So… any of you bears wanna help me out? Thanks!!
Trueanon and Blowback are my personal favourites cannot recommend both of them enough, they’re just so good.
Other flavourites of hexbear are Citations Needed, The Deprogram and the Antifada. I’ve also heard that Everybody Loves Communism, RevLeft Media, Radio War Nerd, Geopolitical Economy Report and Guerrilla Media are also good.
I really had a hard time getting into trueanon. I listened to quite a lot of episodes and Brace is very entertaining on other people’s shows but i just couldn’t stand his pod. Every episode just feels the same and in chapo pod style i hadn’t a fucking clue what they were talking about half the time.
I feel like it’s good to start with their the game series to kind of get a feel for the style of comedy without it being so in your face, idk with other podcasts I find the whole like, “here’s 10 minutes of random bullshit before we actually start” kind of annoying but with Brace and Liz they just have good enough chemistry that it becomes actually funny
Their Falun Gong and Elon Musk series is what sold me on them. If anyone is on the fence about TrueAnon, those are very good starting points
Ait here’s a list of a few leftist podcasts:
1Dime Radio
American Prestige
Blowback
Book Club Commune
CENTER FOR COMMUNIST STUDIES
Cadre Journal
Center for Communist Studies Audio
Citations Needed
Cosmopod
David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
Democracy at Work
Foreign Languages Press - Audiobooks
Guerrilla History
Give The People What They Want!
Historical Materialism Podcast
Introduction To Marx/Marxsim
Mass Struggle
New Books in Critical Theory
No Easy Answers
People’s History of Ideas Podcast
Peoples Dispatch
Pod Damn America
Politics In Command
Proles of the Round Table
Radical Thoughts Podcast
Radio Free Amanda
Reading Capital With Comrades
Red Book Club
Red Library
Red Plateaus
Red Power Hour
Revolution and Ideology
Revolutionary Lumpen Radio
Revolutionary Left Radio
Red Menace Podcast
Socialism for All
The Antifada
Socialist Revolution
The Crimson Flag Podcast
The Lavender Menace
The People’s Forum
The Red Nation
The Red Nation Podcast
The Unequal Exchange Podcast
The Verso Podcast
Theory Underground
Why Theory
Working Class History
Žižek And So On
I just wanna add my daily drivers rotating the same hosts around with different topics:
Revolutionary Left Radio
Red Menace Podcast
Guerrilla History
Also, big shout-out to Trillbilly Worker’s Party!
I don’t know how many times I’ve endangered myself laughing while driving listening to them.
What sort of socialism podcast are you looking for in particular? Is it something:
- Introductory
- Historical
- Theory-based
- Current affairs-focused
- Casual
I would like to hear some history of both US socialist movements and US action against socialist movements, as well as socialist movements in other countries. I would also like to learn about theory, and current affairs. It’s fine if it’s not all in one podcast, and I’m also open to one-off or series of podcasts focused on these historical aspects.
Podcasts on US social movements… that’s a tough one. You’ll hear some episodes covering this on RevLeft Radio but because most socialist movements in the US are either quite small and fragmented or they haven’t achieved a whole lot there often isn’t a huge amount to cover.
For US actions against socialism, Blowback is really good, as others have already mentioned. Others are American Exception and some episodes of Guerilla History.
For theory, I strongly recommend Red Menace as well as a lot of the stuff produced by Socialism For All. There’s also Marx Madness, We Read Theory, Red Book Club, Radical Reviewer (on YouTube), and a lot of the episodes of Teach Me Communism.
For current affairs, there’s Citations Needed, Radio War Nerd (specifically about wars), Everybody Loves Communism, The Deprogram, and some of TrueAnon.
While this next recommendation doesn’t fit any of your categories, I’d also recommend Actually Existing Socialism because they interview primarily academics on their areas of expertise in socialist movements and it’s really underrated, although it can be a bit dry so it might not be to your tastes.
My overall recommendation would be to try out an episode or two of whatever podcasts take your fancy to see if you like the presentation style and if it’s to your preferred depth. Some of these podcasts are more conversational and entry-level while some of them go much deeper and lean towards the more academic side. There no right or wrong in this matter, it’s just about finding what suits your preference.
isn’t the guy who does american exception a fool? i was turned off by his uncritical pushing of RFK jr, gave me a strange vibe
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