.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Donors to the [Heartland] institute included the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, Microsoft, General Motors, Comcast, Reynolds American, Philip Morris, Amgen, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Eli Lilly, liquor companies, and an anonymous donor who had given $13 million over the past five years.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

monke-beepboop

Pooh's Adventures of Necro-Capitalism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Read this in de-encyclopedia voice

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

There is a scourge haunting amerikkka

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Citations Needed citations-needed is the official podcast of hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Newsheads get Radio War Nerd and Newgang gets trueanon

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not much of a podcast enjoyer, so I'll throw in some YouTube recs.

  • Reimagining Soviet Georgia podcast (also had an episode or two on Yugoslavia)
  • Unequal Exchange podcast
  • Also if you just want the audio format, for history maybe you could also do audiobooks. For example The Jakarta Method has a recording on youtube
  • Geopolitical Economy Report
  • Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier du Critique (on YouTube)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

The Jakarta Method

The German communist podcast 99 zu 1 did an interview with the author, in english.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you have any preferences/topics youre interested in or looking for? I would classify socialist-adjacent podcast in two different camps: podcasts made by socialists who talk about something else, and podcasts about socialism itself. The first one tends to be more entertaining and focused while the hosts openly interpret the topic through their politics , while the latter can be fun and educational while a bit more heavy on the theory/concept side.

For the first bunch i recommend Well There's Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters (with slides), and for the latter The Deprogram, we know one or two of the hosts browses hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

At this point, I would like to hear about socialism since I’m somewhat at the “still learning” phase.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Go for The Deprogram! It's light but pretty entertaining and educational, not to mention Hakim is so knowledgeable that he drops dozens of book recommendations for most topics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

If you want do dive into the deep end, try Reading Capital With Comrades. Its structured like a book club, but you can get a lot from it without reading capital alongside.

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[–] bandario 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Where do chapo trap house and red scare fit into this matrix?

I've heard about half an episode each in friend's vehicles and didn't really hear much socialism but I figure that's how they get you. Pretty soon it's not my friend's car, it's our car.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Next thing you know we'll take your and your friend's toothbrush, too.

Both of those barely fit the 1st category. Most people here (me included) will have choice words about the hosts of either podcast, but let's leave it at them being clueless radlibs, if not worse.

In their current state, I wouldn't even consider them part of a "pipeline" (i guess that's what you meant by "that's how they get you"). True Anon is way more funny and interesting, and the people hosting it seem to have much more coherent politics.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FWIW after the early trump years cracked the facade of liberalism for me, chapo finished the job. Dunno if I'd be here without them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Early trump chapo hit different though, then the Bernie campaign happened. Rn it's a funny comedy podcast about American politics with hosts a bit less clueless about the ills of capitalism than your average host, but I don't see them introducing anyone to anything else than "both parties fucking suck" as an idea.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Apparently red scare is kinda sus and reactionary but idk much about it bcs I've never listened to it myself, all I really know first hand is that the fans of it are completely insufferable

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

geordi-no podcasts

geordi-yes theory audiobooks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

This is Hell

It's a radio show/podcast that's been running for decades. Host Chuck Mertz does great interviews

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Against Japanism is a good one I got into that goes into and against the image of Japan that the right tends to build up. The host, Kota, interviews and hosts historians and goes into the leftist movements in Japan both in present day and throughout history.

I like it and I imagine many here will as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Arlington Heights moment

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

A people's history of ideas. It can get dry and academic at times but it gives an amazingly detailed account of the Chinese revolution, starting back from the opium wars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why even make this post? You still have 25 more socialism podcasts to go through. Just scroll down, you don't HAVE to pick the first one

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

They presumed it to be an automated listicle website, and then thought to themselves that they're better off asking for recommendations from real people who can give context and opinions to their selection.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What motivated you to comment? You actively make a community worse (by attacking OP).

If you do not understand why I say that, or if you want to answer feel free to comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I took that to be a joke

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Shut the fuck up

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