I want to avoid "anti-tankie" bullshit
If you click on the 3rd video of yugonik's channel called "Left Youtube pipeline", he has a list of other youtube channels that he recommends.
- yugopnik
- Hakim
- second thought
- Luna oi
- Li jingling
- first thought
- socialism for all
- the deprogram
- dessalines
- our changing climate (not the best imo but decent)
Socialism For All is great for narration of audiobooks and speeches.
It's Called Leninism is a very promising up and coming channel with a historical angle.
Rathbone posts to YouTube alongside their TikTok content, so it's generally short form skits and observations.
Bad Empanada's main channel is good. His second channel and his other online presence is varying degrees of unhinged. People try to pin him down ideologically as a Guevarist or a Trot but this is false - he once stated that Stalin was 50/50 good/bad and Mao was 70/30, which is kinda astonishing because imo Mao made some pretty massive blunders while Stalin often made the best decision out of a range of bad options. He's very much opposed to Senderistas so he's either some variety of Maoist or the Mao 70/30 line may have been a subtle but very clear nod to him aligning himself to Deng Xiaoping. Tbh though I get more of a read from him as an eclectic Marxist than a Deng Xiaoping fan.
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Red. (@redstreamnet) is also pretty good, especially as a steady stream of news updates and On This Day In History posts. They also feature Lady Izdihar videos pretty regularly, and she's also another channel to follow.
Bad Empanada's main channel is good. His second channel and his other online presence is varying degrees of unhinged. People try to pin him down ideologically as a Guevarist or a Trot but this is false - he once stated that Stalin was 50/50 good/bad and Mao was 70/30, which is kinda astonishing because imo Mao made some pretty massive blunders while Stalin often made the best decision out of a range of bad options. He's very much opposed to Senderistas so he's either some variety of Maoist or the Mao 70/30 line may have been a subtle but very clear nod to him aligning himself to Deng Xiaoping. Tbh though I get more of a read from him as an eclectic Marxist than a Deng Xiaoping fan.
Yeah, he's just over the place.... Assume he's a sicko...
Their last upload was 9 hours ago, has something changed since then?
Oh my bad, sorry. They're pivoting to less frequent uploads. Disregard that previous comment.
Yeah, they:re dropping the regular news format and going like 10 minute single topic educational vids.
I haven't watched her stuff in a while, but Mexie is pretty cool!
Boy Boy is a fun watch. They don’t necessarily do communist content, just general anti capitalist content, although the creators seem to be communists themselves.
One of them runs a much larger channel called “I did a thing,” which is just whacky engineering projects. He said in a few podcasts that he just wants to use that channel to funnel viewers into the more leftist Boy Boy channel lol
BoyBoy but they don't post very often and are a LITTLE toxic masculine sometimes. But still pretty based I think
I like what everyone else said and then also I dont think anyone mentioned these:
- Empire Files
- It's the Butcher!
- Red.
- Redspark Radio
- The Michael Parenti Library
- Paul Cockshott
- Danny Haiphong
- Marxism Today
Please don't recommend Paul Cockshott. He's been a rampant transphobe over the past few years and he doesn't hide it. None of our trans comrades should have to endure that
He directly insulted a trans friend of mine in a Facebook group several years ago. He's that unhinged, hanging out in Facebook groups that talk about him. His work may have been influencial in the 80s, but at this point I have to question anything the man has to say because of his fixation on being the most British style terf on earth.
Really? That's incredibly disappointing to hear. I will unsuscribe but I actually liked to listen to some of his more academic presentations...
That's a real shame
Yeah I'm sorry to inform you. He may know statistics and numbers and all that, but his head is completely warped with transphobia and homophobia to the point of obsession. He's always been a little reactionary I think, like I remember someone once told me he was against Irish liberation in the 70s. He's real bad now, he goes around saying the LGBTQ+ movements are CIA false flags designed to destroy socialism. He literally is what liberals accuse us of being: complete class reductionists who disregard sexual/racial/religious/etc liberation.
This is a good article if you're really interested in seeing just how reactionary Cockshott is: https://comraderene.wordpress.com/2021/01/04/paul-cockshott-an-intellectual-for-imbeciles/
I wish I could recommend someone similar who has similar academic credentials and isn't a horrible person. The closest I know is Alexander R. Galloway, who wrote Protocol, a really good book on digital networks from a Marxist perspective.
Have you tried Breakthrough News? I think the short-forms guy in it is pretty good...
The Marxist Project, Positive Leftist News, Lady Izdihar
