Hey guys, Jamie here. So, ugh. Okay, so after we recorded our episode this week, we got some very sad news that Michael Brooks, my

colleague at the majority report, passed away suddenly from a blood clot.

It's still fucking crazy to me.

I can't believe this is real.

Since then, we've been wondering how to eulogize him on the show and I shared some thoughts on the

majority report today which is Tuesday. You can listen there if you want to hear

those thoughts. Some of you may know Michael and I didn't always have the easiest relationship but I definitely learned a lot from him and I had deep affection for him at the same time that we drove each other crazy, like work siblings do, right?

But he was intensely dedicated to the cause and I always viewed him as a comrade. So now I'm going to read a

little passage from his book against the web a cosmopolitan answer to the new right which represents some of his core

political and humanistic values and those are things that I really admired about him, and I'm just so sad that he's gone.

Okay.

What we need is a cosmopolitan socialism premised on real material needs that expresses

itself in criticism, art, music, movement building, and anything else that drives politics.

Again, following Graham She, we need an integral approach that fuses universal desires, aspirations, and material concerns with a recognition that we do in fact live in a globalized, interconnected, and neoliberal world, still defined by a grotesque inequality, good Michael word there, ecological crisis, and

resurgent right-wing authoritarianism.

Our approach can't simply be to tell people they're wrong to be concerned with the cultural issues that define much of their lives or to dismiss the importance of oppression that doesn't always take an economic form.

Rather, we need to recapture the spirit that appealed to young Bengali Marxist M. M. Roy in 1920.

To M. Roy, the Communist International's second Congress was a revelation.

For the first time, he remarked, brown and yellow men met with white men who were not

overbearing imperialists, but friends and comrades.

The point isn't to valorize the mixed record of the capital sea communist movement.

Rather, the point is to highlight that the type of comradeship and solidarity across racial and national

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