Hello and welcome to Red Menace. My name is Allison. I am here with my co-host Brett.

And today we have another episode that is not strictly speaking on any specific text.

We decided to push our episode on conquest of bread back to next month because we felt that there was something worse addressing this month.

Which is unfortunately the trending hashtag that I'm sure all of our listeners have seen of Maga Communism.

And all of the kind of discourse that has sprouted out around that.

So we decided that this is probably worth taking an episode to talk about.

We'll get a little bit into why we think that's the case.

But that's what we're going to be talking about today. So Brett, I'll hand it over to you and maybe you can give our listeners a sense of why this is something we think is worth intervening in.

Sure, yeah, because I think this is important. I think both Allison and I had an initial impulse to just ignore it.

It's so absurd on its face, especially to people who have been in the game for a very long time like Allison and I.

And it's like this idea of like, don't even give them steam and momentum.

But on the other hand, we both kind of agreed that when some when a movement arises and it manifests and it's dressing itself in the garb of our tradition of Marxism while pushing anti-Marxist, anti-communist, showvinistic reactionary elements.

We have a special obligation to speak up.

So if this is just a random right wing thing or like it popped up in the anarchist community and the other anarchist had to deal with it, you know, that's one thing. We probably would ignore it.

But because it's claiming to speak not only in the name of Marxism, but in the name of Marxism, Leninism.

And it's claiming to be the, I mean, in so many ways, the real true interpretation of Marxism and everybody else who disagrees with them is a fraud or an idiot or some combination thereof.

We thought it would be very helpful and it's our obligation to do it and we can clarify core Marxist concepts in the meantime.

And I also wanted to say that a lot of a lot of this stuff could be disorienting to newer people, people on the on the baby left, people that are just looking for political alternatives.

You know, you could see why, especially certain people with huge egos speaking very confidently about shit, they kind of only half understand in the best case.

Could still be appealing and convincing to people who are disillusioned with the normal processes of politics are looking for an alternative.

And, you know, if you are somebody that is indoctrinated in the reactionary settler show venous, you know, nationalist, you know, white supremacist culture of the United States, and you're looking for an alternative, this can be appealing because it combines the sort of revolutionary aesthetic and impulse with elements of idea, idea.

Ideology that, you know, for certain people conditioned in American society is not hard at all to digest.

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