You're going to. Hey there and welcome to Red Minus, a podcast where we go over theory from

revolutionary Marxist perspectives and we talk about what it means, break it down for you and

help explain how it's relevant for our work today.

In today's episode we're going to go ahead and look at a shorter text by Marx, the critique

of the Gatha program, and try to break down what is important

about this text.

It's not very long, but there's an incredible amount of work done in it in terms of Marx really

developing and clarifying some of his views about the state and about organizing,

and it's our hope at least that this will be useful for us sort of,

thinking about the problems that are still faced today that this text really gets at.

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We release monthly extra episodes for people

that get into some more thoughts that we have

often on sort of miscellaneous subjects

or sometimes expanding on what we've done

in some of the texts that we've read in a given month. So with all that said I

want to go ahead and start this episode by giving us a little bit of

historical context for the critique of the gotha program, what it is, where it's

coming from, and what we sort of need to know in order to contextualize it within a given

historical moment. So the critique of the gotha program is originally a criticism written by Marx of a party

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