Hello, you are listening to Red Menace. This is a podcast where normally we go into a specific work of theory and talk

about how that applies to our current situation and how us as Marxist and organizers can use that,

or alternatively, we occasionally go into current events and dive into how we can think about

the chaotic situation that we are in in the world today through the lens of

Marxism. And today we're doing something that's kind of in between those two things. We are going to

be kind of trying to make an introductory approach to Marxism for people who might need something

that's not so thoroughly grounded in one book, but more sort of a broader overview of what Marxism

is and why it matters for us today. So that's really what we're going to be focusing on. It sort

of breaks the mold of the two formats we've used in the past. But if you are interested in what

we're doing, you can find us on Twitter at the Red Menace, and then you can also find us on

Patreon as well, where we have bonus episodes

that you can listen to that really get into sort of details about, you know, some of our thought

processes behind our episodes, supplementary materials, and also Q&A questions that we go over

with patrons to kind of provide more depth for what we're talking about. So if any of that

interests you, we are online and you can find that information. But today, we are going to kind of try to make

a case to you that Marxism is something that you should be considering and understanding and then

trying to provide, you know, the tools to understand that. I think pretty much everyone,

regardless of their political orientation, is aware that we're living in

extremely chaotic times right now. You know, we are at a point where there are mainstream

conversations about civil collapse in the United States. And these are thoughts that are not

just happening on sort of the radical fringes, but are being talked about by academics,

being talked about by politicians, being talked about by politicians, being talked about by

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