Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeftRadio. On today's episode I have Black

Red Guard on the show to talk about a bunch of different topics. Black Red Guard

obviously most people know him from his YouTube channel now he's switching over

to doing a podcast radio free new Africa which I'll link in the show notes. But

I've always liked BRG's approach and his criticisms and his sort of polo

punches style obviously for some people especially those that are not

Maoist. He can rub them the wrong way because he is sort of

caustic in a certain sense but I think you know he is an important voice on

the left and has a lot of insight and is a you know a good representative of

Maoism and of Black nationalism revolutionary Black nationalism and their

synthesis. In the first half of this conversation we talk about just that we

talk about Black nationalism Maoism vs Leninism we talk a little bit about

the mass line some confusions around it how to apply it

correctly and why it is such an essential understanding and

application of organizing and why the left needs to continue to take it more

and more seriously. And then in the second half of the conversation we sort of

open it up and have a sort of natural back and forth analysis of the current

conditions in the United States and in North America some critiques of the US

left as well as some things that the US left is doing right. We applaud the

militancy of the antifa movement for example and then we talk about climate

change how climate change is going to and already is intensifying the

contradictions of American society how the suburban white reactionaries are

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