Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

On today's episode I'm going to do something a little different than usual.

I'm going to be reading for this episode and perhaps a couple ones out I'm thinking

two to three installments.

I'll be reading sections from Blood in My Eye by George Jackson.

My initial idea was to do some sort of monologue style episode where I read the book and

then give my interpretation, pull out quotes that I think were important and sort of give

an outline of the book.

But then I thought I think it would be better to actually read George's words himself

than for me to give my interpretation of those words.

And then the thought came, well maybe I'll just do an entire audio book of this text.

But then I thought that would be five, six hours long and there's lots of parts in here

that are really, you know, they get down into the minutia of Revolutionary Strategy, which

is not unimportant, but it would just take an incredibly long time to get through it all.

So instead of doing that, I thought I'll just extract passages on certain topics from

the book.

Topics that I think are particularly relevant right now.

And I'll sort of stitch them together with hip hop instrumentals as the transitions and

what not.

And so I decided that I was going to go with that.

So today's episode will be the first installment from this little series that I'm doing now.

And you know, George Jackson in these sections that I extracted, he talks about electoral

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