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On today's episode, I speak to Sovietologist

Susie Weisman, who is a professor of politics at St Mary's College in California,

and she's the host of two radio shows.

The Jackman Radio Podcasts, as well as beneath the surface on Pacifica's KPFK.

She's on the editorial boards of Critique and Against the Current.

She's the author of Victor Serge, political biography, and is currently writing Leon Trotsky the most dangerous man in the world and

co-producing a documentary feature film of the same name.

First I talked to Susie about the Soviet Union, politics, communism, you know little things like that.

Then Susie and I talk about how she got interested in politics, how she moved from Montana to California, to

Glasgow, Scotland, back to California, married a Chilean dissident, raised two kids. Hi everyone, I'm here in Los Angeles in the really cool office of

Susie Weisman filled with Victor Serge posters, some Stalin in the corner.

Stalin with a clown nose.

Yeah, Tons of Trotsky, Rosa Luxembourg, Emma Goldman.

And Fakundo Cabral, something on Gulag, tons of books, little bumper stickers,

the most violent element in society is ignorance, which is an Emma

Goldman quote.

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