You have the emergence in human society of this thing that's called the state.

What is the state?

The state is this organized bureaucracy.

It is the police department. It is the army, the navy, it is the

prison system, the courts and what have you. This is a state. it is a repressive organization.

Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left radio.

I'm your host and comrade Redd O'Shea,

and today we have on Allison Escalante from our previous gender abolition Michelle

Foucault and Marxism-Leninism episode to tackle state and revolution, the

monumental work of political theory written by Lenin in 1917 right before the October

revolution. This is an incredibly important text and I think a good

interesting formative conversation between Allison and I on the topic. We also take it and apply it to today and how this book is relevant for us today, etc.

So I really think people will enjoy this conversation. I had a hell of a time researching it and actually recording it.

Allison is a friend of mine, a really principled comrade, and so it's always fun to have these discussions with her and sort of work through these ideas. So yeah I hope you really

enjoy it before we go into the episode though I do want to mention the fact that

Rev Left Radio is looking for a new logo. I think it's kind of time to move on a

little bit. The logo we had was sort of

thrown together last minute in the early days of the show and while it served as well, I'm kind of

interested to see what other logos we can run with.

If anybody creates a logo for Rev Left

submits it to us and we accept it, we put it up,

we will pay you some money.

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