Hello, everyone and welcome back to Red Menace.

So we've done a lot of current event episodes the last while because there's been a lot of current events happening.

But now we're sort of getting back to our roots and we're doing a more classic Red Menace theory text episode.

But instead of focusing on a singular text, we're doing what we've promised for a few months now, which is to do another intro to Marxism episode, this time focusing on political economy.

Our last intro to Marxism was very well received, and we've got a lot of positive feedback on that,

but it was really centered around historical materialism, dialectics, etc.

We touched, you know, a little bit on

political economy, but with no real depth. So afterwards, we both agreed we needed to go in that

direction. And that's what we're here to do today. Thank you, as always, to all of our Patreon

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And it really is something we deeply appreciate.

But without further ado, let's get into this big sort of topic.

It was challenging in some ways, but hopefully, you know, we'll provide a solid introduction

to this element of Marxism, which can sometimes be overlooked or under-emphasized.

So with all of that in mind, Alison, what do we want to do? What do we want

to accomplish with this episode overall? Yeah. So again, this is kind of, you can think of it

maybe as a compliment to the Marxism 101 episode that we did. So we did that introductory

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