Hello everybody and welcome back to Red Menace slash Rev Left Radio.

On today's episode, we are finally going to tackle a text by Leon Trotsky.

It's something that people have asked for for a while.

I don't think we've ever gotten around to doing one.

And we figured his famous text, fascism, what it is and how to fight it would be a great entry point into Trotsky's work,

and I think a very timely topic for us to wrestle with. So it's not just Allison and I today.

It's also previous guest of the show, been on several, several times, but has not been on for

quite a while, our friend and comrade Brendan. Brendan, would you like to introduce yourself a little bit?

Hi, I'm Brendan.

Yeah, I think I've been on, I don't know, probably close to a dozen episodes, but I don't

think I've been on since, funnily enough, the capital insurrection, which we kind of

talked about neo-fascism and how we got there then.

I think I was on an episode about Gramsci at one point.

I mean, an episode about ideology that were both probably pretty relevant to the conversation at hand as well.

Yeah.

Brendan goes back to the very early days of Refleft, but it's a crime that it's been so long

since you've been back on. So we're glad to rectify that today. Absolutely. Happy to have you. So we're

going to talk about Trotsky's take on fascism. We're going to first dive into the text itself,

kind of help people understand it. I assume most listeners haven't read it or read it recently. It's actually

pretty short and it's totally free online. I think it's like 50 pages you can find it.

You know, free versions of it online. But we're going to explain it so you don't have to do the

reading, talk about the main points and the main lines of argument and analysis. And then we're

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