Is there any leftist views on Youtube?

[Marxist Idealist]

I need to know if there are any leftist view points that are on Youtube. I can

not find any to speak of. All of the political videos I can find are all on either the

Tea Party Movement or the conservative movement. It would be appreciated if

someone can point some out for me.

Thank you, Comrades! Fight the good fight!

[Invincible Summer]

Have you tried typing in "communism" or "lenin" or anything like that into Youtube? There should be a whole bunch of videos...

RedNickD has quite a few videos, as does StalinLeninMao. There's also the MaoistRebelNews, Mr1001Nights (anarcho-syndicalist), etc.

[Muzk]

This guy has thousands of leftist movies, songs etc. (http://www.youtube.com/user/grummeper)


This is his movie channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/projektor1954)

And here's a group for you (http://www.youtube.com/group/ytsp)

[Marxist Idealist]

Thank you!! Cause everything I always type in has just right wing nut jobs. This helps a lot, Comrades.

[anticap]

My favorite: brendanmcooney (that's Brendan M. Cooney) - non-sectarian Marxist analysis of capitalism, with focus on the current crisis (I follow Brendan's activity via his blog (http://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/), where he posts transcripts of his videos, as well as further commentary)

I also like:

buddhagem - anarchist (syndicalist); focus on workers' unions and defending democracy against misconceptions
MaoistRebelNews - Marxist (Maoist); focus on current events, as viewed through an anti-capitalist lens
mr1001nights - anarchist (syndicalist); focus on critiquing capitalism
nuclearnight - Marxist (Trotskyist); focus on feminism
RedNickD - Marxist (Maoist); focus on defending the former Soviet Union against misconceptions
shubelmorgan - Marxist (Third-Worldist); hard-hitting visual critiques of First-World biases

Those are what I could spot amidst the sea of my subscriptions to enemies. I used to spend a lot of time debunking reactionary nonsense as it popped up, but I finally lost interest in tilting at windmills (YouTube is an insignificant battlefield).

Another thing about YouTube is that there are many thousands of little gems made by mostly-inactive members. So most of my non-enemy subscriptions are to members who've made only one or two excellent videos and then disappeared. I take it you're looking for relatively active members who post their own commentary, which are harder to come by. You need to be able to overlook ideological differences if you want to find an active leftist "home" on YouTube.

Edit: you may also be interested in The Authority Smashing! Hour (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/authoritysmashers) (archives (http://authoritysmashers.wordpress.com/)), the daily Internet-radio show co-founded by mr1001nights, buddhagem, and Chomskyan (another YouTube anarchist, whose channel is mostly archival footage of Noam Chomsky).

[The Idler]

http://www.youtube.com/user/adycousins
http://www.vimeo.com/cpgb

[HEAD ICE]

I don't know if I'm allowed to, but I would only marginally recommend brainpolice2. He used to be an anarcho-capitalist but I think he is something of a Mutualist now. I wouldn't really recommend him beyond his criticisms of anarcho-capitalism and right wing libertarianism which I think are really sharp.

I would say brendanmcooney and Mr1001Nights are the best of the YouTube leftists.

[anticap]

I don't know if I'm allowed to, but I would only marginally recommend brainpolice2. He used to be an anarcho-capitalist but I think he is something of a Mutualist now. I wouldn't really recommend him beyond his criticisms of anarcho-capitalism and right wing libertarianism which I think are really sharp.

I almost gave BP the nod as well. He's the only one of his kind (I'll call him a "market-anarchist" for simplicity's sake) that I've encountered on YT (and one of the few on the entire Web) with so much as a shred of intellectual honesty and integrity. That's not to say that agree with him, but I respect and appreciate him for his willingness to engage in serious discussion and analysis of the whole left/right, libertarian/authoritarian, collectivist/individualist, socialist/capitalist, etc., debate. I'd say the focus of his activities is to promote mutual understanding, which is quite rare.

And it's been interesting to watch him gradually distance himself from the Misesians, while resisting their bullying in response to being spurned by him (as they perceive it).

[Psy]

http://www.youtube.com/user/pinkyshow

[CartCollector]

I recommend http://www.youtube.com/user/redFISTofEUROPE .