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MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

THS posted:

ok recommend me a communist podcast that is funny, entertaining, has good rapport between the hosts, and is not up its own rear end in self-seriousness. i don’t listen to podcasts because i want a god damned lecture, if i liked that poo poo i wouldn’t have dropped out of college

IDK, I was just ragging on them for their bad take.

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Trash Ops
Jun 19, 2012

im having fun, isnt everyone else?

beep beep lettuce is a podcast about communism and weed

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos
there's a podcast thread, if you want real suggestions

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
I would recommend Revolutionary Left Radio

some choice episodes

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/america-on-fire

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joseph-mother-loving-stain

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/chile

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/in-defense-of-china-as-a-socialist-state-w-ajit-singh

The host also does a companion podcast, Red Menace, where they go in-depth on reading communist literature

https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/redmenace/id/9899480

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
I’ve been listening to more since I’m always either home or I’m alone taking a walk :smith:

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Note: this is a conference of the pandemic, NOT of being uncool

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

GalacticAcid posted:

I’ve been listening to more since I’m always either home or I’m alone taking a walk :smith:

I don't commute anymore because lol computer touchers like us got permanent-work-from-home during a pandemic, but I do still get to listen to pods while cooking, washing dishes, doing housework

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Trash Ops posted:

beep beep lettuce is a podcast about communism and weed

they're the city maoists to the trillbillies' country maoists

pretty sure they mine cspam and/or chapo subreddit for content, it's a little on-the-nose

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

MizPiz posted:

IDK, I was just ragging on them for their bad take.

this is called activism or organizing in some parts

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/FOL_Liberation/status/1278784369298202624?s=20

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

lol at the venezuela and iraq shading

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Russia

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

stop doxxing my alternate history fanfiction maps

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
It’s a heterodox interpretation but at least they Uphold Cuba so I’m not gonna complain

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

i'd be interested to hear the exact date of when vietnam overthrew the communist party

edit gently caress that star is way too small nm

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

MizPiz posted:

They complained about how it's a bad look to tear down statues in one of their most recent episodes

No they didnt

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


no star over transnistria smdh

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


at least he recognizes the khmer rouge as a genuine Marxist-Leninist Socialist State

Comrade Koba
Jul 2, 2007

Ardennes posted:

Also, Wesley Clark almost started WW3 by trying to get British forces to fire on VVD forces at the Pristina Airport.

you funniest thing about this is that the British column was literally commanded by pop sensation James Blunt


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-11753050

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

at least he recognizes the khmer rouge as a genuine Marxist-Leninist Socialist State

There should be an extra dark shade of red for Cambodia considering how many competing ml states that country has had

Scionix
Oct 17, 2009

hoog emm xDDD
5 academics killed via heat exhaustion on a farm = 1 unit of marxism

Enjoy
Apr 18, 2009
why would they mark a sub-national division of india (kerala) as a marxist-leninist state but not mark the entirety of india as a socialist state when it's in the first line of the constitution

Enjoy
Apr 18, 2009
saddam hussein gets to be ML-aligned because he copied stalin's moustache and killed lots of ethnic minorities, but india managed to end their famines without massacring people which makes stalin look bad, no gold star for you

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Isn't the communist party currently in a coaltion government in Iraq

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
iraq is probably from the time of the ba'ath party being an actual party instead of saddam's puppets

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Enjoy posted:

saddam hussein gets to be ML-aligned because he copied stalin's moustache and killed lots of ethnic minorities, but india managed to end their famines without massacring people which makes stalin look bad, no gold star for you

tbf india massacred a lot of minorities for shits & giggles

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.

Enjoy posted:

why would they mark a sub-national division of india (kerala) as a marxist-leninist state but not mark the entirety of india as a socialist state when it's in the first line of the constitution
From what I have heard, kerala has a very strong socialist majority in local governments. Though they don't seem to be leninists. And they have closed their state borders and declared an autonomous covid response, becoming the first postapocalyptic revolution.

My info is mostly from that podcast I listened to a few days ago:
https://cosmopod.libsyn.com/to-live-and-die-in-kerala

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
That is a bit misleading. Kerala’s state government is dominated by CPI(M), an explicitly Marxist-Leninist party. CPI(M) = Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

VictualSquid posted:

Though they don't seem to be leninists.

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.
Looks like I was confusing them with someone else.

Ardennes
May 12, 2002
Btw there are two things going on, the shading is if it was some type of socialist state at any point and the star is to indicate if it is still that particular type of socialism (not that it is Marxist Leninist).

The Soviet Union was Marxist Leninist, but doesn't get a star because it isn't one now (it doesn't exist) but the PRC/Laos/Vietnam do.

Venezuela is "sort of Marxist Leninist" (meh) and gets a star because the PSUV is in power. Kerala should get a star, but maybe they couldn't fit it in.

Eh, I would still not really call Assad a socialist btw even if Baathism once had socialist roots. I vote no star.

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Maybe China didn't completely on internationalism when it has put a bunch of investment in Laos/Angola/Mozambique/Cuba/Zimbabwe which all are officially still run by Marxist-Leninist parties and is almost the only trade partner of the DPRK. (Vietnam is a seperate issue).

Ardennes fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Jul 4, 2020

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

that account just has some weird analysis. they love Saddam for example
https://twitter.com/FOL_Liberation/status/1278883602739146752?s=20
https://twitter.com/FOL_Liberation/status/1253340340393664513?s=20
https://twitter.com/FOL_Liberation/status/1247243657234853888?s=20

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

Given that both the youtube and facebook links in the twitter description are broken im guessing some of the ol schemesters at langely are behind this

e: i just noticed that they're not just broken, they're intentionally incomplete and use the ellipses to make it look like the rest of the url is hidden lol

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

Lmao https://twitter.com/FOL_Liberation/status/1225923514034683910

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

anyone have far-left publications from the very beginning of the iran iraq war? did leftists around the world tend to take Iraq's side?

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
gently caress Outta Liberation

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

i say swears online posted:

anyone have far-left publications from the very beginning of the iran iraq war? did leftists around the world tend to take Iraq's side?

Been looking through the Marxists.org publications to see. All I've seen so far is a letter from an MEK supporter in 1981 that the ISO published in their newspaper. Doesn't mention Iraq though. It's on page 10 if you want to check it out yourself.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/sw-us/1977-81/SW_055_November_1981.pdf

The site has a lot more trot publications than other tendencies, at least in that era.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

Enjoy posted:

saddam hussein gets to be ML-aligned because he copied stalin's moustache and killed lots of ethnic minorities, but india managed to end their famines without massacring people which makes stalin look bad, no gold star for you

india's rich peasant/landlord class have impoverished and debt bondaged other farmers to the point where farmer suicide is a major death statistic in multiple states. did stalin ever end up doing anything about rich peasantry?

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strange feelings re Daisy
Aug 2, 2000

This week I was reading about the final days of the Soviet Union and randomly remembered this atrocity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgm14D1jHUw&t=9s

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