Hello, welcome to Red Minus. My name is Allison and you are listening to our episode for

November of 2021. So as you know, if you follow us on Twitter, this month I'm going to

be doing an episode on my own while my normal co-host Brett is dealing with some family and

interpersonal things that are going on that require his attention. So I will be the person who

you will be hearing from for this month's episode, which will be a little weird. I'm very used

to working collaboratively with Brett on this and I love our discussions and I really look forward

to having him back on next month. But for now, I am going to do my best to try and get an episode

out to you that I think, you know, covers some interesting topics and will still be useful. So I

on Twitter and on other social media platforms put out a post asking for input on what we should

cover this month since this is going to be somewhat a typical of an episode. And I received a lot

of responses from different people about this. A whole broad variety of options and a lot of them

are things that I would like to tackle in the future on Red Minus, but that I just don't feel super

qualified to tackle on my own without Brett because really it is so helpful to have a co-host who

is as intelligent and as thoughtful and caring as Brett to bounce ideas off of. So I didn't want

to tackle anything too big because I really would like to save those for that context. However,

one comrade did contact me who uses our show for political education and organizing they do.

And this comrade reached out basically asking if I could use this month's episode to rerecord

an episode on on practice. So we covered on practice previously as a collaborative episode with

the Marx madness podcast. And while this is definitely I think a very fun episode, it doesn't

follow our usual approach to kind of more systematic breakdowns of the text and application.

We did it more as kind of a collaborative project. And this comrade pointed out that having kind

of more of the analytical approach that we take in a lot of our episodes done for on practice would be

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