Not trying to "start shit" but several people who run/work for that pod are actively antagonistic towards what they call "tankies." They often participate in borderline or straight up historical revisionism to paint communism as "not the Nazis, but not much better!"
People accuse the main guy of being a fed. I don't know. Everyone calls everyone a fed in leftist circles, but he does have a bit of an odd past with things like "war journalism" which is always sus to me.
Anyway, some of their episodes are good, and I'm certainly not the type to moralize media consumption. It just doesn't matter in the grand scheme. It really doesn't. Just hope people take stuff said on there and its sibling podcasts with a grain of salt. Especially regarding communist history like the USSR, Communist China, etc. Remember that the people delivering the info have a bias, as we all do. Theirs is pretty outwardly anti-statist, anti-centralization. You can see how that clashes with communism.
I also recall at some point people there shitting on Marxist theories which I just laughed at. Maybe it was a joke, I don't remember the full context, but modern anarkiddies shitting on Marx would make me laugh, serious or not.
Yeah I was mostly referring to the first 10 or so episodes when it first started when it painted a picture of what the 2nd American Civil War might look like, I haven't much listened to the more recent stuff that they have done.
And yeah I've also heard rumours of Evans being a fed. Apparently there was an instance where he interviewed a bunch of protesters (I think it was the ongoing Stop Cop City protest but I could be wrong) on video, and then shortly after that they all ended up behind bars like the next day. Also could have just been a total coincidence and they were likely going to be arrested anyway, who's to know.
Not trying to "start shit" but several people who run/work for that pod are actively antagonistic towards what they call "tankies." They often participate in borderline or straight up historical revisionism to paint communism as "not the Nazis, but not much better!"
People accuse the main guy of being a fed. I don't know. Everyone calls everyone a fed in leftist circles, but he does have a bit of an odd past with things like "war journalism" which is always sus to me.
Anyway, some of their episodes are good, and I'm certainly not the type to moralize media consumption. It just doesn't matter in the grand scheme. It really doesn't. Just hope people take stuff said on there and its sibling podcasts with a grain of salt. Especially regarding communist history like the USSR, Communist China, etc. Remember that the people delivering the info have a bias, as we all do. Theirs is pretty outwardly anti-statist, anti-centralization. You can see how that clashes with communism.
I also recall at some point people there shitting on Marxist theories which I just laughed at. Maybe it was a joke, I don't remember the full context, but modern anarkiddies shitting on Marx would make me laugh, serious or not.
Yeah I was mostly referring to the first 10 or so episodes when it first started when it painted a picture of what the 2nd American Civil War might look like, I haven't much listened to the more recent stuff that they have done.
And yeah I've also heard rumours of Evans being a fed. Apparently there was an instance where he interviewed a bunch of protesters (I think it was the ongoing Stop Cop City protest but I could be wrong) on video, and then shortly after that they all ended up behind bars like the next day. Also could have just been a total coincidence and they were likely going to be arrested anyway, who's to know.