Going to start a massive thread to keep myself accountable and also see if anyone has any feedback, support, suggestions, etc. for me concerning my plan to start a new podcast.
1/ What would real revolutionary left policy look like? An entire platform that is comprehensively and strongly anti-imperialist based in communist, socialist, and anarchist theory and practice? Right now, there is nothing I am aware of...The closest and most recent I have seen..
2/ ...is the presidential platform of Mike Gravel's staff. Perhaps other historic instances I am not aware of though this is the furthest left/"progressive" I have seen in the mainstream.
3/ I see some good examples of aspirational rev. Left foreign policy stances or perhaps an outline platform by PSL and SA. Perhaps some I am missing but very little out there inclusive (non-sectarian, non-partisan, non-lingo) imo of the entire rev. Left spectrum.
4/ In fact, most left foreign policy (fp) has been regressive and imperialist in nature in whatever tiny and isolated instances but usually instead is dismissed, ignored, and actively shut down. The working class and rank and file members are mostly not inc.
5/ Even when there is any committee or some such it is completely reserved for white people and associated ancien regime of whatever left grouping we are looking at...The best we can hope for if a subgrouping is allowed is all talk and no action.
6/ There is a desperate and immediate need to start discussing, debating, and hashing out all of this, and it has been my dream to do this for a while. This thread is my first foray into starting out on this road and hold myself accountable.
7/ What do you all think? Are you interested in this? Would you listen to a podcast and participate in a future website, organization, etc. that covers and looks to build all of this?
8/ A lot more needs to be discussed, debated, thought, and done about what a revolutionary left and anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, BIPOC, LGBTQIA, policy would look like and still is not out there anywhere.
9/ I plan to start a podcast and website to go into this and a lot more about what a revolutionary non-sectarian, non-dogmatic and inclusive no-lingo left policy framework and platform would look like soon.
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