Assata Shakur was one of the most well known members of the Black Panther Party, the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist political movement, and that of the Black Liberation Army. She passed on 25-09-2025 at the age of 78 in Cuba. You survived America. If only the rest of the party had your luck and foresight.
Rest in power and know that your revolutionary work continues.
A product of her time. Her critique was mostly that of wanting spontaneity of development throughout the working class vs having elite & professional revolutionaries as she thought a dedicated class would end up repeating the same power structures over time of previous systems (an entrenched bureaucratic elite) - The concern was understandable, especially after similar had happened in the french revolution but expecting mass movements without a focused and educational nucleation point was on the niave side.
Hakim also brought this up on the 200'th deprogram episode when talking about the reddit takedown & several of his videos getting narced right alongside stating that he'll likely put up another one and go overboard with the sourcing.
Interestingly Mr. Terry History's response & discussion to it is still up. Along with the full video which is... mildly comical.
Would you be so kind as to post a link to that if you get a chance? It'd be worth seeing.
Outside of the "my decorum" pearl-clutching, the difference between right-winger & liberal is painfully small. Even worth calling it non-extant.
Hey if you happened to have caught a bunch of the auto-mod copy and paste's, it'd be great to throw them up. The one on the black book, the holodomor, vaushfacts, feudal history of tibet, and the events in Xingang would be fantastic to have again. There were a good half dozen other auto-moderators that were dang nice to have that are very gone now =/
Mr. Terry thankfully hasn't. The last one he put out that was of interest was tracking the history of mass deportations in the USA and he's still avoiding bad-faith argumentation which is pretty decent.
If you want "so close but endlessly infuriating by regurgitating state propaganda" in comparison, there's the work/job-hunt focused Damon Cassidy. Will point out flaws, will talk to people who are aware of these flaws, and will talk to trade unionists then.... talk about their personal want to talk to Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs (who is anti-union, has questionable views on secondary education, and is on a good day an american libertarian.)