And then.

The Hello everybody welcome back to Red Menace. It's been a little while

since we've done our last episode but Allison and I are back for another conversation. Now we

were going to do the 18th Brumair by by Marx and we are still going to do that

for sure but today we're still going to do that for sure.

But today we're going to have a sort of side convo.

We have some things going on in our lives, making it difficult to get that text fully done

and to put the time and energy we need into that text in particular so

and while we're still working on that behind the scenes we decided to come on and

have an interesting conversation about mysticism. This is even the word might confuse some people, it's not something that we talk about very often.

Although on Rev Left, I've certainly mentioned it quite a bit and Allison and I have

certainly touched on it in the past, but I don't think Allison and I have actually done an entire

episode on it. So we're going to definitely try to try to touch on politics and

how this comes in to the political arena and how Marxists should think about this stuff, but also just on its own,

like it's just a part of life that we're very interested in exploring and so we hope people

will stick around and just hear us out and see where the conversation goes, even if you know absolutely

nothing about mysticism, the traditions of mysticism, spirituality, etc.

It's something that plays an important role in Allison and mine, life, and we wanted to share it with people

and have an interesting conversation about something that you don't very often hear

people talk about. So first of all how are you doing Allison? I am doing good.

Everything in my life is kind of in a state of chaos at the moment

due to some housing stuff around mold and a shitty landlord,

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