A few good things I can think of after I posted this yesterday. This shit doesn't have to be perfect, just provide a list and some explanations on how it can be effective. This is just meant to get the ball rolling, not meant to come perfect. Just think of these as media jumping off points.
- Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds
- Zinn, A People's History of the United States
- Schlosser, Fast Food Nation - a great rundown on the fucked up fast food industry
- Ehrenreich, Nickeled and Dimed - holy shit this one's depressing
- Davis, City of Quartz - basically fuck LA
- Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
- Nestle, Food Politics - for some reason when I talk about food it really messes with libs, definitely worth it
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "The Gang Goes Jihad" - shockingly pro-Palestinian take on Israel
- Adam Ruins Everything - bite-sized content that doesn't always indict capitalism, but I think it does the trick
- Philosophy Tube
- Shaun
- HBomberguy
- Snowpiercer
- Parasite
What else y'all got?
Contrapoints’ videos on capitalism were a key factor in my radicalization, but I don’t feel like invoking the struggle session around her right now
Same here. One of the first things that started radicalizing me.
Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. It doesn't really indict capitalism (instead it does the whole crony capitalism thing), but it's very critical of American foreign policy and of neoliberalism. And I don't think it would take too much to make the jump from that book to a full on leftism.
Also her This Changes Everything. It argues that we simply can't keep capitalism, growth, and consumerism if we want to keep the earth inhabitable. Also it rejects the idea that climate change can be solved by personal choice - it has to be big movements that also address other inequalities. I think it'd be good for anyone who's into FFF/the climate movement.
Some More News on YouTube, especially if said lib is a fan of John Oliver and/or Hasan Minhaj.
Beau of the Fifth Column - Anarcho-communist organization with a conservative-friendly tone of voice, never says the A word. I don't have a good video rec for him though; I like what he does but I'm not the target audience.
Open Veins of Latin America; its been a while since I read ti so I cant speak of how good of a radicalizing tool it would be for libs and chuds, but at least for me it helped to open my eyes to the shared history that my country and other latin countries had, and the historic roots of our problems.
Depressing that it ends BEFORE operation condor even got underway.
Also there's a song named after it which slaps.
Yeah I remember that the epilogue was about how goverments like Chile´s Salvadore Allende provided a glimpse of hope and I just thought "oh no :c".
Also there’s a song named after it which slaps.
Mercedes Sosa is great!
The Dispossessed by LeGuin
Walkaway by Doctorow is a fun FALGSC novel. Radicalized is also good
John Oliver - Often good breakdowns of systemic issues of capitalism but just fails to make the natural conclusion
Juice Media - "honest government ads" short and entertaining analysis of current affairs, good politics but doesn't hit people over the head
i think he is just not allowed or doesnt want to reach it, even though he knows it points there, he knows that all the contradictions bring to this point but he doesnt want to admit it for his own sake.
That brand of blue-check liberal feminist that's still yelling at people for daring to suggest RBG should have retired when the Senate was in Democrats' hands... I wonder if they'd do their "THE UNMITIGATED GALL TO TELL WOMEN WHAT TO DO" schtick if medical advice on smoking and drinking while pregnant was new?
Just revisited the It's Always Sunny episode, must have watched that episode when I was a lib. Hard to believe I completely missed out on the metaphor the first time I watched it. Really important that we get libs to not only consume this media, but set them up with why that media is good.
