YouTube channels can make a great addition to your politcal education, and act as a way to start bringing others around to socialist ideas. Here are 15 great socialist YouTube channels for you to consider:
1) Second Thought
Second Thought is an entry level socialist YouTube channel that explains many basic ideas, with slick videos that are easily bingeable.
https://youtube.com/@SecondThought
2) Halim Alrah
Another entry level channel that does well at explaining basic Marxist concepts, such as class struggle and historical materialism. He also has a great video debunking the political compass.
https://youtube.com/@halimalrah2105
3) Bes D Marx
This YouTube channel gives a Marxist analysis of history and current events. The videos on fascism and the German Revolution are especially good.
4) Dissident Theory
The Dissident Theory socialist channel has an extremely good series of videos explaining Capital Volume One chapter by chapter. Hopefully, the creator will cover the further volumes at some point. Even as it stands, though, this channel is a great resource.
https://youtube.com/@DissidentTheory
5) The Marxist Project
This YouTube channel has instructional videos that cover many Marxist concepts.
https://youtube.com/@themarxistproject
6) Hakim
Hakim is an Arab Socialist who’s familiar with many Marxist concepts and explains them well, alongside doing videos to debunk nonsense.
https://youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
7) BadEmpananda
Badempanada is a controversial figure. He goes on unhinged rants on Twitter and his second YouTube channel,as well as engaging in vile behaviour such as tactical fat phobia. That said, his main channel is generally trustworthy and the videos high quality.
https://youtube.com/@BadEmpanada
8) Sam Sinha
Sam Sinha puts out slick and quirky videos that teach Marxist concepts, often by approaching them obliquely.
9) First Thought
Your biased socialist news roundup from Second Thought’s JT Chapman and a couple of his comrades.
https://youtube.com/@firstthoughtnews
10) The Gravel Institute
The Gravel Institute was set up as a counter point to the right-wing PragerU. It put out slick, leftwing videos on a range of topics before it stopped production a year ago. The videos that has online still are well worth checking out.
https://youtube.com/@TheGravelInstitute
11) Caelan Conrad
Caelan focuses mainly on queer issues from a left wing perspective. Their hard hitting videos on Gender Critical ideology are especially worth checking out.
https://youtube.com/@caelanconrad
12) GDF
Gaddafi Official is a channel that produces videos on a range of topics from insurgent tactics to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.
https://youtube.com/@GDFofficial
13) Kay and Skittles
This socialist YouTube channel explores wide range of issues in an easy to digest format, often choosing to analyse society through the lens of movies or computer games.
https://youtube.com/@KayAndSkittles
14) DPRK Explained
Each video on this channel analyzes a specific aspect of life in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, aka North Korea.
https://youtube.com/@DPRKExplained
15) Luna Oi
Luna Oi is a Marxist-Leninist from Vietnam. She makes videos about both Vietnam and about Marxism in general.
Hopefully this selection of socialist YouTube channels should keep you busy learning for a while 🙂
