Hello everybody and welcome back to Red Menace.

So today we start our basically three-part series on France Fanon's Wretched of the Earth.

So today we're covering the first two chapters on violence and the grandeur and weakness of

spontaneity and then next month we're coming back and doing the next two chapters and by the

end of the year we'll have covered this entire text and that is when we will move back to marks

and angles specifically. We've always told our listeners we're doing this interesting trajectory

where we cover a lot of the basic Leninist and Maoist texts and then we come back to marks after

a year of that with all of that stuff in mind and hopefully bring some new light to the original

mark. So that will be coming at the very beginning of the new year but for the next two to three

months we will be working through this amazing text, The Wretched of the Earth by France Fanon and

that's what we're going to start today. If you do like this show and you want to support us

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bonus content. So yeah this is going to be a pretty long episode so I'm going to make the intro

very short and sort of finish it there and let's just go ahead and start diving into to this

amazing text. So Allison if you want to just go ahead and start us off. Awesome cool so yeah I'll go

ahead and start the text off so I want to start by just acknowledging this text is very hard to

summarize and so we'll probably go a little bit longer in the summary section than we normally would

please bear with us. Fanon's writing style is very very beautiful but also very difficult to track

at time so we're trying to parse it into as go ahead of a structure as we can and that means kind

of drawing some things out more than we normally would in other texts. So with that said,

Fanon begins the opening chapter of this book titled on violence with a very bold and blunt and

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