Hey there. My name is Allison, and I'm here with my co-host Brett Brett, and you are tuning into Red Menace Podcast.

This is our third episode, so if you're not familiar, a basic rundown of what we do. We take a classic work of leftist theory, and we try to break it down and contextualize it to how it will apply today. So our show's broken up into three different segments in order to make that a little bit easier. and the first we just sort of summarize the text and make sort of an outline of the argument that the author makes. In the second, we do a bit of discussion back and forth on it with questions that we've prepared for each other. And then in the third, we take some time to try to show how that text can be applied now to the kind of organizing that we're doing today. Absolutely. and if you want to follow us on social media, you can follow us at Red underscore Menace,

under, now to the kind of organizing that we're doing today. Absolutely. And if you want to follow us on social

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have questions of any of the texts that we cover, where they can go and ask those questions

and we'll reply to it. And moreover, next month, we're looking to expand that Patreon Q&A to

include live calls. Not only does this allow us to talk and reach out to the people that support

the show. It also sort of builds up community a little tighter because you hear people's voices. You might have repeat call-ins. In that way, I think we can sort of build up a really interesting educational community. So if you're at all interested in helping this show expand or at all interested in the possibility of live calling Q&A sessions. Go ahead and support us on Patreon.

It means a lot to us. I know Dave and Allison and I put in a lot of work for each of these episodes, and anybody willing to support that, you know, it really means the world to us. So we really appreciate whoever does and we encourage people, if you like what we do here, to continue to do so. Allison, what are we reading today? So today we are reading a slightly longer text

than what we've worked with before, which is what is to be done by Lenin. So before we get into

this text for our first section, I just want to kind of get into some of the historical context

and explain how we're going to approach this text. What is to be done is lengthier than what

we've worked with so far, and also is really historically specific in a way that can be a little

tricky. A lot of the text is Lenin rehashing the minutia of arguments between different

Russian revolutionary newspapers, and it can be very difficult to try to figure out how to draw out

some of the theoretical

takeaways. So what we're going to do today is focus less on the historical minutia that the

text is contextualized in, and instead try to show you what the main arguments Lenin is making are

and why those arguments are still relevant. So we're not going to get into, you know, all of the

various factions that were occurring and fighting with each

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