We're live.

Yes, we are.

How are you doing?

I am fantastic.

I am so happy to be here right now.

I've never met anyone so excited about doing something like this as you are right now.

I am a true communist through and through.

It's mostly because I know that it's going to be like this whole thing is just probably

way out of left field for a lot of, you know, your audience and then like people that are,

you know, sort of connected to your audience that know about you.

They probably wouldn't be expecting this at all.

For me, they'd, they'd expect this. They'd be like, oh, it's just Aaron being Aaron. But yeah, this one. If you were going to try and do it on your show, it would take like, you know, a few months because you'd have to, you know, you, well, I mean, you guys aren't even doing the Friday episodes anymore, so I don't even know what that is. I'd have to learn how to read.

I'd have to do hooked on phonics for at least a year or so.

Yeah, it's, uh, this is going to be good because both of us are, you're more, um, you're,

you're, you're more familiar with this work than i am but i am familiar with this work it's

pretty amazing um let me read the well go oh just just just just as a background um i think me and

you were reading this at the same time without even knowing it and then we we talked about it and we're

like oh my god i just read that too.

Yeah, I think that that's exactly what it. I think it was like, like, I think you may have

started it and then like I started like in the middle while you were and you just like at the

ending of this. You're like, holy cow, this is amazing. Yeah. So, all right, let me read the

preface because it's short. The question of the state is now acquiring particular importance both in theory and in practical politics. The imperialist war has immensely accelerated and intensified the process of transformation of monopoly of monopoly capitalism into state monopoly capitalism.

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