Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. On today's episode I have on Thomas

Riggins to discuss his newest book which was actually published by the comrades over at

Midwestern Marx entitled Reading the Classical Texts of Marxism. And in this text he really

takes four major works, one by angles, anti-during, three by Lenin, materialism and imperial

criticism, state and revolution and left wing communism and infantile disorder and really

goes through these four texts in depth, exploring these concepts, writing multiple essays,

per text and really just bringing these texts to life, showing their relevance, you know,

arguing over certain mischaracterizations and misunderstandings of these texts and just

a really interesting work that I really recommend for anybody out there who considers themselves

a Marxist. Again, Carlos from Midwestern Marx was the one that set this up so I want to

give a shout out to Comrade Carlos for making this episode happen. I really appreciate

it. And I also wanted to say as I think I say in this episode somewhere, but we cover

those four texts and of course over at Red Menace our sister podcast where we tackle

these theoretical texts in the Marxist tradition. We've done episodes on left wing communism

and infantile disorder and state and revolution by Lenin. So after you listen to us discuss

those tests and you want to go learn more about them, you can hop right over to Red Menace

and hear those episodes if you haven't already. Or of course you can buy this book which

I'll link to in the show notes and you can go through those texts at even deeper levels

with even more detail. So this is a fascinating wide-ranging conversation, definitely coming

from a Marxist Leninist perspective, 100 percent which I appreciate. So here is my interview

with Thomas Riggins on his newest book, Reading the Classical Text of Marxism in Jordan.

My name is Thomas Riggins and I'm here to discuss a new book I just had published for

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