AgreeableLandscape

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I've always been really interested in Austria, think it's a pretty fascinating country, as one of the only Western Global North countries that had some form of stint under socialist control (unfortunately, the Nazis snuffed that out pretty quick just before WWII started, and the Western allies took Austria afterward so socialism wasn't even on the table post war). Karl Marx Hof is one of my favourite buildings.

I saw a lot of discussion of this way back on Reddit /r/communism, where they were claiming all of the communist parties in Austria aren't/are no longer communist/ML, and that there's basically no real communist movement in Austria. A lot of hate for KPÖ and PDA. But, seeing how all the discussions are in English and not German, by mostly non-Austrians, I imagine it suffers from the same information barrier problem that happens every time the English speaking internet tries to talk about what's going on in a non-English speaking country, and clearly /r/communism has a lot of issues with the judgements of the majority userbase, as pointed out here and that got blown wide open with the Russia-Ukraine war.

Since reading those discussions, I've always wanted to know more about communism in modern Austria but never got the chance to. So, any communists actually in Austria, what's the actual state of communist parties and general communist movements over there, from your perspective?

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Okay, to be clear, I'm not actually saying you should do drugs. I just found this picture funny and kind of insightful. I intended the title not to be a command, but as an 'if this then that" observation.

 

Mirrored from a Reddit post, not my work. Source: https://teddit.net/user/SavageTruths74/comments/j6dfxz/list_of_marxist_channels_and_marxist_resources/

I didn't mirror this Reddit thread on archive.org because there were no comments at the time of posting this, so basically all the useful information is in this post.

I've replaced www.youtube.com URLs with yewtu.be, an open source YouTube webclient, for better privacy. Just switch the domains back if you want undo this and get back to the vanilla YouTube link.


I will also be rating the channels from 1-10 based on quality. though opinions may vary so watch them all. i will NR if i have not watched/heard enough to comment.