Media recommendations for learning about Leftism
Plastics industries like fossil fuel companies and Coke + Pepsi need to be held accountable. Our individual decisions on reducing plastic use are good but will never be enough to address the problem to scale.
”If your tub was overflowing, you wouldn’t go get a bucket and mop. You’d turn off the tap.”
I found this young man’s story extremely raw and honest. Our military takes advantage of our alienated young men and uses their physical and mental health like natural resources.
Some context for this video: The US was responsible for more civilian deaths in Afghanistan in the beginning of 2019 than the Taliban.
Researchers show us what a scarcity mindset is and how it affects our behavior and decision-making in this poignant segment.
Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis explains how socialism is rooted in democracy and its history in everyday language to the Cambridge Forum in Massachusetts.
Rotten details contemporary global capitalism by telling the backward and inhumane stories of the food industry through an international lens. This is a very useful documentary series to learn real world examples of how the profit motive is inherently, well, rotten.
If you don’t have Netflix, the full series can be streamed for free on bootleg sites like 123movies. Here is an episode I enjoyed on water.
A great (but higher level) explanation of commodity form and state capitalism.
A fun and easy animated breakdown inspired by Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent.