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Give how Hasan has been brining up “Black Socialism” on stream, I would like to take this time to take advantage of spreading reading material, some YouTube channels, and figures to look into to help educate comrades both within the Black community and outside of it! This post will also contain a link to a previous post of mine that has some reading material I had recommended here before on Juneteenth.

Book recommendations (pt.1)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hasan\_Piker/s/vd7vIa4c8d

Book recommendations (pt.2) (some are these articles)

Consciencism by Kwame Nkrumah

Women, Race, Class by Angela Davis

Resistance and Decolonization by Amiclar Cabral (African freedom fighter and leader of Guinea who was assassinated back in the 70s)

I write what I like By South African anti-apartheid activists, Steve Biko

Lenin and the Negro question by Harry Haywood

Negro liberation by Harry Haywood

Soviet Russia and the Negro by Claude McKay

Developing Negro Communists Leaders by James W. Ford

Communists in the fight for Negro rights by James Ford

The American race problem by Cyril Briggs

On the Negro question (a discussion) by Cyrill Briggs

War against the Panthers: A study in repression in America, By Huey Newton

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (might not be Marxists but it is important to understand how America still continues to colonize its ethnic minorities post-antebellum)

Black Bolshevik by Harry Haywood

Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. Dubois

Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams

Hammer and Hoe by Robin D.G. Kelley

Unsettling the coloniality of Being/ Power/ Truth/ Freedom by Sylvia Wynter

YouTubers to follow:

I mix what I like (Dr. Jared Ball) (TW: I know some of yall roll your eyes on identity, one of my critiques of the “dirtbag left”, but Dr. Ball keeps connects it back to class)

This is revolution (Hasan brought them up, Sam Seder interviewed them, FD interviewed them, they are more anti-identity compared to Dr. Ball so some of you guys might like that)

Diallo Kenyatta (Bro Diallo) a Black communist radicle, he has a more… eccentric energy, but he will get you hyped and make you question your pre-con vied notions (he doesn’t believe in white privilège for example)

Black Liberation Media, they have a live morning show talking to local activists across the world, live at 9 AM EST!

Chill people:

Grits and Eggs (this is if you like Chapo, but Black and a lot funnier)

Waving the Red flag, they usually stream live on YouTube

The Jam podcast (yall already know)

Olay and friends (hosted by Olay, they usually talk about various Black issues, from class, to gender, to religion, and to colonialism)

I hope these will be of much help to any comrade that is curious, or would like to expand their knowledge on Black Socialism / Radicle tradition. If you have any questions, I’ll try my best to answer them to the best of my ability, I haven’t read all these works mind you, so you might not get the exact answer you are looking for.

Peace to all those the fight for it ✊🏾

Honestly, it was awesome, I lost track so many times and gave up trying to follow along with what he was trying to tell Hasan. It’s funny too, cause here’s the thing, I have a degree in psychology, it’s a bachelors but I went to school for it. None of what he said made any sense, and this also coming from someone who practices an ATR religion mixed with Hinduism- so I have insane beliefs too- but because my politics stay left, Jiang just kept losing me. I don’t think Hasan was prepared for it to be that crazy, but it was awesome nonetheless. I can see why our Himbo loves him.

My only disappointment is that Hasan didn’t bring up 9/11 in the Cars universe or the Cussy; only then could Hasan have gained the upper hand on Jiang.

For any of you that are curious about Marxist and general Black leftists theory, I have a list of book recommendations that can help you understand the African-American (and even just pan-African in general) if you’re curious and aren’t afraid of “idpol” or whatever.

1. To die for the people By Huey Newton

2. Blood in my eye By George Jackson

3. Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism. It’s a collection of speeches of Kwame Ture, the man who pushed MLK jr towards socialism. He supported pan-African socialism until the day he died.

4. Revolutionary suicide By Huey Newton

5. The Myth of Black Buying power By Dr. Jared Ball, a book critiquing Black capitalism.

6. Black Skin, White Masks By Frantz Fanon, speaks on the psychological effects of colonialism upon the colonized

7. The wretched of the Earth By Frantz Fanon, truly an ode of international solidarity for all oppressed peoples

8. Neo-colonialism, the highest stage of imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah

9. Thomas Sankara Speaks: a collection of the revolutionary Burkina Faso leader that utilized Marxist methods to uplift the former colonized people.

10. Assata: an audio biography: a book on 2pac shakur’s mother’s life.

11. The souls of Black folk by W.E.B DuBois

12. How Africa was underdeveloped By Walter Rodney, as the title says, how the European colonization and imperialism kept Africa underdeveloped

13. The Black Jacobins by CLR James, a book about the Haitian Revolution

14. Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson

I hope you guys find these texts useful and can increase you understanding as to why we have solidarity with each other across groups. I know this post will probably be overlooked cause some of yall feel icky at times with shit like this let’s keep it a buck, but I do my fellow comrades had a good Juneteeenth. Nobody is free until everyone is free.

Free Sudan, Free Palestine, Free the Congo, Free Lebanon! Workers of the world unite.

Lock The Fuck IN! Some of yall got real butthurt over a post Daraliza made back in like 2019, acting like a bunch of sensitive liberals. We can’t be doing this again, ok. She made a joke that I see a lot of Black women make and some of all showed yall asses by clutching your pearls! STOP IT! PLEASE! Fascism is here, we can’t be doing this shit, man. We need to Lock The Fuck In and support those that are fighting for change!

Right now in Albania- the home of Hoxha- mass protests have broken out over Girl Trump (idk remember her name) and Kushner building a private resort on the coast (or island) of Albania for rich foreign tourists. If they succeed, the environmental damage would continue to contribute to our climate crisis (which I’ve noticed no one in the mainstream media talks about anymore) that will have negative effects for the country. Moreover, as Francesca points out in her video, it is believed that this is a testing a ground for what they plan to do in Gaza. For those of you who don’t know or those that might have forgotten, Donald “I like em Young” Trump has plans of turning Gaza until a tourist resort, after the Nazi Regime of Israel has ethnically cleansed and genocide the Palestinian Gazans. The mega wealthy and fascists pedos are already selecting land for them to reside as people- both in the Global South and even the more underdeveloped regions in the north- have to continue to face income inequality, deteriorating living standards, social rights being stripped, and now their homes are being robbed of them for those on top. This is capitalism unfettered.

Hey, it’s me again, what’s good my fellow Hasanabi heads. I wanted to talk about some of the responses I saw on Chat the other day relating to Chris Rabb’s opinion on Platner from the Breaking points interview. Of course to be clear, Hasan showing once again that he’s a real one by not brushing Chris’s views aside, nor even suggesting that Chris’s grievances aren’t valid, I think this is a part of the reason why my people fuck with Hasan, despite some of his short comings. But I’m not here to critique our Himbo, there will be a day, but not today.

Moving on, I wanted to bring up something a chatter said that kind of reminded me how there is lack of grace given by some chatters when it comes to us on the POC left when raise a single critique of our YT comrades, there is a bit reactionary push back. The chatter I’m referring to said that he thinks Chris Rabb was endorsing Susan Collins by not endorsing Graham. Now Hasan did tell him everything is going to be alright (Graham got this in the bag, let’s be real, Mainer’s are built different, I’m friends with one) but for someone who is Black Leftists, it reminded me that when we have a disagreement or a critique of our YT counterparts, yall assume the worst right out of the gate.

1st off, Chris’s gripes comes from the fact that everyone easily forgave Graham and him being white helps a lot. As Hasan and other POC leftists explained, we screw up once, it’s over, we have to play respectability because we aren’t given the same grace as someone such as Graham, and I hate that cause ICE is packing up Black and Brown people, our cities are being gerrymandered, and Police Brutality never went away after 2020. I hate that people who look like me are forced to play this role as the “Non-troublesome” Black person in order to advance our goals, but Graham doesn’t. Now this is no shade to Graham - as Micheal said, be kind to people, be ruthless to systems- this is more a frustration we have with how society is structured to prioritize and be more lenient towards white people.

2. Chris Rabb not knowing much about Platner and him being suspicious is basically how most of us operate within the Black community when we hear someone of Graham’s background. Again, given how white people are easily forgiven has damaged the way people in our community to where we always have to keep a side eye on y’all. We’ve been burned before, so we will always be more critical and a little less trusting. Of course the fix for that is to participate and show solidarity with other communities and demonstrate how we are not the enemies, but victim to a colonial empire and capitalism, and that our rights deserve to be protected as everyone else’s.

3. Chris thinking Graham possibly being another Stroked out ogre I chop up being that Fetterman was also from PA, and given how Chris has a history go organizing, probably seen people with similar aesthetics of Fetterman and moved like him, is probably the reason why he thinks there is a possibility of Graham being one too. Now most of us here know that will probably not be the case (knock on wood), but I think when it comes to those with a history of organizing and at times being stabbed in the back by wolf in sheep’s clothing, may help explain Chris’s apprehension. I’m not saying we have to agree with Chris, but be a bit more charitable to where he is coming from.

Lastly, just because Chris didn’t endorse Platner and is weary of him, does not mean he will always have these feelings about Platner. When Graham wins (again, knock on wood) and he does actually pursue progressive policies, I’m sure Chris will come around on him. But give it time and allow Chris to grow, like how you let Graham grow. I feel at times some of yall forget that for us that are not white or white passing, we gotta play by all these bullshit rules while yall get to slide by easy and given more grace. Comrades, just remember the intersectionality between class struggle and how it affected minority groups that don’t fit the perfect identity of our current reactionary state. Be like Hasan, don’t brush off our grievances, hear us out first and then we can move on what we agree and disagree on and find unity, because if unity is not sought, whatever movement that we are trying to develop, will never see the light of day.

The book is called “Nkrumah and Nyerere: Different approaches to continental unity”

It goes over the history of Africas two biggest thought leaders in the anti-colonial and anti-capitalist struggle between two left wing African socialist (Nkrumah didn’t become an ML until after his overthrow) and how they worked with other African countries - including those in the Arab league in Northern Africa- to help form an anti-colonial and anti-capitalist bloc to protect the interest and freedom of the various peoples of Africa from Colonialism and Neo-colonialism. It also shows how Julius Nyerere, through his pragmatism, actually managed to form a union with Zanzibar and Tanganyika which later became Tanzania.

It might not be Marxist, but as the Chinese communist party has stated (cause I know yall love them, no shade) we must learn from other cultures and their struggles and see what can be applied universally, as well as having solidarity.

So if you are someone that loves to learn the history of anti-colonialism and how there once was a burgeoning leftist movements within Africa, I highly recommend this book.