Podcast recommendations and episode discussions

I've been calling it for years.

I believe it, honestly. The guy's clearly Autistic, always has been (I mean, of course). Him and the team at ILM. Probably PDA Autistic, like me.

This is from a year ago, before Matt's stroke, but I hadn't heard it yet. We miss our Large Adult Son

Vijay Prashad explains how the North American and European bourgeoisies have become a spent force with nothing to offer the world.

The interview is in reference to Prashad’s article: The Remarkable Decline in Global North’s Leadership

This trope would again be used repeatedly in the […] Fascist invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. Italian newspapers routinely portrayed Ethiopian resistance fighters as savages who use Red Cross medical units as ‘shields’. Our guests today, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, noted in a 2018 article that [the Fascists] systematically bombarded medical facilities operating by different Red Cross societies which [the Fascists] claimed ‘were being used by Ethiopian fighters.’ Does this sound familiar at all?

[The Fascists] insisted that Ethiopian forces, by allegedly hiding in medical facilities, had neglected to distinguish between combatants and protected civilians, thus violating what’s known in international law as the principle of distinction. Gordon and Perugini highlight January 1936 edition of the Italian newspaper La Tribuna Illustrata that includes an illustration of armed Ethiopian fighters rushing for cover under a Red Cross banner. You’ll have that in our show notes, it’s pretty egregious.

A very well produced and researched podcast. I'm recommending this because they've recently released a pair of episodes on The Angry Brigade, Britain's first urban guerilla group that was active in the 1960s and 70s. It's an absolutely fascinating look at the group (including an interview with one of the former members) and gives a good idea of the cultural and political scene in the UK and London at the time.

RSS feed: https://www.spreaker.com/show/5711490/episodes/feed

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1035775

Adam Conover interview

Qanon Anonymous is great. I love the fact that some of the leading experts on the USian far right are comrades. I wonder how many other libs they radicalized (they were a major part of the podcast portion of my radicalization).

I like getting a 10-15 min survey of the day's news, but NPR Up First is fairly cringelib. Are there any good leftist alternatives? I used to do Rising Up with Somali but they changed formats.

Thanks comrades!

A really good smaller podcast which focuses on interviewing academics on socialist topics in their areas of expertise

While normally I discourage the death penalty, Ron DeSantis facing a firing squad would be among the least of my concerns.

(Part two.)

I hate to break it to you, but Jones is a multimillionaire with a large, mindless audience that gladly obey his instigations. We can no longer brush him off as a fringe anticommunist.

Really good episode if you haven't listened to it yet. Covers the broad patterns of US imperialism, the western left's ignorance of it, and Vijay's history writing and studying this stuff. I recommend skipping the first 19-20 minutes until Vijay comes in as it's all the usual preamble you expect.

I haven't read Washington Bullets yet, but it's available on Libgen and only 100 pages: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=EAE8286EA39190EB53C1E2105A6188FF

I wish there were more condensed texts like this because #1 people just need to know the broad movements of history and they probably can't even use most of the information used in more standard academix texts and #2 because it's much easier to get people to read a few 100-page books they could read individually in an afternoon than a single tome (just look at how few people have read all three volumes of Capital). I also recommend his book Red Star Over the Third World if you haven't read it yet.

Comrades! A deep deep dive into the history and the man that was Josef Stalin. Nearly 3 full hours! o7

RIP Michael. The team takes Q & As & discusses where we go from here along with book recommendations & much more.

From the description: *It’s 2015 and one Brooklyn middle school is about to receive a huge influx of new students.

In this episode, Chana Joffe-Walt, a reporter, follows what happens when the School of International Studies’ 6th grade class swells from 30 mostly Latino, Black and Middle Eastern students, to 103 — an influx almost entirely driven by white families.

Everyone wants “what’s best for the school” but it becomes clear that they don’t share the same vision of what “best” means.*

Comrades, I'd be very interested to read your reactions, there are two episodes so far I have listened to the first episode only. A pure Marxist interpretation of the various class/race antagonisms and the subtle way they are enshrined in one Brooklyn public school. Check it out!

I'm looking for a Spanish language podcast, overtly political in some way, preferably with a decent number of existing episodes. I'm trying to have something to maintain the Spanish that I've learned in school.

A pure & in-depth Marxist analysis of nearly a century of US political economy, labor and race/class antagonism. So much ground covered. The interview is based on Davis' book by the same name written at the height of Reaganomics with most elements totally relevant today.

A 3 pt series looking at life under capitalism in the midst of a pandemic. Described as a "Commie This American Life" by the host Daniel Denvir.

And it slaps!

It's moving, informative, and I can't help laughing out loud often. They have so many episodes that it's a daily ritual for me go for a walk at sunset and listen to an episode.

This book is really enforcing the idea that the vanguard in the USA must be lead by BIPOC.