If you click on the 3rd video of yugonik's channel called "Left Youtube pipeline", he has a list of other youtube channels that he recommends.
Luna oi is fun
Does her spouse still post?
No clue tbh
- yugopnik
- Hakim
- second thought
- Luna oi
- Li jingling
- first thought
- socialism for all
- the deprogram
- dessalines
- our changing climate (not the best imo but decent)
Socialism For All is great for narration of audiobooks and speeches.
It's Called Leninism is a very promising up and coming channel with a historical angle.
Rathbone posts to YouTube alongside their TikTok content, so it's generally short form skits and observations.
Bad Empanada's main channel is good. His second channel and his other online presence is varying degrees of unhinged. People try to pin him down ideologically as a Guevarist or a Trot but this is false - he once stated that Stalin was 50/50 good/bad and Mao was 70/30, which is kinda astonishing because imo Mao made some pretty massive blunders while Stalin often made the best decision out of a range of bad options. He's very much opposed to Senderistas so he's either some variety of Maoist or the Mao 70/30 line may have been a subtle but very clear nod to him aligning himself to Deng Xiaoping. Tbh though I get more of a read from him as an eclectic Marxist than a Deng Xiaoping fan.
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Red. (@redstreamnet) is also pretty good, especially as a steady stream of news updates and On This Day In History posts. They also feature Lady Izdihar videos pretty regularly, and she's also another channel to follow.
Bad Empanada's main channel is good. His second channel and his other online presence is varying degrees of unhinged. People try to pin him down ideologically as a Guevarist or a Trot but this is false - he once stated that Stalin was 50/50 good/bad and Mao was 70/30, which is kinda astonishing because imo Mao made some pretty massive blunders while Stalin often made the best decision out of a range of bad options. He's very much opposed to Senderistas so he's either some variety of Maoist or the Mao 70/30 line may have been a subtle but very clear nod to him aligning himself to Deng Xiaoping. Tbh though I get more of a read from him as an eclectic Marxist than a Deng Xiaoping fan.
Yeah, he's just over the place.... Assume he's a sicko...
Boy Boy is a fun watch. They don’t necessarily do communist content, just general anti capitalist content, although the creators seem to be communists themselves.
One of them runs a much larger channel called “I did a thing,” which is just whacky engineering projects. He said in a few podcasts that he just wants to use that channel to funnel viewers into the more leftist Boy Boy channel lol
I haven't watched her stuff in a while, but Mexie is pretty cool!
BoyBoy but they don't post very often and are a LITTLE toxic masculine sometimes. But still pretty based I think
I like what everyone else said and then also I dont think anyone mentioned these:
- Empire Files
- It's the Butcher!
- Red.
- Redspark Radio
- The Michael Parenti Library
- Paul Cockshott
- Danny Haiphong
- Marxism Today
Please don't recommend Paul Cockshott. He's been a rampant transphobe over the past few years and he doesn't hide it. None of our trans comrades should have to endure that
He directly insulted a trans friend of mine in a Facebook group several years ago. He's that unhinged, hanging out in Facebook groups that talk about him. His work may have been influencial in the 80s, but at this point I have to question anything the man has to say because of his fixation on being the most British style terf on earth.
Balkan Odyssey makes good content
Have you tried Breakthrough News? I think the short-forms guy in it is pretty good...
The Marxist Project, Positive Leftist News, Lady Izdihar
lady izdihar is one of my favorites!
I've been binging Finnish Bolshevik's content.
They don't post often but Hegel On His Head and halim alrah are great
Gerald Horne’s channel is the only one I watch consistently. I keep asking them to make it a podcast (since it’s just a radio show) but they ignore me:
Prolekult and the Marxist Project are both good
pamplets
Blind Drunk, an extended drunken reading series on right wing junk. Pretty funny, good analysis and criminally underrated. They're doing the Turner Diaries rn
Guilty pleasure, but Thought Slime. I don't know why but I like his weird jokes.
Yugopnik is the goat. He has this "cool older brother" vibe to him that I like.
Hakim's also nice. He's a physician IRL and that line of work interests me. (in case you can't tell, I'm a deprogram fan)
Second thought kind of goes without saying from the last two
Lots of good recommendations so far but I'm surprised no one has mentioned Revolutionary Blackout (RBN) yet. They're fun to listen to and well informed on current events, they post often, are full Marxist/"tankie" and they have no pretensions about decorum. I especially enjoy Rome's epic rants, but all of the hosts are good in their own way and they get excellent guests on like Ajamu Baraka. Sabby Sabs has her own channel and she posts new videos daily.
They put an emphasis on media literacy and debunking corporate media narratives. They've been good on the genocide on Palestine and the US funding Nazis in Ukraine. They might have whack views on COVID, not sure TBH because it doesn't come up that often. They're also good at contextualizing current events in terms of domestic black and brown issues, which is important because the online leftist video creator space is white af.
Just a couple paragraphs about these dudes because I'm not sure if Hexbear knows about them, generally.
EDIT: oops, fixed the link gore. Also, I forgot to mention that RBN emphasizes mutual aid and community organizing / building dual systems of power, and their revolutionary theory is based (on the Black Panthers)
I don't know much about RBN, but they've had patsocs Haz and Midwestern Marx on.
They've also had Danny Haiphong and Gerald Horne on, both of whom are mentioned in this thread, and those were excellent interviews. They've also had Norm Finkelstein and Carl Zha, and other good ones. Also, JT Chapman (Second Thought) went on Midwestern Marx and I wouldn't say Second Thought is contraindicated.
Haz is cringe, Midwestern Marx has one dude in particular who sucks and I think drags them down. But I wouldn't want people to get the wrong idea and skip over RBN because they've had problematic guests on. Their analysis of the news in light of US material conditions and foreign policy is spot on.
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