shows
- A Series of Unfortunate Events
- https://goodtimesociety.com/
- Dimension 20
- Adventure Time
- Russian Doll
- Ways of Seeing
movies
- The Battle of Algiers
- Captain Blood
- Wolfwalkers
- Memento
- Repoman
- Sorry to Bother You
- Five Broken Cameras (2011)
- The Act of Killing (2012) & The Look of Silence (2015)
- Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973)
- The Communist (1958)
- Concerning Violence (2014)
- The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
- Ivan's Childhood (1962)
- Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973)
- Kin-dza-dza! (1986) (Personal favorite)
- Maria's Story (1990)
- The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
- The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
- October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)
- Our Time Will Come (2019)
- Pulgasari (1985) (Personal favorite)
- Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (2006)
- The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006)
- Andrei Rublev (1966)
- Soy Cuba (1964)
- Strike (1925)
- Land and Freedom (1995)
- Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
- Matewan (1987)
- La commune Paris, 1871 (2000)
- Reds (1981)
- Come And See (1985)
- 1900 (1976)
- Germinal (1993)
- A grin without a cat (1977)
Movies with left-ish themes:
- Parasite
- Us
- Get Out
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Snowpiercer
- Network
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Paths of Glory
- It's a Wonderful Life
- There Will Be Blood
- Do The Right Thing
- Fruitvale Station
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- The Thin Blue Line
- High Noon
- All That Heaven Allows / Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
- I, Daniel Blake
- Hell or High Water
- Two Days, One Night
- La Haine
- Bicycle Thieves
- Cache
- The Conformist
- Pretty much any Bunuel film: The Exterminating Angel, The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Viridiana, Los Olvidados
- Modern Times
- The Great Dictator
Movies about socialists / communists/ civil wars
- The Act of Killing / The Look of Silence
- The Battle of Algiers
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- Z
- Hunger
- Malcolm X
music
- TIPPER
- Agnes Obel
- ibi
- Aphex Twin
- Clams Casino (Instrumental Relics)
- Flying Lotus
- Amon Tobin
- Shlohmo
- Richard Dawson
- Agnes Obel
- Lusine
podcasts
- http://www.owlsatdawn.com/
- Philosophize podcast
- Theory of everything
- Y theory podcast
- The East is a Podcast
- Open Source with Christopher Lydon
games
- https://noitagame.com/
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/1336490/Against_the_Storm/
- like a city builder, but for surviving
- like an rts, but without pvp
- morrowind
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/1638500/The_Garden_Path/
- Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/2791440/Brighter_Shores/
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198150/Tiny_Glade/
- inside
- little nightmares 1 & 2
- https://fletchmakesstuff.itch.io/speedcat
- hyper light drifter
- fez
- hades
- eastward
- in other waters
- https://obradinn.com/
- undertale
- the end is nigh
- super mario odysee
- luigi's mansion
- paper mario: origami king
- cuphead
- room to grow
- elechead
- journey
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/1332010/Stray/
- 39 days to mars
- Mutazione
- Rythm of the necrodancer
- Splunky
- cathedral (a modern nes-style metroidvania)
- Super Mario 1
- Super Mario 2
- Super Mario 3
- Super Mario World
- Super Mario 64
- Axiom Verge
- persona 5
- splatoon
- https://pup.town/catcubes.html
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/letsgamedev/spindle-an-action-adventure-about-the-death-and-a-pig
- https://vfqd.itch.io/everything-is-garbage
- https://bynine.itch.io/forestssecret
- https://everydaylouie.itch.io/windsor-road
- https://fb1.itch.io/snakebirdgb
- https://mercurybd.itch.io/snakebirdnes
- https://tic80.com/play?cart=2078
- https://tic80.com/play?cart=1586
- https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=37711
- https://sergeeo.itch.io/polka-sheep
- https://sokpop.itch.io/pocket-watch
- https://devolverdigital.itch.io/minit
- https://faxdoc.itch.io/rev
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291340/Townscaper/
- https://papersplea.se/
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/1509960/PICO_PARK/
essays and short stories
books
fiction
- Sinbad stories
- China Miéville books
- The Grapes of Wrath
- east of eden
- the odysee
- and then there were none
- discworld
- mars trilogy
- Parable of the Sower
- the count of monty cristo
- the killing floor
- the ministry for the future
- all's quiet on the western front
- The Three-Body Problem
non-fiction
- After The Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
- cultural logic of computation (a critique of the ideology of our brains as computers)
- The Curve of Time (story about sailing around Canada)
political
- https://www.iskrabooks.org/stalin-history-and-critique
- Family of Secrets by Russ Baker (book about the Bush dynasty and it's crimes)
- A People's Green New Deal
- settlers
- the uninhabitable earth
- hammer and hoe
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- The Groundings With My Brothers
- blood in my eye
- pedagogy of the oppressed
- are prisons obsolete
- i write what i like
- black panthers speak
- the evidence of things not seen
- Autobiography of Malcolm X
- stokely speaks
- consciencism
computers
- Beej's Guide to C
- Beej's Guide to Network Programming
- Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
- The Linux Programming Interface (TLPI) (by Michael Kerrisk)
- Beej's Guide to Unix Interprocess Communication
- Understanding the Linux Kernel (by Daniel P. Bovet & Marco Cesati)
- Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition (by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman)
- Linux Kernel Development (by Robert Love)
cooking
- How not to die
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Love_Dogs,_Eat_Pigs,_and_Wear_Cows
- Gaia's Garden
- Four-Season Harvest
- The New Wildcrafted Cuisine
- Rosemary Gladstar books