Yeah you can't say he doesn't know his stuff. I do get annoyed with some of the purposefully anticharismatic things he does cus it makes it hard to show his stuff to people who aren't terminally online communists but I think he's still interesting even when I do disagree with him.
I think it's great that he's anti charismatic so he can just anchor his niche in the English speaking left pipeline. Hopefully he influences someone in his audience to dumb it down a bit for a wider audience. He doesn't need that distraction
The host grew up in a cult, being sceptical of charismatic people is natural. Iirc that episode in particular is much more about online leftism and how it glorifies the past rather than like ... actually doing things or thinking about the future in a way that isn't just larping their preferred 20th century ideology.
Varnvlog - he interviews basically everyone and really just has unparalleled output
The Regrettable Century - religion and medieval history podcast but communist
Fight Like an Animal - biology/psychology focused theory podcast (leans more anarchist than marxist)
People's History of Ideas - very good/long and as of now incomplete history of the Chinese Revolution, think Revolutions but better
Bad Gays - fun podcast about complicated to horrible queer people in history (left adjacent)
Varn is a guy I often disagree with, but I still think most all of his takes are pretty solid
Yeah you can't say he doesn't know his stuff. I do get annoyed with some of the purposefully anticharismatic things he does cus it makes it hard to show his stuff to people who aren't terminally online communists but I think he's still interesting even when I do disagree with him.
I think it's great that he's anti charismatic so he can just anchor his niche in the English speaking left pipeline. Hopefully he influences someone in his audience to dumb it down a bit for a wider audience. He doesn't need that distraction
Biology focused theory podcast sounded cool and then I saw the episode title “The Incompetent Authoritarianism of Vladimir Lenin”
The host grew up in a cult, being sceptical of charismatic people is natural. Iirc that episode in particular is much more about online leftism and how it glorifies the past rather than like ... actually doing things or thinking about the future in a way that isn't just larping their preferred 20th century ideology.