Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

It feels like it's been a while since we've done a proper interview after the best of series

and some of the guest spots and the Red Menace episodes we've released.

So we're back to form here.

And today we have on Alex Zambito from Southern Catholic

Worker, which is a wonderful Instagram page that I've followed for a very long time.

That is kind of coming out of the Catholic Worker tradition as well as the Marxist tradition

and combining those two traditions. And I just always have loved that page and gotten a lot out of it.

So it's overdue for me to have Alex on the show and to discuss the intersection of communism

and Christianity and explore the Catholic worker tradition, explore some major figures

within the Christian tradition that have been engaged in social justice

and revolutionary and liberatory activity.

So we cover all of that today.

We talk about American Christianity and its relationship with militarism and capitalism.

We talk about the connections between the core values of socialism and communism and the core values of Christianity and the message of Jesus Christ.

We talk about the necessity of opening your heart and transcending selfish egoism and desire within both the Buddhist and Christian traditions.

And we just touch on a lot of fascinating and interesting aspects of the intersection between Christianity and, you know, communist, socialist politics.

So really, really fun conversation that I'm excited to get into.

And, of course, we'll link to his page, Southern Catholic Worker in the show notes,

if people don't already follow it.

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