Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. On today's episode we have a really

interesting and important discussion with my friend Chase who you know is the host behind

the podcast Mass Struggle who is a prominent Marxist-Leninist Maoist on the American Socialist

who is a longtime friend and comrade of mine and he's here today to talk about

tool or the trade union educational league in operation between 1920 and 1929 spearheaded by one

William Z. Foster and basically the first portion of this conversation is revisiting of

and an entrenchment of revolutionary theory so he's going to walk us through the importance of

revolutionary theory and guiding praxis he's going to walk us through what that revolutionary

theory is from a fundamentally Marxist-Leninist Maoist perspective and after that we will launch

into an analysis of this little known element of American labor history. I'm sure if you're

anything like me you know you're listening here you're you're well read you understand history

you are a Marxist and are interested in labor history but you might not ever have heard of the

tool and so we're going to rectify that today and of course if you have heard of this this is going to

be a three-hour conversation in which we really get down into the details and the importance of this

is is you know many cited but one of the important things is that we're living through this period

almost a hundred years after exactly a hundred years after the period we're going to be discussing

today in which we see this re-emergence of labor struggle of working-class consciousness of working

class labor strikes and with the re-emergence of this sort of labor militancy also comes the re

a necessitation of us understanding our history understanding mistakes failures and successes of

previous iterations of union struggle of communist led union struggle of the communist struggle within

unions right and so we're living through this period of time in which looking back at our history

and understanding it is now becoming incredibly important now my friend and comrade chase as I

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