There’s a spectrum of reliability and reactivity to all flavors of political leanings. I assure you that on the whole (without being perfect), I will always recommend ideas, frameworks, theories, people, organizations, news outlets, books and resources that come from folks who are big-hearted, well-read, historically educated, who care about the world and have thought through these ideas deeply.

People too easily assume ideas they aren’t familiar with are CRAZY or the people are emotionally unhinged or some shit. I assure you, those people are out there but a lot of DEDICATED, organized, and educated socialists and communists (and anarchists too!) are out there.

They’re mostly just loving nerds.

GLOSSARY

It can be SO FUCKING CONFUSING because so many people distort or misinterpret terms and labels based on their political position so here’s MY take.

This is the BEST simple overview of Marxism I've ever listened to:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2vx8YWhjgi36uagrsRgKjs?si=aD02XjvvTYO6HDb1uoLxyA&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A4KwWOMp24P9cVVR6d0i7Zq

OVERVIEW OF SOCIALIST / COMMUNIST POSITIONS

Firebrand is a socialist organizing and educational group (with a lineage going back 50 years) and has a page describing the group’s values and positions - it’s actually a really great, quick summary of what I would consider the “pure” Marxist Socialist/Communist position these days and is quicker to read than a book (though doesn’t get into the details of Marxist theory or socialist/communist worldbuilding ideas:

https://firebrand.red/points-of-unity/