Hey there, my name is Allison and I'm here with my co-host Brett and you are tuning into Red Menace Podcast.

This is our third episode so if you're not familiar, a basic rundown of what we do,

we take a classic work of leftist theory and we try to break it down and contextualize it to how it

will apply today. So our show is broken up into three different segments in order to make that a

little bit easier. In the first, we just sort of summarize the text and make sort of an outline

of the argument that the author makes. In the second, we do a bit of discussion back and forth

on it with questions that we prepared for each other and then in the third, we take some time to

try to show how that text can be applied now to the kind of organizing that we're doing today.

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menace underscore pod on Twitter. You can also support the show at patreon.com forward slash

the red menace. And since we have three episodes now after this one, we really want the Patreon

to be a place where people who still have questions of any of the texts that we cover, where they

can go and ask those questions and will reply to it. And more over next month, we're looking to

expand that Patreon Q&A to include live calls. Not only does this allow us to talk and reach out

to the people that support the show, it also sort of builds up community a little tighter because

you hear people's voices. You might have repeat callins. In that way, I think we can sort of build

up a really interesting educational community. So if you're at all interested in helping this show

expand or at all interested in the possibility of live calling Q&A sessions, I'm go ahead and support

us on Patreon. It means a lot to us. I know Dave and Allison and I put in a lot of work for each of

these episodes and anybody willing to support that, you know, it really means the world to us.

So we really appreciate whoever does and we encourage people, if you like what we do here, to continue

to do so. Allison, what are we reading today? So today, we are reading a slightly longer text than what

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