I have been counting the days for it to come out, tbh. I'm very interested in getting a long-form history of the Korean War that isn't Imperialist trash, because I think that if you can get people to at least sympathize with North Korea that's a big milestone towards getting them to no longer see ML-States or Anti-Imperialist movements as "alien" or scary; but people put in a profoundly terrible situation largely by the efforts & intentions of American Cold-War Policy.
Whether or not a given person will sympathize with North Korea is also I think a good test generally, IMO.
Patriots, Traitors, and Empires is supposedly a very good book on the topic. If you don't want to read it all the author was interviewed by Breht on Rev Left Radio a while back and gives a good overview. It's fascinating how Korea parallels Vietnam (one country split in two with an overwhelming level of support for a communist hero who led the resistance against Japanese occupation. US doesn't want the whole country to go communist even if it's what the people want so they intervene).
And somewhere in my post history I put up a link to a long tweet thread by Ian Goodrum on the topic that was pretty insightful.
Blowback is the best podcast out there. Really looking foward to this.
Don't even care about the podcast, I'm just waiting for new The Great Vorelli album
i've seen some dogshit korean war takes here so hopefully they don't say the same shit.
I don't want to start shit or get into a lengthy argument but someone linked me a tweet that said the south actually invaded first, as in on june 25th 1950, the south invaded the north, which is just blatantly false. I did 2 seconds of research to find out it was bullshit. Also people like to over estimate how much control the US had over south korea.
Blowback?
Yeah, that’s what I did to you mom last night.
I am very sorry.
