As per title. Want to look for some good straight-up historical channels on the YouTube but I dunno where to start. One that acknowledges historical materialism would be a good start. One run by a comrade would be even better.

      • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Ive been thinking of listening to it again. The extremely deep context is fucking wonderful. Context makes everything make sense, especially in understanding a wild conflict like the Russian Revolution.

        • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          The RussRev series is at something like 39 episodes and he's not even hit 1905 revolution yet lmao. He spends such a long time explaning marxism and Russian history, and socialism as a whole in the 19th century, you get a really good grasp of what lving in the political moment at the time was like for budding revolutionaries.

          • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah I like to imagine a future series on the Second American Revolution where they touch on the civil rights movement, the failure of the Weatherman and SLA, the state repression of the BPP, the rise of right wing militias in the 90s, Occupy, the Bernie campaigns and BLM as a contextual lead up to the eventual people's revolution.