Can anyone recommend good sources of financial advice from the left?
My company has an employee stock purchase discount. I've worked there for a few years but never participated mainly because I don't really understand how it works. I hear many people talk about their dividends from our company stock alone, as well as other investments they make. In particular the coworker with whom I work the most has recently become a wannabe wallstreetbets newbie. He bought up some shares that crashed hard in April and has not shut the fuck up about them since then. He is a complete moron and is also regularly telling me about how he is planning to buy a house in the next few months after he pays off his massive credit card debt.
All this has got me thinking about my future. How do I balance my financial security with ideology and action towards ultimately dismantling the same systems I'm investing in?
I already know I'm a dumb lib. But is there a good place to learn about personal finance from an anti-capitalist perspective?
That's a tough one and I struggle with it too. Because we live in a capitalist hellword I'm pretty much forced to invest in my 401k in the stock market if I don't want to (or can't) work for the rest of my life. I'd gladly give it up if we lived in a socialist system where people's material needs were taken care of. As far as anti-capitalist finance goes all I've come up with for now is donate to mutual aid organizations and obviously don't be a landlord. In the future when I'm out of debt and better off financially I'd like to do something cool like start a housing co-op or bail fund or something.
It's not leftist but reddit's Personal Finance wiki is actually pretty good for the basics of personal finance and Bogleheads is good for more details about investing.