PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 22 hours agoWho are prominent figures vilified by Western media and where can I learn from them in a different light?message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up136arrow-down1message-squareWho are prominent figures vilified by Western media and where can I learn from them in a different light?PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 22 hours agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDessalines@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·20 hours ago@Cowbee has a great reading list here that goes over many of these. Any anti-imperialist historical account is going to give you a better view Here’s a few documentaries about different leaders: Fidel - The untold story (Cuban Revolution) Malcolm X - Make it Plain The Upright Man (Thomas Sankara) Grenada - Future coming Towards Us Paul Robeson - Here I Stand Lenin - old British Documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton The Revolution will not be televised (Chavez and Venezuela) A place called Chiapas (EZLN) Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul (서울의 평양 시민들) The Haircut - A North Korean Adventure And I keep a study guide here.
minus-squaretechpeakedin1991@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 hours agoFYI it seems about half of these have been taken down
minus-squareDessalines@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·19 hours agoGot memory-holed by google, not much we can do about that (apologies for the orwellism)
minus-squareadhd_traco@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down11·19 hours agoNote to others. The quality of the links isn’t great. And there seems to be an authoritarian communist et al. bias. Cross-reference stuff, and consider biases.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·19 hours agothat’s right, authoritarian just like your bedtime
minus-squareRaivoKulli@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·17 hours agoWell they did want a different light
minus-squareadhd_traco@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·16 hours agoI’m not arguing against that, just drawing attention to what kind of ‘light’ they are given. It’s not like there are only two perspectives.
@Cowbee has a great reading list here that goes over many of these. Any anti-imperialist historical account is going to give you a better view
Here’s a few documentaries about different leaders:
And I keep a study guide here.
FYI it seems about half of these have been taken down
Got memory-holed by google, not much we can do about that (apologies for the orwellism)
Note to others. The quality of the links isn’t great. And there seems to be an authoritarian communist et al. bias. Cross-reference stuff, and consider biases.
that’s right, authoritarian just like your bedtime
Well they did want a different light
I’m not arguing against that, just drawing attention to what kind of ‘light’ they are given. It’s not like there are only two perspectives.