The Deprogram Podcast

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International Anti-Capitalist podcast run by an American, Slav and an Arab.

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I'm super surprised Tom Nicholas was invited (lemmygrad.ml)

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From what I saw he's a "Orwell is a great socialist author" and "the USSR was fascist" kind of terminally white bourgeois British dude. Did he, like, watched a Hakim or JT video before accepting?? I hope it's because he's having a redemption arc or something

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd call BE an eclectic Marxist tbh.

He definitely holds his fair share of ultra positions but he's not actually an ultra; he mentioned that he considered Stalin to be 50/50 good/bad and Mao to be 70/30. An ultra wouldn't say anything like that (despite my objections that those names at the least need to be swapped around; not to start a struggle session but Stalin made a lot of choices that were either under duress or the best of a bad set of options while Mao made some major fuckups all by himself, although I think both figures need higher ratings tbh.)