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Either for theory or for news, US primarily?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aww man, do I have a list for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm painfully aware that I'm necroposting, but I had to rise up out of the ether to thank you for this well curated list of sources.

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

Glad you benefited!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not sure they really fit the ask but you might like Srsly Wrong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I listened to an episode just now. That’s a Srsly good podcast!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

listening to that right now lol, the new episode on evolutionary psychology is great

I love how it's both very well researched and thoughtful but also genuinely funny and creative and entertaining.

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

I love the Wrong Boys. ❤️ They are a bright light of hope and ideas in a dark time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here are both pretty great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

On that note, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, hosted by Margaret Killjoy, is a good counterbalance to Behind the Bastards.

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

Yup, love all of these!

I would classify The Dollop along the lines of Behind the Bastards as well. Although it's more comedy, it definitely gets political.

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

Yeah I love these

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not specifically socialist but The Majority Report is a good progressive/leftist podcast for news and politics

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite podcasts are "SRSLY WRONG" and "Everyday anarchism". If I had to express my political view using media, I'd list these two in this order.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Absolutely adore these lil' guys

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

Richard Wolff does a great podcast - Economic Update

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Others covered my favorites , but some more loosely fitting ones in no particular order: For the Wild, Working people, Coffee with Comrades, What's Left of Philosophy, Total Liberation (recently ended), The Ex-Worker.

While not strictly about politics, the tech podcasts Tech Won't Save Us and Trash Future are quite good and generally anticapitalist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well There's Your Problem is an international treasure

Pod Damn America, Trillbilly Workers' Party, and Chapo Trap House are also a good time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Anarchist News does a roundup podcast of recent stories often, I think it's either weekly or bi-weekly. Clearly news related.

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

I find "The socialist Program" is very good and has a more global view than other US centric socialist pods

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

"Well There's Your Problem" a podcast about engineering disasters, with slides (and actionable threats,) fits surprisingly well. Especially The God-damn News section.

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

CrimethInc and itsgoingdown both have some good ones.

Behind the Bastard's episodes on Makhno are mandatory.

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

There is Andrewism and lil bill on YouTube, but can't think of any others.

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

The Deprogram

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

Upstream. The Socialist Program. Marx Madness. Refuse Fascism. If Books could kill. Best of the left.

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

Elephant in the Room is an English language podcast from Germany.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used to listen to The Deprogram but eventually I couldn't ignore their bad takes. I don't think there's any good non-tankie podcasts from what I've seen. If anyone has one please let me know as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone has bad takes. Take the good from it and leave the bad. Like tankies or not, but they tend to know more theory then the average socialist. I listen to Vaush, he has some good takes, but he’s also pro NATO, which is no bueno for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have yet to hear a single tankie who has even the most rudimentary understanding of theory. Vaush is good, I don't like some of his takes and he's a bit whiny on occasion but he's doing good work bringing people to the left.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guy that created this platform is a Marxist-Leninist, and has read some theory. His essays : Desalinnes.

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

I know, I've spoken with him. His abilities are impressive but otherwise I find him disagreeable.

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

It Could Happen Here is the closest thing to a proper US news podcast like OP wants, but people have already mentioned them and the other Cool Zone shows (Behind the Bastards, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, Hood Politics if you don't mind someone who's a little more moderate)

Anyway, here's some suggestions I didn't see on here:

Jacobin's The Dig - A fascinating interview podcast with lefty scholars. If someone publishes a banger of a book on Verso or Haymarket, this is where they'd want to interview. Contains a wide variety of perspectives across the left. Some folks really dislike the host's voice--he just naturally sounds like Roman Mars or Welcome to Night Vale, very quiet and buzzy. I've gotten used to it, and funnily enough he sounds way better when he interviews in Spanish. Prof. Jenny Chan's interview is a little difficult to listen to because her accent can be hard to parse, but I really appreciate her written work demystifying the exact ways the Chinese captive union system screws over workers.

Trashfuture - Extremely funny! Funniest podcast on the list, honestly. Centers on UK politics and the absurdity of the startup tech industry. A lot of their deeper analysis derives from Marx, but I wouldn't call them tankies. They've been pretty okay with criticizing the Soviet Union. Mostly it doesn't seem to come up very much.

Well There's Your Problem - Again, quote funny! A dark-comedy podcast with slides about engineering disasters. Consistent themes include "maybe the corporate profit motive itself is murdering us" and "railway drivers should be treated about a billion timed better." One extremely angry anarchist, two vague Marxists, again all pretty happy to criticize the Soviet Union.

Lions Led By Donkeys: A dark-comedy podcast about military disasters. The main host is Joe Kassabian, an Armenian-American with a degree in genocide studies, a former tank crewman, and an anarchist who's very, very happy to be explicit about his hatred for red-flag authoritarianism. The only time the USSR gets positive press on there is specifically when they're fighting against is even worse (Nazis or the Black Baron, mostly.) He's literally done series on the Soviet-Afghan War, the Winter War, etc. and doesn't shy away from discussion of Soviet atrocity. Very much a "I can hate all of you at the same time" sort of guy.

One Big Podcast, Laborwave Radio: Podcasts about the labour organizing movement mostly from a syndicalist perspective. Very in favor of grassroots worker self organization, skeptical of vanguards. IWW members run the first one.

Work Stoppage: Haven't listened to a ton, but it's pretty similar to the above, focused mainly on strike news.