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Red Menace Teaser: The American Death Cult

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This clip is from our sister podcast Red Menace, in which Breht and Alyson discuss how we are being conditioned into accepting mass death and how we can organize for an uncertain future.

Find the full episode - and all other Red Menace episodes - here: https://redmenace.libsyn.com

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0:00.0

For me, that is part of why I think it's important that all the work that we do is about

0:04.8

building mass movements of community collective survival.

0:08.7

So the reason that I think mutual aid matters, the reason that I think community defense

0:12.2

matters, the reason that I think bail funds in these things matter is they pull communities

0:16.7

together.

0:17.7

And in a world where vulcanization is occurring and where political violence is occurring,

0:22.6

having those networks already there for you and your community of people who are exploited

0:27.6

and oppressed in various ways by the society to be able to survive collectively rather

0:32.0

than individual is a really crucial project.

0:35.0

And one reason that I think that whatever types of mass work are happening right now,

0:39.0

they have to have the dual purpose of building a broader movement, but also creating an infrastructure

0:42.7

to survive should things go in those much, much worse directions.

0:46.1

Yeah.

0:47.1

Yeah, I think that's all very, very insightful.

0:48.7

And I think what you did there, which I think is correct, is to sort of put pressure on

0:53.4

the boundaries that I set out between these four distinct paths and really thinking

0:57.2

it more of like how does one bleed into another?

0:59.6

So if we do have vulcanization, which is pretty much synonymous with social collapse on

1:04.2

some level, then we could still have something like the Civil War, but not the unified government

1:10.7

repression, right?

1:12.1

And then in that, in a scenario where you have something like a protracted ongoing scattered

1:17.4

Civil War in a context of vulcanization, you would have revolutionary formations and fascist

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