Hi there, my name is Allison and I'm here with my co-host Brett and you are listening

to or potentially watching the Red Menace.

This is a new podcast and YouTube project that Brett and I are working on where our goal

is to take a work of theory and to break it down, explore its main themes, discuss it,

and then apply it to today.

And our hope isn't to just do theory for theory's sake, but we are trying to focus on the way

that theory informs our actual organizing and the mass work that we're involved in and

show how these classic theoretical texts still weigh on us today and can inform our strategies

and really useful and productive manners.

So to that end, our show is broken down into three sections.

In the first section, we're going to go through the texts that we've chosen and we're

going to try to focus on the main themes, pull out a couple of quotations and really

break down what it's saying.

In the second section, we're going to propose some discussion questions for each other,

going to have a little bit of back and forth and maybe again to some of our thoughts, concerns,

and questions with the text.

And then finally in section three, we're going to focus on applying that text to the organizing

work that we as communists are doing today and to focus on how it is actually useful for

helping us work towards revolution.

That's right.

And if you enjoy what we do and you want to keep up with us, you can follow us on Twitter

at the underscore red underscore menace or on patreon at patreon.com forward slash the

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