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Welcome to amped up. This is your host Ryan Knight and we have a very special guest today.

Our guest is Jabir Asa. Jabir is a pan-African political educator. Jibir, welcome to Amped Up.

I'm Amped Up and ready to go.

We'll have to talk the good word of communism and socialism with y'all.

Very exciting. Hell yeah. And thank you for hanging on here. and Look, I'm very excited. We're flexible people.

Yeah, exactly.

And I'm so excited to talk to you today

because I follow you on the Twitter

and I love the work that you're doing in your community

and the education work that you do about revolutionary

socialism.

So just to kind of start off, look, we're in just kind of a state of crisis in this country and in this world.

And at the heart of that crisis is our decrepit capitalist and imperialist system.

You know, and both right-wing capitalist parties in Washington continue to just

put the endless greed of the ruling of the ruling class over the basic needs of

the people despite all of this inequality.

And what it's doing, though, it's opening up a space

once again in America for revolutionary politics.

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