I haven't done extensive research of these people so if they have any negative baggage let me know.
Chris Hedges - Socialist columnist at Truthdig, seems to be getting more radicalized over time.
Kshama Sawant - A member of Socialist Alternative, succeeded in the campaign for Seattle's $15 minimum wage.
David Harvey - Marxist professor in New York, treats Marx literature like the Bible.
Abby Martin - Worked for RT America exposing imperialist info for a while, maybe a socialist?
Glenn Greenwald? - A founding editor of The Intercept, not really sure how far to the left he is.
Synergy posted:Chomsky isn't going to be around forever so I thought now would be a good time to come up with a list of public speakers that share our perspective of the world.
What is your perspective of the world?
Jose Maria Sison
Malalai Joya
Glen Coulthard
Leila Khaled
Pam Palmater
Moussa Ibrahim
e: Arundhati Roy
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Grover Furr - Prominent academic who defends socialist leaders.
J. Sakai - Pseudonym used by a prominent member of this forum.
Clarence Tuppins - Florida-based writer whose wife died.
Alex - Real name of user "Thug Lessons", who is an expert on Trotskyism.
E: Richard D. Wolff is a Marxist economist that heads the group Democracy@Work, mostly to advocate for co-ops. Check out his "Global Capitalism Updates" on Youtube.
Bernard Sanders is the head of the socialists in the US Congress
Barack Obama murders children with video game robot planes and makes jokes about it and looks uncomfortable when around other people making jokes about it
go fidel
colddays posted:Abby Martin is absolutely a socialist. She works for TelesurTV now, making a series called Empire Files where she investigates Amerikkka's crimes. Her journalism is phenomenal.
I appreciate that she covers really important material on her show, and her approach is properly anti-imperialist (as the name of the show would suggest), but I find her manner of speech really ponderous, and combined with the repetitive overbearing soundtrack it's really insufferable. It would be nice to have exactly the same material covered in a style that doesn't so closely emulate libertarian conspiracy documentaries about the fed.
pogfan1996 posted:Synergy posted:Chomsky isn't going to be around forever so I thought now would be a good time to come up with a list of public speakers that share our perspective of the world.
What is your perspective of the world?
iirc, his perspective of the world is that we shouldn't have supported the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after the Dylann Roof shootings because churches are bad
may i add:
the football man
pogfan1996 posted:What is your perspective of the world?
I'm still figuring that out. I consider myself a socialist but I haven't associated myself with any specific tendencies (communism, anarchism, etc). Most people here have like 10x the knowledge I have so I just try to learn as much as possible while hopefully not getting in the way and making a fool out of myself. I guess it's good practice for you guys since you're going to have to reason with a lot of average folks if you want a successful revolution.
Synergy posted:pogfan1996 posted:What is your perspective of the world?
I'm still figuring that out. I consider myself a socialist but I haven't associated myself with any specific tendencies (communism, anarchism, etc). Most people here have like 10x the knowledge I have so I just try to learn as much as possible while hopefully not getting in the way and making a fool out of myself. I guess it's good practice for you guys since you're going to have to reason with a lot of average folks if you want a successful revolution.
Not to hijack this thread, but I think if you go more in depth into "why socialism" and give us some introspection on your political development, it might help us find stuff that would be helpful. Based on what you told me, Michael Parenti is a great speaker to watch and help gain additional context on current events.
Parenti on Yugoslavia:
https://youtu.be/GEzOgpMWnVs
Parenti on Sustainable/Socialist Economies vs Capitalism
https://youtu.be/FZqwlNpXelg
He also has written over 20 books, all of them are very accessible to read and compelling. If you like debates and want to learn the arguments against neoliberal hawks, he debated hitchens over iraq.
most people are happy to help out and point you in the right direction -- there are a lot of resources, suggestions, reading lists, etc. out there. but at some point you gotta put in the effort, otherwise it just feels like you're asking people to do your homework for you.
Petrol posted:I find her manner of speech really ponderous, and combined with the repetitive overbearing soundtrack it's really insufferable.
Yeah, and the visuals tend to go off the deep end too. Stylistically it needs a lot of work, but the content is properly good.
shapes posted:synergy, you've had this schtick in at least a couple LF forums. "i'm learning, i haven't decided on this or that." ok, but it's been a couple years now... what HAVE you learned so far? because writing things like "Chomsky...shares our worldview" would seem to indicate that you haven't learned much at all!
Most of what I've learned over the years is the destructiveness of capitalism, whether it's imperialism, corporate corruption, racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. I've haven't spent as much time examining the different branches of socialism because many of them seem equally possible.
Also in regards to Chomsky, I'm not saying you or everyone else completely agrees with him but his views of the world are pretty similar to the people that frequent this forum.
most people are happy to help out and point you in the right direction -- there are a lot of resources, suggestions, reading lists, etc. out there. but at some point you gotta put in the effort, otherwise it just feels like you're asking people to do your homework for you.
I'm just trying to have some interesting/fun conversations with people. I don't think I need to know everything about political ideologies to do that and the majority of people out there don't either. Personally, I think it's cool that there are some really knowledgeable people here but becoming an expert of certain topics is not really a priority for me.
colddays posted:Petrol posted:I find her manner of speech really ponderous, and combined with the repetitive overbearing soundtrack it's really insufferable.
Yeah, and the visuals tend to go off the deep end too. Stylistically it needs a lot of work, but the content is properly good.
Yeah. I mean she'd be a pretty decent starting point for anyone who isn't bothered by the style and can benefit from the overview she offers of a range of anti-imperialist issues. Having said that,
pogfan1996 posted:Michael Parenti is a great speaker to watch and help gain additional context on current events.
+1. Parenti is great, I hadn't even heard of him until relatively recently and it was probably through a post here. He actually offers material analysis in an accessible way, with humor and passion. He also presents original research rather than just synthesis.
I am reminded of this article that got passed around a few months back which Synergy and any lurkers similarly confused as to why there's so much hostility here towards Chomsky might benefit from checking out. It compares him to Parenti both in terms of rhetoric and content. The comparison is not flattering for ol' Chommers. https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/chomsky-vs-parenti/
https://theintercept.com/2014/03/01/journalistic-independence/
but the whole reasoning seems a little convoluted to me esp. when ppl like greenwald seem to take a consistently anti-imperialist line :shrug:
Spatial_Reasoning posted:he's a conduit of state limited hangouts
https://theintercept.com/2014/03/01/journalistic-independence/
not, i think, a KNOWING one. but at the very least, he lends an air of anti-establishment fervour to the intercept which is almost entirely unwarranted. he does some great reporting at times, most recently on the dirty goings-on in brazil, and i will say that the intercept actually does employ some decent traditional journos like lee fang (he's mostly interested in lobbyist money in domestic US politics)
but the biggest problem with greenwald really is his politics. his post about journalistic independence illustrates quite neatly why libertarians make shitty investigative journalists - how can they really "follow the money" properly when they're openly disinterested in the power networks and politics of the owners of their own publications? of COURSE you are given a free hand to write what you like, glenn. it doesn't occur to you to look into the things your employers would prefer you not to, and even when they're brought to your attention, you hand-wave it away with the self-assurance of someone who believes any peer criticism of their work can only be driven by jealousy.
Synergy posted:Chomsky isn't going to be around forever
phew, but who will pick up his crown as the cias most successful agent?
tears posted:Synergy posted:
Chomsky isn't going to be around forever
phew, but who will pick up his crown as the cias most successful agent?
Barrack obama
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:Horror thriller idea: everyone on the planet realizes that they work for the CIA
Wake.
The fuck.
Up.
From.
Your slumber.
Sheepyheads.
aerdil posted:he's a libertarian who has been slowly becoming an anti-imperialist because he pays attention to what's actually happening in an honest way but still hasn't engaged in the self-crit necessary to lose the trappings of his ideological baggage. he's a like a typical white LF poster who never posted on LF to be mocked out of his former belief system.
yeah this
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:dont be mean please.
who is this
stegosaurus posted:le_nelson_mandela_face posted:dont be mean please.
who is this
i'm being nicer. plus this person isn't a mental case coming at me swinging