Revolutionary Video Resource Thread

Legend 🗺️📍
⚫️ 10 minutes or under
🔴 20 minutes or under
🔵 40 minutes or under
🔸 1 hour or under
🔺 Over 1 hour
🔠 English CC/subtitles
Disclaimers 🚨⚠️
1️⃣ Although I’ve grouped these videos into subcategories for the sake of organization, many
of these topics overlap. You won't get the full picture on any one subject in this thread
without understanding another.

2️⃣ With that, if you’re new to leftist politics, please try to go through these subjects in order!
Each video from each subject builds on the last-- I organized them that way on purpose!

3️⃣ Please treat these videos as introductions and explanations of revolutionary leftist ideas,
not substitutes for reading theory. Access reading materials here and here!

Anti-capitalism 101 📈
⚫️🔠 Here's why capitalism SUCKS! -- and why it needs to end!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aHvA0KHXqM
In this video, Non-Compete explains the basic mechanics of capitalism & the conditions
needed to maintain it. (Subtitles in ESP, POR, DAN)

⚫️🔠 Welcome to the CLASS WAR! - Why Capitalism SUCKS - Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVCqOpM4UUw
A follow-up to the previous video. This video covers essential econ terminology and why
capitalism will always ultimately hurt workers. (Subtitles in ESP, POR, DAN, RUS)

🔴 Capitalism severs us from our own humanity | Why Capitalism Sucks Part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otdkaxo5jgc
Non-Compete dispels even more capitalist myths by exploring power dynamics within the
workplace.

⚫️🔠 Angela Davis: We can't eradicate racism without eradicating racial capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhh3CMkngkY
Angela Davis says that racism is intrinsic to capitalist social relations, and that one will not
be abolished without the other.

⚫️ Boots Riley - How Capitalism Needed Racism To Operate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmyWvjszBOw
Oakland based Hip Hop artist Boots Riley explains how capitalism used racism & theft in
order to gain its power.

🔵🔠 Cornel West and Richard Wolff talk about Capitalism and White Supremacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYAH-BZZTs
A conversation about capitalism with two brilliant minds, Cornel West and Richard D. Wolff,
together in a rare joint appearance.

⚫️ Capitalism is Great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4AegesdCsY
Hakim lays out all the ways in which capitalism has failed us, from undermining creative
thought to destroying entire communities.

🔸 Honest Capitalist Inadvertently Wrecks Capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvirpCAbGSY
Everything that's wrong with capitalism in the words of a capitalist.

Marxism-Leninism 101 📚
⚫️🔠 Marx Part 1: Labour & Class Conflict
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWF_0lkBhjY
A four-part series about Marx’s revolutionary economic theory. This is required reading as
this theory is the basis for all socialist thought, including every resource in this thread.
(Subtitles in POR, GER, TAI)

🔴 THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO SUMMARY | Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels explained
with quotes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRQeZe2makI
An easy to understand summary of the Communist Manifesto.

⚫️ The Leninist Theory of the State

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-yKUrFfTRg
Kayla Pop discusses Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin's theory of the state. More
specifically, the role of police in capitalist society. (Spanish subtitles)

🔵 The Science of Marxism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABT0fJTMZ-w
Ramiro Fúnez debunks the myth that Marxism is a utopian, unscientific and outdated belief
set.

⚫️ Social Classes in the US: A Marxist Lens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy30cJkz1xk
The Peace Report breaks down class society in the US using a Marxist framework.

🔴 Books You Need to Read to Understand Marxism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWGhnEcMZA0
A list of essential texts to understanding Marxist-Leninist thought, divided into 4 categories:
101, Philosophical, Economic, and Political.

🔸🔠 How to Think Like a Vietnamese Communist: An Intro to Dialectical Materialism!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neI-ol2AowM
Luna Oi gives an introduction to Marxism-Leninism and puts these ideas in a global context.

🔺 Class Reductionism keeps the working class divided, NOT intersectionalism!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbQrz_xR3Pg&t=3248s
Emerican Johnson explains intersectionality using a dialectical materialist framework and
why recognizing overlapping layers of oppression is important for the Left.

The Case for Socialism 🏡

🔴 Your Democracy is a Sham and Here's Why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYodY6o172A
Halim Alrah explains liberal democracies and why capitalism and true democracy are
ultimately a contradiction.

⚫️ "X Socialist Country Has Failed!" Is A Stupid Argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1X_-D803U
A brief counter-argument to the age old myths we’ve all heard about socialist nations like
Cuba or the former USSR. (Spanish subtitles)

🔴 Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVKjFp5DEvk
A reading of Albert Einstein’s imperative 1949 article “Why Socialism?” paired with videos of
current political & economic affairs.

⚫️🔠 Angela Davis - Why I am a Communist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGQCzP-dBvg
“I have a very strong love for oppressed people and I want to see them free.”

🔵🔠 Debunking Every Anti-Communist Argument Ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjwL1mSrPLA
A hilarious and factual counter-argument to every anti-communist myth you’ve ever heard.
(Spanish subtitles)
Contemporary Revolutionaries 👥
Angela Davis
🔵 Black Journal Interview with Angela Davis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwD3LGo3a7o
Angela Davis reflects on her experience as a political prisoner and what it means to be a
black communist.

⚫ RADICAL SELF CARE: ANGELA DAVIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cHoL4vaBs
Angela Davis on why communal self care is essential to the longevity of a revolutionary
movement.

⚫ Angela Davis Criticizes "Mainstream Feminism" / Bourgeois Feminism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzQkVfO9ToQ
"Inclusion is not enough. Diversity is not enough. We don't want to be included in a racist
system." (Porteguese subtitles)

Fred Hampton
⚫ Fred Hampton - "Political Prisoner"
https://youtu.be/Wy1gveC3GVs
Fred Hampton on the importance of solidarity between oppressed peoples.

⚫ The Left Must Remember Fred Hampton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwifDZ4KBG8
Michael Brooks reflects on the legacy of Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party.

Thomas Sankara
⚫🔠 The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iF-E5UEOg
A condensed biography of Thomas Sankara. (Subtitles in multiple languages)

🔴 Thomas Sankara: The Revolutionary You Need To Know About

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE5lspuX42o
Michael Brooks and Milton Allimadi discuss Thomas Sankara and African socialism.

🔴🔠 Thomas Sankara speaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVKgvakY_Io
A short compilation of Thomas Sankara’s addresses to the people of Burkina Faso.

🔵 Faces Of Africa - Sankara's Ghost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cobVBgQKdlc
“The ideas of Sankara live forever.” A documentary on Sankara’s impact on Africa 27 years
after his assasination.
Che Guevara
⚫🔠 Che Guevara's Message to Communist Youth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E--AP4NP3mk
Excerpt of a speech by Ernesto "Che" Guevara to the Union of Young Cuban Communists
on October 21, 1960.

Neoliberalism 🌐
🔴 What Is Neoliberalism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vS4eKwCEC0
An easy to understand video explaining neoliberalism and how this ideology manifests in
everyday capitalist society.

🔵NEOLIBERALISM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgh9_SpGm2k
The history of liberalism and how it evolved into neoliberalism in order to better secure the
bourgeoisie’s position as the ruling class.

Capitalist State Propaganda 📺

🔵 Manufacturing Consent: How the News Media Distorts Reality
https://youtu.be/unKNNiYQFp4
Find out just exactly how your news media is biased, how this bias arises, and what can be
done.

🔸 A Tale of Two Chomskys: Cancel Culture vs. Neoliberal Hegemonic Soft Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK2HNvh6zEI
This video explores the force of soft power, the manufacturing of consent, neoliberal
institutions, and asks the question: what does "Cancel Culture" REALLY mean to those in
power? CW: brief war imagery, discussions of homophobia

⚫️ 10 'Otto Warmbiers' die every day in America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86q5FM-qHTw
A short video about how USAmerican corporate media ignores the rampant cases of police
violence against Black people in favour of spooky outlier stories from enemy nations. CW:
police aggression, mentions of Black death

⚫️ Communism Sells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8kz9SvgkgI
A hilarious comedy sketch about how corporations sanitize & commodify revolutionary
movements in order to control the ideological conversation.

🔵 The Hero Cop Trope - A Controversial History

https://youtu.be/fZwWsRLYgHI
The history of copaganda in US television and how wide-spread approval for the police is
manufactured by corporate media. CW: discussions of police brutality

Prison & Police Abolition 🚔🐷

🔴 Don't Reform Prisons, Abolish Them
https://youtu.be/akirVY5Mqsg
Ruth Wilson Gilmore explains the inherent ills of the prison industrial complex.

🔴 Angela Davis - The Fallacy of Prison Reform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfnbnTs0r-M
Angela Davis details the history of prison reform, demonstrating how it has never worked
and has even made conditions worse for prisoners.

⚫️ Minneapolis Model to Abolish Police

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOavegrBoXs
Community organizer Arianna Nason talks about police abolition strategies and reveals why
it is imperative to put communities in charge of safeguarding their own public safety.

🔴 Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HWqYANmWLY
Ruth Wilson Gilmore makes the case for abolition in the era of COVID-19.

🔵 Naomi Murakawa & #BlackLivesMatter: Liberals, Guns and the Roots of the U.S. Prison
Explosion
https://youtu.be/pyHeroT6uv4
Naomi Murakawa indicts liberals for growing the system of mass incarceration. CW:
discussions of police brutality & Black death

🔵 Prison Abolitionist Mariame Kaba on Cyntoia Brown, the First Step Act and NYC Building
4 New Jails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aOKqbg4_Y4
An in depth discussion on how the criminal justice system has notably failed women of
colour and survivors of sexual violence. CW: discussions of sexual violence

⚫️ A Dangerous Job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQFxyb5hV6A
KAR sheds light on the reality of American policing as opposed to popular mythos of bravery
and heroism.

🔴🔠 Yes, Abolish Police and Prisons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UdK9Pl3pEA
An easy to understand explanation of the reasons we should start to imagine a world without
prisons.

⚫️ Abolish all prisons? Angela Davis in conversation with Stan Grant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKfCaLxLohA
Angela Davis illustrates the abolitionist response to correcting violence in our communities.

⚫️ What is Transformative Justice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-_BOFz5TXo
How do we prevent and stop violence and harm without creating more violence and harm?
In this video, practitioners define the scope and potential of transformative justice.

⚫️ People Who do Harm are not Monsters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLVvskzF3qI
Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby discuss a more humanizing, healing approach
to addressing harm.

⚫️ White Lines Matter

https://youtu.be/eudma6d0N-o
Novara Media lays out racial inequalities in drug searches in the UK and why such deliberate
acts of oppression can’t be reformed.

US Imperialism 🇺🇸
🔵 Is the USA evil?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KW8M39LB20&t=7s
“Let’s take a trip back to Iraq in 2002 to better understand Iran in 2020.” An in-depth
breakdown of the USAmerican war & propaganda machine from a former pro-war
conservative. CW: mentions of torture & rape, discussions of war

🔴 How U.S. Involvement In Central America Led To a Border Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueNWlMyUNy4
The story of how almost 200 years of violent US intervention in Central America led to
refugees fleeing to the US-Mexico border. CW: discussions of war, mentions of torture

⚫️ How The U.S. Territory Of Guam Became An American Colony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZP91Aout2Q
Guam has been colonized by the Spanish, occupied by the Japanese and militarized by the
Americans. But the history of its indigenous Chamorro people goes back even further. CW:
mentions of war & assault

🔸 Carlos Ron Martínez On Venezuela & U.S. Imperialism

https://youtu.be/sKKeU-ykx5c
A conversation with Carlos Ron Martínez about Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and U.S.
imperialism.

⚫️ No Cold War - Challenging U.S. Imperialism: A Chinese Diaspora Perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX7t-T43S0c
Qiao Collective shares a powerful PSA on China’s COVID-19 relief efforts in contrast with
the USA’s continued aggressive global imperialism. CW: discussions of racism & hate crimes

🔴 US Empire Exploits COVID-19 For More War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZymN9YYTaE
Abby Martin breaks down all the hidden acts of US foreign policy aggression under the cover
of the COVID19 pandemic. CW: war & other graphic imagery

🔴 America Never Stood For Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HflHrHvYsw
Hakim gives a run-down of the USAmerican government’s totalitarian rule, both abroad and
at home. CW: mentions of war and Indigenous genocide

⚫️ Ex-Marine Shatters Myth of Joining the Military

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEU7PLX9oYs
An ex-marine shares the side of the military you don’t see in the media. CW: racist, sexist,
homophobic slurs, mentions of rape/sexual violence, discussions of war and violence

🔵 NED, the US-Funded Org Interfering in Elections Across the Globe

https://youtu.be/NzIJ25ob1aA
Max Blumenthal attends a gathering of the National Endowment for Democracy and
explores the group's destabilizing global campaign to meddle in other countries' affairs. CW:
mentions of rape, breif imagery of gun violence and blood

COVID-19 🏥
🔸 Socialism vs. COVID-19
https://youtu.be/maj_MbbaopA
A conversation about the failures of capitalism and the successes of socialism in combating
the COVID-19 pandemic.

⚫️🔠 It’s About to Get Worse: Streets of NYC on Cut-Off of Unemployment Help
https://youtu.be/h2EyUg4Qvv8
BreakThrough News goes onto the streets of NYC to talk to workers and unemployed people
about how COVID-19 has impacted them.

🔴 US Empire Exploits COVID-19 For More War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZymN9YYTaE
Abby Martin breaks down all the hidden acts of US foreign policy aggression under the cover
of the COVID19 pandemic. CW: war & other graphic imagery

🔴 Socialism in Vietnam IS WORKING against CORONAVIRUS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKySZ2fyWss
Learn why and how Vietnam is preventing COVID-19 more effectively than most countries
on Earth.
⚫️ How did China feed everyone in Wuhan During Lockdown?
https://youtu.be/sK5nH3E08QU
A comparison between the US and China’s COVID-19 responses.

The Case for Revolution ✊

⚫️ Angela Davis - What it means to be a Revolutionary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PswGxMvi2ag
Angela Davis explains why a revolutionary response to social problems is imperative.

⚫️ Angela Davis on Violence and Revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HnDONDvJVE
Angela Davis breaks down why white supremacy must be met with violent resistance.

⚫️ Fred Hampton on Revolution And Racism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzbSvWaMkc&t=95s
Fred Hampton gives an inspirational, radical address to the Black Panther Party.

🔸 Takiyah Thompson On George Floyd & Why It's Right to Rebel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dptA2p8T7ek
Ramiro Fúnez and Takiyah Thompson discuss why they support mass uprisings against
racism, imperialism and police brutality. CW: discussions of Black death & police brutality

⚫️ US: What is to be done?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f68HZ0hEqeY
A call-to-action urging US citizens to sustain the momentum from #BlackLivesMatter protests
and move forward with full-scale revolution.

Cuba 🇨🇺
🔺 James Early and Devyn Springer on Cuba, Socialism and Race
https://youtu.be/JNUHavCZl0c
Belly of The Beast presents the first part of the "Lessons from Cuba" speaker series –
re-energizing the political relationship between Cuba and the U.S.

🔴 How Democracy Works in Cuba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMsi-A56ds
An easy to understand explanation of the Cuban government and electoral system.

⚫️ Cuba: Before and After the Revolution - The Story of When Michael Parenti Visited Cuba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqm075vC1A
A short excerpt from Michael Parenti’s 1986 lecture at the University of Colorado.

⚫️ Do Cubans Have Faith in Their Doctors?

https://youtu.be/gGjfAiyO6fg
US sanctions have stopped masks, gloves and ventilators reaching Cuba during the
pandemic. Despite this, Cubans have faith in their health system.

⚫️ U.S. Hypocrisy Towards Cuba

https://youtu.be/0xCjdk4VyEQ
Republican and Democratic politicians have justified sanctions against Cuba by saying
Cubans don’t have freedom of expression and assembly. Meanwhile in the US, protesters in
the BLM movement continue to be arrested. CW: footage of police brutality

⚫️ Why African Revolutionaries Should Visit Cuba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo-fol5f1Xg
Onyesonwu Chatoyer reflects on her recent solidarity trip to Cuba and why African
revolutionaries should visit.

⚫️ Cubans in Solidarity with The Movement for Black Lives

https://youtu.be/XJBwcymnEOw
Protests in response to the killing of George Floyd have been broadcast in Cuba. Here's the
response of four Cubans to the death and the protests.

Vietnam 🇻🇳
🔵 Is Vietnam socialist?
https://youtu.be/mMubOw5H-yo
A well rounded introduction to how Vietnamese socialism became what it is today. CW:
discussions & imagery of war

⚫️ Why is rice so cheap in Vietnam?! Socialism in Vietnam!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGe4Ubf2-6o
Luna Oi explains Vietnam's rice price stabilization program.

🔴 Socialism in Vietnam IS WORKING against CORONAVIRUS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKySZ2fyWss
Learn why and how Vietnam is preventing COVID-19 more effectively than most countries
on Earth.

🔸 Luna Oi On Socialism in Vietnam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnV3NJ-JKOQ
Luna Oi and Ramiro Fúnez discuss the failures & successes of Vietnamese socialism and
the untold history of Vietnamese and Latin American solidarity. CW: mentions of war

North Korea / DPRK 🇰🇵

🔵🔠 Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul
https://youtu.be/ktE_3PrJZO0
A documentary on the world of North Korean defectors and the South Korean National
Intelligence Service. CW: description of attempted suicide, 20:55-23:08

🔴 North Korea's Economy of Self-Reliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70QK9VrGQHQ
An excellent explanation of the DPRK’s nuclear weapons program and how the nation
thrives despite gruelling hardships. CW: mentions of war

🔵 An African-American’s Journal Inside North Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTi5Ma1F7zM
Andrew Jones travels to the DPRK with a diverse group of USAmericans in an effort to learn
more about the country and dispel myths about North Korea. CW: discussions of war

🔵 Dispelling Myths about North Korea

https://youtu.be/HNf3wM0feb8
Professor of Korean History Suzy Kim explains how news & images from the DPRK are
taken out of context and recontextualizes them with accurate evidence.

⚫️ IT'S JUST A SANCTION, BRO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stT-yhxFinA
Comedy duo Boy Boy demonstrate why US sanctions in the DPRK (and around the world)
always hit innocent working people the hardest.

⚫️ Inside the North Korean Cocoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCS-W9MFZKQ
A short video montage capturing life inside the DPRK’s capital, Pyongyang. Shot shortly
before the American travel ban on September 1, 2017.

🔴 We Went To North Korea To Get A Haircut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E
A hilarious documentary slash video essay debunking an absurd myth about the DPRK. CW:
mentions of war

⚫️ Interview of an Official Of The Catholic Church In Pyongyang North Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtaIZHFDSTk
Secretary of Pyongyang’s Catholic Association discusses catholicism and freedom of
religion in the DPRK.

China 🇨🇳
⚫️🔠 TikTok Ban: What’s Behind Trump’s Propaganda?
https://youtu.be/P2Qh3tDCpZw
BreakThrough News explains the truth about the hidden agenda behind Trump’s
demonization of China and the social media network.

⚫️ You Shouldn't Be Supporting The Hong Kong Protests

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-nl0Hklwvg
This video debunks popular myths about the HK protests and explains why HK protesters
aren’t actually that revolutionary.

🔵 Hong Kong Protests Serve Imperialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY8rCElJ4nQ
This video provides historical context for imperialism in China and Hong Kong as well as an
in-depth explanation of whose pockets are in the HK protests.

⚫️ How did China feed everyone in Wuhan During Lockdown?

https://youtu.be/sK5nH3E08QU
A comparison between the US and China’s COVID-19 responses.

🔴🔠 A tale of two political systems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0YjL9rZyR0
Eric X. Li explains China’s one party system and why there's more than one way to run a
successful modern nation.