WELCOME !
This thread is here to give a better access to BASIC leftist knowledge for all people ! I will make an inventory of important scientific research datas and important content (Mostly Videos / Threads / Literatures / Fiction) about important progressive and leftist political subjects !
This "library" is non exhaustive. I will add more information with time.
This thread is here to give a better access to BASIC leftist knowledge for all people ! I will make an inventory of important scientific research datas and important content (Mostly Videos / Threads / Literatures / Fiction) about important progressive and leftist political subjects !
This "library" is non exhaustive. I will add more information with time.
---------------------------------------
RED = TYPE OF RESSOURCES
ORANGE = MAJOR CATEGORIES
WHITE = SUB CATEGORIES
YELLOW = VERY IMPORTANT CONTENT - TO READ/WATCH ABSOLUTELY !
ORANGE = MAJOR CATEGORIES
WHITE = SUB CATEGORIES
YELLOW = VERY IMPORTANT CONTENT - TO READ/WATCH ABSOLUTELY !
---------------------------------------
POLITICAL SCALE
UNDERSTANDING LEFTISM
WOKE PEOPLE ARE NOT YOUR ENNEMIES
- [VIDEO] - What is Wokeism ? - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - What is really Cancel culture and why its doesn't really affect powerful people - The Take
UNDERSTANDING MATERIALISM IS FOUNDAMENTAL TO UNDERSTAND LEFTISM
- [VIDEO] - Idealism VS Materialism - An overview of Materialism - Foundamentals of Marx - IMPORTANT
- [SITE] - Marxist literature
COMMUNISM MIGHT NOT BE WHAT YOU THINK IT IS
- [VIDEO] - What is Communism ?
ANARCHISM - NOT A BAD THING ?
- [DOCUMENTARY] - History of Anarchism - No Gods No Masters Part 1
- [DOCUMENTARY] - History of Anarchism - No Gods No Masters Part 2
- [DOCUMENTARY] - History of Anarchism - No Gods No Masters Part 3
UNDERSTANDING RIGHTISM
LIBERALISM LEADS TO INEQUALITIES AND OPPRESSIONS
- [VIDEO] - What is liberalism and why it has NOTHING to do with the fact of being "woke" - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - Leftism VS Liberalism or why liberalism is NOT leftism
- [ARTICLE] - Liberals, from a leftist point of view
CONFUSIONNISTS ARE LEADING EVERYONE TOWARD THE FAR RIGHT - SOMETIMES EVEN WITHOUT KNOWING IT
- [WIKIPEDIA] - What is confusionnism ? - Please use Google Translate to understand the article
WHY CONSERVATIST'S AND FAR-RIGHT'S POLITICAL VISIONS ARE EXTREMELY TOXIC FOR SOCIETY
- [WIKIPEDIA] - What is the far Right ?
- [WIKIPEDIA] - The danger of cryptofascism
- [STUDY] - A reason for the rise of far rightism : The Negativity bias - The bad outweight the good
- [STUDY] - A reason for the rise of far rightism : Conservatives are more likely to fall for bias and missinformation
- [VIDEO] - Conspiracy theorists fueled by the far right in Germany
- [VIDEO] - The problem with Trump : The rise of Fascism - Some More News
- [ARTICLE] - The problem with Trump : Timeline of Trump’s Coronavirus Responses
- [ARTICLE] - The problems with Trump : "Twitter Files" - Trump - Not Biden - Tried to Censor tweets
- [VIDEO] - The problems with Alex Jones - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- [VIDEO] - The problems with Brazil's far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- [VIDEO] - The problems with Jordan Peterson - Some More News
- [VIDEO] - The problems with Elon Musk's Hitler problem - Some More News - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - The problems with Ben Shapiro - Some More News
- [VIDEO] - A cynical view on the problem of incels
- [DEBUNK] - Far right propaganda : Sex crimes bill
- [VIDEO] - White supremacy and the great replacement theory
- [VIDEO] - What is fascism ?
- [ENCYCLOPEDIC ARTICLE] - National socialism (Nazism) was NOT socialism in any way, but in fact the opposite
- [RESSOURCE] - A practical guide for understanding and identifying "Ur Fascism" - Umberto Eco's speech - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - The rise of the far right and/or fascism through libertarianism
- [VIDEO] - The rise of the far right and/or fascism in our current world - USA
- [VIDEO] - The rise of the far right and/or fascism in our current world - Israel 1 - (Note the date)
- [VIDEO] - The rise of the far right and/or fascism in our current world - Israel 2 - (Again. Note the date)
- [VIDEO] - The rise of the far right and/or fascism in our current world - Israel 3 - Dehumanization
- [VIDEO] - The rise of the far right and/or fascism in our current world - Israel 4 - Getting out of sionism - A testimony
- [VIDEO] - The rise of the far right and/or fascism in our current world - Europe
- [VIDEO] - The rise of the far right and/or fascism in our current world - Germany
- [VIDEO] - The rise of the far right and/or fascism in our current world - Argentina
- [VIDEO] - The rise of the far right and/or fascism in our current world - Italia
- [VIDEO] - The rise of the far right and/or fascism in our current world - Russia
- [VIDEO] - The rise of the far right and/or fascism in our current world - France (showing 1% of the actual problem)
---------------------------------------
POLITICS AND SCIENCES
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF POLITICS
THE DEPOLITICIZATION OF THE POLITICAL KEEPS THE STATUS CO AND OPPRESSIONS ALIVE :
- [THREAD] - Why EVERY Stories are political - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - The problems with the depoliticization of stories and liberal entertainement - Marvel movies - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - Hollywood is mostly defending the liberal, apolitical and anti-progressist status co - A case study of Marvel's Avengers
- [THREAD] - The problem with the depoliticization of public spaces - Case study : This Forum and the Next Nakama thread
- [VIDEO] - Woke : The problem with activist characters in media
HOW TO FIGHT THE DEPOLITICIZATION OF THE POLITICAL :
- [VIDEO] - How to repoliticize stories in a good way - An example with Star Wars Andor
UNDERSTANDING THE POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF SOCIOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY ALLOWS US TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL WORLD:
- [WIKIPEDIA] - What is Sociology
- [VIDEO] - Why sociology is a science - A basic overview - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - Why sociology is a really a science - A much deeper explanation (put the subs on and click on translate)
- [VIDEO] - Understanding the basis of sociology
- [SCIENTIFIC RESSOURCE] - Sociology as Science
- [SCIENTIFIC RESSOURCE] - Letter in the scientific journal "Science" - The value of Sociology
- [SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE] - Sociology possesses the characteristics, ethics, characteristics and process of a pure science
SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND SOCIAL MOBILITY
- [VIDEO] - Social class - An overview - CrashCourse
- [VIDEO] - Social mobility - An overview - CrashCourse
SOCIOLOGY IS CLEAR - MERITOCRACY IS A MYTH:
- [VIDEO] - Understanding the notions of capitals and the myth of meritocracy - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - The American dream ? Its meritocracy - A con to control you
- [VIDEO] - Why meritocracy can't exist
SELFMADE AND GREAT MEN ARE AN ILLUSION TO PREVENT YOU FROM QUESTIONNING THE STATUS CO:
- [VIDEO] - "Self made Billionnaires" are a myth
- |VIDEO] - The problem with Elon Musk - Talk Show with John Oliver
- [MOVIE] - Dune 2 - Anti-capitalism, anti-colonialism and the threat of great men/heroes
UNDERSTANDING THE POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF LINGUISTIC
LANGUAGE SHAPES OUR POLITICAL MINDS :
- [VIDEO] - Language shapes the way we think - Lera Boroditsky on Ted Talk - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - Language shapes the way we think - A case study of people speaking a different language
- [MOVIE] - Language shapes the way we think - A movie about the phenomenon - Arrival
- [VIDEO] - What words and their political meanings tell us
- [VIDEO] - The problems with Far-Rights and Conservative Dogwhistles - A brief Overview 1
- [VIDEO] - The problems with Far-Rights and Conservative Dogwhistles - A brief Overview 2
- [VIDEO] - Deep analysis of Dog Whistle used in Politics (11 YEARS OLD - BEFORE TRUMP ;) )
- [VIDEO] - Why inclusive language is important
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING GOOD ETHICS IN SCIENCES
SCIENCE WITHOUT GOOD ETHICS CAN LEAD TO PROBLEMS :
- [SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE] - Systemic Racism's impact in science - Major scientific journal "Science"
- [VIDEO] - A crisis in Science : Psychology. The problem with scientific publications and P-Hacking
- [STUDY] - There is a Gender bias in research : How does it affect evidence based medicine
- [STUDY] - Women researchers are cited less than men
- [SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE AND STUDIES] - Women researchers are cited less than men and what can be done about it
- [STUDY] - Gender Bias in science - Women ask different questions in social sciences
THE PROBLEM WITH EVOLUTIONNARY PSYCHOLOGY OR "EVO-PSY" :
- [VIDEO] - Careful ! Don't trust most of evolutionnary psychology and its political ideologies - IMPORTANT
THE PROBLEM WITH PSYCHOANALYSIS:
- [VIDEO] - What is psychoanalysis ?
- [VIDEO] - Why do we still teach Freud if he was so wrong ?
- [STUDY] - The problem with psychoanalysis - A case Study : The treatment of Autism in France through Psychoanalysis
THE PROBLEM WITH SCIENTISM AND THE NEW ATHEIST MOVEMENT
- [WIKIPEDIA] - The critic of the New atheists movement by Stephen LeDrew
- [ARTICLE] - Atheist criticizing the New atheists movement
- [SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS] - Scientifics about Richard Dawkins and his scientism
---------------------------------------
POLITICAL FIGHTS
UNDERSTANDING THE WAY PEOPLE FIGHT OPPRESSION
UNDERSTANDING INTERSECTIONALITY:
- [VIDEO] - Understanding intersectionality - Kimberlé Crenshaw on TED Talk - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - What is intersectionality ?
GOOD REPRESENTATIONS IN MEDIAS AND ARTS ARE ESSENTIALS TO FIGHT OPPRESSIONS IN THE WORLD :
- [VIDEO] - Why representations matters - Why is it VITAL to fight oppressions - Aisha Thomas on Ted talk - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - Why does representation matters and how we represent groups in media
- [VIDEO] - What does it means to be black and muslim
- [VIDEO] - How masculinity can be represented in a good way - Pop Culture Detective
UNDERSTANDING ANTI-CAPITALISM
CAPITALISM CREATES OPPRESSIONS, SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMATICS AND IS THE MAIN REASON BEHIND CLIMATE CHANGE:
- [VIDEO] - How capitalism creates oppression - A basic overview - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - Capitalism is killing and asserving the poors
- [VIDEO] - No really, capitalism is destroying us and the climate... Wake the F up - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - Good ethical business under capitalism ? Not really..
- [ARTICLE AND STUDY] - How capitalism impacts and is killing science
- [VIDEO] - How homeless people are treated in a capitalist society - Last Week With John Oliver
- [RESSOURCES AND STUDIES] - The scientific consensus on climate change
- [MOVIE] - How a capitalist society denies the rise of problems such as climate change - Don't Look Up
- [VIDEO] - Why we need to END CAPITALISM to fix climate change
HOW TO FIGHT CAPITALISM AND ENTER POST CAPITALISM ?
- [VIDEO] - "If you get a job, join a union. If there are no union there, create one !" - The Importance of unions
- [STUDY] - Increasing minimum wage has positive effects
- [VIDEO] - Are violences against infrastructures or stormtroopers legitimate ways to protest against oppressive system ?
- [VIDEO] - Yes ! Riots, Disobedience and Sabotage CAN BE legitimate ways to protest against oppressive systems
- [VIDEO] - What happens to rich people under socialism
- [VIDEO] - Should we abolish Billionaires and stop monopolies ? Spoiler : Yes
UNDERSTANDING FEMINISM
WOMEN ARE OPPRESSED UNDER PATRIARCHY BY MEN WHO CAN ALSO "SUFFER" FROM IT :
- [VIDEO] - What is patriarchy ?
- [SCIENTIFIC RESSOURCE] - What is Patriarchy - The main scientific definitions
- [STUDY] - Theorizing Patriarchy
- [VIDEO] - The rise of Patriarchy in history
- [VIDEO] - Understanding feminism - Monami Mukherjee - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - Woman recieve 100 + cat cals while walking in NYC
- [ARTICLE] - The harrasment that homeless women are facing
- [VIDEO] - Feminism and anticapitalism are deeply linked - Or why Capitalist feminism (liberal feminism) can't work
- [STUDY] - The double jeopardy of Women in the US military : The violence of war and the violence of their collegues
- [VIDEO] - More men are killed than women, so why focus on violence against women?
- [DATA REPORT] - USA : Women are more likely to be paid less
- [STUDY] - The problem with the negative vision of the sexuality of women
- [STUDY] - Russia : Why women are less likely to access structures of power
- [STUDY] - Women's perception and expectations of having less power in leadership decreases their desire to seek leadership
- [VIDEO] - How current medias encourage Patriarchy through the Male gaze - A basic overview
- [VIDEO] - Patriarchy is not a system out of people - The problem with Pro-fem men - Case study of Ben Névert (Fr, Subs)
- [STUDY] - Gender differences in bullying in relationship with national gender inequalities
- [STUDY] - Risk taking behavior among men and gender disparities in injury mortality - Spoiler : Its Large
- [ARTICLE, HELP AND STUDIES] - Understanding risk taking behaviors Men, their nuances and ways to be helped if necessary
- [STUDY] - The effects of patriarchy on men and women's mental health
- [STUDY] - Men's violence against women and men are inter-related: Recommendations for simultaneous intervention
- [VIDEO] - How sexual assault on men are played for laughs in Hollywood medias - Males perpetrators - Pop Culture Detective
- [VIDEO] - How sexual assault on men are played for laughs in Hollywood medias - Female perpetrators - Pop Culture Detective
- [VIDEO] - How sexual predation is presented as romantic in Hollywood medias - Pop Culture Detective
- [VIDEO] - Criminalizing abortion, attack on women & their foundamental rights - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- [STUDY] - The myth of misandry of feminist debunked - Six studies explain that feminists DON'T hate men
- [GIF] - Patriarchy is not a system outside of us. We are ALL participating - Just like this dance in circle - IMPORTANT
WHY WE NEED TO BELIEVE ALL VICTIMS :
- [ARTICLE] - Why its VITAL to believe ALL victims - IMPORTANT
- [WIKIPEDIA] - An overview of false accusations of rape
- [STUDY] - False accusation of rape are between 4 to 9 %
- [VIDEO] - The big problem of the blaming of victims of rape in India (you can extend the problem to the entire world)
- [VIDEO] - We need to believe victims !
- [ARTICLE] - Believing Survivors Of Sexual Assault Does Not Equal A "Guilty" Verdict
WE NEED TO SUPPORT SEX WORKERS AGAINST PATRIARCHY, CAPITALISM AND CONSERVATIVES :
- [VIDEO] - Sex work IS work - The importance of listening to sex workers - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- [STUDY] - Onlyfan : Recognizing the problems must NOT create delegitimization against women and their choices
- [VIDEO] - A necessary discussion to understand ALL aspect of sex work and the necessity for the decriminalisation of sex work
UNDERSTANDING ANTI-RACISM
RACIALIZED PEOPLE ARE OPPRESSED IN A SYSTEMIC WAY IN THE WORLD :
- [ARTICLE & RESSOURCES] - Why color blindness is sociologically problematic
- [VIDEO] - What is the process of racialization and why we use the term "racialized people" ?
- [VIDEO] - What is systemic/institutional racism ?
- [ARTICLE, RESSOURCES AND STUDIES] - 10 Examples of systemic racism in the USA - IMPORTANT
- [ARTICLE] - The racist 1890 law that’s still blocking thousands of Black Americans from voting
- [VIDEO] - Why teaching CRT is important and how conservatives are trying to stop it - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- [STUDY] - Systemic racism explained by science - Individuals and interactions, institutions and society
- [STUDY] - Systemic racism explained by science - Definitions, Examples, Health Damages and approaches to dismantling
- [RESSOURCES & STUDIES] - Example of institutional Racism : What it is and what you can do
- [VIDEO] - Analysis of Islamophobia - Philosophy Tube
- [VIDEO] - French Muslims are either invisibilize or perpetual immigrants
- [VIDEO] - The impact of Racism on health
- [VIDEO] - You don't think systemic racism exist ? Yes it DOES
- [VIDEO] - The racism and prejudices against Asian Americans - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
UNDERSTANDING ANTI-COLONIALISM
THE PROBLEM WITH COLONIALISM AND COLONIZATION PROCESS
- [VIDEO] - An overview of colonialism
COLONIALISM IS STILL HAPPENING TODAY :
- [VIDEO] - Post colonialism or the impact of colonialism on our current society - A case study : Britain
- [VIDEO] - Remains of the colonization: How the West is keeping Africa poor and underdeveloped
- [VIDEO] - The ungoing colonization of Palestine by Israel - A Brief history
COLONIALISM, CAPITALISM AND FAR RIGHTISM LEAD TO CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AND HORRIBLE ACTIONS
- [RESSOURCE] - Defining war crimes, ethnical cleansing, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
- [VIDEO] - Colonization of Congo - Genocide of 10 000 000 People
- [THREAD + SOURCE] - Colonization of Abya Yala! (America) - The BIGGEST Genocide in history : 70 000 000 People
- [VIDEO] - Arguments used by people to justify Genocide : The genocide of Gaza - Some More News - IMPORTANT
UNDERSTANDING ANTI-ABLEISM
ABLEISM CREATES OPPRESSIONS - MAINLY BECAUSE OF CAPITALISM
- [VIDEO] - What is ableism
- [VIDEO] - The importance of understanding neurodiversity
CAPITALISM CREATES ABLEISM
- [VIDEO] - The struggle of being disabled under capitalism
- [VIDEO] - Disability: A class war
UNDERSTANDING LGBTI+ MILITANTISM
LGBTI+ ARE OPPRESSED IN A SYSTEMIC WAY IN THE WORLD
- [GIF] - We say LGBTI+ rights ! Period.
- [VIDEO] - Why the “born this way” argument doesn't advance LGBTI+ equality - Dr. Lisa Diamond on TED Talk
- [SCIENTIFIC RESSOURCE] - Sex and gender difference in health sciences
- [VIDEO] - What is non binarity ? - I Spent a day with Non-Binary people - Anthony Padilla
- [VIDEO] - What is transphobia ? - Philosophy Tube
- [VIDEO] - Identity : A Trans coming out story - How it would feel like to be Transgender ? - Philosophy Tube - IMPORTANT
- [VIDEO] - The science behind transidentity
- [VIDEO] - NO, Being Trans is NOT a mental illness
- [VIDEO] - An overview of the political attacks against trans right - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- [STUDY] - Transphobia's impact on Trans men
- [STUDY] - Transphobia's impact on Trans women
UNDERSTANDING HETERONORMATIVITY
- [VIDEO] - What is heteronormativity ?
- [VIDEO] - Gender studies / The theory of Gender - Sociology
- [VIDEO] - Understanding Gender - Judith Butler
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF NEVER GIVING UP OUR HUMANITY
PRISONNERS SHOULD BE TREATED WITH HUMANITY :
- [VIDEO] - Prison must rehabilitate, not punish
- [STUDY AND RESSOURCES] - Death penalty doesn't work as deterant - Death Penalty Information Center Fact sheet
- [STUDY] - 88% Criminologists don't believe death penalty is an effective deterrent
- [VIDEO] - The importance of Prison health care - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- [VIDEO] - A vision of a world without prisons
WE NEED TO END THE STIGMA ON IMMIGRANTS AND ACCEPT IMMIGRATION :
- [VIDEO] - Immigration and the problem with the term "legal immigration" - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- [DEBUNK AND STUDIES] - Immigrants commit far fewer crimes than native-born Americans
- [REPORT] - The problem with the criminalization of immigration in the united states
- [STUDY] - Crime only rises among second-generation immigrants as they assimilate
OTHER IMPORTANT LEFTIST FIGHTS
WE NEED TO END GUN VIOLENCES :
- [ARTICLE AND STUDIES] - Yes ! Gun controls do in fact have a positive effect on gun violences !
- [DEBUNK] - Myths about Gun violences debunked
- [SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS] - Scientists agree: Guns don't make society safer
WE NEED TO END POLICE VIOLENCE :
- [VIDEO] - Police should not respond to mental health calls
- [VIDEO] - We need to reform the police (and not only in the US) - Last Week with John Oliver
THE PROBLEM WITH AI:
- [ARTICLE] - Generative AI have a visual plagiarism problem
- [ARTICLE] - Famous artists's Art are being stolen & the lack of regulation of AI
- [ARTICLE] - How to fight AI art theft with Nightshade
---------------------------------------
---------------------------------------
Last edited:
Good luck, but I’m not interested.
