I started to search for Socialism podcasts, and the first site gave me this:

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i kinda felt the same, as someone who isn't american but the recent episode on the fake ebola hoax was awesome

They’re talking about big major companies you would recognize that donated to this Heartland Institute, which presents the Stopping Socialism podcast according to your photo

As someone else recommended in a top-level comment, Blowback is an amazing resource, especially season 2 and 3, which deal with the Cuban Revolution and the Korean War.

Podcasts on US social movements... that's a tough one. You'll hear some episodes covering this on RevLeft Radio but because most socialist movements in the US are either quite small and fragmented or they haven't achieved a whole lot there often isn't a huge amount to cover.

For US actions against socialism, Blowback is really good, as others have already mentioned. Others are American Exception and some episodes of Guerilla History.

For theory, I strongly recommend Red Menace as well as a lot of the stuff produced by Socialism For All. There's also Marx Madness, We Read Theory, Red Book Club, Radical Reviewer (on YouTube), and a lot of the episodes of Teach Me Communism.

For current affairs, there's Citations Needed, Radio War Nerd (specifically about wars), Everybody Loves Communism, The Deprogram, and some of TrueAnon.

While this next recommendation doesn't fit any of your categories, I'd also recommend Actually Existing Socialism because they interview primarily academics on their areas of expertise in socialist movements and it's really underrated, although it can be a bit dry so it might not be to your tastes.

My overall recommendation would be to try out an episode or two of whatever podcasts take your fancy to see if you like the presentation style and if it's to your preferred depth. Some of these podcasts are more conversational and entry-level while some of them go much deeper and lean towards the more academic side. There no right or wrong in this matter, it's just about finding what suits your preference.

I'm not much of a podcast enjoyer, so I'll throw in some YouTube recs.

• Reimagining Soviet Georgia podcast (also had an episode or two on Yugoslavia)
• Unequal Exchange podcast
• Also if you just want the audio format, for history maybe you could also do audiobooks. For example The Jakarta Method has a recording on youtube
• Geopolitical Economy Report
• Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier du Critique (on YouTube)

fantastic, I've been meaning to get around to the book this interview might be what i need

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Go for The Deprogram! It's light but pretty entertaining and educational, not to mention Hakim is so knowledgeable that he drops dozens of book recommendations for most topics.

If you want do dive into the deep end, try Reading Capital With Comrades. Its structured like a book club, but you can get a lot from it without reading capital alongside.

What do you already know?

There is no wrong answer to this question.

You could say something like “socialism is when the government does stuff” or “socialism is when they take your funco pops and give them to everyone else” or “socialism is when you don’t talk to your best friend because they’re a revisionist.”

Two hundred years of history has wrought a mighty warp in our understanding of even simple things.

It’s important to know where you’re at because some of the learning about socialism material is like “it’s possible not to suffer” and some of it is like “British utopian communist ideology kept American parties from escaping Trotskyism”.

Next thing you know we'll take your and your friend's toothbrush, too.

Both of those barely fit the 1st category. Most people here (me included) will have choice words about the hosts of either podcast, but let's leave it at them being clueless radlibs, if not worse.

In their current state, I wouldn't even consider them part of a "pipeline" (i guess that's what you meant by "that's how they get you"). True Anon is way more funny and interesting, and the people hosting it seem to have much more coherent politics.

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Yes, Dessalines

https://www.youtube.com/@dessalines6388/playlists

Also these folks

https://www.youtube.com/@SocialismForAll/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@COzmun1/videos

I took that to be a joke